MARINE POLLUTION LABORATORY

Archive - 2011

• On 01.12.2011 a doctoral defence of the thesis "Organotin compounds in coastal zone of the Southern Baltic Sea - influence of the environmental conditions on distribution and degradation" by M.Sc. Anna Filipkowska took place, supervisor - Prof. Grażyna Kowalewska, reviewers - Prof. Bogusław Buszewski of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun and Prof. Mikołaj Protasowicki of West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin. Scientific Council of IO PAS on 06.12.2011 gave to Anna Filipkowska Ph.D. in Earth Sciences.

  
  
• Algae - monitoring station has been installed (July 2011)
  
  
  

  One of the main tasks of Institute of Oceanology PAN in framework WAB project was installation of an eutrophication in-situ monitoring station in Sopot. In July 2011 on the Sopot pier measuring equipment was installed. It consists of: multiparameter sonde and meteorological station. Sonde measures seawater parameters: salinity, temperature, pH, ORP, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll and phycocyanin, and the meteorological station - air temperature, pressure, relative humidity, precipitation, insolation (solar radiation), wind speed and direction. Both parameters of seawater and air are measured at a frequency of every 3 seconds. All data are registered in real-time by computer, transmitted from Sopot pier to Institute where are collected and processed.
  Correlation of data obtained from measurements of in-situ monitoring station and the daily observation of seawater and the beach in Sopot, will provide more reliable information about factors that contribute to the occurrence of blue-green algae blooms and excessive amounts of macroalgae. Selected measurements of the averaged values of air and seawater parameters from the last 72 hours are available at http://www.iopan.gda.pl/MarPoLab/index-en.html --> WAB-monitoring.

• Visit (6-17 June 2011) of Dr. J. William Louda, Senior Scientist on Florida Atlantic University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry-and-The The Environmental Sciences Program (USA), who since many years is collaborating with Marine Pollution Laboratory of IOPAN. During his stay at Institute, in framework of cooperation with Fulbright foundation,
  Dr J.W.Louda has a.o.:
  • learned about organization of research in IOPAN and other marine institutes in Tricity;
  • visited r.v."Oceania"
  • gave lectures to researchers and doctor students of IOPAN and other marine institutes:
    • 9 June 2011 at 1.00 p.m., entitled "Overall biogeochemistry of chlorophyll: phytoplankton to crude oil" and about research on Florida Atlantic University.
    • 14 June 2011 at 1.00 p.m. - "The mercury problem in the Florida Everglades and its relation to agricultural runoff".

• MPL seminar - 18.05.2011, 9.00 a.m., IO PAN
  
  Lectures (in Polish):
  
  
  1. Chlorophyll-a and its derivative in sediments as universal markers of environmental conditions - Ph.D. Małgorzata Szymczak-Żyła
  2. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in airborne PM10 particulate matter from the Tricity region and its inflow to sediments from the Gulf of Gdańsk - Ph.D. Ludwik Lubecki
  3. Organotin compounds in sediments from coastal zone of the Southern Baltic Sea
     - M.Sc. Anna Filipkowska

• 12.05.2011 - Meeting with students of the Third Age University
  
  Meeting was held as a part of promotion action of the WAB project and cooperation of the Institute of Oceanology PAN with the Association "Sopot dla środowiska" . Prof. Kowalewska presented a lecture about eutrophication of the Baltic Sea for 23 students of the Third Age University (UG).

• 28.04.2011 - Meeting with schools
  
  As a promotion the WAB project and cooperation of the Institute of Oceanology PAN with the Association "Sopot dla środowiska", prof. Grazyna Kowalewska presented a lecture about eutrophication of the Baltic Sea. The meeting took place in the seminar room of the Institute of Oceanology PAN in Sopot, attended by about 75 young people from Sopot schools with teachers.

• 31.03.2011 - WAB conference in in Pomeranian Agricultural Education Center
  
  The conference had an informative character, was directed mainly to Pomeranian farmers. One of presentations was a lecture about eutrophication of the Baltic Sea and influence of rural areas on state of the sea, presented by prof. Grazyna Kowalewska. Detailed information about the conference on www.wabproject.pl.

• Brochure 'Eutrophication of the Baltic Sea' has been issued in framework of WAB project

• 2-3.02.2011 - annual WAB conference in Institute of Oceanology PAN Sopot

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