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Boom in Jellyfish: Overfishing Called Into Question

Will we soon be forced to eat jellyfish? Since the beginning of the 2000s, these gelatinous creatures have invaded many of the world's seas, like the Japan Sea, the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, etc. Is it a cyclic phenomenon, caused by changes in marine currents or even global war



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Boom in Jellyfish: Overfishing Called Into Question
AZTI-Tecnalia (AZTI) summer school 'Genomic tools in marine ecosystem monitoring, status assessment and management within European marine policy legislation and governance' course
DEST - Taxonomy Training Home General
SeaDataNet Newsletter number 8
Prof. Ahmet Erkan Kideys is this month's guest of the Mersin Maritime Magazine on the marine sciences subject 'A large proportion of the scientific publications from this country belong to our institute' (in Turkish) [Sabit]
Book Reading Activity in IMS-METU (inTurkish) [Sabit]

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Model Forecasts

  • Weather
  • Northern Levantine
  • Black Sea
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Turkey  SLP Temp2m Wind10m
Turkey  Rain Fall
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Date 19May  20May  21May 
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Salinity 
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Black Sea Forecast

With kind permission of MyOcean Project(http://www.myocean.eu.org/) to which METU-IMS is a partner.


Date 19May 20May 21May
Temperature
Sea salinity
Current velocity
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