VIII International Congress for the History of Oceanography "The History of Oceanography in the Mediterranean" 26 – 29 June 2008 Naples, Italy Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Villa Doria D’Angri
Program Thursday, June 26 SZN 16:00 – 18:00 18:00 – 18:30 18:30 – 19:30 Check-in Welcome Plenary Session Past and Present Biodiversity in Moncharmont Data Base Maria Cristina Gambi (Ischia, Italy) the Gulf of Naples: the
The Young Johannes Walther, Biogeologist: a Pioneer of Modern Sedimentary Geology Bruno D’Argenio (Naples, Naples) 19:30 – 21:00 Cocktail
Friday, June 27 SZN 08:30 – 10:30 Session I Prince Albert I of Monaco and the Oceanographers of Villefranchesur-Mer Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre (Monaco, Monaco) The Birth of Spanish Oceanography: Odon de Buen and His Letters to Prince Albert I, Jules Richard, and Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers Selim Morcos (Santa Clarita, CA, USA), Xosé A. Fraga and Gregorio Parrilla Charles Atwood Kofoid and the Biological Stations of Europe Deborah Day (San Diego, USA) and Eric Mills (Halifax, Canada) Political Aspects in the Establishment of Marine Biological Stations Johan van Bennekom (Netherlands) 10:30 - 11:00 11:00 – 12:00 Coffee Break Session II From Russia with Love: Russian Scientists at the Naples Zoological Station (1874-1934) Christiane Groeben (Naples, Italy) and Sergei Fokin (St. Petersburg, Russia)
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The Russian Zoological Station at Villefranche-sur-mer (1886-1931) Sergei Fokin (St. Petersburg, Russia) 12:00 – 13:00 SZN Seminar Exploring the deep oceans' interior: present knowledge and future concerns Roberto Danovaro (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy) Lunch Break Session III Ioan Borcea: The First Romanian Marine Zoolgical Station at Agigea/Constantza Alexandru S. Bologa (Constanta, Rumania) and Roger H. Charlier (Brussels, Belgium) Grugur Bucic: The Versatile Croatian Naturalist (1821-1911) Jakov Dulcic (Split, Croatia) Life Cycle Historical Markers of Five Mediterranean Ports Alexandre C. Thys, Charles W. Finkl, and Roger H. Charlier (Brussels, Belgium) 16:30 – 17:00 17:00 – 19:00 Coffee break Session IV The Mediterranean Standard Seawater Selim Morcos (Santa Clarita, CA, USA) J. Usigliuo William Wallace Inception and Development of Oceanographic Chemistry in Spain (1911-1931) Juan Pérez-Rubín Early Investigation of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean from Pola Mira Zore-Armanda (Opatija, Croatia)
13:00 – 15:00 15:00 – 16:30
Saturday, June 28 Villa Doria D’Angri 09:00 – 10:30 Session V Professional Aspects of Oceanographic Development in Greece During the Last 50 Years Georges N. Vlahakis, Manos Dassenakis, and Stella Triantafyllaki, On Marine Biology in Egypt Selim Morcos (Santa Clarita, CA. USA) Historical Account of Some Important Seismic Tsunami Events in the Eastern Mediterranean Makram A. Gerges
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10:30 - 11:00 11:00 – 13:00
Coffee Break Session VI The First International Oceanography Congress in Spain (Seville, 1929) Enrique Wulff and Juan Pérez-Rubín Atacama Trench International Expedition Norberto Della Croce and M. Petrillo Decline of ICES During the First World War and Rise After the War Jens Smed The difficult start of international cooperation in Baltic Sea Research after WW II Matthaeus
13:00 – 15:00 15:00 – 16:30
Lunch Break Session VII The Hydroscope of Alexandria Mostafa El Abbadi and Selim Morcos (Santa Clarita, CA, USA) Challenger Centenary Calibration of Old Hydrometers Alain Poisson and Selim Morcos (Santa Clarita, CA, USA) Contribution to the History of Knudsen’s Hydrographical Tables Jens Smed (Sweden)
16:30 – 17:00 17:00 – 18:30
Coffee break Session VIII History of the Cancelled Complex Oceanographic Expedition of the Scientific Research Vessel, Vityaz in 1948-1949 Julia Nikiforova Soviet Oceanography During the Second International Polar Year: National Achievements Upon the Screen of International Cooperation Julia Lajus and Anatolii Pantiulin Konstantin Karlovich Sant-Hilaire (1876-1941) and His Biological Station at the White Sea (1911-1940) Nataliya A. Gorjashko and Sergei Fokin (St. Petersburg)
19:00 – 21:00
Social Dinner
Sunday, June 29 SZN 09:00 – 10:30 Session IX Eward Russell and the Lowestoft Laboratory Kelly Hamilton (Notre Dame, IN, USA) The Mediterranean Part of the Swedish Albatross Expedition Artur Svansson (Gothenburg, Sweden)
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Martin Knudsen as Designer of Oceanographic Instruments Jens Smed 10:30 - 11:00 11:00 – 13:00 Coffee Break Session X Some Belgian Bio-marine Contributions: The Twentieth-century’s Last Decades Roger Charlier (Brussels, Belgium) The Reconstruction of Sallinity and Current Measurements from the Marsigli’s ‘Osservazioni intorno al Bosforo Tracio’ Nadia Pinardi, Franca Moroni, and Marco Beretta, Calypso Resurfaces Again Constance Charlier and Roger H. Charlier (Brussels, Belgium) Renascence of Tide Mills II Marie-Claire P. Chaineux and Roger H. Charlier (Brussels, Belgium) 13:00 – 13:30 14:00 Chairpersons ???? Closing remarks Excursion
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