Tuesday, 23 September to Saturday, 4 October 2008 / Nord-Ostsee Deutschland

Summer School: ‘Coastal Seas under Pressure’ - http://coast.gkss.de/events/summerschool08/index.html

PART I - Tuesday, 23 September to Saturday, 27 September / Lauenburg – Germany

…at Die Jugendherberge Lauenburg: http://www.jugendherberge.de/jh/lauenburg-zuendholzfabrik

23/9 Arrival / Goetz Floser, GKSS ‘Welcome in Lauenburg’

24/9 Geology Day

Kay – Christian Emeis, UH – Institute fur Biogeochemie und Meereschemie & ZMAW ‘A short (?) and eventful history of the Baltic Sea’

Self-presentation of students I

Paul Overduin, AWI ‘Reactions of the Arctic Coast to Climate Change’

Jeremy Lloyd, UD ‘Climate Change signals in Arctic Sediments’

25/9 Physical Oceanography Day

Friedhelm Schroeder, GKSS ‘Ferry Box’*

Friedwart Ziemer, GKSS ‘Radar for Current and Seastate measurements’

Wolfgang Schonfeld, GKSS ‘Remote Sensing of coastal waters’

Goetz Floser, GKSS ‘Tour through GKSS’

Canoeing at Elbe River

* http://ferrydata.gkss.de/

26/9 Chemical and Oil Pollution in Coastal and Marine Systems Day

Ralf Ebinghaus, GKSS ‘The problem of persistent pollution - introduction and experimental approaches’

Armin Aulinger, GKSS ‘The problem of persistent pollution - statistical and modeling approaches’

Detlef Schulz-Bull, IOW ‘Chemical Pollutants in the Baltic Sea, occurrence and distribution’

Doris Schiedek, NERI ‘Oil and Gas in the Arctic’*

Veronika Hellwig, GKSS ‘Impact of contaminants on marine mammals’

Evening concert: IRISH FOLK Tom Monaghan, Helena Floser

* Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme / Arctic Council – Oil & Gas Assessment: http://www.amap.no/oga/

PART II - Saturday, 27 September to Saturday, 4 October / Büsum – Germany

Settled at Haus Möwenschrei: http://www.haus-moewenschrei.de/

Having dinner at Die Jugendherberge Buesum http://www.jugendherberge.de/jh/buesum (avoid it!)

Bicycling (^) everyday…

27/9 Visit to Multimar Wattforum, Tonning http://www.multimar-wattforum.de/

28/9 Terp et al. Day

Dirk Meyer, FTZ ‘Büsumer Freilicht-Deichmuseum* & settlement history of Dithmarschen’

Klaus Ricklefs, FTZ ‘Trip to Friedrichstadt Eidersperrwerk, Tonning’

* http://www.buesum.de/themen/buesummaritim/buesumerfreilichtdeichmuseum/index.php

29/9 Energy Day (Klaus Vanselow, FTZ - Klaus Ricklefs, FTZ & Goetz Floser, GKSS)

Visit to WIND TEST Company

Visit to RWE DEA*

Visit to Seehundstation Friedrichskoog**

*RWE DEA - Dieksand Land Station http://www.rwe.com/generator.aspx/mittelplate/landstation-dieksand/language=en/id=604816/landstation-dieksand.html

**Seehundstation Friedrichskoog http://www.seehundstation-friedrichskoog.de/

30/9 Nutrients & Biology Day

Justus van Beusekom, AWI ‘Decadal changes in nutrient supply and primary production in the North and Wadden Sea’

Günther Nausch, IOW ‘Nutrient concentrations, trends and their relation to eutrophication in the Baltic Sea’*

Ulrich Bathmann, AWI ‘Ecosystem shifts in Polar Regions due to climate change’

Self-presentation of students II

* State and Evolution of the Baltic Sea, 1952-2005: A Detailed 50-Year Survey of Meteorology and Climate, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Marine Environment (http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471979686.html)

01/10 Biology in the North & Baltic Sea Day

Ragnhild Asmus, AWI ‘Ecosystems in the Coastal Zone - global and regional aspects’

Andreas Baer, UK ‘Aquaculture’

Klaus Ricklefs, FTZ ‘Geological History of the Wadden Sea’

Visit to Sudfall – FTZ Research vessel

02/10 Ecosystem Modelling Day

Carole Lebreton, GKSS ‘Ecosystem Modelling: Basics’

Carole Lebreton, GKSS ‘Ecological Modelling: Exercises’*

Jian Su, GKSS ‘Optimizing coastal ecosystem models: a case study in the German Bight’

Hermann Lenhart, ZMAW Hamburg ‘The European Regional Seas ecosystem model (ERSEM)’

Wilfried Kuhn, ZMAW Hamburg ‘Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in the North Sea – a study using the ecosystem model ECOHAM’

Hermann Lenhart, ZMAW Hamburg ‘Ecosystem Modelling in Relation to Eutrophication’

Wilfried Kuhn, ZMAW Hamburg ‘Modelling Larvae Growth and Dispersion’

* Scilab: http://www.scilab.org/

03/10

Goetz Floser, GKSS – GKSS ICON: Integrated Coastal Observational Network*

Stefanie Maack, IOW ‘ICZM role play’

Barbecue and goodbye party

* http://www.coastlab.org/

04/10 Departure

We: Jay Anand, Sajmir Beqiraj, Jan Busch, Sami Domisch, Daniela Henkel, Magdalene Kempa, Roberta Malavenda, Nima Moin, Christina Müller, Corneila Plagge, Rajesh Kumar Ranjan, Cem Senduran, Alessio Soria, Nadeshda Tondorova, Ingo Weinberg, Christina Kontaxi

Abbreviations:

GKSS - GKSS Research Centre (info: http://www.gkss.de)

FTZ - Research and Technology Centre Westcoast (info: http://www.uni-kiel.de/ftzwest/)

AWI - Alfred-Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Research (info: http://www.awi.de/)

IOW - Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde / Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde (info: http://www.io-warnemuende.de/)

NERI / DMU - Danmarks Miljøundersøgelser (info: http://www.dmu.dk/)

ZMAW - Zentrum für Marine und Atmosphärische Wissenschaften (info: http://www.zmaw.de/)

UH –Hamburg University (info: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/)

UK – University Kiel (info: http://www.uni-kiel.de/)

UD - Durham University - UK (info: http://www.dur.ac.uk/)