The main aim of the BaltVib sampling campaign was to analyse the microbial community composition in pelagic and benthic habitats with special focus on Vibrio spp. bacteria inside and outside of eelgrass meadows (Zostera marina), and selected macroalgae populations (Fucus spp.) in the salinity gradient of shallow coastal waters of the Baltic Sea. The temporal extent of the dataset is 25.07.2021 to 02.09.2021. The geographic extent of the dataset is spanning from 9°52,655 E to 25°00,698 W and 60°06,547 N to 54°00,8666 S. The measurement depth ranges from 0.2 meters to 7 meters. Salinity ranges from 4 to 14. Environmental parameters measured are: conductivity, temperature, pH, Secchi depth, chlorophyll a, dissolved oxygen, ammonium, nitrate, nitrite, phosphate, silicate, grain size, dissolved organic carbon, dissolved nitrogen, particulate organic nitrogen, particulate organic carbon. Vibrio spp. colony forming units were counted using TCBS agar plates. Abundance of Vibrio vulnificus was determined by ddPCR in water and sediment samples as well as in Zostera marina surface biofilm. Cell counts by flow cytometry contain: Synechococcus, Picoeukaryota, Nanoeukaryota, high-nucleic acid bacteria, low-nucleic acid bacteria. Macrophyte abundance was measured for Zostera marina and Fucus spp..
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Vibrio – microbes that are part of the natural bacterioplankton in temperate marine waters – have in recent years flourished in the Baltic Sea, probably stimulated by elevated surface water temperatures. Several Vibrio species are human pathogens. It is hence of great concern that Vibrio-related wound infections and fatalities have increased dramatically along the Baltic coasts. Future climate change is predicted to escalate this problem, posing a significant threat to human health and the Baltic tourism industry. However, the projections do not yet take into account the influence of ‘ecosystem engineers’ such as mussels and macrophytes on Vibrio diversity and abundance. Recent data indicate that in some of the ‘ecosystem engineers’ habitats the abundance of pathogenic Vibrio spp. is reduced. This opens up the option for nature-based solution (NbS) strategies to control pathogenic vibrios in the nearshore habitat where humans interact with the sea. However, climate change will also affect the structure and functioning of the ecosystem engineers, with as yet unknown consequences for the Vibrio populations in the Baltic Sea. BaltVib aims to delineate the current and future Vibrio status, determine biotic and abiotic key factors regulating Vibrio prevalence, and identify NbSs to mitigate the problem. This will be accomplished through interdisciplinary integration of marine, microbiological, molecular and socio-ecological expertise carried by partners from seven Baltic nations.
Das Projekt "Teilvorhaben: Planung und Aufbau einer kompetitiven Variantenfertigung inklusive eines Wirtschaftlichkeitskonzeptes anhand von Testproduktionen" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Custom Cells Itzehoe GmbH durchgeführt. Ziel des Projektes ist es, eine überwiegend automatisierte Variantenfertigung zu entwickeln, aufzubauen und zu demonstrieren. Dabei soll das Ergebnis erzielt werden, die Kosten und den Zeitrahmen für eine vollständige Zellentwicklung vom Einsatz neuer Technologie bis zur Serienreife signifikant zu reduzieren. Das Resultat kann einen erheblichen Beitrag dazu leisten, die Hürden für die Etablierung von Großserienfertigungen in Deutschland und Europa zu senken und die Technologieführerschaft bei der Lithium-Ionen-Zellentwicklung zu erringen. Die Fertigung auf Anlagen gemäß KomVar Anforderungen umfasst alle Schritte nach der Elektrodenfertigung. Die Elektrodenfertigung weist per se einen flexibleren Charakter auf und stellt nicht den Flaschenhals einer kompetitiven Variantenfertigung dar. Folgende Produktionsschritte sollen im Projekt adressiert werden: Eingangskontrolle; Vereinzeln; Laminieren; Stapeln; heat pressing; Tabwelding; Verpackung; Elektrolytfüllung; Formation; Entgasung; Alterung; Ausgangskontrolle. Custom Cells Itzehoe wird an allen Arbeitspaketen beteiligt sein. Die Aufgaben im Projekt umfassen neben der Unterstützung bei Planung und Aufbau der Anlagen auch die Entwicklung und Bereitstellung von Elektrodenfolien für die Testproduktionsläufe. Darüber hinaus wird CCI auch bei den Qualitätsuntersuchungen an den Zellen beteiligt sein. Das Hauptaugenmerk der Arbeiten der CCI liegt aber auf der Erstellung des Wirtschaftlichkeitskonzeptes. Dieses wird als Ergebnis des Projektes zeigen ob der KomVar-Ansatz wirtschaftlich und technisch erfolgreich sein kann.
Das Projekt "Teilvorhaben: Durchführung von Testproduktionskampagnen sowie Datenaufnahme." wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Customcells Tübingen GmbH durchgeführt. Ziel des Projektes ist es eine überwiegend automatisierte Batteriezellen-Variantenfertigung zu entwickeln, aufzubauen und zu demonstrieren. Dabei soll das Ergebnis erzielt werden, die Kosten und den Zeitrahmen für eine vollständige Zellentwicklung vom Einsatz neuer Technologie bis zur Serienreife signifikant zu reduzieren. Das Resultat kann einen erheblichen Beitrag dazu leisten, die Hürden für die Etablierung von Großserienfertigungen in Deutschland und Europa zu senken und die Technologieführerschaft bei der Lithium-Ionen-Zellentwicklung zu erringen. Die Fertigung auf Anlagen gemäß KomVar Anforderungen, umfasst alle Schritte nach der Elektrodenfertigung. Die Elektrodenfertigung weist per se einen flexibleren Charakter auf und stellt nicht den Flaschenhals einer kompetitiven Variantenfertigung dar. Folgende Produktionsschritte sollen im Projekt adressiert werden: Eingangskontrolle; Vereinzeln; Laminieren; Stapeln; heat pressing; Tabwelding; Verpackung; Elektrolytfüllung; Formation; Entgasung; Alterung; Ausgangskontrolle. Die Hauptaufgaben von Customcells Tübingen im Rahmen des Projektes sind neben der Unterstützung bei Entwicklung und Aufbau der Anlagen die Durchführung der Testproduktionsläufe. In diesem Rahmen werden Daten aufgenommen, mit deren Hilfe der Zellpreis aus den Testproduktionen ermittelt werden kann. Diese Preise werden dann mit den im Vorfeld festgelegten Zielpreisen verglichen. Außerdem soll CCT im Rahmen der Produktionsläufe bereits Untersuchungen zur Prozessoptimierung durchführen und diese an die Partner kommunizieren.
Das Projekt "TRansitions to the Urban Water Services of Tomorrow (TRUST)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von IWW Institut für Wasserforschung gemeinnützige GmbH durchgeführt. The European project initiative TRUST will produce knowledge and guidance to support TRansitions to Urban Water Services of Tomorrow, enabling communities to achieve sustainable, low-carbon water futures without compromising service quality. We deliver this ambition through close collaboration with problem owners in ten participating pilot city regions under changing and challenging conditions in Europe and Africa. Our work provides research driven innovations in governance, modelling concepts, technologies, decision support tools, and novel approaches to integrated water, energy, and infrastructure asset management. An extended understanding of the performance of contemporary urban water services will allow detailed exploration of transition pathways. Urban water cycle analysis will include use of an innovative systems metabolism model, derivation of key performance indicators, risk assessment, as well as broad stakeholder involvement and an analysis of public perceptions and governance modes. A number of emerging technologies in water supply, waste and storm water treatment and disposal, in water demand management and in the exploitation of alternative water sources will be analysed in terms of their cost-effectiveness, performance, safety and sustainability. Cross-cutting issues include innovations in urban asset management and water-energy nexus strengthening. The most promising interventions will be demonstrated and legitimised in the urban water systems of the ten participating pilot city regions. TRUST outcomes will be incorporated into planning guidelines and decision support tools, will be subject to life-cycle assessment, and be shaped by regulatory considerations as well as potential environmental, economic and social impacts. Outputs from the project will catalyse transformation change in both the form and management of urban water services and give utilities increased confidence to specify innovative solutions to a range of pressing challenges.
Das Projekt "Response of Arctic submarine continental slopes to global warming" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Institut de Ciencies del Mar (CSIC), Departamento de Geologia Marina durchgeführt. This project aims at investigating a scientific and societal pressing subject which requires urgent attention: the geo-hazards associated with the imminent use of the Arctic Ocean under the changing conditions forced by Global Change. Due to the increasing temperatures, the Arctic region is experiencing a decline of glaciers and sea-ice. Sea-ice reduction will soon expose to exploration yet unknown seafloor and sub-seafloor geology. Given todays interest in natural resources exploitation, the Arctic regions will experience an increase in seafloor and sub-seafloor use and an accelerated development of infrastructures, especially in coastal and continental margin areas. The glacial environment of the Arctic land masses causes that physical processes along continental margins differ substantially from those at lower latitudes, where continental slopes are built with river-fed sediments and glacial influence is comparatively unimportant. Continental margins at lower latitudes are better studied because industrialized nations have previously focused their activities there. The response of the Arctic seafloor and sub-seafloor system to upcoming changes in physical oceanography and glacial conditions, and the resultant sedimentary processes are yet not understood. To evaluate the future response of the Arctic geological system to Global Change is necessary to further understand the interplay among past climate change, continental margin geology, and submarine slope stability. This project aims at filling that critical gap in understanding. The overarching goal of this project is to evaluate how the increase of temperature, within the bounds of current predictions, may change the behavior of the Arctic geological system and alter slope stability. To achieve the goal we will estimate the volume and rate of gas release into the atmosphere that might affect climate, and evaluate the potential feed back of climate change to gas-hydrate dissociation. We will analyze potential future scenarios of slope in-stability in the context of the combined effect of the removal of past ice loading, ongoing temperature change, and stability of the geological elements of the continental margin system.
Das Projekt "Green Cook - Transnational strategy for global sustainable food management" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Siedlungswasserbau, Wassergüte- und Abfallwirtschaft, Lehrstuhl für Abfallwirtschaft und Abluft durchgeführt. GreenCook is aimed at reducing food wastage and to make the North-West Europe a model of sustainable food management, by in-depth work on the consumer / food relationship thanks to a multisectoral partnership. Food wastage is a challenging problem, directly linked with the question of waste, consumption and climate change. A quarter of the food produced in the world each year ends up in the dustbin, without having been consumed. Food wastage, a reflection of our overconsumption society, also reinforces social inequalities and is ethically unacceptable. The negative impacts of this wastage are real: for households (useless expenditure), for local authorities (overproduction of waste to be treated, increased costs), for the environment (pointless use of resources and pollution), and for the economy (falling prices). There is a pressing need, for consumers to respect food and food producers again, to enjoy the pleasure of healthy and tasty eating again, to rediscover culinary know-how, and to optimise food presentation, storage and conservation. Lately, tools and methods are under experimentation to help consumers to improve their food management while controlling their purchasing power. They aim at changing behaviour or altering the offer (at the supermarket, in the restaurant or in the canteen). It is alas hard for them to be generalised, because of the complexity of the levers that have to be activated. GreenCooks ambition is to create this lever effect, by generating a dynamic that motivates all of the food players and by throwing pathbreaking bridges with the fields of health, welfare and economic development. Its diversified partnership intends to show the added value of united, transversal action, and to influence EU policies, in order to get a new European sustainable food model to emerge. Prime Contractor: Espace Environnement asbl; Charleroi; Belgien.
Das Projekt "Bees in Europe and Sustainable Honey Production (BEE SHOP)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Fachbereich Biologie, Institut für Zoologie, Arbeitsgruppe Molekulare Ökologie durchgeführt. Honey is among the oldest food products of mankind and beekeeping is deeply rooted in every European culture. Numerous European and national regulations control honey quality, which reflects both the high nutritional and societal value of the product. Yet in an environment with increasing chemical pollution and the wide use of agrochemicals, honey runs high risks of becoming chemically polluted. In addition a broad spectrum of chemicals is used to treat honeybee diseases, further contaminating honey with sometimes highly toxic compounds. The BEE SHOP is a network of ten leading European honeybee research groups in honey quality, pathology, genetics and behaviour as well as selected beekeeping industries, which all share a common interest in promoting Europe's high honey quality standards. The prime goal is to reduce potential sources of honey contamination due to both foraging contaminated nectar and chemotherapy of honeybee diseases. The BEE SHOP will therefore deal with the development of biological resistance to pests and pathogens to avoid chemotherapy. Various European honeybee races and populations will be screened for their disease resistance potential to the main pressing pathogens. Differences in foraging patterns among European honeybees and their underlying mechanisms will be studied to identify behavioural traits reducing contamination. Differences in disease susceptibility will be genetically analysed by QTL mapping. Major loci in the genome will be identified with the aid of the published honeybee genome. SNPs will be developed to allow for selection of specific target genes in both drones and queens before insemination. This will greatly accelerate the selection progress in honeybee breeding allowing for the swift establishment of resistant but efficient stock. New tools for testing honey quality and authenticity will be developed to allow inspections of honey according to the current EC directives on honey quality and organic beekeeping.
Das Projekt "Assessment of human health effects caused by bathing waters (EPIBATHE)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Weltgesundheitsorganisation durchgeführt. The scientific evidence base to support credible risk assessment for the design of appropriate microbial standards for bathing waters is insufficient. This is particularly true for Mediterranean waters, for new member states and for effects associated with exposure to toxic algal products. This is a pressing problem as Directive 76/160/EEC is currently in the process of amendment by the EU. It is therefore intended to address three questions, namely: a. What is the nature and level of the risk and how does exposure affect risk? b. What level of protection is afforded by the threshold values in Directive 76/160/EEC and CEC (2004)? c. How do the risks vary between fresh and marine waters and does the 1:2 ratio of the faecal indicator threshold values in coastal waters vs freshwaters ensure a comparable level of protection? In the first 12 months, this proposal will (i) complete a literature review and meta-analysis of current epidemiological data derived principally from UK and German studies, (ii) define data gaps restricting the application of credible health-evidence-based policy to bathing water standards outside these regions and (iii) design and agree a suitable research protocol for filling these data gaps. The second twelve months of research (from month 13 to 24) will (iv) implement this protocol and the project will deliver (v) a scientific report of the findings and detailed policy interpretation before the project end, i.e. 36 months following commencement. Prime Contractor: University Wales, University College Aberystwyth; Aberystwyth; Aberystwyth.
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