Information
- Type
- Organization
- Type
- https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types#Scientific
- Name
- Institute of Oceanology
- Acronym
- IO-Bas
- Parent institute
-
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Address
- First May Street 40, PO Box 152, 9000 Varna, Bulgaria
- Contact numbers
-
- Telephone
- +359-(0)52-37 04 86
- Email
- office@iobas.io-bas.bg
- Location
-
- latitude
- 43.2166452
- longitude
- 27.9118058
- Description @en
- The Institute of Oceanology in Varna (IO-BAS, www.io-bas.bg) was established in 1973 and it is affiliated to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The main research activities are focused on the field of coastal dynamics, marine physics, chemistry, geology, biology, ecology, marine technology and instrumentation. It offers consulting and expert services concerning problems of marine environment, continental shelf, offshore and coastal ecosystems, Environmental Impact
assessment, education and training. IO-BAS runs a Coastal Research Station and hosts the Bulgarian National Oceanographic Data Centre (BGODC).
Expertise
- Coastal zone management
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 1655
- Diving tools
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 2423
- Marine biology
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4990
- Marine chemistry
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4993
- Marine ecology
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 4997
- Marine physics
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 5013
- Marine structures
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 5025
- Pollution
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 6383
- Sampling techniques
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 7152
- geographic terms
- MED, Black Sea
- World Ocean