On September 16, 2026, the project BSB00949 – ANEMONE PLUS was officially launched. The Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea is participating in the project as a partner. The main objective of ANEMONE PLUS is to strengthen the resilience and sustainable development of the Black Sea marine ecosystem by improving the assessment of [...]

During the period from July 1 to 10, 2025, specialists from the Ukrainian Scientific Center of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES) conducted the third (first for WP3) field campaign within the framework of the international Black Sea SIERRA project, funded by the European Union. The expedition's objective was comprehensive sampling to assess the ecological status [...]

During the period from June 19 to 23, 2025, specialists from the Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES) conducted a scientific field campaign for water sampling in key water bodies of the Northwestern Black Sea region. Samples were collected as part of the international Black Sea SIERRA project, which are implementing with [...]

On February 19, 2024, as part of an international briefing dedicated to the results of the first six months of the MARMAPS project implementation, a presentation of the Black Sea SIERRA project – «Harnessing complementary curricular preparedness via sustainable management in response to civil and military pollution on the coastline, tributaries and lagoons in Black [...]

Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea has started sampling rivers, estuaries and the coast to assess the pollution of the Black Sea.  The Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES) has successfully conducted its first field campaign for water and sediment sampling: - Rivers: Danube, Dniester, Southern Bug; - in estuaries: [...]

The Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES) is pleased to announce the commencement of its participation in the international project Black Sea SIERRA – «Harnessing complementary curricular preparedness via sustainable management in response to civil and military pollution on the coastline, tributaries and lagoons in Black Sea's North, West, South zone», funded [...]

Dear colleagues, we invite you to take part in the National Consultative Online Seminar on Black Sea Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (BS SRIA) , within the framework of the Black Sea Connect project funded by the EU, which provides solving number of tasks in the following areas: Addressing fundamental Black Sea research challenges; Developing [...]

For decades the Black Sea has been treated as a dumping ground for agricultural and industrial waste from south eastern Europe - with things so bad that scientists considered parts of it almost entirely dead. But what has been done to turn things around and is there any prospect of an improvement? The BBC's Jonah [...]

2nd Workshop of Local Stakeholders «Public involvement in the conservation of Black Sea cetaceans" was held at 21st of November on the basis of Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES) in the frame of the Project «Assessing the vulnerability of the Black Sea marine ecosystem to human pressures» (ANEMONE BSB319). There were [...]