My research activities include:

• air-sea interaction processes

• thermohaline circulation and

• oceane climate variability and change

My teaching activities at the Department of Marine Sciences of the University of the Aegean include undergraduate-level courses: Physics, Ocean and Climate Change, Air-Sea Interaction, Oceanography of the Mediterranean. At graduate level, I contribute to the syllabus of the course Coastal Oceanography and Climate Change with lectures regarding air-sea exchanges and their effect on semi-enclosed basins.

• Editorial Board Member of the international scientific journal Mediterranean Marine Science (Impact factor for 2021: 2,36)
• Referee to international scientific journals: Journal of Climate, Journal of Marine Systems, Annales Geophysicae, Deep Sea Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Oceanologia, Journal of Geology and Mining Research, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, Mediterranean Marine Science
• Member of the following scientific societies: Association of Greek Oceanographers (since 1989), American Meteorological Society (since 1996)

Mamoutos, I.; Potiris, E.; Tragou, E.; Zervakis, V.; Petalas, S., 2021. A High-Resolution Numerical Model of the North Aegean Sea aimed at Climatological Studies. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 9(12), 1463; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9121463.

Tragou, E., Petalas, S., Mamoutos, I., 2021. Air sea interaction - Heat and fresh-water fluxes in the Aegean Sea. Chapter A-10 In: The Aegean Sea Environment: The Natural System. D. Barcelo & A. G. Kostianoy (Eds), The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. In press.

Sampatakaki, A., Zervakis, V., Mamoutos, I., Tragou, E., Gogou, A., Triantaphyllou, M., Skliris, N., 2021. Investigation of the Mediterranean Sea's inherent variability under contrasting extreme climatic conditions. Frontiers in Marine Science, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.656737/abstract

Chaniotaki, M., Kolovoyiannis, V., Tragou, E., Herold, L.A., Batjakas, I.E., Zervakis, V., 2021. Investigation of the response of the Aegean Sea to the Etesian wind forcing. Continental Shelf Research, 225, 104485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2021.104485.

Zervakis, V., Krauzig, N., Tragou, E. and Kunze, E.. Estimating vertical mixing in the deep North Aegean Sea using Argo data corrected for conductivity sensor drift. Deep-Sea Research Part I, article in press, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103144.

Mamoutos, I., Zervakis, V., Tragou, E., Karydis, M., Frangoulis, C., Kolovoyiannis, V., Georgopoulos, D., Psarra, S., 2017. The role of wind-forced coastal upwelling on the thermohaline functioning of the North Aegean Sea. Cont. Shelf Res., 149, 52-68.

Makris, Ch., P. Galiatsatou, K. Tolika, Ch. Anagnostopoulou, K. Kombiadou, P. Prinos, K. Velikou, Z. Kapelonis, E. Tragou, Y. Androulidakis, G. Athanassoulis, Ch. Vagenas, I. Tegoulias, V. Baltikas, Y. Krestenitis, Th. Gerostathis, K. Belibassakis, E. Rusu, 2016: Climate change effects on the marine characteristics of the Aegean and Ionian Seas. Ocean Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s10236-016-1008-1

Mamoutos, I., Tragou, E. and G. Kakagiannis, 2014. Mean sea level changes in the Greek Seas. In 6th Panhellenic Conference in Management and Improvement of Coastal Zones, November 2014, Athens, Greece, pp. 335-344.

Kioroglou S., Tragou E., Zervakis V., 2013. Assessing shelf mixing using CTD, ADCP, and free falling shear probe turbulence data. Continental Shelf Research, 69, pp. 73-87.

Tragou, E., V. Zervakis, E. Papageorgiou, S. Stavrakakis and V. Lykousis, 2005: Monitoring the physical forcing of resuspension events in the Thermaikos Gulf-NW Aegean during 2001-2003. Continental Shelf Research, 25, pp. 2315–2331.

Tragou, E. and A. Lascaratos, 2003. The role of aerosols on the Mediterranean solar radiation. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 108(C2), 3025, doi:10.1029/2001JC001258

Tragou, E., C. Garrett, R. Outerbridge, and C. Gilman, 1999. The heat and freshwater budgets of the Red Sea. J. Phys. Oceanogr. Vol. 29, 2504–2522.

Tragou, E., and C. Garrett, 1997. The shallow thermohaline circulation of the Red Sea. Deep-Sea Research, Vol. 44, 1355–1376.

Lascaratos, A., R. Williams, and E. Tragou, 1993. A mixed-layer study of the formation of Levantine intermediate water. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 98, 14,739–14,749.