Victor E. ZAIKA

Main Research Sientist of Department of Shelf Ecosystems,
2 Nakhimov av., 99011 Sevastopol
Crimea, Ukraine
Phone: +38-0692-54-47-85
Fax satellite: 871-1272122
E-mail: vzaika@ibss.iuf.net

Education:

• Leningrad State University, 1953-58,
• Ph.D.- Zoological Institute, Ac.Sci.USSR, Leningrad,1964
• D.Sc.- Insitute of Oceanology Acad.sci. USSR, Moscow, 1971
• Corresponding Member, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, 1978
• Professor - Moscow, 1988.

Employment:

• Zoological Institute, Ac. Sci. USSR, Leningrad, 1958-1959,
• Limnological Institute Ac. Sci. USSR, Listvenichnoe, Lake Baikal, 1959-1962
• IBSS NASU, Sevastopol, 1962 - present.

Field Investigations:

Participant in more than 30 expeditions and research cruises (Lake Baikal, the Amur river, the Black, Azov and Caspian seas, the Mediterranean and Arabian seas, the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans).

International Cooperation:

Participation in

• three CIESM Congresses and two symposia within the French - Soviet programme on marine biology;
• Symposia on Deep-Sea Biology (Hamburg, Germany) and Ecology of the Black Sea (Istanbul, Turkey);
• Intergovernmental Conference (Monaco);
• GESAMP Working Group (see site about Mnemiopsis leidyi invasion in the Black Sea);
• Soviet-USA bilateral workshops (Moscow, Russia; Tallinn, Estonia; Sevastopol, Ukraine).

PUBLICATIONS:

Over 250, including 10 books,related to fish parasitology; production, growth and metabolism of water organizms; mathematical modelling in physiological zoology, ecology of plankton and benthos, biology of marine animals; anthropogenic eutrophication, environmental impact assessment. Among them:

• Zaika V.E., V.A.Shevchenko, K.V.Bulatov 1989. The ecology of marine phototrophic picoplankton.- Pushckino: Biological Research Center Press. - 168p.
• Logachev V.S., A.S.Povchun, V.E.Zaika. 1990. The near bottom water transparency, macrodetritus aggregates and mussel number in the northwestern Black sea.- Vladivostok, Biologiya morya,. N4, p.28-31.
• Zaika V.E., N.A.Valovaya, A.S.Povchun, N.K.Revkov. 1990. Myilides of the Black sea.- Kiev: Naukova dumka Publishing House.- 208p.
• Zaika V.E. 1993. The thermal dependence of processes at organismic level in poikilotherms. - Biophisika (RAN), v.38, N5, p.837-842.
• Zaika V.E. 1993. The drop of anchovy stock in the Black sea: a result of biological pollution? // General Fisheries council for the Mediterranean. Report of the second technical consultation on stock assessment in the Black sea. Ankara, Turkey, 15-19 February 1993 .- (FAO Fisheries Report No.495). p.54-59.
• Niermann U., F.Bingel, A.Gorban, A.D.Gordina, A.C.Gucu, A.E.Kideys, A.Konsulov, G.Radu, A.A.Subbotin, and V.E.Zaika. 1994. Distribution of anchovy eggs and larvae (Engraulis encrasicolus Cuv.) in the Black sea in 1991-1992. - ICES J. mar. Sci., 51, p.395-406.
• Mutlu E., F.Bingel, A.C.Gucu,V.V.Melnikov, U.Niermann, N.A.Ostrovskaya and V.E.Zaika. 1994. The distribution of the recent invader Mnemiopsis sp. and the resident populations of Aurelia aurita and Pleurobrachia pileus in the Black sea in 1991-1993. - ICES J. mar. Sci., 51, p.407-421.