Dying and Dead Seas Climatic Versus Anthropic Causes

1. What do we know about dead dying and endangered lakes and seas. - 2. Water management aspects of Amu Darya. - 3. Morphological changes in the Aral Sea Satellite imagery and water balance model. - 4. Aral Sea basin evolution: geodynamic aspect. - 5. The Aral Sea crisis. - 6. Hydrobiology of the Aral Sea. - 7. Main features of the Caspian Sea hydrology. - 8. Hydrobiology of the Caspian Sea. - 9. Contamination of the Caspian Sea. An overview on recent findings. - 10. 1000-year environmental history of Lake Issyk-Kul. - 11. The Dead Sea as a dying lake. - 12. The continued degradation of Lake Corangamite Australia. - 13. Lake Chad: a changing environment. - 14. Genetic traces of environmental variations in ancient lakes. - 15. Hypoxia and the physics of the Louisiana Coastal Current. - List of participants. Language: English