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Ostroumov S. A. On the Fourth International Conference “Water Ecosystems and Organisms-4” [CHRONICLE]. - Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 2003, Vol. 29, No. 4, p. 262–263. [ISSN Print: 1063-0740; ISSN Online: 1608-3377].
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Russian Journal of Marine Biology, Vol. 29, No. 4, 2003, pp. 262–263.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2003 by Biologiya Morya, Ostroumov.
On the Fourth International Conference
“Water Ecosystems and Organisms-4” [CHRONICLE]
S. A. Ostroumov
Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
The Fourth International Conference (poster session)“Water Ecosystems and Organisms-4” took place in Moscow on June 19, 2002. The conference was organized
under the aegis of several scientific organizations
including the Hydrobiological Society at the RAS, the
Inter-Departmental Ichthyological Commission, the
International Society of Ecoethics, etc.
The participants of the conference considered and
discussed materials presented including presentations
of scientists from Astrakhan, Vladivostok, Kishinev,
Moscow, Sevastopol, and other regions of Russia and
CIS, as well as colleagues from England, Spain, China,
Germany, Singapore, the United States, and some other
countries. International participants presented their reports
as posters and sent them by mail. The presented posters
reflected modern advances in hydrobiology, water ecology,
limnology, biological oceanography, sciences on
the biosphere and environment, and also the issues
of education in biology and the conservation of nature.
More than 50 communications were presented. Complimentary
addresses for the participants of the conference
arrived from the President of the Hydrobiological
Society, Academician of the RAS, A.F. Alimov and
Dr. Steven McCutcheon (Environmental Protection
Agency, USA).
In the Resolution it was pointed out that the participants
of the conference consider the experience of such
a meeting to be useful and are thankful to the organizers
(the scientific team of
Moscow State University), the Organizing Committee
(including scientists of
Moscow State University) and sponsors for their
activities. The Chairman
of the Organizing Committee and the Program
Committee was D.Sci., S.A. Ostroumov. The Co-
Chairmen of the Program Committee were Profs. Henri
Dumont (Belgium), Otto Kinne (Germany), J. Widdows
(Great Britain), and R. Wetzel (USA). A Resolution
and the Recommendations of the Conference were
accepted. A request was expressed to the Organizing
Committee to forward the Recommendations to the
RAS, the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and
other interested institutions and persons. The Advisory
Committee of the Conference comprised representatives
of scientific institutions from Russia, Ukraine,
Latvia, Estonia, Australia, Belgium, Brasilia, Germany,
Netherlands, Egypt, Israel, Spain, China, Poland, Portugal,
USA, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, and other
countries and included A.F. Alimov, V.L. Kasyanov,
S.V. Kotelevtsev, E.A. Kriksunov, V.D. Romanenko,
and G.S. Rozenberg (Russian Federation and Ukraine);
Takashi Asaeda (Japan); M. Balode (Latvia); T. Berman
(Israel); Ilana Berman-Frank (USA), J.C. Bintz
(USA); J. Bloesch (Switzerland); Maria-Jose L.
Boavida (Portugal); Christina W.C. Branco (Brazil);
G.S. Bullerjahn (USA); Angel Del Valls Casillas
(Spain); B. Cuker (USA); A.G. Degermendzhy and
Doretha B. Foushee (USA); M. Frankignoulle (Belgium);
L. Hekanson (Sweden); D. Hamilton (Australia);
J. Huisman (Netherlands); M. Debora Iglesias-
Rodriguez (UK); Krzysztof Jazdzewski (Poland);
R.K. Johnson (Sweden); F. Juttner (Switzerland);
Fernando G. Brun Murillo (Spain); Sasi Nayar (Singapore);
H. Ojaveer (Estonia); J.P. Ometto (Brazil,
USA); A. Parparov (Israel); Massoud A.H. Saad (Egypt);
Xiulin Wang (China); R.G. Wetzel (USA); and others.
Recommendations of the international poster
session “Water Ecosystems and Organisms-4,”
June 19, 2002
In carrying out scientific investigations it is necessary
to pay attention to the following problems:
—the role of water ecosystems in maintaining of
stability in the biosphere, including stability of biological
productivity, biogeochemical processes, and the
heat regime of the biosphere and climate;
—the treatment of chemical substances for ecology,
especially sublethal effects of xenobiotics for water
organisms;
—problems that could result in the development of
criteria to evaluate ecological treatment of anthropogenic
effects and enhancement of the system of priorities
when ranging the substances dependent on the
degree of their threat for ecology;
—problems of water self-purification; anthropogenic
effects on organisms and processes that take part
in water self-purification deserve more detailed investigations;
—relationships between surface water ecosystems
and subterranean waters.
Ostroumov S. A. On the Fourth International Conference “Water Ecosystems and Organisms-4” [CHRONICLE]. - Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 2003, Vol. 29, No. 4, p. 262–263. [ISSN Print: 1063-0740; ISSN Online: 1608-3377]
