News of the institute for coastal research

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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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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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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Oliver Krüger is a Meteorologist at the Institute of Coastal Research. In his doctoral thesis, he is researching the reliability of proxy data in the investigation of past wind and storm activity. In this area of climate research, proxies are generally data from air pressure measurements that make conclusions about wind strength possible. The Übersee-Club Hamburg e.V. has recognized Oliver Krüger with a foreign exchange scholarship. From June to October, he will continue his research at the Pacific Climate Impact Consortium in Victoria, Canada.

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The new group of junior researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht’s Institute for Coastal Research is researching the nitrogen cycle in flat coastal seas and the mouths of rivers under the leadership of Dr. Kirstin Dähnke.

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