The Montenegrin Adriatic Coast

Dr. Danijela Joksimovic holds a PhD in Technical Sciences (Chemical Technology) and is a senior associate researcher in the Institute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro. Since 2015 she is the Head of the Laboratory for Marine Chemistry and Oceanography and acts also as Quality Control Manager in accordance with the requirements of MEST ISO IEC 17025: 2011 standard in the Institute of Marine Biology. She is a member of the working group on food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy for the preparation of negotiations on the accession of Montenegro to the European Union. Her main research is focused on the determination of heavy metals in sediment and biological material, as well as anthropogenic impacts on the quality and condition of sea water in the Boka Kotorska Bay and the open sea coast. Dr. Mirko Ðurovic is a senior scientific associate at the Laboratory of Ichthyology and Marine Fisheries at the Institute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro. He is a member of the working group for negotiations with the EU regarding Chapter 13 - Fisheries and Chapter 18 - Statistics and an active member of the FAO AdriaMed and GFCM working groups for small pelagic and demersal species. Since 2014 he is the director of the Institute of Marine Biology and member of the Senate of University of Montenegro from 2016.Prof. Dr.Igor S. Zonn is a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, and the general director of the Engineering Research and Production Center for Land Reclamation, Water Management and Ecology Soyuzvodproekt (Moscow). He has authored over 450 scientific articles and 50 monographs, and is also the author of several encyclopedias on, for instance, the Black, Caspian, White, Baltic, Adriatic, and Ionian seas, Arctic Ocean and Danube River, published by International Relations (Russia) and by Springer.Prof. Dr. Andrey G. Kostianoy is Chief Scientist at the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia), a Visiting Professor at the University of Liege (Belgium), and Honorary Professor of Tver State University (Russia). He is one of the Series Editors of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Springer, and has authored over 300 peer-reviewed papers, acted as an author and/or editor of 65 books, including several encyclopedias on, for instance, the Black, Caspian, White, Baltic, Adriatic and Ionian seas and Arctic Ocean published by International Relations (Russia) and by Springer.Prof. Dr. Alexander V. Semenov is Rector of S.Yu. Witte Moscow University (Moscow), and Honorary Professor at the Higher School of Finance and Management (Bialystok, Poland). He has authored more than 100 scientific publications, and acted as an author and editor of 25 books, including several encyclopedias on, for instance, the White, East Siberian, Baltic, Adriatic, and Ionian Seas and the Arctic Ocean published by International Relations (Russia) and by Springer.