Project ID No: 1159

POPULATION OF KRILL AND OTHER PELAGIC COMPONENTS OF ATLANTIC PART OF ANTARCTICA AND EVOLUTION OF CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE CHANGES AND EARTH CHANGES (Marine Antarctic ecosystem)

The scale of descending changes in the Antarctic ecosystem demands the conforming approach to conducting of its researches. It is a spanning by biooceanographic researches probably of greater offshore water (zone of krill reproduction and development), which includes miscellaneous water masses. These researches take into account a geographic range of krill and salps, and cover of all major biological components of an ecosystem. The researches should wear all-the-year-round. Only such approach will allow it justified to estimate a state of an ecosystem and direction of its changes at the present stage. The performance of complex biooceanographic researches (oceanographic survey) in traditional (model) regions under the accepted earlier scheme of stations in a season 2007-2008 for obtaining the comparable data is expedient.

Executive Organization:
Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (IBSS) NASU
2, Nakhimova Аve, 990011, Sevastopol, Ukraine

Project Leader:
Dr., Prof. Ernest Samyshev
Tel: +38-0692-574789
Email: fme@ibss.iuf.net4
Email: s-ignat2004@yandex.ru

Other project members and their affiliation
Ignatyev Sergey (The responsible performer) (IBSS NASU);
Butuzova Ludmila (NASC);
Minkina Natalie (IBSS NASU);
Seryogin Sergey (IBSS NASU);
Tokarev Yury N. (IBSS NASU);
Artamonov Yury N. (MHI NASU)

Joining IPY endorsed project:
№ 131 INTEGRATED CIRCUMPOLAR STUDIES OF ANTARCTIC MARINE ECOSYSTEMS TO THE CONSERVATION OF LIVING RESOURCES
Principal Organisation: CCAMLR
Principal Investigator: Dr Svein A. Iversen, Institute of Marine Research, Norway