Part III Physics
9
Inertial Currents in Western Continental Black Sea Shelf . . . . . . . 143
Maria-Emanuela Mihailov
10 Seasonal Changes of Hydrobiological and Bio-Optical Parameters
in the Coastal Areas of the Western Part of the Black Sea . . . . . . . 153
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 Page `s Escarpment in the Southern Bay of Biscay . . . . . . . 181
Wolf-Christian Dullo, Sascha Fl€ ogel, and Andres Rüggeberg
Part IV Radioactivity and Radioecology
12 Pre and Post-Chernobyl Environmental Radioactivity
in Romania: a Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Constantin Dovlete, Iolanda Osvath, and Sandu Sonoc
13 Radionuclides Assessment for the Romanian Black Sea Shelf . . . . . 221
Gianina Chiros ¸ca, Maria-Emanuela Mihailov, Cornel Liviu T ¸ ugulan,
and Alecsandru Vladimir Chiros ¸ca
14 Gamma-Ray Radionuclides in Sediments from Mamaia Beach
on the Romanian Black Sea Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Vasile Pa ˘tras ¸cu, Romul Mircea Ma ˘rgineanu, Ana-Maria
Blebea-Apostu, Da ˘nut ¸ I. Diaconeasa, and Mariana Claudia Gomoiu
15 Radioactive Content in Fish from Black Sea Caches. Its Impact
on Population by Food Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Vasile Pa ˘tras ¸cu, Romul Mircea Ma ˘rgineanu, Valodia Maximov,
Ana-Maria Blebea-Apostu, Ma ˘da ˘lina Galat ¸chi, Claudia Gomoiu,
and George T ¸ iganov
16 Levels of Activity Concentration, Migration and Dose Rates
on Biota from Alpha-Radioisotopes of Plutonium in the Black
Sea Ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Nataliya N. Tereshchenko
17 Radionuclides
137 Cs and
90 Sr in Components of the Black Sea
Ecosystems: Contemporary Status and Prognosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Natalya Yu. Mirzoyeva, Viktor N. Egorov, and Sergey B. Gulin
18 Radioecology of the Black Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Aleksandr Strezov
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Contents
9
Inertial Currents in Western Continental Black Sea Shelf . . . . . . . 143
Maria-Emanuela Mihailov
10 Seasonal Changes of Hydrobiological and Bio-Optical Parameters
in the Coastal Areas of the Western Part of the Black Sea . . . . . . . 153
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 Page `s Escarpment in the Southern Bay of Biscay . . . . . . . 181
Wolf-Christian Dullo, Sascha Fl€ ogel, and Andres Rüggeberg
Part IV Radioactivity and Radioecology
12 Pre and Post-Chernobyl Environmental Radioactivity
in Romania: a Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Constantin Dovlete, Iolanda Osvath, and Sandu Sonoc
13 Radionuclides Assessment for the Romanian Black Sea Shelf . . . . . 221
Gianina Chiros ¸ca, Maria-Emanuela Mihailov, Cornel Liviu T ¸ ugulan,
and Alecsandru Vladimir Chiros ¸ca
14 Gamma-Ray Radionuclides in Sediments from Mamaia Beach
on the Romanian Black Sea Coast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Vasile Pa ˘tras ¸cu, Romul Mircea Ma ˘rgineanu, Ana-Maria
Blebea-Apostu, Da ˘nut ¸ I. Diaconeasa, and Mariana Claudia Gomoiu
15 Radioactive Content in Fish from Black Sea Caches. Its Impact
on Population by Food Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Vasile Pa ˘tras ¸cu, Romul Mircea Ma ˘rgineanu, Valodia Maximov,
Ana-Maria Blebea-Apostu, Ma ˘da ˘lina Galat ¸chi, Claudia Gomoiu,
and George T ¸ iganov
16 Levels of Activity Concentration, Migration and Dose Rates
on Biota from Alpha-Radioisotopes of Plutonium in the Black
Sea Ecosystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Nataliya N. Tereshchenko
17 Radionuclides
137 Cs and
90 Sr in Components of the Black Sea
Ecosystems: Contemporary Status and Prognosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Natalya Yu. Mirzoyeva, Viktor N. Egorov, and Sergey B. Gulin
18 Radioecology of the Black Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Aleksandr Strezov
viii
Contents