Services

Services provided to the aquaculture industry include:

• specialised research projects for addressing biological or technical problems of individual producers,
• technical support via workshops or individual consultations,
• provision of biological materials such as phytoplankton, zooplankton, fish eggs and fry for commercial production. restoration.

Products

• Fish fry and eggs (sea bream, sea bass, common dentex, red porgy)
• Fish juveniles for restocking purposes
• Algal cultures
• Live food (Rotifers)
• Demand feeders (patented)
• Transfer of mesocosm technology

These products are available to both commercial producers and research organisations.

For further information please contact Dr. P.Divanach

Tel. +30 810 241543

Fax. +30 810 241882

Email. imbc@imbc.gr

Sonar & Marine Information Systems

The Department offers its expertise and knowhow, to respond to clients' needs, and to support their applications/proposals in the following fields:

• Hydroacoustic applications of all kinds
• Bathymetric and bottom quality measurements
• Signal and data processing
• Database and GIS development

For further information, please contact Dr.S Georgakarakos.

Tel. +30 810 243368

Fax. +30 810 241882

Email. stratis@imbc.gr

Marine Environmental/Technological Services

The Marine Ecology and Pollution section offers to local, regional and national authorities its experience and knowhow in carrying out many important environmental services such as:

• Environmental Impact Assessments
• Artificial Reefs: development of technology
• Creation of underwater Marine Park, Gouves, Crete
• Oil spill surveys and impact assessments
• Coastal management surveys, including socio-economic aspects
• Lagoon and wetland surveys
• Bathing water quality monitoring (beaches, swimming pools)
• Ecological and quality models

For further information, please contact Dr. K. Dounas.

Tel. +30 810 241543

Fax. +30 810 241882

Email. kdounas@imbc.gr

Marine Ecology and Biodiversity Services

The Department offers a variety of services based on its varied experience and the wide range of IMBC equipment/facilities available for hire.

Marine Environmental Studies

• Impact Assessment
• Mapping
• Surveys
• Monitoring
  

Hardware Testing

• Stand alone underwater sensor/sampler testing
• Integrated equipment testing
• Ground truthing for sensors/samplers
  
  

Intervention

• Emplacement of underwater equipment
• Recovery of underwater objects/equipment
• Search and location
  
  

Rental of Equipment

• Please consult the equipment page.

For further information please contact Dr. C. Smith

Tel. +30 810 346860 ext.158

Fax. +30 810 241882

Email.csmith@imbc.gr

Fisheries

The Fisheries Department offers its experience and knowhow in the following service areas:

• Provision of biological data
• Data processing - fish catch & effort estimates

For further information please contact Prof. N. Tsimenides.

Tel. +30 810 241543

Fax. +30 810 241882

Email.imbc@imbc.gr

ICT Services

The ICT department specialises in solving problems using graphic means, by finding the best delivery methods to suit the needs of the specified target audience: traditional print and video, interactive CDROM or websites and webpages. Their multi-tasking capabilities have led directly to the IMBC's successes in the competitive multi-media market (successful completion of 7 CD-ROMs).

The staff of the ICT offer their skills in the following areas:

• Print Based Materials

  Using the latest publishing hardware and software the ICT Department is able to produce a wide range of traditional print-based products: books, reports, and posters.

  Conference materials of all kinds, including high-quality poster presentations and Audio Visual displays are produced. Previous examples include high-tech exhibitions all over Europe (BusTech: Athens; SETH: Athens; INFOSYSTEMS: Salonika; 5th National Conference of Oceanography, Kavala) and (MAST: Sorrento; EURASLIC: Malta; Coastal Zone Management: Venice; EUROGOOS: The Hague; European Aquaculture Society: Verona; LEONARDO: Brussels; European/World Aquaculture Society: Martinique)

• Video Productions

  The ICT department makes specialised as well as more general videotapes . The unit has in the past produced titles on underwater research, aquaculture, fisheries and other marine science subjects. A 6-minute video entitled "The Return of Artemis" featured the rescue and return of a sea turtle (carretta carretta) and was shown on three Greek TV stations, ERT 1, Kreta Channel and Kriti TV. "Greek Research Vessels" was produced for LISBOA 98. "Lagoons and Wetlands" was an EPAEK production. "The Cretan Coasts" is being produced for the Natural History Museum.

  See Video Catalogue for details of titles for sale.

• Multimedia/CD ROMs

  The ICT department is responsible for the design, implementation and production of multi-media projects.

  See Multimedia Catalogue for more information.

• World Wide Web Sites

  The ICT designs, develops and produces WWW sites. ICT designed and currently maintains the highly successful IMBC site (1.400.000 accesses in 2000) which promotes the activities and facilities of the IMBC nationally and internationally by providing unique services to the marine science community, making available resources such as abstracts, bibliographies and other types of databases such as glossaries and directories. The ICT department produced the AQUALEX MULTIMEDIA CONSORTIUM site designed for the needs of online marine science education and training (www.aqualex.org). A pioneering site, it incorporates several innovative projects: the COMPANY AUDIT provides online training in the setting up of an Aquaculture company; ONEDIN, which provides online Marine Science courses; English for Biology, a basic language training module at present used by the University of Crete. The Marine Ecology laboratory web site was also designed, constructed and maintained by the ICT. The Federation of Greek Mariculture (FGM) had its web site constructed and maintained by the ICT. THALASSA LINK, another site designed and maintained by the ICT gives product and service information to SMEs in Greece.

For further information, please contact Margaret Eleftheriou.

Tel. +30 810 242022

Fax. +30 810 241882

Email. margaret @imbc.gr