User:ErkMathson/Aegean Sea

This is for the Aegean Sea Group.

The Aegean Sea itself also has many scientific discoveries itself. One being the the groundwater of the Aegean Sea. The groundwater itself has a high salinity content leading one to think that the soil would be infertile but actually has an equilibrium with its soil content structure making it able to grow fertile crops on land that would seem infertile. This is a link to an internship opportunity on the Aegean Sea but the significance of this is the science research company that it is offering in the internship evaluating and teaching interns about the ecology of the Aegean Sea while also giving statistics on the environmental accidents and pollutions that have occurred on the Aegean Sea.

The tourism sector is the largest source of income for many island communities in the Aegean. The European Commission estimates that the cessation of travel induced by the COVID-19 pandemic will result in a 9.7% contraction in Greece's overall GDP. This is considered a conservative estimate, due to tourism accounting for 18% of Greece's GDP in 2018, with highly impacted service sector making up 79.1% of the national GDP. This is a simple website that goes in depth with the history of the Aegean and how it developed. The Aegean Sea is full of many different flora and fauna so naturally it would have an ecosystem unique to its own and being delicate in some ways, with the Aegean Sea itself being a volcanically active region it is able to house different types of species within its waters. The Aegean Sea was the setting for one of the most pivotal naval engagements in history, when on September 20, 480 B.C. the Athenian fleet gained a decisive victory over the Persian fleet of the Xerxes II of Persia at the Battle of Salamis. Thus ending any further attempt of western expansion by the Achaemenid Empire.