The Aegean Sea Environment: The Geodiversity of the Natural System

Author Biography

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. 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 thegeoenvironmental 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 participated in several research projects in the research 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 was coordinator of the habitat mapping project in the Greek marine Natura network (2000–2005), the monitoring project for the Ecological Quality Status evaluation in the Greek coastal and transitional water bodies (2006–2015) and the monitoring programmes of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive in the Greek seas (2016–2019). 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 J. Monnet Chair “European Union and Developing Countries”.