IO-BAS Activities within NATO Project SfP

The preliminary selection of possible vendors was performed in the end of November The invitations for participation to the competitive bidding were sent in the beginning of December. In the end of December 2009 the selection phase was completed and the first ranking vendor (Satlantic Inc, Canada) was chosen. I. Procurement of equipment Competitive bidding procedure was performed following the NATO rules for purchases valued at EUR or more.

EquipmentManufacturerModel NumberCost (EUR) 7 channel free fall optical profilerSatlanticMPRO II In water profiling package reference sensor multispectral Irradiance cosine Air (E s ) sensor Satlantic Micro II Ref 7 Channel channel Irradiance cosine water (E d, E u ) sensor SatlanticOCR-507I Combination chlorophyll fluorometer and 2 channel backscattering Wet labsTriplet puck Advanced pich/roll compensated compass/ magnetometer system SatlanticSAT-THS Sunphotometer Solar Light Company Inc. Model 540 Microtops II GPSTrimbleGeo XT The equipment was successfully delivered to IO-BAS in January 2011

II. Project WEB Site Project Web site: has been created following the NATO existing recommendations.

Offer and tendering documents were prepared and submitted in reply to an invitation to tender: IES/H/2011/01/01/NC “OCEANOGRAPHIC CRUISE IN THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL BLACK SEA” sent by JRC, EC. III. Participation in the tender procedure issued by JRC

IV. R/V AKADEMIK bio-optical cruses EUROFLEETS BIO OPT r/v Akademik cruse was carried out from June measurements stations

JRC/IOBAS BioMAP cruse on board the r/v Akademik was carried out from 13 to 22 July measurement stations

IV. IO-BAS scientists participating in the bio-optical cruses Violeta Slabakova- Apparent Optical Properties Yavor Vekov- Apparent Optical Prop & Sunphotometry Elitza Stefanova - Water Sampling & SD Natalia Slabakova - Water Sampling

V. Progress report preparation 1.April Progress Report, April Progress Report, October Progress Report, 2011