Das Projekt "INTAS - Express-Ueberwachung von Kontaminationen in lebenswichtigen Kuestenbereichen: Entwicklung von Konzepten, komplexen Verfahren und Werkzeugen sowie deren Bestaetigung fuer das Hafenbecken fuer Noworossijsk und das Erholungsgebiet Gelendshik" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Oldenburg, Fachbereich 8 Physik, Arbeitsgruppe Meeresphysik durchgeführt. The project aims at the preservation of vital water areas against pollutions, so a balanced System of express monitoring is necessary. In such areas, the pollution pattern is basically very complex: Such a situation stimulates the development of complex methods (adaptation of available techniques and searching for new ones), in order to reliably detect the objects under study in their mixture. The main objects to be monitored are: oils as films on the water surface and as dissolved-emulsified fractions in the water column, other organic contaminations, protein-like compounds, aquatic humic substances, phytoplankton (especially, its group and species composition and the photosynthetic activity). The core of this project will be a coastal lidar station for monitoring of a selected water area in a continuous regime. Within the project, a complex of fundamental and applied research will be carried out in the laboratories of participants and in the area of the Blue Bav (Gelendzhik) and the Novorossiisk seaport.