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Manolis Tsapakis

Contact Address

Institute of Marine Biology of Crete
PO Box 2214,
Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Tel: + 302810337828
Fax: +302810 337822

Email: tsapakis@imbc.gr
Date of Birth: October 9, 1971
Nationality: Greek
Language : Greek: Native language
English: very good knowledge of written and spoken English.

Education

• 1989-1993 B.Sc., Chemistry, University of Crete, Greece
• 1998 – 2003 Ph.D. (Environmental Organic Chemistry) University of Crete, Dept of Chemistry.

Professional Experience

• Researcher at IMBC, working on various projects as shown below.

Current European Projects

• Anthropogenic pressure in the marine ecosystems from organic (PCBs, PAHs) and inorganic (nutrients etc) pollutants.
• Air – Sea interactions
• Sources and fate of PAHs in atmospheric Environment.
• Interaction between aquaculture and marine environment
• Study of effects of inorganic pollution in the primary productivity using modern techniques as in situ bioassays.
• New technologies and methodology for the detection the environmental changes.

Participation in recent ongoing European research projects

• GLOBAL-SOC: Global mass balance of persistent semi-volatile organic compounds – An approach with PCB as an indicator (1998-2001).
• ADIOs: Atmospheric deposition and impact of pollutants, key elements and nutrients on the open Mediterranean Sea (2001-2003).
• OSOA: Origin and Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol (2000-2002).
• BIOFAQS: Biofiltration and aquaculture: an Evaluation of Substrate Deployment Performance with Mariculture Developments (2001-2003).
• MERAMED: Development of monitoring guidelines and modelling tools for environmental effects from Mediterranean aquaculture (2001-2003).
• MEDVEG: Effects of nutrient release from Mediterranean fish farms on benthic vegetation in coastal ecosytems (2002-2004).

Selected publications

• Karakassis I., Tsapakis M., Hatziyanni E. (1998) Seasonal variability in sediment profiles beneath fish farm cages in the Mediterranean. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 162: 243-252.
• Pitta P., Karakassis I., Tsapakis M. , Zivanovic S. (1999) Natural vs. mariculture induced variability in nutrients and plankton in the Eastern Mediterranean. Hydrobiologia 391: 181-194 .
• Karakassis I., Hatziyanni E., Tsapakis M. , Plaiti W. (1999) Benthic recovery following cessation of fish farming: a series of successes and catastrophes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 184: 205-218.
• Karakassis I., Tsapakis M. , Hatziyanni E., Papadopoulou K.-N., Plaiti W. (2000) Impact of cage farming of fish on the seabed in three Mediterranean coastal areas. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 57:1462-1471
• Kavouras I.G., Koutrakis P., Tsapakis M., Lagoudaki E., Stephanou E.G., Baer D. and Oyola P. (2001). Source apportionment of urban aliphatic and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) using multivariate methods. Environmental Science and Technology 35, 11, 2284-2294.
• Mandalakis M., Tsapakis M. and Stephanou E.G. (2001). Optimization and application of high-resolution gas chromatography with ion trap tandem mass spectrometry to the determination of polychlorinated biphenyls in atmospheric aerosols. Journal of Chromatography A 925, 183-196.
• Karakassis I., Tsapakis M. , Hatziyanni E., Pitta P. (2001) Diel variation of nutrients and chlorophyll in sea bream and sea bass cages in the Mediterranean. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin 10: 278-283
• Karakassis I., Tsapakis M. , Smith C.J., Rumohr H. (2002) Fish farming impacts in the Mediterranean studied through sediment profiling imagery. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 227: 125-133.
• Tsapakis M. , Lagoudaki, E., Stephanou E.G., Kavouras I.G., Koutrakis, P., Oyola P. and von Baer P. (2002). The composition and sources of PM2.5 Organic Aerosol in two Urban Areas of Chile. Atmospheric Environment 36, 3851-3863.
• Mandalakis M., Tsapakis M. , Tsoga A. and Stephanou E.G. (2002). Gas-Particle concentrations and distribution of aliphatic hydrocarbons, PAHs, PCBs and PCDD/Fs in the atmosphere of Athens (Greece). Atmospheric Environment 36, 4023-4035.
• Tsapakis M. , Stephanou E.G. and Karakassis I. (2003). Evaluation of atmospheric transport as a non-point source of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in marine sediments of the Eastern Mediterranean. Marine Chemistry 80, 283-298.
• Tsapakis M. and Stephanou E.G. (2003). Collection of gas and particle semi volatile organic compounds: use of an oxidant denuder to minimize polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons degradation during High-Volume air sampling. Atmospheric Environment 37, 4935-4944 .
• Apostolaki E., Tsapakis M ., Tsagaraki T., Papadopoulou K., Karakassis (2003) Effect of time of first deployment and duration on the succession of benthic organisms on biofilters used to mitigate impact of fish farms on water quality in Crete. Annales 13 29-31 (supplement)
• Lojen S., Angel D., Katz T., Tsapakis M. , Kovac N., Malej A. (2003) 15 N enrichment in fouling communities influenced by organic waste deriving from fish farms. Annales 13 9-11 (supplement)
• Boy, M., Petaja, T., Dal Maso, M., Rannik, U., Rinne, J., Aalto, P., Laaksonen, A., Vaattovaara, P., Joutsensaari, J., Hoffmann, T., Warnke, J., Apostolaki, M., Stephanou, E. G., Tsapakis, M. , Kouvarakis, A., Pio, C., Carvalho, A. Rompp, A., Moortgat, G., Spirig, C., Guenther, A., Greenberg, J., P. Ciccioli, P. Kulmala, M. (2003). Overview of the field measurement campaign in Hyytiala, August 2001 in the framework of the EU project OSOA, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss. 3, 3769-3831, 2003.