Search Results - "2004 USA-Baltic Internation Symposium"

Biological effects of environmental pollution in fish and mussels inhabiting Klaipėda-Būtingė area (Baltic Sea) by Barsiene, J., Lang, T., Broeg, K., Lehtonen, K. K., Vuorinen, P. J., Pempkowiak, J., Syvokiene, J., Dedonyte, V., Rybakovas, A.

“…In June and September 2001 and 2002, acetyl cholinesterase activity, metallothioneins level, bile PAH-metabolites, lysosomal membrane stability, DNA adducts,…”
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Oil spill observation by SAR: A review by Migliaccio, M., Tranfaglia, M.

“…Sea oil spills may cause dramatic effects on the ecosystem and therefore an effective monitoring system capable to make measurements day and night and in all…”
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Oil slick classification by SAR imagery using synergetic data by Girard-Ardhuin, F., Collard, F., Mercier, G., Garello, R.

“…C-band SAR is well adapted to detect ocean pollution because backscatter is reduced by oil slicks that appear as dark patches on the image as the increase of…”
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Oil spill monitoring in the southeastern Baltic sea by Kostianoy, A. G., Lebedev, S. A., Litovchenko, K. Ts, Stanichny, S. V., Pichuzhkina, O. E.

“…Increased shipping activities in the Baltic Sea, including oil transport and oil handled in harbors and new oil terminals, have a number of negative impacts on…”
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New approaches to improve the detection of eutrophication in UK coastal waters by Mills, D. K., Greenwood, N., Kroger, S., Devlin, M., Sivyer, D. B., Pearce, D., Cutchey, S., Malcolm, S. J.

“…Robust assessments of eutrophication are necessary to meet the requirements of a range of international (OSPAR) and EU legislative drivers. To meet these needs…”
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Portable coastal operational oceanographic system to monitor the harbor-related environmental impacts in Estonia by Elken, J., Kouts, T., Raudsepp, U., Sipelgas, L.

“…A portable coastal operational oceanographic system is presented. It has been developed and applied to monitor the harbor-related environmental impacts…”
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Studies of fluxes of dissolved iron and manganese in the Gulf of Finland by Pakhomova, S. V., Kononets, M. Yu, Tengberg, A., Hall, P. O. J., Vershinin, A. V.

“…Metal fluxes (total dissolved iron and manganese) across the water-sediment interface were studied in situ in the Gulf of Finland in June 2002 and 2003 using…”
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Oil spill observation: A physical approach by Ermakov, S. A., Migliaccio, M., Tranfaglia, M.

“…Oil spills dramatically affect the marine ecosystem and must be properly observed to enforce laws and minimize their effects. A microwave remote sensing can be…”
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Sanitary water conditions in the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic coastal area of Lithuania by Stukova, Z.

“…The problem of microbiological pollution in the Baltic Sea and its lagoons is of great importance. The main sources of the pollution in the south-eastern part…”
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Modelling for impact assessment of new port development in the Vistula Lagoon, the Baltic Sea by Jurgensen, C., Chubarenko, B., Jensen, J. S.

“…The results of the environmental impact assessment of the new port development in the South-eastern Baltic is discussed. The following parameters were…”
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The development of a solid phase extraction (SPE) system for environmental monitoring by Dyer, R. A., Balaam, J. L., Thomas, K. V.

“…This presentation describes the development of an automated solid phase extraction (SPE) device, developed from a 50 port extraction unit (Aqualab) coupled…”
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Baltic operational oceanographic system - BOOS by Buch, E., Elken, J., Gajewski, J., Haakansson, B., Kahma, K., Soetje, K.

“…BOOS is a formal association of institutes from Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany and Denmark taking national responsibility…”
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Forecasts of the trajectory and fate of spills, using Internet as the calculation platform by Ambjorn, C.

“…Since the late 70ies SMHI has used forecasting systems for oil drift. These have successively been improved according to new technology and new numerical…”
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Optical detection of organic films from variations of sea surface radiance by Sergievskaya, I. A., Ermakov, S. A., Luchinin, A. G., Shchegolkov, Yu B.

“…Imaging of film slicks on the sea surface under different observational conditions is analyzed. Variations of the sea surface radiance in slicks are calculated…”
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Wave height measurements using acoustic surface tracking by Pedersen, T., Nylund, S.

“…Nortek has improved upon its AWAC, a current and wave measurement sensor package, by introducing a vertical, acoustic beam that detects the surface. This added…”
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Mapping surface coastal currents with satellite imagery and altimetry by Emery, W., Matthews, D., Baldwin, D.

“…The Maximum Cross Correlation (MCC) method is used with infrared and passive microwave images of sea surface temperature (SST) along with ocean color images to…”
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Global climate change impact on Baltic wildlife: Results, problems, co-operation between nations and prospects by Zalakevicius, M.

“…Since XIX century the mean annual air temperature has increased approximately by 1 °C in Lithuania. Recent climate warming raises new problems and targets for…”
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Shallow water profiling platforms - SeaTramp and Octopus by Skoglund, S., Waldmann, C.

“…Two profiling concepts will be presented and compared: The commercially available buoyancy engine profiling system SeaTramp from Ocean Origo AB, Sweden with…”
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Computer handbook on hydro-meteorological regime of the Baltic Sea by Koch, A., Rozhkov, V.

“…The spatial-temporal variability of hydro-meteorological fields of the Baltic Sea is studied. Principles of spatial-temporal variability of atmospheric…”
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Evaluation of wind forecasts above sea surface obtained from numerical models of atmosphere by Kalas, M., Gajewski, J., Szefler, K.

“…Wind parameter data sets, obtained from the mesoscale atmosphere model UMPL, were compared with data recorded by the MIG-1 measurement buoy of the Maritime…”
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