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Stratis Georgakarakos

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Date of Birth : September 26 , 1948
Nationality : Greek
Language : Greek - native language
English : high professional level.
German : very high professional level.

Education

• 1971: B.Sc in Biology from the University of Athens, Greece.
• 1979: Postgraduate studies in Zoology, Electrophysiology and Biocybernetic (University of Munich, Germany)
• 1985 Ph.D. degree in Zoology/ Brain Research, (University of Munich, Germany)
• 1985-6 Specialisation in Fisheries Acoustics and Stock Assessment Techniques (IMR, Bergen, Norway).

Professional Experience

• 1986 - to date. Participation and coordination of research projects aimed at the management of the fisheries resources, using hydroacoustics, remote sensing and information systems technologies. Head of the Department of Sonar and Marine Information Systems in IMBC.

Current European Projects

• BIOMASS/ Automatic species classification method, using advanced echo and image processing techniques.
• FISHCAL/ Estimation of Target Strength (TS) of small pelagic species and improvement of interpolation methods.
• FISHSAT/ Remote Sensing Applications and Fisheries Management
• ACOUSTICS/Species identification using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and acoustic fish measurements near the sea-bottom.
• FIGIS/ Development of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the management of the fisheries resources.
• CLUSTER/ Relations between environment and spatial structure of fish aggregations.
• AVITIS/ Development of image processing software and study of the internal structure and behaviour of fish aggregations.
• ABDMAP/ Algal bloom Detection, Monitoring and Prediction using satellite information.
• CEPHVAR/ Development of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for the management of Cephalopods resources.
• NATURA 2000/ Development of choropleth maps of the Greek Seabed.

Selected publications

• Georgakarakos, S., and Paterakis, G. 1993. SCHOOL : A software for fish-school identification. ICES 1993/B:8.
• Tsimenides, N., Bazigos, G., Georgakarakos, S., and Kapantagakis, A. 1995. Distribution of Acoustic Pelagic Fish Populations in the Northern Aegean Sea. In: Assessment Methodologies and Management. Editor: G. Sakawaga, Oxford & Ibh Publishing Co.
• Haralabous, J., and Georgakarakos, S. 1996. Artificial Neural Networks as a tool for species identification of fish schools. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 53: 173-180.
• Valavanis, V.D., Georgakarakos, S. and Haralabous, J. (1998). A methodology for GIS Interfacing of Marine Data. GISPlaNET £98 Int£l Conf. Sep. 7-11, 1998. Lisbon, Porugal.
• Koutsoubas D., Valavanis V. & S. Georgakarakos, 1998. Study of Cephalopod Resource Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean using GIS. GIS PLANET 98: International Conference and Exhibition on Geographic Information, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Valavanis, V.D., Drakopoulos, P., and Georgakarakos S. (1999). A study of upwellings using GIS. In: Proceedings of CoastGIS99 Int£l Conf., GIS and New advances in Integrated Coastal Management. Sep. 9-11, 1999, Brest, France.
• Gerlotto F., Georgakarakos S. and Eriksen P. (2000). The application of multibeam sonar to shallow water acoustic surveys: potential use and applications. In Sound Strategies for Shallow Waters, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• Valavanis V., Georgakarakos S., Haralabous J., Arvanitidis C., and Koutsoubas D. (2000). Development of GIS and application of GIS techniques for cephalopod fisheries in Greek waters (Eastern Mediterranean). (2000), CIAC 2000, Cephalopod biomass and production, 3-7 July 2000, Aberdeen.
• Gerlotto, F., Misund, O., Simmonds, E.J. and S. Georgakarakos. 1999. Current state of the art of sonar techniques. ICES CM J: 23 (1999).