Collaborations | Laboratory of Marine Geology & Physical Oceanography

Between 1989 and 1998 the Laboratory participated in an Inter-University Co-operation Programme "The Merkator" within the framework of the Erasmus programme, with eleven other Marine geology laboratories from Ghent University (Belgium), University College of North Wales (Britain), Aarhus University (Denmark), Brest and P.M. Curie at Ville franche-sur-Mer Universities (France), Kiel University (Germany), Galway University (Ireland),Bologna and Padova Universities (Italy), Utrecht University (Holland), Bergen University (Norway) and Barcelona University (Spain).

The main activities of the Merkator Programme, which is co-ordinated by Ghent University is the exchange of students between the aforementioned Laboratories and the organisation, on a regular basis, of Intensive Summer Courses. Since 1991 five such courses have been held in:

Patras (GRE), 1991 "Seafloor dynamics in seismically and tectonically active regions"
Bangor (U.K.), 1992 "Methodologies, Concepts and Processes in Marine Geosciences"
Mallorca (ESP), 1993 "Continental Margin Sequence Statigraphy"
Brest (FRA), 1994 "Deep Sea Drilling and related topics"
Gent (BEL), 1995 "Continental Shelf Geology"

Within the framework of the MAST (Marine Science Technology) programme of the European Union the Laboratory has participated in an Advance Study Course in Bordeaux (France) and has organised another one in Crete (Greece).

The themes of the courses were:

Coastal and Shelf Dynamics.
Applied Marine Geology and its impact on environmental issues.