* A BOOK ON GIS IN OCEANOGRAPHY & FISHERIES (published May 23, 2002) * Hydrobiologia 612(1), 2008: Special Issue on Essential Fish Habitats Mapping in the Mediterranean * New additions in our GIS PRODUCTS Section * GIS-ready satellite imagery and fisheries data through our GIS DOWNLOADS Section * MAMA: Mediterranean network to Assess and upgrade Monitoring and forecasting Activity in the region (EN --- GR) * MedOBIS: Mediterranean Oceanic Biogeographical System

Marine Geographic Information Systems Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR) P.O. Box 2214, 71003 Heraklion Crete, Greece Tel: +30 2810 337817 --- Fax: +30 2810 337822

* Marine Productivity Hotspots in European Seas * Mesoscale Oceanic Thermal Fronts in European Seas * Transient Small Gyres in Semi-Enclosed Seas * FP6-EnviEFH: Environmental Approach to Essential Fish Habitat Designation Watch dissemination movie (in Greek) -- need flash player * Marie Curie: ECOSUMMER * Marie Curie: EFH-GIS

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Marine GIS Lab: Research The main research component (90%) of MGIS Lab is organised under its International, European and National funding and collaborations since mid-1997. Currently, one new 2-yr EC-funded Project is coordinated by the MGIS Lab (FP6-EnviEFH, Dec05-Feb08) while its major research outcomes are described in Geographical Information Systems in Oceanography and Fisheries and other peer-review and conference Marine GIS publications.

Marine GIS Lab: Education The educational/teaching component (10%) of MGIS Lab focuses on the Marine GIS familiarization of undergraduate and graduate students of various Hellenic universities under individual exercises and study rotations. Since 2002, many students attended the MGIS Lab's exercises and rotations and carried out the GIS component work of their MSc-PhD thesis at the Lab. The MGIS Lab's teaching activities are further supported through the Lab's new 4-yr Marie Curie Mobility Project (MC-ECOSUMMER, Jan06-Dec09).

New Marine GIS Texbook Cooperation among Marine GIS Lab (Vasilis Valavanis, HCMR-GR), Davey Jones' Locker Lab (Dawn Wright, Oregon State University-USA), Fisheries Resources Management Lab (Stratis Georgakarakos, University of Aegean-GR) and GIS and Remote Sensing Lab (Dimitra Kitsiou, University of Aegean-GR) will produce a new Marine GIS university textbook entitled Marine Geographical Information Systems - Theory and Applications that will be published by Springer-Verlag by late 2010. This new book will be of approx. 500 pages and 60 color figures targeting undergraduate and graduate university students in marine-related disciplines.

Scientific Editing MGIS Lab serves as part of Scientia Marina as well as African Journal of Agricultural Research (AJAR) Editorial Boards. - Scientia Marina publishes peer-reviewed articles in marine biology and ecology, fisheries and fisheries ecology, systematics, faunistics and marine biogeography, oceanography and marine geology. - Among other disciplines, AJAR publishes peer-reviewed articles in water resources management, marine sciences, aquaculture, fish and fisheries, freshwater science, systematic biology. Additionally, MGIS Lab provides review services and it is in the referee pools of Marine Ecology Progress Series, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Environmental Science & Technology, Environmental Modelling & Software, Fisheries Research, Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, Remote Sensing, ICES Journal of Marine Science, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, as well as The Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus, The US National Science Foundation and The Rhode Island Sea Grant.

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