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General info 
Project titlePolish Baltic Monitoring Programme 2012-2013
Project acronymCOMBINE 2012-2013
Project websitehttp://www.baltyk.pogodynka.pl
Begin date2012-01-01
End date2014-05-31
Location 
Geographic coveragePolish Economic Zone of the Baltic Sea including Vistula Lagoon
Description 
AbstractThe project has been carried out under supervision of Chief Inspectorate for Environmental Protection and financed by the National Fund of Environmental Protection and Water Management. It is an obligatory task of Poland arising from the Helsinki Convention. The objective of the project it is to control water quality (nutrients and oxygen concentration) of the sea as well condition of the biological communities (phytoplankton, zooplankton and macrozoobenthos) six times a year. Once a year, the degree of pollution of the fish and bottom sediment at selected stations is controlled as well. The results of the measurements are the basis for the national yearly assessments of the marine environment state and the data are sent to HELCOM Data Bank in ICES in Copenhagen.
Coordinator 
Coordinating organisationInstitute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute, Poland
Country of CoordinatorPoland
Contact nameWlodzimierz Krzyminski
TitleMr.
Contact organisationInstitute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Emailwkrzyminski@iopan.pl
Project partners 
Other partnersMaritime Institute in Gdansk, Department of Ecology
National Marine Fisheries Research Institute
Edmerp metadata 
Edmerp id12048
Collating centreInstitute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute, Poland
Latest update2016-06-13