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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