• Black Sea ecosystem processes and forecasting /operational database management system project

• Development of Black Sea Observation and Forecasting System (BSOFS) Science Plan
• Review of Environmental Projects of the Caspian Sea for the Planning of Future Activities
• Development of Black Sea  Integrated Coastal and Shelf Zone Monitoring and Modeling (INCOM) Program Science Plan

     Linkage grants

• Updated interdisciplinary Black Sea database on a basis of recent international projects/cruises.

• Structure and spatial/temporal distribution of zooplankton in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

• The Role of Water Mass Formation and Transport Processes on the Health of the Caspian Sea

• Pelagic animals food supply in unstable Black Sea environment

• The Evaluation of the Impact of the Atmospheric Inputs of Trace Metals to the Eastern Mediterranean

• Changes in the Biodiversity and Quantity of Black Sea Phytoplankton

• The Role of Transport Processes on the Ventilation and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Black Sea

• Long-term fluctuations of the zooplankton in the Black Sea

• Grazing, growth and production of Calanus euxinus in the Black Sea

• Ecosystem  modeling as a management tool for the Black Sea: A regional program of multi intstitutional cooperation (TU Black Sea)