Department of Marine Sanitary Hydrobiology

Introduction

Establishment - 1964

Head - professor Mironov Oleg Glebovich

Total Staff - 16 (1 doctors of science, 3 candidates of science, 8 engeneers).

The thirty-years works of marine sanitary department allowed to obtain data on oil and oil products influence on various species of the Black sea hydrobionts and to determine their tolerance to toksikants; to ascertain regulariries of distribution, abundance, species composition and biochemical peculiarities of oil-oxidazing bacteria in the World Ocean.

(the Black Sea and the World Ocean Stations Maps of selection of water tests)

On the base of obtained data International Programme on bioindication of oil pollution by using of oil-oxidazing microorganisms was created and realized in the Mediterranean region.

Investigations of total concentration and identification of hydrocarbons and lipids of fishes and invertebrates from the Black Sea and different regions of the World Ocean were carried out. Comparative analysis of oil hydrocarbon influence on changing of main biochemical indexes in hydrobionts from different polluted regions was fulfiled.

In the present main effort are directed to the solving of ecological problems in the Black sea and Sevastopol region in particular. Bottom sediments and benthos (macro-, meio- and microbenthos) are studied by employing of complex of chemical, biochemical and microbiological methods. Based on the different macrozoobenthos groups (molluscs, polychaeta, crustacea) new grounds for scale of tolerance of indexes samples to oil pollution were developed. Various types of hydrobiological methods of polluted sea waters cleaning were developed and used for coastal aquatoria sanitation.

Main direction of investigations:

Marine organisms and their communities interaction with oil pollution as a basis of biological selfpurification of marine environment.

Main Aim: Using of marine organisms and their communities for the fight against environment pollution.

Practical application:

• biomonitoring;
• hydrobiological method of polluted sea waters cleaning;
• marine aquatoria sanitation.

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Research staff:

• Mironov Oleg G., Ph.D., professor, the Head of Department
  Education, sci.degrees. Marine Faculty of the Navy Medicine Academy (Russia) - 1958. Kandidat of Medical Sciences - Navy Academy of Medicine, 1963. Doctor of Biologycal Sciences - Moscow State University (Russia), 1971.
  Scientific interests:
• marine organisms and their communities interactions with pollution;
• the study of a pollution impact on marine organisms and their role in pollution trahsformation and in quality improvement of marine environment.
• Kirukhina Ludmila N., Ph.D., Senior Scientist
  Education, sci. degrees. Tomsk State University (Russia) - 1967. Kandidate of Biol.Sci. - IBSS, Sevastopol (Ukraine) - 1976.
  Scientific interests.
• Biogeochemistry of inhabitated level of marine sediments, monitoring of hydrocarbon pollution of bottom sediments.
• Alyomov Sergey V., Ph.D., Senior Scientist
  Education, sci. degrees. Kiev State University (Ukraine) - 1985. Kandidat of Biol. Sci. - IBSS, Sevastopol (Ukraine), 1993.
  Scientific interests:
• investigation of zoobenthos communities respond to pollution;
• estimation of zoobenthos communities stability under oil pollution conditions;
• utilization of zoobenthos as an indicator to coastal ecosystem state;
• investigation of different zoobenthos species participation in the transformation of an orgaic pollution.
• Osadchaya Tatyana S., Ph.D., Senior Scientist
  Education, sci. degrees. Sevastopol Priborostroitelny (Apparatusmaking) Institute (Ukraine) - 1973. Kandidat of Biol. Sci. - IBSS,Sevastopol (Ukraine), 1988.
  Scientific interests
• the study of pollution impact on marine organisms;
• biomoitoring; investigation of lipids and fatty acids composition in hydrobionts, sea water and bottom sediments;
• gas-liquid and thin-layer chromatography.
• Rubtsova Svetlana I., Junior Scientist
  Education, sci. degrees. Simferopol State University (Ukraine) - 1998.
  Scientific interests.
• Marine organisms and their communities interaction with oil pollution as a basis of biological selfpurification of marine environment.
• Heterotrophic bacteria – parameters of pollution and self-cleaning of sea environment.
• Evaluation of a bacterial self-cleaning of waters from oil hydrocarbons.
• Oil-oxidazing microorganisms in coastal zone of the Black Sea and their role in destruction of oil hydrocarbons. 
• Muravyova Irina P., Junior Scientist
  Education, sci. degrees. Simferopol State University (Ukraine) - 1980. 
  Scientific interests
• Interaction of oil hydrocarbons with marine organism; oil impact on hydrobionts and organisms impact on oil, their ability to accumulation, transformation, release and transfer via food veb.
• Difference between hydrocarbons of allochtonic and autochtonic origin (by thin-layer chromatography, high-performance liquid chromatography, gas-liqiud chromatography, mass-spectrometry).

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