FInal Programme
Wednesday 28.5.2003
18.00
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Welcome Reception in Thessaloniki Electra Palace Hotel |
* Unable
to attend in person, but presentational material can be accessed
as pdf
Thursday 29.5.2003
9.00-9.30 |
Welcome
speeches
Chairpersons: Dr. Dimitrios Deniozos [photo], General
Secretary of Research and Technology
Dr. Evangelos Papathanassiou, Chairman of the Organising Committee
The Patriarch of Constantinople, His Holiness Bartholomew
[photo]
[speech]
Mr. Akis Tsochatzopoulos, Greek Minister of Development [photo][speech]
Mr Panagiotis Psomiadis, Prefect of Thessaloniki
Mr Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, Mayor of Thessaloniki
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9.30-1030 |
Introductory Session
Chairpersons: Dr. Dimitrios Deniozos, General
Secretary of Research and Technology
Dr. Evangelos Papathanassiou, Chairman of the Organising Committee
Dr. Achilleas Mitsos [photo], Director General of Research
DG, European Commission:
Opportunities of 6th FP towards environmental sustainability
of the E. Mediterranean and Black Sea regions in the context
of European Research Area
Dr. Dimitrios Deniozos [presentation],
General Secretary of Research and Technology: RTD Policies
in Greece for competitivenss and sustainable development
Dr. Evangelos Papathanassiou, Chairman of the Organising
Committee: Aims and Objectives of the Conference on Sustainable
Development of the Mediterranean and Black Sea(presentation) |
10.30-11.00 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION I. Climate Change
and related processes: Impact and Feedback
Chairpersons: Prof. Alex Laskaratos, Head
of Dept of Physical Oceanography, University of Athens, Greece
Dr. Yannis Papanikolaou, Director General of the International
Centre for Black Sea Studies |
11.00 |
Dr. Eelco Rohling (UK) |
Mediterranean Palaeoceanography and palaeoclimate
(Abstract) |
11.20 |
Dr Jos Lelieveld (DE) |
Atmospheric Changes in the Mediterranean and Black Sea (Abstract) |
11.50 |
Prof. Nadia. Pinardi (IT) |
Operational oceanographic forecasting and modelling of the
Mediterranean Sea |
12.10 |
Dr. Alexander Theocharis (GR) |
Variability of circulation and sea water properties in the
Eastern Mediterranean |
12.30 |
Prof. Gennady Korotaev (UKR) |
Black Sea water circulation. Synthesis of the results (Abstract) |
12.50 |
Dr. Emin Ozsoy (TR) |
Black Sea -Aegean Sea: Interconnected basins (Abstract) |
13.20-14.45 |
Lunch |
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SESSION II. Sustainable land
use and coastal management |
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Chairpersons: Dr. Yuval Cohen,
Director General, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Prof. Yannis Krestenitis Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
14.50 |
Prof. Wim Salomons (NL) |
Catchment basins and coastal management. Lessons to be learned
from coastal management in the northern EU seas (Abstract) |
15.10 |
Dr. Xenia Loizidou (CY) |
Land use and coastal management in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The Cyprus example (Abstract) |
15.30 |
Dr. Waleed Hamza (EG) |
Land use in the Mediterranean third countries: Egypt as a
case (Abstract) |
15.50 |
Dr Marco Prem (CRO) |
Attempts of coastal zone management in the eastern Mediterranean
and Black Sea. (Abstract) |
16.10 |
Dr. Nicolae Panin (RO) |
Coastal management and sustainable land use in the Black Sea
region |
16.30 |
Dr. Ruben Kos’yan (RU) |
Erosion problems in the eastern Black Sea region (Abstract) |
17.00-17.30 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION III. Deep Sea: Sustainable
Management of resources and interactions with coastal zone
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Chairpersons: Prof. Phil Weaver,
Head of Challenger Division for Seafloor Processes, Southampton
Oceanography Centre, UK
Dr. Vassilis Lykousis, Senior Researcher, Institute of Oceanography,
National Centre for Marine Research, Athens |
17.30 |
Dr. Constantine Perissoratis (GR) |
Deep sea management of abiotic resources in the eastern Mediterranean
(Abstract) |
17.50 |
Prof. Inmant G. Priede (UK) |
Deep sea resources in the Mediterranean (Abstract) |
18.10 |
Dr. Michael Turkay (DE) |
Biodiversity and productivity of the deep eastern Mediterranean
(Abstract) |
18.30 |
Dr. Anastasios Tselepides (GR) |
Deep sea ecosystems in the Mediterranean (Abstract) |
18.50 |
Dr. Francisco Sardà (ES) |
The ecology scenario of deep sea fisheries (Abstract) |
Friday 30.5.2003
9.00 |
Summary Report from Sessions I, II
and III |
9.10 |
Dr. Christian Patermann (Director,
Directorate Environment. Research DG European Commission):
FP6 – Global Change and Ecosystems priority and international
cooperation |
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SESSION IV. Biodiversity
Changes |
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Chairpersons: Prof. John S. Gray,
University of Oslo, Norway
Dr. Epaminondas Christou, Senior Researcher, Institute of Oceanography,
National Centre for Marine Research, Athens, Greece |
9.30 |
Professor John. Gray (NO) |
Habitat loss with emphasis in the marine coastal
environment |
9.50 |
Dr. Argyro Zenetos (GR) |
Marine biodiversity changes in the Mediterranean and Black
Sea regions (Abstract) |
10.10 |
Dr. Laura Giuliano (IT) |
Bacterial diversity in the Mediterranean and Black Seas: A
comparative approach (Abstract) |
10.30 |
Dr Andrian Vaso (AL) |
The state of marine biodiversity in the Albanian coast |
10.50 |
Dr. Christos Arvanitidis (GR) |
The status of Marine Biodiversity in Europe (Abstract) |
11.15-11.40 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION V. Biotechnology
towards environmental sustainability |
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Chairpersons:Prof. Dr. Diethard
Tautz, Abteilung fuer Evolutionsgenetik, Universiet zu Koeln,
Germany
Dr. Antonios Magoulas, Principal Researcher, Institute of Marine
Biology of Crete, Greece |
11.40 |
Dr. Antonios Magoulas (GR) |
Identification of fisheries stocks using genetics
(Abstract) |
12.00 |
Prof. Dr Diethard Tautz (DE) |
Development of a DNA taxonomy system for monitoring species
diversity (Abstract) |
12.20 |
Dr. Joel Querellou (FR) |
Biotechnologies of marine Extremophiles (Abstract) |
12.40 |
Prof. Dr. Franz Bruemmer |
Sustainable use of marine resourses in the Mediterranean Sea
- a case study for sponges (porifea) |
13.00-14.30 |
Lunch |
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SESSION VI. Sustainable
Fisheries and Aquaculture |
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Chairpersons: Dr. Gabriel P.
Gabrielides, Director, Fisheries Dept., Nicosia, Cyprus
Dr. Costas Papaconstantinou, Director, Institute of Biological
Resources, National Centre for Marine Research, Athens, Greece |
14.30 |
Dr John H. Steele (USA) [photo] |
Are fisheries sustainable? (Abstract) |
14.50 |
Prof. Jacques Bertrand (FR) |
Fisheries indicators and resources in the Mediterranean |
15.10 |
Dr. Argyris Kallianiotis (GR) |
Sustainable fisheries of small pelagic fishes in the North
Aegean Sea. The connection with the Black Sea stocks. |
15.30 |
* Prof. Kamen Prodanov (BG) |
Commercial fishery of small pelagic fishes along the Bulgarian
Sea coast during 1925-2002 (pdf) |
15.50 |
* Dr Bernardo Basurco (CIHEAM) |
The aquaculture situation in the Mediterranean Sea. Predictions
for the future. (pdf) |
16.10 |
Prof. Eva Roth (DK) |
Fisheries economy and management. Mediterranean and Black
Sea regions in comparison with other EU Seas. (Abstract) |
16.30-17.00 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION VII. Thresholds
of environmental sustainability |
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Chairpersons: Dr. Elisabeth Lipiatou,
Environmental Research, Policy Aspects Unit, Research DG, European
Commission
Dr. Evangelos Papathanassiou, Director of the Institute of Oceanography,
National Centre for Marine Research, Athens, Greece |
17.00 |
Dr. Dan Conley (DK) |
Thresholds of environmental sustainability: theory and application
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17.20 |
Dr. Paul Wassmann (NO) |
Eutrophication effects on phytoplankton and thresholds of
environmental sustainability. (Abstract) |
17.50 |
Prof. Michael. Karydis (GR) |
Eutrophication thresholds in the Eastern Mediterranean (Abstract) |
18.10 |
Prof. Edna Granéli (SE) |
Nutrient thresholds favouring harmful algal blooms in coastal
regions (Abstract) |
18.30 |
Dr Andrea Ricci (IT) |
Valuation of externalities for Sustainable Development (Abstract) |
18.50 |
Prof. Evan Vlachos (USA) |
Cumulative and diachronic processes in developing policy guidelines
for critical thresholds (Abstract) |
21:30 |
Conference Dinner (photos) |
Saturday 31.5.2003
8.30 |
Summary Report from Sessions IV, V, VI and VII |
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SESSION VIII. Impact of
Anthropogenic Activities |
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Chairpersons: Prof. Christo
Balarew, Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences
Dr. Oksana Tarassova, Pollution Monitoring and Assessment Officer,
Black Sea Commission |
8.40 |
* Prof. Michael
Scoullos (GR) |
Impact of anthropogenic activities in the coastal
region of the Mediterranean Sea (pdf) |
9.00 |
Dr. Ivona Marasovic (CRO) |
Eutrophication problems in enclosed gulfs and bays in the
Mediterranean Sea (Abstract) |
9.20 |
Dr. Snezana Moncheva (BG) |
Marine pollution problems in the Black Sea |
9.40 |
Dr. Ulrich Horstmann (DE) |
The impact of Danube river in the system of the Black Sea
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10.10 |
Prof. Ilkay Salihoglu (TR) |
Contrasts and similarities in marine pollution between Mediterranean
and Black Sea basins |
10.30 |
Dr. Wolfram Schrimpf (JRC) |
Monitoring and assessment of water quality (in particular
eutrophication) in coastal and marine waters of the Mediterranean
and Black Sea (Abstract) |
10.50-11.10 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION IX. Information
Management |
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Chairpersons:Dr Catherine Maillard,
Chef de Service SISMER, France
Dr. Efstathios Balopoulos, Principal Researcher, National Oceanographic
Data Centre, National Centre for Marine Research, Athens, Greece
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11.10 |
* Dr. Christina Daousi (GR)
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Networking and information management in the Mediterranean
basin |
11.30 |
Dr. Efstathios Balopoulos (GR) |
Oceanographic data and information management in the Mediterranean
and Black Seas: recent advances and future perspectives. (Abstract) |
11.50 |
Dr. A.M. Suvorov (UKR) |
The development of new marine information systems and technologies
for managing operational data of the Black Sea. |
12.10 |
Dr. Sunhild Wilhelms (DE) |
Management of biological data in the German marine environmental
data base. (Abstract) |
12.30 |
Dr. Ronan Uhel (EEA) |
Transfer of research into policy-making (Abstract) |
13.00-14.15 |
Lunch |
14:15 |
Dr. Elisabeth Lipiatou, Environmental Research,
Policy Aspects Unit, Research DG, European Commission: Scientific
Support to policies-Integrating and Strengthening the European
Research Area (ERA) (Presentation)[photo] |
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SESSION X. Environmental
Economy |
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Chairpersons:Prof Pantelis
Capros, Director of Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE),
Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University
of Athens, Greece (Abstract)
Mr. Pierre Valette, Environmental Research, Policy Aspects,
Research DG, European Commission (Abstract) |
14.40 |
Prof. Anil Markandya (UK) |
Economic and environmental valuation for sustainable development
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15.00 |
Prof. Pierre Zagamé (FR) |
Economics of the research : endogenous growth and impact of
RTD on economic growth |
15.10 |
Dr. Nikolaos Kouvaritakis (GR) |
Integrated assessment methods approach |
15.30 |
Prof. Michael Skourtos (GR) |
Management scenaria for sustainable development in the Mediterranean
Sea |
15.50 |
Dr. Phoebe Koundouri (UK) |
Choices taking into account costs not reflected in the market:
the case of water in Cyprus (Abstract) |
16.15-16.45 |
Coffee Break |
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SESSION XI. Round Table
on ways to achieve Environmental Sustainability for the Mediterranean
and Black Sea Environment |
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Chairpersons: Dr. Christian Patermann,
Director, Directorate Environment. Research DG European Commission
[photo]
Dr. Evangelos Papathanassiou, Chairman of the Organising Committee
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16.45 |
Dr. Christian Patermann Director, Directorate Environment.
Research DG European Commission |
Ways to improve environmental sustainability issues - The
6th FP and how to enhance collaboration at European level. (Presentation)
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17.00 |
Dr. Tatiana Hema MEDPOL Officer- UNEP/MAP |
Environmental needs for sustainability in the Mediterranean |
17.15 |
Mr Gordon McInnes, Executive Director ad interim of EEA |
Environmental needs from research |
17.30 |
Dr. Steven J. Eisenreich, Head of Unit Inland and Marine waters,
Environment Institute, JRC |
Coastal Seas and research challenges for sustainability |
17.45 |
Mr. Yannis Papanikolaou. Director General of International
Centre for Black Sea studies |
The role of the International Centre for Black Sea studies
and its potential towards environmental sustainability (Abstract) |
18.00 |
Dr. Oksana Tarassova Pollution Monitoring and Assessment Officer,
Black Sea Commission |
Environmental needs for sustainability in the Black Sea region |
18.15-18.30 |
Summary Reports from Sessions VIII, IX, X and
XI |
18.30-19.00 |
General Discussion |
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Concluding
Remarks |
19.00 |
Prof. A. Eleftheriou, University of Crete |
Lessons learned from the past and ways to go forward (Conclusions) |
19.15 |
End of Formal Conference Sessions |
Sunday 1.6.2003
8.30-16.30
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Excursion to Vergina (Lunch Included)
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