Das Projekt "Sub project: Fluid injection test of the SE2-fault system at the KTB-VB (operation, co-ordination, seismic and hydraulic signals in KTB-HB)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum durchgeführt. The Kontinentale Tiefbohrprogramm der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (KTB) was enormously successful. It has revealed a wealth of geoscientific data and new results of unrivalled quality and broadness. However, several of the main objectives have only been marginally investigated, and the scientific potential of the two KTB boreholes, the 4.0 km deep pilot hole (KTB-VB) and the 9.1 km deep main hole (KTB-HB) has by no means fully exploited. The general aim of this and accompanying projects is to study energy and fluid transport processes in continental fault systems at the KTB drill site. For that purpose it is proposed to carry out a fluid production test during a period of 12 months in the KTB-VB. During the test various geophysical, hydraulic and geochemical parameters will be monitored in real-time. Samples of uncontaminated deep seated crustal fluids and gases will be taken regularly for further detailed geochemical, geobiological and isotopic investigations. Data and samples will be provided to several research groups from different institutions for further detailed evaluation. Within this project, the operational work, and tasks of the science team will be co-ordinated, also geochemistry and isotopic composition of crustal gases will be investigated in detail.
Das Projekt "ESBB & ISBER Enviro-Bio Working Group" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander König - Leibniz-Institut für Biodiversität der Tiere durchgeführt. The focus of the Enviro-Bio Working Group is the international collaboration on all non-human tissue and environmental samples, such as microbes, plants and animals, including wildlife, domestic livestock, pets, insects etc (Biodiversity) and abiotic / chemical samples of relevance to biodiversity and human health. The Working Group focuses on preservation methods; best-use / multiple-use of samples; limitations of use / ethics & best-practices; ISBER guideline for Field collection; and Intellectual Property Rights with private collections / commercial enterprises. Goals for the group also include the development of tactics for sample exchange for basic research and work towards development of a common database in collaboration with other global biodiversity and environmental initiatives.
Das Projekt "D5: Functional soil landscape modelling in the Andean mountain forest zone: impact of land use and natural disturbances" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuther Zentrum für Ökologie und Umweltforschung (BayCEER), Abteilung für Bodenphysik durchgeführt. Spatial patterns of soil types and related hydrological, mechanical, chemical and biological properties considerably affect ecosystem behaviour and functioning on the local as well as on the landscape scale. In the tropical montane forests of Southern Ecuador landslides are assumed to have significant impact on pedogenesis, pedodiversity, landscape evolution and biodiversity. Consequently, soil landscape modelling needs to take into account the main governing factors of landslide dynamics like topography, soil hydrology, and vegetation development. Based on comprehensive datasets from previous funding periods and ongoing research our project aims at functional soil landscape modeling with special focus on pedodiversity and landslide risk assesment. Results will further be used for disturbance analyses, and hydrological modelling on the local, catchment and landscape scale in close cooperation with other working groups. Soil landscape modelling will be conducted using advanced statistical models like classifcication and regression trees (CART) and artificial neuronal networks (ANN). Hydrological modeling is conducted using GIS segmentation algorithms together with process based 2D- and 3D- hillslope and catchment models. Special attention will be directed to spatial heterogeneity and parameter uncertainty. A total of 8 existing monitoring plots provide us with throughfall, matric potential, water content and discharge data of subcatchments for model calibrations. Occurrence and relevance of preferential flow can be assessed with the help of dye tracer image analyses from previous funding periods.
Das Projekt "46th Congress of the European Societies of Toxicology, Dresden, 13.09. - 16.09.2009" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Universitätsklinikum Halle (Saale), Institut für Umwelttoxikologie durchgeführt. It is our great pleasure to invite you to our Scientific Workshop on Safety Assessment and Regulation of Nanomaterials to be held at the International Conference Centre Dresden, Germany. Nanotechnology is a powerful tool to optimize technical processes or to generate new materials with exciting functionalities. High expectations are connected to products of nanotechnology with regard to energy efficiency, new materials, electronics, solutions to decrease energy needs for information technologies or data storage. Following introduction of nanomaterials in new technologies, regulators, developers and the producers are confronted with a growing list of questions addressing the safety of nanomaterials for consumers and environment. The participants are invited to give their input into the discussion on the long term safe use of nanoproducts with regard to work place, human health and environment. The complexity of the ongoing risk discussion is a challenge to demonstrate the ability of toxicological work in academia, industry and regulation. It is also a big chance to bring our expertise into society on our common way to find the right balance between chances of new technologies and level of acceptance of remaining risks. The scientific program will be a variety of opportunities to share knowledge lecture sessions and a poster session. Perspective of Regulation and Ethical demands, Products of Nanotechnology in use and under development, Exposure and uptake, Possible health hazards, New Functionalities of nanomaterials, Information Requirements for Safety Assessment of Nanomaterials, Nanomaterials in the Environment, Wrapping up Plenum or Working group.
Das Projekt "Baltic Atlas of Long-Term Inventory and Climatology (BALTIC)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung durchgeführt. The project 'Baltic Atlas of Long-Term Inventory and Climatology' (BALTIC) of the Baltic Sea Research Institute Warnemünde (IOW) was first announced on the meeting of the ICES Working Group on Marine Data Management in April 2000 in Hamburg and to the ICES Baltic Committee Meeting in September 2000. With the aim to support e.g. climate-related investigations, interdisciplinary studies, numerical modelling and regular monitoring, BALTIC is intended to provide the research community with a comprehensive 'climate atlas' for the Baltic Sea, inspired by famous paradigms like the COADS (Woodruff et al. 1987) or the Levitus (1982) global oceanographic data sets, going beyond the well-known data collections of Bock (1971), Lenz (1971) or Janssen et al. (1999) in terms of a significantly more extensive observational data basis involved, but remaining pristine and unbiased by refraining from the incorporation of any numerical model data. In the past years, a lot of historical CTD and bottle data had been reconstructed in the 'Historical Data Rescue' (HDR) framework of the marine research institutes around the Baltic Sea. Starting from the data already available in the data banks of IOW, the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), and the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), the final goal is to build a collection of virtually all accessible oceanographic observation data of the Baltic Sea. In a preceding study, it had been found that indeed much more data than presently stored in the ICES database are available to be included into this project. In a first stage, the atlas is only based on oceanographic temperature/salinity/pressure and oxygen/hydrogen sulphide/nutrient measurements with highest possible spatial and temporal resolution. In subsequent future steps, the intended additional quantities will be those immediately derived thereof, like e.g. density, sound speed, entropy, enthalpy, pycnocline depth, or halocline depth. In further stages of development, data like density anomaly, alkalinity, biological abundances, or pollution may be added.
Das Projekt "Hazardous Travels" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität München, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society durchgeführt. The DFG Emmy-Noether Research Group Hazardous Travels. Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy investigates structures and dynamics of international hazardous waste trade since the 1970s. The team, consisting of three PhDs and one head of research, works with an asymmetrical comparison of 'ghost acres case studies from North America, Germany, Ecuador, and India. It seeks to understand how this system could seemingly be built simultaneously on structures of 'voluntary exchange' of toxic materiality and 'garbage imperialism.' The project works with two concepts identified as fundamental to the running of the global waste economy post-1970s: (1) hazardous waste mobility and (2) emergence of 'ghost acres' in the aftermath of the environmental turn. Applying a global perspective, economic thinking, and constructivist approaches informed from the cultural turn, the project postulates the existence of regional, national, and transnational toxic waste regimes at the core of the global waste economy after industrial countries 1970s environmental turn.
Das Projekt "Mobile2020 - Mehr Radfahren in kleinen und mittleren Städten Mittel- und Osteuropas bis 2020; Fahrradförderung in Mittel- und Osteuropa" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung (ISOE) GmbH durchgeführt. In den meisten Städten Zentral- und Osteuropas ist der Anteil des Radverkehrs sehr niedrig. Die Infrastruktur ist oftmals kaum vorhanden. Aber auch der planerische und politische Wille ist niedrig, das Fahrrad als umweltfreundliches Verkehrsmittel in der Stadt zu fördern. Daher ist es wichtig, den Anteil der Fahrradmobilität in Zukunft deutlich zu steigern, nicht zuletzt um die Energieeinsparziele der EU bis zum Jahr 2020 zu erreichen. In vielen westeuropäischen Kommunen gibt es bereits zahlreiche gute Beispiele, wie sich der Anteil des Radverkehrs steigern lässt. Im Projekt mobile2020 soll der Fahrradverkehr in kleinen und mittleren Städten bis 350.000 Einwohner gefördert werden. Über ein zweistufiges Vorgehen sollen bis zu 350 Kommunen in der Projektlaufzeit erreicht werden. Das im Programm 'Intelligent Energy Europe' geförderte Projekt wird vom Baltic Environmental Forum Deutschland geleitet. In einem ersten Schritt werden die Multiplikatoren aus elf Ländern in mehrtägigen Weiterbildungsseminaren mit Vorträgen, Workshops, Filmen und Exkursionen zum Thema Fahrradmobilität geschult. Dazu zählt auch die Entwicklung von maßgeschneiderten Schulungsmaterialien, eine Sammlung von passenden Positivbeispielen und der regelmäßige Wissenstransfer und -austausch. Die Förderstrategien und Wissensgrundlagen müssen auf Übertragbarkeit geprüft und auf die lokalen Bedürfnisse in den elf Partnerländern angepasst werden. Dieser Arbeitsschritt geschieht unter Leitung des ISOE, zusammen mit der TU Hamburg-Harburg und den beiden niederländischen Partnern. In einem zweiten Schritt werden die ausgebildeten Multiplikatoren dann in ihren Ländern aktiv. Durch die Gründung von nationalen Arbeitsgruppen zum Fahrradverkehr erfolgt dort wiederum die Weiterbildung von Planern. Wesentlicher Bestandteil ist die Bildung von neuen Netzwerken als Grundstein für eine Einflussnahme auf Planungs- und Förderstrategien.
Das Projekt "The European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie gGmbH durchgeführt. European Topic Centres (ETC) sind Teil des European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET), welches von der Europäischen Umweltagentur (European Environment Agency, EEA) unterhalten wird. Das ETC zu Nachhaltigem Produzieren und Konsumieren (NPK) dient dem Zweck, verlässliche und vergleichbare Daten zu NPK, Ressourcen und Abfallmanagement in Europa zu sammeln und bereitzustellen. Die Forschungsgruppen 'Stoffströme und Ressourcenmanagement' und 'Nachhaltiges Produzieren und Konsumieren' des Wuppertal Instituts sind aktiv in die Arbeit des ETC involviert und arbeiten an verschiedenen Themen. Ein Arbeitsplan mit Themen und Aufgaben in diesem Bereich wird jährlich angepasst. Arbeitsthemen sind z. B.: - Nachhaltige Nutzung und Management natürlicher Ressourcen - Abfall - Nachhaltiges Produzieren und Konsumieren - Effektivität von Politiken und Richtlinien; - Ökobilanzierung - Materialflussrechnung - Rahmenbedingungen für Indikatoren
Das Projekt "Sub project: Quantitative Reconstruction of the Neogene East and West Antarctic Ice Sheet History from Drift Sediments (ODP Leg 178 and Leg 188): A Synthesis" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Bremen, Zentrum für marine Umweltwissenschaften durchgeführt. The proposed synthesis project aims to quantify the Antarctic ice sheet history of the last 10 Ma. With new statistical tools we will isolate and quantify the 'ice factor' in fine-fraction grain-size distribution data from Antarctic deep-sea drift deposits. In our preparatory work we showed that the sedimentary Antarctic drift bodies are continuous ice archives with a direct link in their built-up history at the continental rise to ice advances to the shelf break. Quantification of the ice volume is therefore possible, since the relative ice-cover to - volume ratio is known from models. In a four step approach we will complete the existing sample collection of Site 1095, increase its time resolution and analyse the recovered data sets with the end-member modeling method. Second step is the validation of the local data set to a regional scale by incorporating samples of a control Site (Site 1101) on a nearby drift. Thirdly we will prepare and analyse samples from a E-Antarctic drift (Site 1165) for a in-depth E-W ice sheet history comparision. During the synthesis phase of the project the new proximal data set will be correlated to a new global isotope -Ca/Mg based ice volume record contributed by our cooperation partners. These are three important reasons to start with the proposed research now: High social relevance of the expected data..., free access to the samples since the one year ODP moratorium for both ODP legs has passed, and the availability of abundant ancillary data from other working groups.
Das Projekt "Lakes as components of the Tibetan Plateau climate system (LaTiCS): Internal mixing processes and lake-atmosphere interaction" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Forschungsverbund Berlin, Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei durchgeführt. Lakes of the Tibetan Plateau are the major components of the regional climate system. However, mechanisms of heat transport within the lakes and the lake-atmosphere interaction in the Tibetan Plateau remain largely unknown and limit the quantitative understanding of the contribution made by the Tibetan Plateau lake system into regional and global climate variability. The proposed project aims at (i) revealing specific features of the thermal and mixing regime of lakes on Tibetan Plateau at time scales from microturbulent to seasonal ones, and (ii) study the characteristics of energy and water cycle at the interface between atmosphere and lakes. By this, the project will provide unique information about the feedbacks and mechanisms between the thermal regime of lakes and climatic and hydrological factors in the Tibetan Plateau. The specific goals of the project are the following: (i) to understand the characteristics of the heat and mass exchange between lakes and the atmosphere, to qualify the influence factors; (ii) to estimate the thermal characteristics of lakes, their seasonal variability with respect to the heat and mass exchange at the lake-atmosphere interface; (iii) to improve and test the lake parameterization scheme applicable to conditions of the Tibetan Plateau area, and apply it into a regional atmospheric model; (iv) to investigate the feedbacks between Tibetan Plateau lakes and the atmosphere by means of coupled modeling. The outcomes of the project will provide a basis for further projections on the local water resources and regional climate conditions. To achieve the proposed goals the project will combine numerical models with field studies on the largest freshwater lake in the Yellow River source region of the Tibetan Plateau (Ngoring Lake) and the nearby salt lake (Hajiang Salt Pond). The project team joins together the leading group on lake physics from Germany with the meteorological research group from China intensively working on lakes as components of climatic system of the Tibetan Plateau, ensuring by this fundamental and interdisciplinary character of the proposed study.
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