Institute of Coastal Research
Coastal systems are under constant pressure from short and long term natural influences, including erosion or sea level rise due to climate change, and from human endeavours, for example, transportation, land use patterns, tourism, etc. As a means to identify the potential for change, sustainability, and adaptation, coastal research provides the tools, assessments, and scenarios for managing this vulnerable landscape.
Research activities span both the natural and human dimensions of coastal dynamics, analysing the coastal system in global and regional contexts, conducting assessments of the state and sensitivity of the coastal system to natural and human influences, and developing scenarios of future coastal options.
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Summer School in the Tidal Mudflats
2011-09-14
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This year “The Summer School on Coastal Research” will take place in Lauenburg und Büsum from the 19th to the 30th of September. In the course of this 12 day event the 20 participants will be brought up to date with the latest knowledge regarding climate change and its effects on the North Sea. The young marine and environmental scientists come from 15 countries, and yet all have one thing in common – their desire to investigate the coasts and seas of the world. Each year since 2002, the Institute of Coastal Research at the Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht, the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven and the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde have cooperated to organise a summer school on various topics regarding climate and marine research - originating from the idea of imparting the knowledge gained from current research to junior scientists from around the world.
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International Coastal Conference opened in Yantai, China
2011-09-12
International Coastal Conference opened in Yantai, China -
Scientists from the Institute of Coastal Research of the Helmholtz Centre in Geesthacht have today opened the Open Science Conference on “Coastal Systems, Global Change and Sustainability, in Yantai, China.
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New Book Published on the Spread of Pollution in the Environment
2011-07-11
New Book Published on the Spread of Pollution in the Environment -
The fifth book in the “School of Environmental Research – organized by Hemlholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht” series has now been published under the title "Persistent Pollution - Past, Present and Future". Environmental and climate experts from the Institute of Coastal Research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, in cooperation with other national and international research institutions, have gathered together the work from the fifth “School of Environmental Research” and expanded upon it by contributing additional chapters.
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