Partners:

• Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK
• Dept of Environmental Science, University of Plymouth, UK
• Institute of Marine Studies, University of Plymouth, UK
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Marinas, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas, Vigo, Spain
• P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia
• Geography Faculty, Moscow State University,  Russia
• Nenetsk Okrug Committee of Ecology,  Narjan -Mar, Russia

Objectives:

The project aims are to identify and quantify meso-scale physical and biogeochemical processes in the coastal waters of the White Sea and the Barents Sea and to assess the environmental impact of these processes. The main specific objectives are to:

• investigate the physical and biogeochemical processes, governing material fluxes in the study area;
• estimate the environmental impact of meso-scale processes in the White and southern Barents Seas;
• collate existing observations of physical, chemical and biological conditions in the White and southern Barents Seas;
• formulate modelling approaches for diagnosis and prognosis of these processes.

Journal Publications:

• G. I. Shapiro, V. P. Shevchenko, A. P. Lisitsyn, A. N. Serebryany, N. V. Politova, and T. M. Akivis, 2000.  Influence of Internal Waves on the Suspended Sediment Distribution in the Pechora Sea . Doklady Akademii Nauk Rossii (English translation Doklady Earth Sciences. V. 373, P. 899-901)
• V. N. Lukashin, K. N. Kosobokova, V. P. Shevchenko, G. I. Shapiro, A. N. Pantulin, N. M. Pertzova, A. V. Savenko, M. G. Deev, A. A. Kljuvitkin, A. N. Novigatsky, R. Prego, L. Latche, 2002. Results of multi-disciplinary oceanographic observations in the White Sea, June 2000. Oceanology, 43, No2, 237-253 (.pdf file)
• A. N. Serebryany, G. I. Shapiro, 2002. Observations of the internal waves in the Pechora Sea, 2001. In: Experience of system oceanologic studies in the Arctic. M., Scientific world, 644 PP., Eds:A. P. Lisitzin et al, P.140-150.

Conference Presentations

• Shapiro G.I., Serebryany A.N., 1999: Internal waves in the Pechora Sea. Proceedings of the 24th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, the Hague, the Netherlands, April, 1999. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 1999, vol 1(2), P.393. oa3.txt
  
• Aleynik, D.L.; Shapiro, G.I. Search for cascading in historical data. ,2000. 25th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Nice , France, 25-29 April 2000 (Abstract).
• Shevchenko, V.P.; Shapiro, G.I.; Serebryany, A.N.; Politova, N.V.; Akivis, T.M., 2000.  Impact of breaking internal waves on the vertical distribution of suspended matter. 25th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Nice , France, 25-29 April 2000 (Abstract). Published on the CD-ROM and on the INTERNET site
• Shapiro, G.I.,  2000. Cross-margin exchanges in the benthic layers of the Arctic seas. Shelf-Basin Interactions (SBI) Pan Arctic Meeting, 7-9 November 2000, Callaway Gardens, Georgia (Abstract).
• Shevchenko, V.I., Lukashin, V.N., Klyuvitkin, A.A., Novigatsky, A.N.; Pantyulin, A.N.; Shapiro, G.I.; Deev, M.G.; Savenko, A.V. , 2001. Suspended matter distribution in the White Sea in June 2000. 26th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Nice , France, 25-30 March 2001 (Abstract).
• Gordeev, V. V., Shapiro G. I., Kossobokova X. N., Pantiulin  A. N., Katsepalov A. P., Prego R. & Howland R., 2001.   Meso-scale and biogeochemical processes in coastal waters of the Russian Arctic: INTAS 97-1881. Geology of the Seas  and Oceans, Vol II, International School on Marine Geology, Moscow, 182-183.
• Latché, L., Shapiro, G., Pantiulin, A. N. "Thermohaline intrusion in the White Sea in June 2000". 27th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, Acropolis, Nice , France, 21-26 April 2002 (Abstract).
•  V.N.Lukashin, V.P.Shevchenko, K.N.Kosobokova, G.I.Shapiro, N.M.Pertzova, A.N.Pantulin, A.V.Savenko, Deev M.G. Prego R. Preliminary results of the complex expedition "The mesoscale hydrophysical and biogeochemical processes in the White Sea - 2000 (INTAS 97-1881)" Abstracts of LOIRA, Moscow, 2000
• Kosobokova K.N., Pertzova N.M. Zooplankton composition and distribution in estuarian zone of the Kandalaksha Bay, the White Sea. Abstracts of 6th Conference of the Biological station of MSU, August 2001 (in Russian).

Invited Lectures:

• Shapiro G.I. "Internal waves and transport of pollutants in the Pechora Sea, Russian Arctic", invited lecture at School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, UK, 30 June, 1999
• Shapiro G.I. "Transport of dissolved and particulate matter by mesoscale currents and non-linear internal waves", invited lecture at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, 18 February , 1999
• Shapiro G.I. "Transport of dissolved and particulate matter by mesoscale currents and non-linear internal waves", invited lecture at Southamton Oceanography Centre, UK, 8 February , 1999
• Institute of Ocean Sciences , Sidney, Canada, «Shelf-Ocean Exchange Processes», 3 November, 1998.

Field programme:

August 1998, the Pechora Sea, R/V "Ak.Sergey Vavilov" (13th cruise, funded by Russian Academy of Sciences)