M arine B ranch of U krainian H ydrometeorological I nstitute

1. MarineBranch ofUkrainianHydrometeorologicalInstitute Soviet Street, 61 99011, Sevastopol, Ukraine mb_uhmi@stel.sebastopol.ua Dr. Yuriy P. ILYIN, director of MB UHI

2. Before 1971 – Basin Hydrometeorological Observatory of the Black and Azov seas (BHMO BAS); • 1971 – BHMO BAS was reorganized into the Laboratory of Southern Seas of State Oceanographical Institute (SOI, head institute is in Moscow); • 1972 – renamed into the Sevastopol Branch of SOI; • 1992 – reorganized into the Marine Branch of Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute (UHI, head institute is in Kiev), belonging to State Hydrometeorological Service (SHMS) of Ukraine; • 2001 – UHI with its MB and whole SHMS were incorporated into the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine; • 2005 – UHI and SHMS were transposed under authority of Ministry on emergency situations of Ukraine (MES); • 2006 – Double subordination of UHI (MES and NAS of Ukraine) was established by the Government order.

3. 1944 1954 Building is situated in the historical centre of Sevastopol since 1939 2003

4. Activity of MB UHI is concentrated on following main directions: • (i) climatology of marine processes within the Azov-Black sea basin; • (ii) oceanography and chemical pollution of coastal zones; • (iii) processes in riverine estuaries and deltas; • (iv) development and application of marine forecasting methods and marine hydrometeorological observations and service technologies. 3 laboratories execute these works: • Laboratory of Marine Hydrometeorology; • Laboratory of Marine Chemistry; • Laboratory of Coastal Zone and River Mouths; The institution is the methodological and analytical centre of marine network of Ukrainian hydrometeorological service. Besides, it is responsible for the state ecological monitoring data analysis and generalization on marine environment quality (including water, bottom sediments and near-surface air pollution).

5. State Hydrometeorological Service of Ukraine:36 points of routine observations on the Black and the Azov sea coasts, in straits and marine mouths of rivers • 22 marine stations (full meteorology and hydrology) • 19 marine posts (5 – belong to stations) • 27 sea level gauges (16 – with level recorders) • 21 point of visual wave observations • 23 marine stations detect water salinity

6. Marine water quality routine monitoring is executed by 8 chemical laboratories of SHMS marine network and MB UHMI

7. R/V «Mgla» R/V «YakovGakkel» R/B «Poriv» R/V «Vladimir Parshin»

8. - 10 EDMERP entries: for the projects, coordinated by MB;- 4 projects are connected with marine near-coastal data collecting and processing

9. SC1 Nutrients input from the Azov Sea via the Kerch Strait

10. During Upgrade BS SCENE: • DM was launched in June 2010on http://dm.uhmi.org.ua • 259 CDI were prepared and downloaded for the data of hydrological and chemical measurements in the Kerch Strait, Kinburn Strait, Danube delta, Dniester liman, and Dnieper- Bug liman during the BSERP/GEF project SC1 for the period 2003-2004 (free access data) • 1976 CDI were prepared for the data of hydrological and chemical measurements in the Kerch Strait (2005-2010), Dnieper-Bug liman, Odessa, Ilyichevsk, Yalta (2003-2006) as the results of routine monitoring of sea water quality near Ukrainian coasts on HMS network (limited access data) • DQC is performed on all stages of data processing and transformation by means expert control and ODV software

11. Danube Kiliya delta Dniester delta Kerch Strait Tsargorod Strait Kinburn Strait SC1 project hydro-chemical data

12. Ukrainian coastal hydro-chemical (routine monitoring) data - UCHCD

13. THE END Thanks for your attention