Pollution disaster monitoring and ecological impact prediction : implications of results of the ECODIS project for aquatic ecosystem disaster management

Disasters leading to a release of pollutant(s) into rivers, streams or lakes can have severe short and/or long term effects on the chemical and ecological status of aquatic ecosystems. The aim of the study presented here is to give recommendations for disaster management based on new methods, recent progress in research and advanced sensor techniques developed within the EU-FP6 funded ECODIS project on "Dynamic Sensing of Chemical Pollution Disasters and Predictive Modelling of their Spread and Ecological Impact".