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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;padding:12.75pt .75pt 12.75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:19.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#B67903'>Digital Access to the Publications (1944-2008) of Professor Enrique Balech<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.25pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#3F4545;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p style='line-height:11.25pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#3F4545'>Available at </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#3F4545'><a href="http://www.ioc-unesco.org/hab/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46%3Adigital-access-to-the-publications-1944-2008-of-professor-enrique-balech&catid=24&Itemid=20"><span lang=DA>http://www.ioc-unesco.org/hab/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46%3Adigital-access-to-the-publications-1944-2008-of-professor-enrique-balech&catid=24&Itemid=20</span></a> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#3F4545'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#3F4545'>This initiative led by Dr. Rut Akselman and supported by IOC UNESCO, provides public access to most of the planktological studies published by the late Professor Enrique Balech. Some of them are little known and others are hard to find, even in specialized libraries. The great advantage is their availability in digital format and to have all of them in the same “place”. Our intention is to incorporate more papers in successive stages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#3F4545'>While E. Balech is mainly known for his taxonomic studies of dinoflagellates, especially those related to the genus Alexandrium, a producer of paralytic shellfish toxins, many of his publications (more than a hundred) focused on floristic studies of plankton communities, which he applied to improve biogeographical and hydrodynamic knowledge. Planktonic communities were thoroughly characterized in Balech’s studies, because he could identify most of the species of the taxonomic groups present in each sample, from diatoms, dinoflagellates and tintinnids, to coccolithophorids, radiolarians or heliozoans, when present, thus taking into account both the phytoplankton and zooplankton .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:11.25pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:#3F4545'>We hope this initiative will be of value to the scientific community.<o:p></o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=1092 style='width:819.0pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=1092 valign=top style='width:819.0pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p 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