Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences

Part I. Introduction

1. The Sea, Cradle of Divine Spirituality
Constantin Jurcă, Alina Buzarna-Tihenea (Gălbează)

2. Dobrudja, in the Mesopotamia of the West
Marin Petrişor

3. Dobruja: A Unique, Intercultural and Spiritual Realm at the Black Sea
Elena Lazăr, Henrieta Anişoara Şerban

4. About “Publius Ovidius Naso” († 17 p. Chr. n.) and His Poems Written in the “Getae” Language
Nicolae V. Dură

5. The Global Warming and the Water Resources of the Earth
Adrian Bavaru, Rodica Bercu

Part II. Geology, Geophysics and Sedimentology

6. New Insights into the Black Sea Basin, in the Light of the Reprocessing of Vintage Regional Seismic Data
Ioan Munteanu, Paolo Diviacco, Chiara Sauli, Corneliu Dinu, Mihai Burcă, Nicolae Panin, Giuseppe Brancatelli

7. Lithodynamics of the Coastal Zone
Ruben D. Kosyan, Boris V. Divinskiy

8. Granulometry of Sediments in the Mamaia Bay Area
Dănuţ I. Diaconeasa

Part III. Physics

9. Inertial Currents in Western Continental Black Sea Shelf
Maria-Emanuela Mihailov

10. Seasonal Changes of Hydrobiological and Bio-Optical Parameters in the Coastal Areas of the Western Part of the Black Sea
Alexander S. Kukushkin

11. Water Mass Measurements Around Benthic Communities: A Comparative Study Between Yo-Yo Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) Casts and High-Resolution Time Series Data Acquisition of Bottom Waters from the Pagès Escarpment in the Southern Bay of Biscay
Wolf-Christian Dullo, Sascha Flögel, Andres Rüggeberg

Part IV. Radioactivity and Radioecology

12. Pre and Post-Chernobyl Environmental Radioactivity in Romania: a Review
Constantin Dovlete, Iolanda Osvath, Sandu Sonoc

13. Radionuclides Assessment for the Romanian Black Sea Shelf
Gianina Chiroşca, Maria-Emanuela Mihailov, Cornel Liviu Ţugulan, Alecsandru Vladimir Chiroşca

14. Gamma-Ray Radionuclides in Sediments from Mamaia Beach on the Romanian Black Sea Coast
Vasile Pătraşcu, Romul Mircea Mărgineanu, Ana-Maria Blebea-Apostu, Dănuţ I. Diaconeasa, Mariana Claudia Gomoiu

15. Radioactive Content in Fish from Black Sea Caches. Its Impact on Population by Food Consumption
Vasile Pătraşcu, Romul Mircea Mărgineanu, Valodia Maximov, Ana-Maria Blebea-Apostu, Mădălina Galaţchi, Claudia Gomoiu, George Ţiganov

16. Levels of Activity Concentration, Migration and Dose Rates on Biota from Alpha-Radioisotopes of Plutonium in the Black Sea Ecosystem
Nataliya N. Tereshchenko

17. Radionuclides 137Cs and 90Sr in Components of the Black Sea Ecosystems: Contemporary Status and Prognosis
Natalya Yu. Mirzoyeva, Viktor N. Egorov, Sergey B. Gulin

18. Radioecology of the Black Sea
Aleksandr Strezov

Part V. Chemistry

19. Phosphorus Fluxes in the Pelagic Zone of the Black Sea
Aleksandr V. Parkhomenko

20. Oil Hydrocarbons in Bottom Sediments of Sevastopol Bay (SW Crimean Peninsula, Black Sea): Spatial and Temporal Trends
Tatyana S. Osadchaya

Part VI. Biology and Microbiology

21. Macrophytobenthos from the Romanian Black Sea Coast – An Overview of the Studies and Actual State
Daciana Sava

22.
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack) Fernald, One of the most Aggressive Alien Plants on the Romanian Black Sea Coast
Marius Făgăraş

23. New Equipment and Technologies Used for Rapa Whelk Harvesting at the Romanian Black Sea Coast
George Ţiganov, Cristian-Sorin Danilov, Magda Ioana Nenciu, Eugen Anton, Aurel Năstase

24. Some Aspects of the Biology and the Present State of the Population of Protodorvillea kefersteini (Polychaeta: Dorvilleidae) in the Coastal Zone of the Crimea (The Black Sea)
Vera Kopiy

25. Governance and Socio Economic Implications of the Black Sea Small Scale Fisheries (Bulgaria)
Violin St. Raykov, Simona Nicheva

26. Conservation Status of the Fish Fauna in the Danube Delta Marine Zone
Carmen Georgeta Nicolae, Magda Ioana Nenciu, Valodia Maximov, Dana Popa, Monica Marin, Mihaela Ivancia

27. Assessment of Cetacean Population Abundance at the Romanian Black Sea Coast in 2013
George Ţiganov, Cristian-Sorin Danilov, Magda Ioana Nenciu, Eugen Anton, Aurel Năstase

28. The Black Sea Dolphin Nephron Studied by Romanian Nobel Laureate George Emil Palade
Vasile Sârbu, Raluca Melihov, Daniel Ovidiu Costea

29. Effect of Water Different Salinity on the Morphology of Kudoa nova (Myxosporea: Kudoidae) Spores: Experimental Study
Violetta Yurakhno

Part VII. Ecology

30. Population – Structural and Functional Basic Element of Bioceonosis and Species. The Role of Population in the Knowledge of Species Autecology
Nicolae Doniţă, Stoica Godeanu

31. The Marginal Biological Indicators – An Efficient Tool for Ecological Monitoring of the Marine Environment
Yuvenaly P. Zaitsev

Part VIII. History of Oceanography

32. Development of International Cooperation in Oceanography: Incentives from Science, Services, Economy and Security
Gunnar Kullenberg

33. Romanian Hydrography – Over 100 Years of History
Romeo Boşneagu

34. On Romanian Assertiveness in Navigation on the Black Sea (Fourteenth – Late Nineteenth Century)
Valentin Ciorbea, Nicoleta Stanca

35. An Original Document About the History of the Antarctic Expedition « Belgica »
Alexandru Marinescu

36. Venice-of-the-North’s Ups and Downs: A Brief History of the Port City of Bruges, Belgium
Roger H. Charlier, Constance C. Charlier

Part IX. Miscellanea

37. The Potential of Airborne LiDAR for Detection of New Archaeological Site in Romania
Ioana Vizireanu, Răzvan Mateescu

38. Genetic Versus Han-Type Algorithms for Maritime Transportation Problems
Doina Carp, Constantin Popa, Cristina Şerban

39. A Three-Dimensional Approach to Oil and Gas Shale Exploitation in the US
Alexandre Charles Thys

40. A Glance at the Medical Activity of “Prof. Dr. V. Sion” Hospital of Constanta in 1931
Octavian Dumitru Unc, Alexandra Nicoleta Unc

41. Land and Water in Romania’s Food Economy
Aurel Lup, Indira Deniz Alim, Liliana Miron

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Coastal Sciences, Oceanography, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics