News of the institute for coastal research

In the domain of hydrodynamical modeling determining the transport and the resulting distribution of particles with dynamical properties is unequally hard to accomplish. For this purpose, we at GKSS developed a program module and implemented it, in cooperation with the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Bundesanstalt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, BSH), in their transport model for the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. This model enables to predict, depending on currents and for the first time depending also on the actual sea state, the dispersion of suspended particulate matter (SPM) in the water and its deposition in the bottom sediment.

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An interdisciplinary workshop entitled ‘Tides of Change’ at Tönning (Germany) investigated the socio-historical complexities and changes in coastal areas of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. It shed a critical light on coastal management practices and provided an overarching catalogue of current coastal perceptions and images which can be used to facilitate communication in coastal management purposes.

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A technical comment published in Science on 28 April 2006 points to a specific difference between the original method of Mann et al. and the analysis of this method by von Storch et al. (2004). The response published at the same time points out that this difference does not alter the original conclusion by von Storch that the so-called “Hockey-Stick” reconstruction of past temperatures is likely an underestimation of past temperatures variations.

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The EU-funded project „FerryBox“, coordinated by GKSS, has been sucessfully completed. 11 international partners tested automated measuring systems on 9 ferry routes in different sea areas and applied the technology for the investigation of environmental problems. The results show that the „FerryBox“ is a reliable and cost-effective tool for an automated observation of the marine environment.

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On march, the 16th and 17th 2006 scientists of the Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI) and the Institut for Coastal Research (IfK) met in the premises of the Chemical Faculty of Hamburg University to exchange ideas about the CO part of HGF Research Program MARCOPOLI.

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