Coastal research

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The Coastal Research is engaged in the acquisition, description and explanation of the habitat coast . The development of analysis methods serves to record the current state of the coastal areas. Monitoring and scientific assessment of the hazard potential from natural and human influences is also part of the tasks of coastal research, as is the development of forecasting instruments that examine the coastal habitat with regard to future changes and enable predictions.

Coast as human habitat

Coastal areas are the most densely populated habitats in the world. This results in a multitude of usage demands by humans: Coasts serve as living and economic space and are influenced by tourism, fishing, ports, industry, etc.

Coast as a sensitive ecosystem

The coastal area is also an ecologically particularly sensitive area that is exposed to permanent pressure from natural processes. Erosion and fluctuations in sea level are constantly changing the state of coastal areas. Climate-related water level rises and natural disasters (e.g. tsunamis) particularly affect the coastal habitat.

Coastal research in Germany

Coastal research based in Germany, which operates both regionally and globally, has merged to form the German Marine Research Consortium (KDM). This association includes all national research institutes and university facilities that deal with marine, polar or coastal research. With funds from the BMBF framework program Research for Sustainable Developments (FONA), 18 universities, non-university research institutions as well as state and federal institutions have joined forces to form the North Sea-Baltic Coastal Research Association (KüNO).

Coastal archeology

→ Main article: Coastal archeology

Coastal archeology studies landscape development, environmental history and settlement history on the coasts. In Schleswig-Holstein , the first systematic coastal archaeological investigations on the North Sea coast by Dr. Albert Bantelmann from the former department of marshland research at the State Archaeological Office. From 1947 he resumed his investigations with various excavations on Wurten. Since the 1970s, the landscape development and settlement history of entire coastal landscapes have increasingly been investigated. Long-term studies have been since 1988, for example, by the AG coastal archeology of the Research and Technology Center West Coast of the University of Kiel , led by Dr. Dirk Meier carried out. Coastal research was carried out in Lower Saxony by the Institute for Historical Coastal Research .

Comparable research approaches

Weblinks Coastal Research

  • Institute for Coastal Research at the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht [1]
  • University of Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Sea , Coastal Research Group [2]
  • Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Coastal Ecology [3]
  • University of Rostock, Maritime System [4]
  • Center for Tropical Marine Ecology [5]
  • German Marine Research Consortium [6]

Literature coastal research

  • Werner Krauß : Coastal Research: Ethnology of a Coastal Landscape. Helmholtz Association, GKSS Geesthacht 2007/9.

Weblinks Coastal Archeology

Literature coastal archeology

  • Dirk Meier: Landscape development and settlement history of the Eiderstedter and Dithmarscher coastal areas as sub-regions of the North Sea coastal area. Part 1: The Settlements, Part 2: The Settlement Area. Investigations of the AG Coastal Archeology of the FTZ West Coast = University Research on Prehistoric Archeology 79 (Bonn 2001) Habelt Verlag.
  • Dirk Meier: The North Sea Coast: History of a Landscape. (Heide 2006), Boyens-Buchverlag