News of the institute for coastal research

On the 28th International Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants (Dioxin 2008) in Birmingham, UK the price for the best oral presentation has been awarded to Lutz Ahrens from GKSS Research Centre.

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The calculation of scenarios for the development of possible future change of sea-level is an important mission of climate models. Therefore it is important to find out which parameters or processes influence the change of sea-level. In the past it has been accepted that simple, empiric derivable contexts make it possible to statistically estimate change of sea-level from the global mean air temperature. In a simulation study with the climate model ECHO-G it was recently tested to what extent four simple estimation methods based on the global mean temperature could describe the simulated changes of sea-level during of the past 1000 years.

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On September 8th this workshop will take place at the Hamburg Port Authority. A delegation from the State Key Laboratory for Estuarine and Coastal Research in Shanghai will visit Hamburg to exchange actual work results on hydrodynamic questions, flows, monitoring, port engineering and morphodynamics. From the Hamburg Region staff members from the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute, Landesbetrieb Straßen, Brücken und Gewässer, Bundesanstalt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie, Hamburg Port Authority and GKSS Research Center will attend.

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What is the real impact of toxic jellyfish on the biodiversity and food web relation in coastal areas? To answer this question a joint research cruise with the RV „Heincke“ has been conducted with colleagues from the AWI/Station Helgoland and members of the Department for Marine Bioanalytical Chemistry to the Scottish Orkney Islands and Outer Hebrides to collect and prepare jellyfish samples.

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From June 29th to July 6th a Croatian delegation of ministry and community representatives visited the North of Germany to get an idea of German coastal management development. The scientific assistance was given by Andreas Kannen from the GKSS Institute for Coastal Research. The journey was afforded by GTZ (German Association for Technical Collaboration). It promotes complex reforms and change processes, often working under difficult conditions.

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