GRK 1598: INTERCOAST - Integrated Coastal Zone and Shelf-Sea Research

国际研究培训小组将调查与新西兰富兰湾-科罗曼德尔湾和德国北海沿海和陆架区域有关的社会相关性问题。研究方案侧重于这两个地区的海岸和大陆架，因为它们有相似的沿海问题，尽管它们的地理位置差异很大。沿海和陆架区有许多共同之处，包括现有和扩大的定居点，加强港口开发和船舶交通，沿海土地用途转变为住房和工业，渔业和水产养殖业，旅游业，以及对未来特别重要的海洋领域和风力公园的能源生产。这些活动及其影响需要环境干预：疏浚航道和码头，填海造地，为住宅、工厂和人口流动发展基础设施，污水处理等。全球变化对德国北海和富裕湾地区都产生了强烈的影响。在这两个地区，人口的快速增长、商业发展和娱乐用途都需要长期和仔细的规划，并特别注意可持续和预防、无害环境和以保护为导向的经济做法的原则。研究培训小组的目标是提供有关海洋学、沉积学、生物和化学过程以及社会经济相互作用和法律影响的基本知识。这些知识是可持续利用沿海和陆架海域的先决条件。因此，重点将放在环境变化、发展影响和社会方面等主题上。这项计划中的研究只能在跨学科框架内进行，范围从自然科学到法律、经济和社会学学科。此外，还将提供软技能和管理课程以及进一步的职业资格认证。研究训练组的博士生将在其三年学期的大约三分之一时间内访问合作大学。在访问期间，他们将与各自研究领域的领先科学家合作。这个国际研究培训小组的总体目标是培养具有跨学科背景的新一代年轻和积极进取的科学家，他们准备好应对未来的挑战，并因暴露于各种沿海和浅海大陆架环境而为未来的职业生涯做好充分准备。

The International Research Training Group will investigate questions of societal relevance relating to the coastal and shelf regions of the Bay of Plenty-Coromandel in New Zealand and of the North Sea in Germany. The research programme focusses on coasts and shelves in both areas, as they have similar coastal problems, despite their wide geographic location disparity. Both coastal and shelf zones have much in common, including existing and expanding settlement, intensifying harbour development and ship traffic, coastal land use conversion for housing and industry, fisheries and aquaculture industries, tourism and, particularly important for the future, energy production from the marine realm and wind parks. These activities and their impacts necessitate environmental intervention: dredging for shipping channels and wharves, land reclamation, and infrastructure development for homes, factories, and population mobility, sewage treatment etc. Overriding such intensifying development, global change exerts strong impacts on both the German North Sea and the Bay of Plenty regions. In both areas this rapid population increase, commercial development and recreational usage require long-term and careful planning, paying special attention to the principles of sustainable and precautionary, environmentally sound, and conservation-oriented economic practices. It is the goal of the Research Training Group to provide fundamental knowledge regarding oceanographic, sedimentological, biological and chemical processes as well as socio-economic interactions and legal effects. Such knowledge is a prerequisite for a sustainable utilisation of coastal and shelf-sea areas. Hence, the focus will be on the themes environmental change, development impacts and societal aspects. This planned research can only be conducted in an interdisciplinary framework, ranging from the natural sciences to legal, economic and sociological disciplines. In addition, soft skills and management courses as well as further occupational qualifications will be offered. PhD students of the Research Training Group will visit the partner university for approximately one third of their three-year-term. During the visits, they will work together with leading scientists in their research fields. The overall aim of this International Research Training Group is to qualify a new generation of young and highly motivated scientists with an interdisciplinary background, who are ready to tackle future challenges and are well prepared for their future professional careers from exposure to a variety of coastal and shallow shelf environments.