European River Ocean System: the interactions between the river Danube and the north western Black Sea - Pilot phase (1994 - 1995)

Objective

EROS 2000 (European River Ocean System) is a long term interdisciplinary research project on biogeochemical processes in the European coastal environment of the Danube Delta and the North Western Black Sea. This area represents one of the ultimate examples of deterioration of the coastal marine environment where dramatic eutrophication, pollution and erosion problems are observed. The extrapolation of the results obtained in this area will be of great value for determining measures to be taken to prevent such catastrophic situation in other semi-enclosed seas. It further represents a key area for understanding the production of biogases of climatological significance such as methane.

The following questions will be addressed by the project:

1. What would be the consequences of a reduction of the river input of nutrients for the eutrophication and the ecosystem structure of the North-Western Black-Sea ?

2. What are the riverine and atmospheric sources, levels and fates of key organic/inorganic pollutants in the Black Sea environment ?

3. What are likely to be the short -and long- term consequences of the regulation of river discharge for sediment transport/erosion/deposition and water stratification ?

4. What is the significance of the Black Sea source of important key greenhouse gases ?


After five years spent in the Gulf of Lions and the Western Mediterranean, EROS 2000 moves East. Western and eastern european scientists decided to pool their efforts together to study the Danube Delta and the North Western Black Sea.
This area represents the ultimate example of deterioration of the coastal and marine aquatic environment. It can be viewed as the best pilot site to understand the complex interactions between the human activities and the marine environment. The specific questions adressed by the project will be the followings :
1. What would be the consequences of a reduction of the river input of nutrients for the eutrophicationand the ecosystem structure of the north-Western Black sea ?
2. What are the riverine and atmospheric sources, levels and fates of key organic/inorganic pollutants in the Black sea environment ?
3. What are likely to be short- and long-term consequences of the regulation of river discharge for sediment transport/erosion/deposition and water stratification ?
4. What is the significance of the Black sea source of important key greenhouse gases ?

Programme(s)

• FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994

Topic(s)

• 0106 - Biogeochemical cycles and ecosystem dynamics

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

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Coordinator

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Address

1 Rue Maurice Arnoux
92120 Montrouge
France

 

Participants (19)

BALTIC SEA RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Germany

Address

Seestrasse 15
18119 Rostock /Warnemunde

 

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE

France

Address

Quai De La Darse, Observatoire Océanologique
06238 Villefranche Sur Mer

 

CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS

Spain

Address

18-26,Jordi Girona 18-26
08034 Barcelona

 

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

France

Address

52 Avenue De Villeneuve
66860 Perpignan

 

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

France

Address

4 Place Jussieu
75252 Paris

 

FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN

Germany

Address

Fabeckstrasse 69
14195 Berlin

 

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.

Germany

Address

Saarstraße 23
55020 Mainz

 

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.

Germany

Address

Bundesstra¯e 55
20146 Hamburg

 

ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE

Netherlands

Address

28,Vierstraat 28
4401 EA Yerseke

 

THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

United Kingdom

Address

Bedford Street North
L69 3BX Liverpool

 

UNIVERSITAET KONSTANZ

Germany

Address

Mainaustrasse 252
78457 Konstanz

 

UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES

Belgium

Address

221,Boulevard Du Triomphe 221
1050 Bruxelles

 

UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG

Germany

Address

Budesstrasse 55
20146 Hamburg

 

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

United Kingdom

Address

Ridley Building, Claremont Road
NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne

 

University College Cork

Ireland

Address

Western Road
30 Cork

 

University of Southampton

United Kingdom

Address

European Way
SO14 3ZH Southampton

 

Université de Bretagne Occidentale

France

Address

6 Avenue Le Gorgeu
29285 Brest

 

Université de Liège

Belgium

Address

85,
4000 Liège

 

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Belgium

Address

2,Pleinlaan 2
1050 Bruxelles