Aegean Sea Environment

Christos L. Anagnostou, Research Director of the Institute of Oceanography at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR). He studied Natural Sciences (biology and geology) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Greece and made his PhD (Dissertation) at the Ruhr University – Bochum, Germany. The last 40 years is active, carrying out research in geological oceanography at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR). He was a visiting professor at the Aegean University and he is teaching also in postgraduate level the last 20 years at the School of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering of the National and Technical University of Athens.Prof. Dr. Andrey G. Kostianoy - Doctor of physico-mathematical sciences, Chief Scientist at the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), a Visiting Professor at the University of Liege (Belgium), Honorary Professor of Tver State University (Russia). He is a specialist in the field of physical oceanography, satellite remote sensing of the oceans and inland seas, regional climate change, environmental problems. He is Editor-in-Chief of «The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry» book series in Springer.Ilias Mariolakos, Em. Prof. at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens. Dr. rer. nat. of the Erlangen - Nuernberg University, Germany. Honorary Prof. of the University of Salzburg, Visiting Prof. at the Free University of Brussels, Visiting Teaching Fellow at the University of N.S.W. of Sidney-Australia. Director of the IFAQ - UNESCO seminars of quaternary deposits. Foreign member of the Russian Academy of the Natural Science. Appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of IGME (Institute of Geological and Mineral Exploration) (Greek Geological Survey), Appointed delegate of Greece in many national committees. Elected chairman of the Greek Geological Society.During the last 30 years working on finding the connection between the geoenvironmental changes of the Aegean and Circum-Aegean areas and the Greek Mythology, during the last 100,000 years.Panayotis Panayotidis born in Thessaloniki (Greece) at 1953. BSc in Natural Sciences (1975) from the University of Thessaloniki (Greece), MSc in Oceanography and PhD in Marine Biology (1980) from the University of Aix-Marseilles (France). Research Director at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (2000–2020). During the last 35 years, he has participated in several research projects in the fields of seagrass and algae taxonomy, biology and ecology, benthic communities’ structure and function, evaluation of eutrophication and water quality status, and rapid environmental assessment. He coordinated the implementation of the "Habitat Directive", as well as the WFD and MSFD mapping projects in Greece.Marina Soilemezidou, PhD in Political Science & Environment, MSc in Oceanography and Marine Environment Management, is a Research Fellow at the Mediterranean Programme for International Environmental Law and Negotiation and works at the Academy of Athens. She has professional experience in the social, economic and environmental issues in Committee of Permanent Representatives I in the EU, in the areas of the civil protection in Greece and the exploitation of natural resources in the USSR.Grigoris Tsaltas is Professor Emeritus of International Law with the Faculty of International, European and Area Studies, at Panteion University of Athens. He is founder and Director of the European Centre for Environmental Research and Training (est. 2002), one of the most significant institutions promoting sustainability studies in Greece. He teaches Law of the Sea, International and European Environmental Law and Policy and Energy Policies for Sustainable Development in both in undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In the past, he has served as Minister of Environment and Climate Change, as well as Rector of Panteion University. He holds the

• Part I: Aegean Archipelagos: A Significant Place for the Human Presence.- Aegean Archipelagos: A significant place of human’s presence and civilization in the broader area – Human–nature interaction.- The physiography of the Aegean Archipelagos as the optimum environment for human settlement and human’s creative dynamic.- Tracing the presence of humans in the Aegean Sea area and adjacent land regions in the Prehistoric and Historic periods.- Part II: Natural Sources.- Marine Renewable Energy in the Greek Seas.- Capture Fisheries and Aquaculture Exploitation in the Aegean Sea Archipelago.- Shipping in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea: History and Environment Challenges Toward Green Shipping.- Tourism in the Aegean Sea: Sustainable Development and Ecology.- Part III: Natural Hazards – Natural Changes.- Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Natural Hazards Over the Aegean Archipelago.- The Aegean Sea Air Temperature Changes.- Part IV: Pollution - The Environmental State of the Aegean Sea.- Reconstruction Analysis of Radionuclides and Metals for Studying Contamination Assessment and Coastal Variability at the Aegean Sea.- Pollution from Hydrocarbons and Other Organic Contaminants in the Aegean Sea.- Marine Litter, Plastics and Microplastics in the Aegean Archipelago: Current Knowledge and Priorities for the Future.- Part V: The State of the Main Open and Semieclosed Gulf Systems of the Aegean Sea.- Thermaikos Gulf: An Area Under Multiple Natural and Anthropogenic Pressures.- The semi-enclosed Pagassitikos Gulf under the impact of human activities.- The Impacts of Anthropogenic and Climatic Factors on the Interaction of Spercheios River and Maliakos Gulf, the Aegean Sea.- Pollution Pressures and Impacts in the North Evoikos Gulf (Aegean Sea).- Τhe Marine Ecosystem and the Anthropogenic Impacts in the South Evvoikos Gulf: Central Aegean Sea.- Biogeochemical Characteristics in the Saronikos Gulf (Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean).- The Coastal Environmental Status of Argolikos Gulf.- The environmental status of the semienclosed gulf systems of the eastern Aegean Sea coasts.- Part VI: The National, European and International Plans for the Conservation of the Aegean Sea System – Viewing the Future.- The Application of the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea in the Archipelagos of the Aegean Sea.- Implementation of the Legal Framework for the Management of the Marine Environment of the Aegean Sea.- Integrated Planning for the Adaptive Management of the Human Activities and Supporting Marine Conservation in the Aegean Sea.