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Projects

The aim of the project SEKT - Sector collapse kinematics and tsunami implications - is to improve the understanding of submarine landslides and flank collapses. These may trigger mega-tsunamis and endanger communities as well as seafloor installations. The data collected on Meteor Trip 154-2 in 2019 is being surveyed and will give information on many questions regarding the processes that lead to those hazardous proceedings.

The international European Training Network SLATE - Submarine Landslides and their Impact on European Continental Margins - started in 2018. It is funded by the European Union and it's aim is to

• to understand key factors triggering submarine landslides, the subsequent motion and evolution of failed material, as well as ensuing geohazards, e.g. tsunamis; and
• to integrate an innovative broad range of scientific disciplines and private sector needs into a novel training-through-research and co-supervision of 15 ESRs

The In­ter­na­tio­nal Re­se­arch Trai­ning Group IN­TER­CO­AST – ‘In­te­gra­ted Co­as­tal Zone and Shelf-Sea Re­se­ar­ch’ was a col­la­bo­ra­ti­on bet­ween the Uni­ver­si­ties of Bre­men (Ger­ma­ny) and Wai­ka­to (New Ze­a­land). The project was funded by the DFG and lasted from 2009 until 2018.

Re­search themes of this projekt were deal­ing with global and cli­mate change which have strong im­pacts in coastal and shelf-sea areas and are of geoscientific, so­cio-eco­nomic and legal interest.

Of course we are constantly working on different projects and doing research work. Below you can find some of our current activities and also those we have already completed:

Current researches

Name	Project	Topic
Kristina Sass	Sector collapse kinematics and tsunami implications
Dr. Gerhard Bartzke	Sediment dynamics - Fluid and sediment bed interactions. What roles do fluid infiltration and grain shape play? - 3D numerical flume tank experiments	Numerical Modelling / Sediment Transport

 

Completed researches

Name	Project	Topic
Dr. Hadar Elyashiv	Nonfocused versus focused gravitational mass movement along passive continental margins
Dr. Ricarda Gatter	Micromechanics of failure planes: key role of sediment texture and composition
Dr Marine Le Minor	Initiation of motion – marine biological factors controlling sediment stability	Numerical Modelling / Sediment Transport
Dr. Franziska Staudt	Initiation of motion: investigating sediment remobilization processes combining lab flume tank experiments, field measurement and numerical simulations	Numerical Modelling / Sediment Transport
Dr. Bryna Reinmold	Time series analyses of data taken in the Ems Estaury (Germany) and Firth of Thames (New Zealand)	Time Series Analysis
Gerhard Bartzke	Micro scale sediment - fluid interactions	Numerical Modelling / Sediment Transport
Jannis Kuhlmann	To which extend do sediment physical parameters control (I) slope failure and (II) transport mechanisms? - The Twin Slides.	Sediment Transport
Linda Wenk	Numerical simulation of mechanics and kinematics of the Mediterranean Ridge - key role of viscous décollements	Numerical Modelling
Lutz Torbahn	Physical characterisation of marine slope sediments utilizing numerical 3-D experiments	Numerical Modelling

 

Working Areas....

...active and passive continental margins