SCOPE:
To initiate a concerted effort to use science, information technology and
policy measures to understand and deal with the consequences of global
warming in the Black Sea towards better governance, sustainable exploitation
of resources and conservation of the marine environment.

OBJECTIVES:

• synthesize regional and basin-wide studies and provide a forum for the
    integration of climate change -related results, data and hypotheses
• discuss and evaluate climate forcing mechanisms of physical, biological and
   biogeochemical processes at various time-spatial scales
• formulate projections and future scenarios of economic and sociological
    impacts of a changing ecosystem on the coastal communities and resource
    users
• frame scientific, technological and policy measures against global warming 
    towards sustainable  ecosystem management

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Day 1: Session 1.
Climate forcing mechanisms in the Black Sea

Day 2: Session 2.
Black Sea Ecosystem responses to climate change

Day 3: Session 3.
Data availability and data base management – what data do us still
need to find, digitize and make available

Day 3: Session 4.
Economic and sociological impacts on the coastal Black Sea
communities and resource users – management scenarios
And measures

REGISTRATION FEE: 50 Euro
PhD students will be charged 25 Euro, please bring document
certifying that you are student.

The Registration Fee will be paid at the Registration Desk.
It will cover:
Conference Materials
Book of Abstracts and full paper on CD
Access to the Conference Sessions and Exhibition

SPONSORSHIP: A number of young researchers/PhD students will be
fully sponsored by the organizers. The selection will be based on the
quality of the Abstract.

PUBLICATION: All authors (oral and poster presentations) will have
an equal opportunity to publish the conference contributions in the
 B.EN.A International Journal on Environmental Protection and
Ecology (JEPE). The selection will be based on peer-review of the
 manuscript by the members of the International Scientific Committee
and an external expert. The manuscripts should be prepared according
to the JEPE Author Guidelines.

CONTACT

"BS-HOT’2008”  - Conference Secretariat
Attention: Dr. Snejana MONCHEVA,
Institute of Oceanology of the Bulgarian Academy of  Sciences
P.O.Box 152, 9000 Varna, BULGARIA.

Phone: +359-52-370485         Fax: +359-52-370485

Home page: www.blacksea-commission.org/bs-hot/

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