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Research Area B "Coastal Zone Processes"
Continental margins, and especially coastal regions, are among the most dynamic areas in the world. In the last century human impact in the coastal zone has increased dramatically in both scale and rate: coastal zones being focal areas of rapidly increasing socio-economic pressures. In GLOMAR Research Area B, we address the different aspects of coastal/continental margin processes with a multidisciplinary focus. Our present research themes are:
- Coastal sediment dynamics (e.g. modelling, dredging impacts on tidal inlet systems, sediment transport pathways),
- Application of electromagnetic imaging (EM) to investigate the dynamics of continental shelf sediments,
- Influences of sea-level changes and subsidence on sedimentary processes using seismo-acoustic stratigraphy
- Seismo-acoustic investigations of shallow methane gas occurrences in shelf sediments
- Reconstruction of palaeo-sedimentary processes (Pleistocene-Holocene) in the North Sea.
Associate Scientist of Research Area B
Dr. Leticia Cotrim da Cunha
Phone: +49 421 218 - 65671
Research interests:
* Coastal ocean biogeochemistry
* Carbon and nutrient fluxes from rivers to the ocean
* Biogeochemical carbon and nutrient cycles, processes and modeling
Current student members of research area B
| PhD student | PhD project | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Baasch | Electromagnetic Imaging of the marine subsurface: A novel approach to assess sediment patterns and dynamics on clastic shelf systems | Prof. Dr. Tilo v. Dobeneck |
| Kai Chu | Morphodynamic modelling of decadal coastal evolution of German Bigh | Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln |
| Sebastian Hammerschmidt | MeBo-CORK Observatories: Development, testing and first scientific missions offshore Japan | Prof. Dr. Achim Kopf |
| Jannis Kuhlmann | To which extend do sediment physical parameters control (I) slope failure and (II) transport mechanisms? – the Twin Slides offshore southern Sicily serving as a unique case study area | Prof. Dr. Katrin Huhn |
| Eva Kwoll | Boundary layer effects on cohesive sediment transport in tidal channels | Dr. Christian Winter |
| Luisa Palamenghi | Influences of sea level changing and subsidence on the sedimentary processes on the Bengal Shelf | Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß |
| Christian Svenson | Sediment Dynamics in Tidal Inlet Systems | Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln |
| Zsuzsanna Tóth | Seismo-acoustic investigations of shallow gas occurrences in the sediments of the Baltic Sea | Prof. Dr. Volkhard Spieß |
| Rike Zimmermann | Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene development of the German Bight | Prof.Dr. Dierk Hebbeln |