METAscales
Marine Extremes Transforming CoAsts – pathways for coastal adaptation across scales
Prof. Dr. Beate MW Ratter, M.Sc. Linda Malessa (01.01.2024 - 30.06.2024), M.Sc. Anton Knor (started in April 2024), M.Sc. Stefanie Drautz (started in August 2024)
Project Duration: January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026
The overall objective of METAscales is to increase the resilience of coastal communities to multiple extreme events and natural hazards along the German coast. In this regard, monitoring, as well as assessment, and adaptation strategies, are developed for various spatial and temporal scales in a transdisciplinary process while addressing different issues, from predictive capabilities to disaster management. The project involves scientists of different disciplines: climate modeling, ocean dynamics, coastal engineering, hydrology, water engineering, remote sensing, urban/spatial planning, and social sciences.
The task of the Ratter working group is to identify suitable locations on the German North Sea coast for the implementation of real-world laboratories in collaboration with key stakeholders from communities, authorities, and associations and involving the scientists mentioned above. The real-world laboratories will be used as a tool for the identification of specific local needs and the development of solutions or options for action. These options are then tested and implemented by local actors in the safe space of the real-world laboratory, thereby initiating a transformation process towards greater resilience to extreme events.
The joint project METAscales is part of the third research mission, "mareXtreme: Paths to Improved Risk Management in Marine Extreme Events and Natural Hazards," of the German Alliance for Marine Research (DAM). The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the science ministries of the northern German states (Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein) with a total of €20 million over a period of three years. C. Gabriel David, head of the junior research group "Future Urban Coastlines" at the Technical University of Braunschweig, is the project coordinator for METAscales.
Consortium partners of the METAscales project (in alphabetical order):
- Bund für Umwelt- und Naturschutz Deutschland, Landesverband Bremen e.V.
- Christian Albrecht University of Kiel
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover
- Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)
- Helmholtz Centre hereon GmbH
- Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
- Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation Agency
- Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina Braunschweig
- Hamburg University of Technology
- University of Hamburg
- University of Stuttgart
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