| Project Name: | Global fluxes and the cycles of production. Co2 and O2 fluxes in the ocean |
| Project Description: | The main goal is to evaluate the material fluxes in conjunction with bioproductivity in the ocean including continental margins. Sedimentary traps, remote sensing satellite data and ecosystemic modelling are used widely. The fluxes of aerosols are included mainly in the Russian Arctic and North Atlantic. |
| Contact Person: | Dr A.P. Lisitzin P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences Krasikova St. 23, 117218, Moscow, Russia. Fax: 7 095 124 5983. |
| Project Name: | Black Sea |
| Project Description: | The combined studies of the ecosystem of the Black Sea near Caucasus zone included the assessment of the environment parameters, fluxes and distribution of natural material and contaminants (petroleum products, pesticides, metals), the status and nature of changes of various groups of biota. |
| Contact Person: | Dr Kasimir, M. Shimkus P.P. Shirshov, Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences Kraikova St. 23, 117218, Moscow, Russia. |
| Project Name: | Ecological System and fluxes of material in the Baltic Sea |
| Project Description: | Fluxes of sediments and cycles of organic carbon and chemical elements in the Baltic Sea ecosystem. |
| Contact Person: | Prof. Emil M. Emelyanov P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Atlantic Department Prospect Mira, 1, Kalimingrad, 236000, Russia. |
| Project Name: | Assessment of influence of terrigenic and biogenic sources on material fluxes in the Far Eastern Seas |
| Project Description: | Studies of terrigenic and Biogenic sources of material (river discharge, bottom erosion, plankton degradation and pollution) and fluxes of sediment and organic matter in estuaries, shelf zones and open areas of the Japan, Okhotsk and Bering Seas. |
| Contact Person: | Prof. V.V. Anikiev P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences Kraikova St. 23, 117218, Moscow, Russia. |
| Project Name: | Cycles of suspended sediments, organic carbon and heavy metals in the seas of arid zone (South Russia) and in the Barents and Norwegian Seas |
| Project Description: | Cycles of suspended sediments, organic carbon and heavy metals in the seas of arid zone (South Russia) and in the Barents and Norwegian Seas. |
| Contact Person: | Prof. Yu. P. Khrustalev Restov/Don State University Zorge 40, Rostov/Don 344090, Russia. |
| Project Name: | Land/Ocean Interactions in the Russian Arctic 1996. |
| Project Description: | The forthcoming project under the IASC umbrella will be modelled on the LOICZ Project principles. |
| Contact Person: | Dr V. Gordeev P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences Kraikova St 23, Moscow 117218, Russia. Fax: 7 095 124 5983. |
| Project Name: | Benguela Ecology Programme |
| Contact Persons: | Prof. J. Field Marine Biology Research Institute, University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7700, South Africa jgfield@ucthpx.uct.ac.za |
| Dr F. Shillington Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7700, South Africa shill@physci.uct.ac.za | |
| Dr L. Hutchings Sea Fisheries Research Institute Private Bag X2, Rogge Bay 8012, South Africa lhutchin@sfri.sfri.ac.za |
| Project Name: | Benguela Ecology Programme: Biogeochemical processes |
| Contact Persons: | Dr T Probyn Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa probyn@physci.uct.ac.za |
| Dr C. Moloney Sea Fisheries Research Institute Private Bag X2, Rogge Bay 8012, South Africa cmoloney@sfri.sfri.ac.za | |
| Dr B. Mitchell-Innes Sea Fisheries Research Institute Private Bag X2, Rogge Bay 8012, South Africa bminnes@sp.sfri.ac.za |
| Project Name: | Benguela Ecology Programme: Remote sensing |
| Contact Person: | Dr F. Shillington Oceanography Department, University of Cape Town Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa shill@physci.uct.ac.za |
| Project Name: | Biogeochemical Processes |
| Project Description: | This project has three main objectives. It seeks to investigate the interaction between physical and biological factors in determining the structure of pelagic food webs in pulsed and strongly stratified shelf environments. In doing so, the project wishes to determine the long scale and seasonal patterns of new production in the shelf seas off South Africa and to ascertain if satellite imagery can provide reliable estimates of water column total primary production and new production. |
| Contact Person: | Prof J.G. Field Marine Biology Research Institute, University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7700, South Africa. jgfield@ucthpx.uct.ac.za |
| Project Name: | Soil erosion and land use change in southern Africa (SELUCSA) |
| Project Description: | The project aims to assess the role of human activities in impacting soil erosion, sediment production and land degradation in southern Africa during the late Holocene. Several key lines of evidence are utilised, including the physical, chemical and biological analysis of sediment cores from the offshore mudbelt. Preliminary findings suggest that the sediments accumulating in the Namaqualand mudbelt are a valuable source of information on the changing rates of sediment supply from the Orange River and other fluvial systems which flow into the Atlantic Ocean in southern Africa. In this way they can yield information on the effects of human activity on terrestrial ecosystems. The sediments also yield clues as to the productivity of marine life during the depositional period. Other forms of evidence are based on terrestrial sediments and satellite and other remotely sensed imagery. |
| Contact Person: | Associate Professor Michael E. Meadows Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7700, South Africa. meadows@enviro.uct.ac.za |
| Project Name: | Multidisciplinary Oceanographic Research in the Eastern boundary of the North Atlantic (MORENA) |
| Project Description: | MORENA objectives are to measure, understand and model shelf-ocean exchange in a typical coastal upwelling region in the eastern boundary layer of the subtropical ocean. A multi-disciplinary approach aims at the quantitative understanding of the physical, chemical and biological processes involved in the transfer of matter (salt, particulates, nutrients, organic compounds, biomass), momentum and energy across and along the shelf, the shelf break and the slope, in the Iberian region of the European Atlantic. |
| Contact Persons: | Prof A. Flaza Instituto de Oceanografia, Faculdade de Ceocias, Universidade de Lisbon Rua Ernesto de Vasconcelos, Campo Grande, 1700 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Prof J.A. Johnson University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. | |
| Dr T.J. Sherwin UCES, University of Wales School of Ocean Sciences, Menai Bridge, Bangor LL59 5EY, U.K. | |
| Dr L.S. Robinson Dept. Oceanography, SOC, Southampton University Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, U.K. | |
| Dr P. Davies University Dundee Dundee, DDI 4HN, U.K. | |
| Dr G. Savidge Queen’s, University of Belfast The Strand, Portaferry, Co. Down, BT22 1PF, U.K. |
| Project Name: | Ocean Margin Exchange (OMEX) |
| Project Description: | OMEX objectives are to gain a better understanding of the physical, chemical and biological processes occurring at the ocean margins in order to quantify fluxes of energy and matter across this boundary, to provide a more accurate picture of the biogeochemical interactions between the coastal zone and the open ocean. Physical studies are mainly focused on the determination of advective and diffusive transport processes at the European shelf edge using field measurements and theoretical analyses. Prognostic models are being developed to estimate fluxes of water and particles in characteristic but contrasting systems of the north-eastern Atlantic European shelf edge. Special effort has been devoted to understanding the various components of the carbon cycle and associated elements (nutrients and oligo-elements). This includes the study of the temporal and spatial variability of production, consumption, transport and burial of organic matter. Ecological models are developed in order to assess the population dynamics in relation to the food flux, with special emphasis on pelagic-benthic coupling. Measurements in 1993-1995 focused on the Goban Spur south-west of Ireland, with some parallel work off south-west and north-west Iberia, west of Ireland and off Norway. Moorings, drifters, surveys and sampling, coring and remote sensing have all been used. A focus off north-west Iberia is expected from 1997. Data are banked with BODC. |
| Sub-Project: | Microzooplankton |
| Contact Person: | Dr P.H. Burkill Plymouth Marine Laboratory Prospect Place, West Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, U.K. |
| Sub-Project: | Geochemical programme for the LOIS Shelf Edge Study |
| Contact Persons | Dr’s R. Chester, G.A. Wolff, J. Statham University of Liverpool Brownlow St, Liverpool, L69 3BX, U.K. |
| D.J. Hydes Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, SOC Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 32H, U.K. | |
| Dr G.B. Shimmield Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory P.O. Box 3, Oban, Argyll, PA34 4AB, U.K. g.shimmield@dml.ac.uk | |
| Dr N. Price Grants Institute, University of Edinburgh West Mains Rd, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, U.K. | |
| Sub-Project: | Benthic fluxes at the Hebridean Shelf Edge |
| Contact Person: | Dr J.D. Gage Scottish Association for Marine Sciences P.O. Box, Oban, Argyll, PA34 4ab, U.K. |
| Sub-Project: | Remote sensing |
| Contact Person: | S. Groom Plymouth Marine Laboratory Prospect Place, West Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, U.K. |
| Sub-Project: | Physical oceanography |
| Contact Person: | J. Huthnance Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Bidston Observatory Birkenhead, Merseyside, L43 7RA, U.K. |
| Sub-Project: | Nutrient biogeochemistry |
| Contact Person: | Dr D. Hydes Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, SOC, Southampton University Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 32H, U.K. |
| Sub-Project: | Primary and new production |
| Contact Person: | Dr I. Joint Plymouth Marine Laboratory Prospect Place, West Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, U.K. |
| Sub-Project: | Biogas production |
| Contact Person: | Dr P.S. Liss University of East Anglia Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK. p.liss@uea.ac.uk |
| Sub-Project: | Pigments and DOC |
| Contact Person: | Dr R.F.C. Mantoura Plymouth Marine Laboratory Prospect Place, West Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, U.K. rfcm@pml.ac.uk |
| Sub-Project: | Trace metals |
| Contact Person: | Dr P. Statham University of Southampton Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 32H, U.K. |
| Sub-Project: | Modelling |
| Contact Person: | Prof. P. Tett Napier University 10 Colinton Rd, Edinburgh, EH10 5DT, U.K. |
| Sub-Project: | Nutrient fluxes and phytoplankton dynamics at the Hebridean shelf edge |
| Contact Person: | Dr K. Jones Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory P.O. Box 3, Oban, Argyll, PA 34 4AD, U.K. |
| Dr G. Savidge Queen’s University of Belfast The Strand, Portaferry, Co. Down, BT22 1PF, U.K. |
| Project Name: | Measurement and modelling of cross and along-margin flux of suspended particulate matter at the shelf break |
| Contact Persons: | Dr S.E. Jones & C.F. Jago University of Wales, School of Ocean Sciences Menai Bridge, Bangor, LL59 5EY, U.K. |
| Project Name: | Material flux across the shelf slope and the role of marine snow |
| Contact Person: | Dr R.S. Lampitt Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Southampton University Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, U.K. rsl@soc.ac.uk |
| Project Name: | Modelling the shelf break ecosystem |
| Contact Persons: | R. Proctor Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Bidston Observatory Birkenhead, Merseyside, L43 7RA, U.K. |
| M.R.J. Fasham James Rennell Centre, Southampton University Empress Dock, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, U.K. | |
| P.B. Tett Napier University 10 Colinton Rd, Edinburgh, E10 5DT, U.K. |
| Project Name: | U.S. Ocean Margins Programme |
| Project Description: | Presently, the OMP is the major U.S. integrated multidisciplinary research programme for:
The OMP is contributory to the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) and the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ). It supports university and national-laboratory scientists to conduct molecular to global-scale studies to understand the physical, biogeochemical, plant, animal, and microbial mechanisms and interactions that affect the input, assimilation, and transformation of carbon in coastal waters and sediments. In addition, the OMP supports projects that develop new instrumentation to obtain high frequency in-situ measurements of the environmental and biological factors affecting carbon fluxes in the ocean. During 1993, the DOE launched a new molecular biology initiative within OMP to determine how biological processes are regulated and controlled by genetic limitations and environmental variables. |
| Contact Person: | Dr Curtis R. Olsen Office of Health and Environmental Research ER-74, GTN, U.S. Department of Energy 19901 Germantown Road, Germantown, MD 20874-1290, USA. |