Contents

Volume I. Regional Seas: Europe, The Americas and West Africa

 
Introduction to Seas at the Millennium
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Charles Sheppard
University of Warwick, UK
1. The Seas around Greenland F. Riget 1
P. Johansen 1
H. Dahlgaard 2
A. Mosbech 1
R. Dietz 1
G. Asmund 1

1 National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Arctic Environment, Denmark
2 Risø National Laboratory, Denmark

2. Norwegian Coast Jens Skei
Torgeir Bakke
Jarle Molvaer

Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)

3. The Faroe Islands Maria Dam
Grethe Bruntse 1
Andrias Reinert 2
Jacob Pauli Joensen

Food and Environmental Agency, Faroe Islands

1 Kaldbak Marine Biological Laboratory, Faroe Islands
2 Aquaculture Research Station of the Faroes

4. The North Sea Jean-Paul Ducrotoy 1
Mike Elliott 2
Victor N de Jonge 3

1 University College, Scarborough, UK
2 University of Hull, UK
3 National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management, The Netherlands

5. The English Channel Alan D. Tappin 1
P.C. Reid 2

1 Centre for Coastal Marine Science, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
2 Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, Plymouth, UK

6. The Irish Sea Richard Hartnoll

University of Liverpool, Isle of Man

7. The Baltic Sea: especially southern and eastern regions Jerzy Falandysz 1
Anna Trzosinska 2
Piotr Szefer 3
Jan Warzocha 4
Bogdan Draganik 4

1 University of Gdansk, Poland
2 Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Poland
3 Medical University, Gdanskj, Poland
4 Sea Fisheries Institute, Gdynia, Poland

8. Baltic Sea, including Bothnian Sea and Bothnian Bay
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Lena Kautsky
Nils Kautsky

Stockholm University, Sweden

9. North coast of Spain Isabel Diez
A. Secilla
A. Santoliaria
J.M. Gorostiaga

Universidad del País Vasco, Spain

10. Southern Portugal: the Tagus and Sado estuaries Graça Cabeçadas 1
Ma. José Brogueira 1
Leonor Cabeçadas 2

1 Instituto de Investigação das Pescas e do Mar (IPIMAR), Portugal
2 Direcção Geral do Ambiente (D.G.A.), R. da Murgueira, Portugal

11. Atlantic Coast of Southern Spain Carlos J. Luque
M. Jesús Castillo
M. Enrique Figueroa

Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

12. The Canary Islands Francisco García Montelongo
Carlos Díaz Romero
Ricardo Corbella Tena

University of La Laguna, Spain

13. The Azores Brian Morton 1
Joseph C. Britton 2

1 The University of Hong Kong
2 Texas Christian University, USA

14. Sargasso Sea and Bermuda Anthony H. Knap 1
Douglas M. Connolly 1
James N. Butler 2

1 Bermuda Biological Station for Research
2 Harvard University, USA

15. The Aegean Sea M. Dassenakis
K. Kapiris
A. Pavlidou

University of Athens, Greece

16. The coast of Israel, SE Mediterranean Barak Herut
Bella Galil

National Institute of Oceanography, Israel

17. Adriatic Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea G. Cognetti 1
C. Lardicci 1
M. Abbiati 2
A. Castelli 3

1 Università di Pisa, Italy
2 Università di Bologna, Italy
3 Sassari, Italy

18. Black Sea Gulfem Bakan
(gbakan@samsun.omu.edu.tr)
H. Büyükgüngör

Ondokuz Mayýs University, Turkey

19. Gulf of Maine
Nova Scotia to Cape Cod
Jack Pearce

Buzzards Bay Marine Lab, USA

20. New York Bight Jack Pearce

Buzzards Bay Marine Lab, USA

21. Chesapeake Bay: the United States' largest Estuarine System Kent Mountford

USEPA, USA

22. North and South Carolina Coasts Michael A. Mallin 1
JoAnn M. Burkholder 2
Lawrence B. Cahoon 1
Martin H. Posey 1

1 University of North Carolina-Wilmington, USA
2 North Carolina State University, USA

23. Gulf of Alaska Bruce A. Wright 1
Jeffery Short 2
Tom Weingartner 3
Paul Anderson 4

1 Alaska Region, National Marine Fisheries Service, USA
2 Auke Bay Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service, USA
3 University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
4 Kodiak Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries Service, USA

24. Southern California Kenneth C. Schiff
M. James Allen
Eddy Y. Zeng
Steven M. Bay

Southern California Coastal Water Project, USA

25. Florida Keys Phil Dustan

College of Charleston, USA

26. Bahamas Kenneth C. Buchan

Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador, Bahamas

27. The Northern Gulf of Mexico Mark E. Pattillo 1
David M. Nelson 2

1 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USA
2 National Ocean Service, USA

28. Coastal management in Latin America Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia

Institute of Ecology A.C., México

29. Southern Gulf of Mexico G.F. Vázquez 1
B.R. Rangel 1
M.A. Mendoza-Quintero 2
P.J. Fernández 2
C.E. Aguayo 1
P.A. Palacio 3
K.S. Virender 4

1 Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, México
2 México
3 UNAM. Cd. Universitaria, México
4 Florida Tech. Chemistry Department, USA

30. Pacific Coast of Mexico Alfonso V. Botello
A.O. Toledo
G. De La Lanza-Espino
S.F. Villanueva

National Autonomous University of Mexico

31. Belize Alastair R. Harborne 1
Melanie D. McField 2
E. Kate Delaney 3

1 Coral Cay Conservation, UK
2 University of South Florida, USA
3 University of Southampton, UK

32. Nicaragua: Caribbean coast Stephen C. Jameson 1
Lamarr B. Trott 2
Michael J. Marshall 3
Michael J. Childress 4

1 Coral Seas Inc - Integrated Coastal Zone Management, USA
sjameson@coralseas.com
http://www.coralseas.com
2 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, USA
3 Coastal Seas Consortium, USA
4 Idaho State University, USA

33. Nicaragua: Pacific coast Stephen C. Jameson 1
Vincent F. Gallucci 2
José A. Robleto 3

1 Coral Seas Inc – Integrated Coastal Zone Management, USA
sjameson@coralseas.com
http://www.coralseas.com
2 University of Washington, USA
3 University of Mobile, Nicaragua

34. El Salvador Linos Cotsapas 1
Scott A. Zengel 1
Enrique J. Barraza 2

1 Research Planning Inc., USA
2 Ministry of the Environment, El Salvador, San Salvador

35. Jamaica Marjo Vierros

UNEP-CAR/RCU, Jamaica

36. Puerto Rico Jack Morelock 1
Jorge Capella 1
Jorge Garcia 1
Maritza Barreto 2

1 University of Puerto Rico R.U.M.
2 University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras

37. Turks and Caicos Islands Gudrun Gaudian
P. Medley

UK

38. The Netherlands Antilles Adolphe O. Debrot 1
J. Sybesma 2

1 Carmabi Foundation, Netherlands Antilles
2 University of the Netherlands Antilles

39. UK Overseas Territories in the northeast Caribbean: Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Montserrat Fiona Gail
Maggie Watson

ICLARM Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Office, British Virgin Islands

40. The Lesser Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago John B.R. Agard 1
Judith F. Gobin 2

1 The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
2 Trinidad and Tobago

41. Venezuela Pablo Penchaszadeh

Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela

42. Caribbean coast of Colombia Leonor Botero 1
Ricardo Alvarez-León 2

1 COLCIENCIAS, Colombia.
2 Universidad de la Sabana, Colombia

43. Pacific coast of Colombia A.J. Marrugo-González
R. Fernández-Maestre
A.A. Alm

Universidad de Cartegena, Colombia

44. Peru G. Sanchez

Instituto del Mar del Peru

45. The Chilean Coast Ramón Ahumada B
Luis Pinto A
Patricio A. Camus

Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile

46. Tropical Coast of Brazil Zelinda Leao
Jose Maria Landim Dominguez

Geoscience Inst. - UFBA, Brazil

47. Southern Brazil E. Zanardi-Lamardo 1
M.C. Bícego 2
V.A. Prósperi 3
B.M. Castro 2
L.B. Miranda 2

1 University of Miami, USA
2 Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
3 CETESB – Companhia de Tecnologia de Saneamento Ambiental Brazil

48. The Argentine Sea: The southeast South American shelf marine ecosystem José Luis Esteves 1
N.F. Ciocco 1
J.C. Colombo 2
H. Freije 3
G. Harris 4
O. Iribarne 5
I. Isla 5
P. Nabel 6
M.S. Pascual 7
P.E. Penchaszadeh 6
A. L. Rivas 1
N. Santinelli 8

1 CENPAT-CONICET. Argentina
2 Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
3 Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
4 Fundación Patagonia Natural, Argentina
5 Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina
6 Museo Argentino de Ciencias naturales – CONICET, Argentina
7 Instituto de Biología Marina y Pesquera, Argentina
8 Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia. Argentina

49. The Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem Nicholas J. Hardman-Mountford 1,3
Kwame A. Koranteng 2
Andrew R.G. Price 3

1 Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
2 Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana
3 University of Warwick, UK

50. Guinea Mamba Kourouma
Ibrahima Cisse
Idrissa Lamine Bamy
Amadou Bah
Sékou Balta Camara

The National Center of Halieutic Sciences of Boussoura, Republic of Guinea

51. Côte d'Ivoire Adingra Ama Antoinette
Arfi Robert
Kouassi Aka Marcel

Centre de Recherches Océanologiques, Côte d'Ivoire

52. Southwestern Africa: northern Benguela current region D. Boyer 1
J. Cole 2
C. Bartholomae 1

1 National Marine Information and Research Centre, Namibia
2 UK

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