Project name: UBSS, UP-GRADE BS-SCENE (UP-GRADE BLACK SEA SCIENTIFIC NETWORK)

Grant Agreement Number: 226592

Implementation period: 2009-2011

Objectives and tasks: building and extending of the existing research infrastructure (developed under FP6 project BlackSeaScene with an additional 19 marine environmental institutes/organizations from the 6 Black Sea countries. The main output will be on-line access to in-situ and remote sensing data, meta-data and products

Organization - Coordinator: Marine Information Service(MARIS), Koningin Julianalaan 345A, Corbulo building, 2273JJ, City Voorburg, The Netherlands,

UBSS Coordinator: Dick M.A. Schaap Phone: +31 70 3004710, Fax: +31 70 3903546, Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , Website http://www.maris.nl

Partners (Consortium members):

Ukraine (10 organizations):

MARINE HYDROPHYSICAL INSTITUTE - UKRAINIAN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Sevastopol; UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS, KHARKIV; ODESSA NATIONAL I.I. MECHNIKOV UNIVERSITY; A.O. KOVALEVSKIY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF SOUTHERN SEAS, SEVASTOPOL; TAURIDA NATIONAL V.I. VERNADSKY UNIVERSITY, SIMFEROPOL; INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE; UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE MARINE BRANCH, SEVASTOPOL; SOUTHERN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MARINE FISHERIES AND OCEANOGRAPHY, KERCH; UKRAINIAN SCIENTIFIC CENTRE OF ECOLOGY OF THE SEA; DANUBE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY OF STATE HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL SERVICE OF MINISTRY OF UKRAINE OF EMERGENCIES AND AFFAIRS OF POPULATION PROTECTION FROM CONSEQUENCES OF CHORNOBYL CATASTROPHE

Russian Federation(8 organizations):

LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY; P.P. SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES;INSTITUTE OF LIMNOLOGY - RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; SPACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; ALL-RUSSIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION-WORLD DATA CENTRE; GOSUDARSTVENNOE UCHREZHDENIE GOSUDARSTVENNIY OKEANOGRAFICHESKIY INSTITUT; INSTITUT GEOEKOLOGII ROSSIYSKOY AKADEMII NAUK; RESEARCH CENTRE DYNAMICS OF THE NEARSHORE ZONE.

Bulgaria (7 organizationa):

INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY - BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF VARNA; INSTITUTE OF FISHING RESOURCES; BLACK SEA NGO NETWORK; UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND GEOLOGY; CENTRAL LABORATORY OF GENERAL ECOLOGY;NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY OF THE BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Turkey (6 organizations):

MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY; SINOP UNIVERSITY*SINOP FISHERIES FACULTY; KARADENIZ TEKNIK UNIVERSITESI; DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITESI; ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY; ANKARA UNIVERSITESI

Romania (3 organizationa):

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MARINE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU GEOLOGIE SI GEOECOLOGIE MARINA-GEOECOMAR; DANUBE DELTA BIOSPHERE RESERVE AUTHORITY, TULCEA

Georgia(6 organizations):

IVANE JAVAKHISHVILI TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY; The Centre for Monitoring and Prognostication of the Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources of Georgia; MIKHEIL NODIA INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS; INSTITUTE OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY; GAMMA LTD.; INSTITUTE OF WATER MANAGEMENT

Greece (2 organizations):

HELLENIC CENTRE FOR MARINE RESEARCH; BALKAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION (ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI)

As well as organizations from the following countries:

Belgium: INTERNATIONAL BUREAU FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Poland: INSTYTUT METEOROLOGII I GOSPODARKI WODNEJ

Netherlands: MARINE SAMPLING HOLLAND BV

United Kingdom: FIELDFARE INTERNATIONAL ECOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT PLC

Cyprus: UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS, NICOSIA

and 2 International organizations:

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION (UNESCO) PARlS, France; PERMANENT SECRETARIAT OF THE COMMISSION ON THE PROTECTION OF THE BLACK SEA AGAINST POLLUTION, ISTANBUL, Turkey

Project website:http://www.blackseascene.net/Head of the ONU Research Group and His Contacts:Dr. Volodymyr I. Medinerts
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Tel: +0380487317379 Fax: +0380487237338http://onu.edu.ua/en/science/nauchdosl/research_unit/monitoring_center