South Caucasus River Monitoring

NATO Science for Peace Program
SfP 977991- South Caucasus River Monitoring

Participants:

Environmental Physics and Chemistry Center - AZECOLAB, NAS, Azerbaijan
Republic Union of the Environment Complex Monitoring, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Center for Ecological-Noosphere Studies of National Academy of Sciences ( www.sci.am ), Armenia
Institute for Water and Watersheds, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
Micro-Trace Analysis Center University of Antwerp, Belgium
Department of Chemistry Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

General Objectives:

To establish the social and technical infrastructure for an international, cooperative, Transboundary River water quality and quantity monitoring, data sharing and watershed management system among the Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Specific objectives:

Increase technical capabilities (monitoring, analytical and communications) among partner countries
Cooperatively establish standard sampling, analysis and data management techniques for all partner countries
Establish data, GIS and model sharing system accessible to all partners via WWW
Establish social framework (i.e., annual international meetings) for whole-watershed management.

The general industry problems for Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia
are transboundary transfer of pollution and incountry pollution of main water resources,
underground waters and Caspian Sea.

What is necessary to implement?

Directions of activities

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NATO Science for Peace Program SfP 977991- South Caucasus River Monitoring

Participants:

General Objectives:

Specific objectives:

NATO Science for Peace Program
SfP 977991- South Caucasus River Monitoring