hypox partners from the Institute of Biology of the Southern Sea (IBSS) join the 5th IGCP 521 / INQUA 501 plenary meeting and field trip (22- 31.8.09)

Two projects on the quaternary history of sea level change and human adaptation in the Black Sea Mediterranean Corridor (IGCP 521 and INQUA 501) hold their 2009 plenary meeting and field trip in Istanbul, Izmir, and Çanakkale (Turkey). The history of this region under the influence of sea level changes in the last 30,000 years has a strong link to the hypox focus on the effect of global change on oxygen availability and its implications. Nelli Sergeeva and Igor Bondrev from the IBSS join the meeting and field trip and present investigations of faunal assemblages at the shelf break and oxic/anoxic interface of the northwestern Black Sea.

The Black Sea-Mediterranean Corridor covering the Manych-Kerch Gateway, the Black Sea, the Marmara Gateway, the Aegean Sea, the Eastern Mediterranean and their coasts (www.avalon-institute.org/IGCP).

Nelli Sergeeva and Igor Bondarev giving a talk at this years IGCP 521 / INQUA 501 Plenary Meeting.

Coring activities near Miletos during the 2009 field trip

Links:

• Institute of Biology of the Southern Sea: (http://www.ibss.org.ua/Default.aspx?alias=www.ibss.org.ua/eng)
• IGCP 521 / INQUA 501 plenary meeting and field trip: (http://www.avalon-institute.org/IGCP/meetings.html)
  
• meeting and field trip programme: http://www.avalon-institute.org/IGCP/doc/ProgramIGCP2009.pdf
  
• International Geoscience Programme (IGCP): http://portal.unesco.org/science/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6304&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
• International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA): http://www.inqua.tcd.ie/index.html