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George Triantafyllou

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Date of Birth : March 5 , 1959
Nationality : Greek
Language : Greek - native language
English - English at high professional level.

Education

• 1990: Ph.D., Oceanography, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
• 1988: M.Sc., Oceanography, University of Athens, Greece.
• 1982: B.Sc., Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece.

Post - Doctoral experience :

Honours :

• Member of the American Geophysical Union.
• Member of the American Meteorological Society.

Professional Experience

• 1987- to date: active participation in research projects carried out by the Dept. of Technology and Management of the Marine Environment, IMBC; Dept. of Geosciences, UWM, Division of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Dept. of Oceanography; University of Athens: Development and application of numerical models for marine ecosystems, Pollution, Data analysis, Nonlinear dynamics, Nonlinear prediction, Climate dynami

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.

Selected publications

• A.A. Tsonis, G.N. Triantafyllou, J.B. Elsner, J.J. Holdzkom, II, and A.D. Kirwan, Jr, 1993: An investigation of the ability of nonlinear methods to infer dynamics from observables, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 75(9), 1623-1633.
• A.A. Tsonis, G.N. Triantafyllou and J.B. Elsner, 1994: Searching for determinism in observed data: a review of the issues involved, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 1, 12-25.
• G.N. Triantafyllou, R. Picard and A.A. Tsonis, 1994: Exploiting geometric signatures to accurately determine properties of attractors, Appl. Math. Lett., 7(6), 19-24.
• G.N. Triantafyllou and A.A. Tsonis, 1994: Assessing the ability of the Koppen system to delineate the general world pattern of climates, J. Geophys. Res. Lett., 21(25), 2809-2812.
• G.N. Triantafyllou, J.B. Elsner, A. Lascaratos, C. Koutitas and A.A. Tsonis, 1995: Structure and properties of the attractor of a marine dynamical system, Mathl. Comput. Modelling, 21(6), 73-86.
• A.A. Tsonis, G.N. Triantafyllou and K.P. Georgakakos, 1996: Hydrological applications of satellite data, 1. Rainfall estimation, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101(D21), 26517-26525.
• G. Petihakis, G. Triantafyllou, D. Koutsoubas, I.Allen, and C. Dounas, 1996: Modelling the annual cycles of nutrients and primary production on a lagoon dynamic system (Gialova, Greece), Journal of Marine Environmental Research, 48, 37-58.
• Triantafyllou G.N., Petihakis G., Dounas K., Koutsoubas D., Arvanitidis C. and A. Eleftheriou, 1999: Temporal variations on benthic communities and their behavior to physicochemical forcing. A numerical approach, ICES, Journal of Marine Science (in press).
• Triantafyllou, G.N., 1999: An application of a complex Marine Ecological Model to describe Pelagic - Benthic Processes in a Lagoon Ecosystem. System Analysis Modelling Simulation (in press).
• Triantafyllou, G.N., Petihakis, G. I., and A. I. Pollani, 1999: Numerical modelling - An environmental management approach for waste disposal in the marine environment. System Analysis Modelling Simulation (in press).
• Petihakis, G. I., Triantafyllou, G.N., and C. G. Koutitas, 1999: Prediction and Prevention of Oil Contamination and Monitoring of the Benthic Structure and Related Fisheries in Connection with the Pollution Impact. System Analysis Modelling Simulation (in press).