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George Petihakis

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Date of Birth : 20/ 5/ 1965
Nationality : Greek
Language : Greek - Native language
English: at high professional level.

Education

• 1984 - 1988: B.Sc. in Ecology from the University of London, United Kingdom
• 1988 - 1989: M.Sc. in Applied Fish Biology from Plymouth Polytechnic, United Kingdom
• 2001 - : PhD "Modelling of Pagasitikos Gulf Ecosystem" University of Thessaly

Professional Experience

• 1995 to date: active participation in the research projects of the Department of Marine Technology and Management of Natural Resources. Expertise in the areas of ecosystem simulation, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem monitoring.

Current European Projects

• MATER¬DG XII. MAS3-CT96-0051. Ecological Model of the Cretan Sea
• THETIS . DG XII. EU-ESPRIT F0069.A Data Management and Data Visualisation System for Supporting Coastal Zone Management for the Mediterranean Sea
• MFS-PP: DG XII.MAS 3-CT98-0171. Mediterranean Models Network. Cretan Sea Ecosystem Model Validation and Hindcasting.
• MEDNET. DG XII. Mediterranean Model Networking and Archiving Program

Selected publications

• Nengas I., Alexis M., Davis S.J., and Petihakis G., 1995: Investigation to determine the digestibility coefficients of various row materials in diets for the gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata), Aquaculture Research, Vol.26(3), 185-194
• Dounas C., Koutsoubas D., Arvanitidis C., Petihakis G., Drummond L. and A. Eleftheriou, 1998. Biodiversity and the impact of anthropogenic activities in Mediterranean lagoons: The case of Gialova lagoon, SW Greece, Oebalia, 24(5), 77-91
• Petihakis, G., Triantafyllou, G.N., Koutsoubas, D., Allen, I. and C. Dounas, 2000: Modelling the annual cycles of nutrients and primary production on a lagoon dynamic system (Gialova, Greece), Marine Environmental Research, Vol.48(1), 37-58
• Triantafyllou G.N., Petihakis G., Dounas K., Koutsoubas D., Arvanitidis C. and A. Eleftheriou, 2000: Temporal variations on benthic communities and their behavior to physicochemical forcing. A numerical approach, ICES, Journal of Marine Science, Vol.57(5), 1507-1516
• Koutsoubas D., Dounas K., Arvanitidis C., Kornilios S., Petihakis G., Triantafyllou G.N., and A. Eleftheriou, 2000. Macrobenthic community structure and disturbance assessment in a Mediterranean lagoon (Gialova lagoon, Ionian Sea), ICES, Journal of Marine Science, Vol.57(5), 1472-1480
• Triantafyllou G. N., Petihakis G. and A. I. Pollani 2000. Numerical modelling - An environmental management approach for waste disposal in the marine environment. Systems Analysis and Modelling Simulation , 39(1), 101-129
• Petihakis G., Triantafyllou G. N. and A. Theodorou 2000. A numerical approach to simulate nutrient dynamics and primary production of a semi-enclosed coastal ecosystem (Pagasitikos Gulf, Western Aegean, Greece). Periodicum Biologorum, 102(1), 339-348.
• Petihakis G., Triantafyllou G. N. and C. G. Koutitas 2001. Prediction and prevention of oil contamination and monitoring of the benthic structure and related fisheries in connection with the pollution impact. Systems Analysis and Modelling Simulation, 41(1), 169-197.
• Triantafyllou, G.N, Petihakis, G., Dounas, C. and A. Theodorou, 2001: Assessing marine ecosystem response to nutrient inputs. Marine Pollution Bulletin 43(7-12), 175-186.
• Pollani, A., Triantafyllou, G., Petihakis, G., Nittis, K, Dounas, C. and C. Koutitas, 2001: The POSEIDON operational tool for the prediction of floating pollutant transport. Marine Pollution Bulletin 43(7-12), 270-278.
• Nittis K., Tziavos C., Thanos I., Drakopoulos P., Cardin, V., Gacic M., Petihakis G. and R. Basana, 2002. The Mediterranean Moored Multi-sensor Array (M3A): System Development and Initial Results. Annales Geophysicae (In press)
• Triantafyllou G., Hoteit I. and G. Petihakis, 2002: A reduced ensemble Kalman filter for efficient assimilation of the spatial and temporal variability of the Cretan sea ecosystem. Journal of Marine Systems (In press)
• Hoteit I., Triantafyllou G. and G. Petihakis and J.I. Allen, 2002. A singular evolutive Kalman filter to assimilate real in-situ data in a 1-D marine ecosystem model. Annales Geophysicae (In press)
• Hoteit I., Triantafyllou G. ánd G. Petihakis, 2002: Real data sensitivity experiments with a simplified Kalman filter using a complex 1-D marine ecosystem model. Journal of Marine Systems (In press)
• Triantafyllou G., Korres G., Petihakis G., Pollani A., and A. Lascaratos, 2002: Assessing the phenomenology of the Cretan Sea shelf area using coupling modelling techniques. Annales Geophysicae (In press)
• Petihakis G., Triantafyllou G., Allen J. I., Hoteit I. and C. Dounas, 2002. Modelling the Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Cretan Sea Ecosystem. Journal of Marine Systems (In press)
• Triantafyllou G., Petihakis G. and J.I Allen, 2002:
  Assessing the performance of the Cretan Sea ecosystem model with the use of high frequency M3A buoy data set.
  Annales Geophysicae (In press)