2009 Research Programmes of the HCMR - Hellenic Centre for ...

inging together the European research fleets owners to enhance their coordination and promote
the cost-effective use of their facilities. It will support research services for the monitoring and the
sustainable management of the Regional Seas and the Oceans, and will organise a common access
to all European scientists on sole condition of scientific excellence. This would enable the EU to
reach its ambitious goals about maintaining the ocean biodiversity or understanding climate
change.
EUROFLEETS aims at:
Working upon common procurement strategy, and build corresponding roadmap on prospective
sound bases,
Structuring and durably coordinating, through an e-platform, the way that the research vessels
are operated and their interoperability capacities,
Using more cost efficiently the existing European fleets and associated equipment in the frame
of the European research Area,
Promoting greener and sustainable research vessel and underwater vehicle operations and
design,
Providing all European researchers with access to 19 high performing research vessels from 15
different countries,
Fostering coordinated and joint development of European fleets, thanks to new interoperable
software and underwater vehicle payloads,
Developing training and education at sea,
Promoting innovative e-access,
Participating to the European efforts to stay at first rank in the international scientific arena.
Quaternary tsunami events in the eastern Ionian Sea- reconstructing and modelling extreme
events based on interdisciplinary geo-scientific investigations (EAST IONIAN SEA
TSUNAMIS).
Scientific Coordinator:
Funding:
Starting Year: 2009
Dr D. Sakellariou
Deutsche ForschungsGesellschaft (DFG) Germany
Duration: 36 months (01/01/09-31/12/11)
Total Budget: 26.000 €
Study Area:
East Ionian/ Western Greece coasts..
Scientific team (ΗCMR): Dr D. Sakellariou, Dr G. Roussakis, Dr V. Lykousis, Dr V. Kapsimalis,
P. Georgiou, I. Pampidis, P. Mantopoulos, S. Maroulakis, G. Pappas, V. Drakopoulou.
Other Participants: (1) Univ. Marburg, Prof. Helmut Bruckner (2) Univ. Koeln, Prof. Dr Georg
Bareth (3) Univ. Kiel, Prof. P.M. Grootes (4) Technical Univ. of Crete, Prof. C. Synolakis.
Brief Description of the Program: The scope of the project is to search the sediment basins with
seismic reflection of high analysis in the frames of the Aegean Energy’s Drilling Program in the
region of western basin of Prinos in the open waters of Kavala.
In order to achieve the objectives the project will: (a) Analyse sub-surface sediments with multi
channel 2D system of seismic reflection of high precision bathymetric imprinting of seabed with
multi beam (in the open waters) and with eco sounder (in the shallow waters with depth smaller
than 30 meters). (b) Determine of characteristics surface and sub-surface sediments of seabed with
tomographer 3.5KHz. (c) Determine surface and sub-surface currents as well as changes of water
masses caused by changes of temperature and salinity, with use CTD and ADCP in selected places.
(d) Sample of surface sediments for the determination biological and chemical parameters.
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