MONITORING OF SULFIDE AND HEAVY METALS SPECIATION
N SEA WATER USING CHEMILUMINESCENT,
DIFFUSE-REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPIC
AND VISUAL-TEST METHODS
O.A. Zaporozhets, L.S. Ivanko, T.Ye. Keda, R.P. Linnik,
O.Yu. Nadzhafova, L.Ye. Tsukalo, V.V. Sukhan
Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Sulfide. As is known, the sulfides of metals have toxic effect toward aquatic organisms, and the excess of H2S in water bodies causes decrease of oxygen concentration. Some researchers consider that the sulfides can have an important role in influencing the speciation of dissol Continue Reading »
THE BLACK SEA AS AN INTEGRATOR
of INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE
V. Skripnik
The Odessa State Maritime Academy, Ukraine
The state of enclosing the environment is determined by the balance between an amount of acting contaminants and its capacity to self-cleaning. In forming ecological balance in such enclosed sea area, as the Black sea, having the specific area if water collection in the world and week intensity of vertical circulation\’s, not only productive activity in the coastal zone and developed navigation play an important role. In many respects it depends on intensity of downthrow o Continue Reading »
THE BLACK SEA- AN Economic PARTNER
IN INTERNATIONAL POLICY AFFAIRS.
EVALUATION OF OBLIGATIONS taken for IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN FOR THE REHABILITATION AND PROTECTION OF THE BLACK SEA
A.I. Shevchuk
Odessa Branch International Socio-Ecological Union, Odessa
\’Influenced by people\’s activities, our environment is exposed to qualitative changes, which made questionable a habitual human existence\’ (3). Middle of 80s have marked a new idea for establishing of the international mechanism that will resolve environmental problems concerning resources of common use. Continue Reading »
PRINCIPLES AND MECHANISMS OF THE ECOLOGICAL PROTECTION OF THE AZOV-BLACK SEA BASIN IN UKRAINE
A.G. Topchijev, L.V. Khomych
I.I. Mechnikov National University of Odessa, Ukraine
Natural peculiarities of the Azov-Black Sea basin. The Azov-Black Sea basin is a peculiar and unique object as for many characteristics. Its main peculiarities include the vast catchment area, the slow vertical mixing of water, the relative isolation of the water body and the slow outward water exchange in addition to the low level species biodiversity. All these factors and the fact that high level of economic activities are found within the basin areas, Continue Reading »
GYPS CONTENT OF NEOCENE-QUATERNARY DEPOSITS OF NORTH-WESTERN BLACK SEA COAST
D.K.Zhdanov
Youth Ecological Group of Odessa Regional Academy of Sciences (YEGORAN), Ukraine
The paper is dedicated to the research of vertical sections of Neocene-Quaternary deposits of the North-western Black Sea Coast, the properties and display of gyps content, its stratigraphic distribution. It should be noted that this problem has never been discussed before, and no publications were found.
As a result of detailed examination of the vertical sections of Neocene-Quaternary deposits in the named region Continue Reading »
Characteristic of Azov Sea and Black Sea coastal zone in Ukraine as object of management
A. Tkachov
Central Board for National Nature Parks and Reserve Affairs, Kyiv, Ukraine
The coastal zone, as object of management, is the area in contact of the land and the sea. It includes some part of coastal aquatory and coastal land. The coastal aquatory and coastal land intensively influence each other in natural and economic aspects, interact and mutually stipulate their respective development.
The components of this specific natural economic system are: river deltas, sea coastal aquatories (under intensive la Continue Reading »