Black Sea Mnemiopsis Database Workshop

14 October 2010, Istanbul, Turkey

The third workshop was organized with the support of the Permanent Secretariat of the Black Sea Commission (BSC/PS) in Istanbul back to back with the 15^th Meeting of the BSC Advisory Group on Conservation of Biodiversity. The workshop discussed following issues:

• Review of the data and metadata loaded in the database;
• Plans on updating of MLDB software;
• Compatibility of the data from different sources loaded into the database;
• Brief information on the data collected last year;
• Further improovement of the Manual on Sampling and Sample Processing of the Invasive Ctenophores and other gelatinous organisms;
• Action plan for 2010 - 2011.

Partucipants of the workshop, representing the Individual Sources of Data, agreed to reduce further restricted period of access to data from 10 to 5 years.

Following main documents of the workshop are available for downloading:

• Agenda
• List of participants
• Minutes of the workshop
• Updated Agreement on “The Principles for Creation and Procedures for Future Utilization of the Black Sea Mnemiops Data Base”.

Workshop presentations:

• V.Vladymyrov, IBSS, Ukraine: "Background and History of the Mnemiopsis database creation"
• V.Myroshnychenko, BSC PS: "Review of data and metadata loaded in MLDB"
• T.Shiganova, SIO RAS, Russia: "Gelatinous plankton sampling and study in 2010"
• K.Stefanova, IO BAS, Bulgaria: "Jellyplankton Data Base in IFR-Varna"
• T.Florin, NIMRD, Romania: "Gelatinous Plankton sampling in Romanian Waters"
• E.Akoglu, IMS-METU, Turkey: "Black Sea Mnemiopsis Database in IMS METU"