GC21I:
Addressing Environmental Challenges Through Research Infrastructures and Cooperative Networks with an Emphasis on Marine and Coastal Regions I

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Session ID#: 35249

Session Description:
Humanity is facing enormous environmental challenges: biodiversity decline, climate change, ocean acidification, sea level rise, etc. On the other hand, environmental Research Infrastructures (RI’s) have developed significantly over the last decades. In this oral session, we will merge global environmental challenges and the capabilities of environmental RI’s. Our aim is to assess how the existing RI’s could help to address some of the most significant environmental global challenges.

We invite submissions that describe success stories of cooperation among international RI's in relation to global challenges. We also encourage contributions showing ideas on how the existing RI's can work together. This could include ideas on how to drive the integration of different research fields and data through RI’s, e.g. space-based measurements with in-situ infrastructures. The expected results could include establishment of new cooperation threads among scientists and RI's operators that could take the shape of new project consortia.

Primary Convener:  Marcus Reckermann, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, International Baltic Earth Secretariat, Geesthacht, Germany
Conveners:  Francisco Bonet-García, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, Donald F Boesch, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Gulf Research Program), Annapolis, MD, United States and Michael Mirtl, Austrian Environment Agency, Vienna, Austria
Chairs:  Marcus Reckermann, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, International Baltic Earth Secretariat, Geesthacht, Germany and Francisco Bonet-García, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
OSPA Liaison:  Marcus Reckermann, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, International Baltic Earth Secretariat, Geesthacht, Germany
Index Terms:

1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4243 Marginal and semi-enclosed seas [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Gulf of Mexico: Dealing with Change in a Marginal Sea (Invited) (252994)
Nancy N Rabalais, Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States; Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, LA, United States
Major Environmental Issues of the Baltic Sea and Science Based Decision Support Strategies towards an Improved Environmental Status (Invited) (257601)
Christoph Humborg, Stockholm University, Baltic Sea Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
Management-focused approach to investigating coastal water-quality drivers and impacts in the Baltic Sea (239023)
Guillaume Vigouroux1, Georgia Destouni2, Yuanying Chen3, Arvid Bring4, Anders Jönsson5 and Vladimir Cvetkovic3, (1)Stockholm University, Physical Geography, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (5)COWI AB, Environment, Solna, Sweden
Effects of Regional Climate Change on the Wave Conditions in the Western Baltic Sea (280017)
Norman Dreier and Peter Fröhle, Hamburg University of Technology, River and Coastal Engineering, Hamburg, Germany
Modelling Potential Consequences of Different Geo-Engineering Treatments for the Baltic Sea Ecosystem (284615)
Corinna Schrum, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany and Ute Daewel, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Coastal Systems - Analysis and Modeling, Geesthacht, Germany
Massive Cloud-Based Big Data Processing for Ocean Sensor Networks and Remote Sensing (295048)
Kurt D Schwehr, Google, Mountain View, United States and The Google Earth Engine Team

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