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Estonian Marine Institute is a government-funded scientific institute, responsible for marine investigations in Estonia. The main research fields are: dynamics of the Baltic Sea ecosystem, marine monitoring, and assessment of fish resources and advice on their management.
Main scientific interests of Dr. Henn Ojaveer (Ph.D) include dynamics of marine ecosystems due to climatic fluctuations and human influence (incl. introduced species), development and adaptation of biota of the Baltic Sea as a young and brackish-water basin, energy-rich zones in the Baltic Sea and management of coastal fish stocks. Ph.D (1997) thesis: Dynamics of fish stocks in the Gulf of Riga. Dr. Ojaveer is a member of the following international working groups:
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES): Working Group on Introductions and Transfers of Marine Organisms (WGITMO) and Working Group on Ecosystem Effects of Fishing Activities (WGEEFA). Baltic Marine Biologist’s Association (BMB): Non-indigenous Estuarine and Marine Organisms Working Group (NEMO) and Working Group on Coastal Fish Community.
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| State program on Climatic and Human Impact on the Structure and Functioning of the Baltic Sea Ecosystem. |
| Estonia Science Foundation project on alien species (Cercopagis pengoi) |
| Nordic Council Study on Management of Baltic Coastal Fish Resources |
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Recent publications |
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| Ojaveer, H. and Lumberg, A. 1995. On the role of Cercopagis (Cercopagis) pengoi (Ostroumov) in Pärnu Bay and the NE part of the Gulf of Riga ecosystem. Proc. Estonian Acad. Sci. Ecol., 5, 1-2, 20–25. |
| Ojaveer, H., Lankov, A., Lumberg, A., and A. Turovski. 1997. Forage fishes in the brackish Gulf of Riga ecosystem (Baltic Sea). In Forage Fishes in Marine Ecosystems. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK-SG-97-01. pp. 293-309. |
| Ojaveer, H. 1997. Environmentally induced changes in distribution of fish aggregations on the coastal slope in the Gulf of Riga. In Proceedings of the 14th Baltic Marine Biologists Symposium, Pärnu, Estonia, 5-8 August 1995, pp. 170-183. Ed. by E. Ojaveer. Estonian Academy Publishers, Tallinn. 302 pp. |
| Ojaveer, E., A. Lumberg and Ojaveer, H. 1998. Highlights of zooplankton dynamics in Estonian waters (Baltic Sea). ICES Journal of Marine Science 55: 748-755. |
| Ojaveer, H. 1999. Exploitation of biological resources of the Baltic Sea by Estonia in 1928-1995. Limnologica 29: 224-226. |
| Ojaveer, H., Järv, L. and Erm, V. 1999. Some tendencies in Estonian coastal fisheries in the mid 1990s. pp. 174-184. In: Proceedings of Symposium on Freshwater fish and the herring populations in the coastal lagoons – Environment and Fisheries. Gdynia, Poland, 6-7 May 1998, 252 pp. |
| Simm, M. and Ojaveer, H. 1999. Occurrence of different morphological forms of Cercopagis in the Baltic Sea. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Biology, Ecology 48: 169-172. |
| Ojaveer, H., Lankov, A., Eero, M., Kotta, J., Kotta, I., and Lumberg, A. 1999. Changes in the ecosystem of the Gulf of Riga from the 1970s to the 1990s. ICES Journal of Marine Science (in press). |
| Ojaveer, H. Discrimination of ecological groups of eelpout, Zoarces viviparus, in the Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea). Submitted to Environmental Biology of Fishes. |
| Simm, M. and Ojaveer, H. Length-weight relationship of Cercopagis pengoi in the Gulf of Riga. Submitted to Boreal Environment Research. |
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