SESAME : Opportunities

SESAME’s Ph.Ds

Under SESAME’s ‘Framework for the implementation of training and capacity building’ 26 PhD studentships are being funded.

	PhD Thesis Title	Student	Institute/University	Country
1	Investigating the Black Sea waters contribution into the North Aegean Sea coastal ecosystem dynamics	Yannis Androulidakis	Laboratory of Maritime Engineering & Maritime Works, Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Greece
2	Phytoplankton – bacteria relationships in contrasting marine ecosystems: Carbon fluxes in relation to underlying trophic conditions	Lagaria Anna	Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography / Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale-ULCO	Greece, France
3	Larval and juvenile age and growth interpretation in European anchovy	Itziar Álvarez	CSIC	Spain
4	Environmental control in early life stages of Cotylorhiza tuberculata (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) in the Mar Menor coastal lagoon	Diana Astorga	Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucia (ICMAN-CSIC),Cadiz	Spain
5	Coupling physical (GHER3D) and biogeochemical (ModEcol1) in 3D, for the North Western shelf of the Black Sea	Arthur Capet	MARE Centre, Ulg	Belgium
6	Carbon dioxide sequestration in the surface waters of the Eastern Mediterranean	Stergios Economou	Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Athens, Democritus University of Thrace	Greece
7	Towards a model coupling phytoplankton functional groups and zooplankton community dynamics in the North Western Mediterranean Sea	Lionel Eisenhauer	LOPB-COM	France
8	Modelling Turkish Straits System: A Shelf Sea Connected through Narrow Straits	Özgür Gürses	Institute of Marine Sciences, METU	Turkey
9	Numerical modeling of biogeochemical cycling in the Black Sea	Pascal Joassin	MARE Centre, Ulg	Belgium
10	Trophic ecology of scyphozoan jellyfish in the coastal waters	T. Kogovšek	National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station Piran	Slovenia
11	Interannual variability of the Danube river discharge and its influence on the processes in the coastal zone.	Nataliia Кyrylenko	Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Sevastopol National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine	Ukraine
12	Implications of phytoplankton cell death losses for carbon flux in oceanic food-webs	Sébastien Lasternas	Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Spain	Spain
13	Small pelagic fishery – Anchovy (Overview and Analysis), Eastern Black Sea, Georgia	Maia Metreveli	Iv.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State Univesity	Georgia
14	Estimation of vital rates of key mesozooplankton organisms in Eastern Mediterranean	Moutsopoulos A.	Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, University of Athens	Greece
15	Seasonal and interannual variability in zooplankton community in the coastal area of the NE Black Sea	Anastasia Nikishina	Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences	Russia
16	Modelling the bioenergetics-based population dynamics of European anchovy within a lower trophic ecosystem model	Politikos D.	Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Technical University of Athens	Greece
17	Essays on Choice Experiments in Valuing Natural Resources: Theory and Econometric Applications	Kyriaki Remoundou	Athens University of Economics and Business Department of International and European Economic Studies	Greece
18	Effects of Temperature on Ecosystems Functionality: Assessing the Impact of Global Warming on Marine Ecosystems	María Sánchez-Camacho:	CSIC (IMEDEA),	Spain
19	To the dynamics of the littoral zone of the Black Sea, Georgia	Zura Savaneli	Iv.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University	Georgia
20	The estimation of vertical turbulent diffusion coefficients for the areas of SESAME project based on high resolution CTD profiles of potential density.	Kioroglou Sotiris	Hellenic Center for Marine Research; University of Aegean	Greece
21	Zooplankton community in Varna coastal area (Varna Bay and adjacent basins)– recent peculiarities and trends	K. Stefanova	Instituite of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Varna	Bulgaria
22	Zooplankton Community Structure, Abundance and Biomass in Turkish Seas (Black Sea, Marmara Sea and Levantine Sea)	Tuba Terbıyık	Çukurova University and Institute of Marine Sciences, METU	Turkey
23	Combining Choice Experiment and Contingent Valuation Methods for valuing biodiversity conservation and negative impacts of invasive species in East Levantine Sea.	D. Tsitakis	University of the Aegean, Department of Environment	Greece
24	Chemical and Optical properties of Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) in coastal and open waters of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea	Tsoliakos D.	Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Athens, University of Athens	Greece
25	Role of small zooplankton in the function of different pelagic communities	Yulia Vasilyeva	Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences	Russia
26	Temporal and spatial changes in primary and bacterial production rates and their interactions in the north-eastern Mediterranean.	Nebil Yücel	Institute of Marine Sciences, METU	Turkey

Ph.D mentoring scheme

Under the ‘Framework for the implementation of training and capacity building’ (see Deliverable 8.1.1) selected PhD students will be funded to attend major scientific conferences and present their research results from SESAME. A well-known expert in the field, from the SESAME consortium, will be assigned to act as ‘scientific mentor’.
Students can apply for funding using the application form. If you are interested, please fill in the form and send it to Dr. Snejana Moncheva (snejanam@abv.bg).
The selection of students and the appointment of the ‘scientific mentor’ will be done by the Steering Committee. It is envisaged that up to five students will be funded each year of the project. Priority will be given to high-level scientific conferences. The Steering Committee will put forward calls for such conferences for the PhD students to apply for mentoring.

PhD mentoring @ ASLO 2009

SESAME PhD students applied for funding to attend the ASLO 2009 Conference (25-30 January 2009, Nice, France), and the session: 'Signals of change in the Mediterranean and Black Sea ecosystems'. For more information on the conference please see http://www.aslo.org/meetings/nice2009/.
Information regarding future conferences will be uploaded as soon as it becomes available.