Report of the 18th Session of GESAMP, 1988

The Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine pollution (GESAMP) held its eighteenth session at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris from 11-15 April 1988.

  • 1988 #33 (64p.)
  • Author(s): GESAMP
  • Publisher(s): UNESCO
  • Journal Series Reports and Studies

The agenda for the meeting comprised of:

1. Adoption of the Agenda

2. Review of potentially harmful substances.

i. Nutrients

ii. Carcinogenic substances

3. Evaluation of the hazards of harmful substances carried by ships

4. Interchange of pollutants between the atmosphere and the oceans

5. Coastal modelling

6. State of the marine environment.

7. Long-term ecological consequences of low-level contamination of the marine environment

8. Future work programme.

9. Date and place of next session.

10. Other matters.

11. Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman for the next intersessional period and for the nineteenth session.

12. Consideration and approval of the report of the session.

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