Project Details
Projekt
EXC 80: The Future Ocean
Subject Area
Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Climate Research
Term
from 2006 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24122362
The ocean, through its dominating influence on global climate and its major role as a source of important natural resources and devastating hazards, plays a key role in the lives of all human beings. At the same time, the ocean is increasingly being altered by anthropogenic CO2 emissions, fisheries, pollution, waste disposal and other human activities. Within the cluster of excellence, a network of researchers at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel (CAU) and the participating Leibniz Institutes will, hence, investigate past, present and future ocean change, explore marine resources, develop strategies for their sustainable use and study hazards arising from the seas. Marine science is by its very nature an interdisciplinary scientific field of study.
The cluster will expand this research approach by including experts from disciplines which are not traditionally seen as marine, such as medicine, economics, social sciences and law, to study the environmental, socio-economic and legal aspects of the ocean in a truly multidisciplinary approach. Nowhere previously have experts from this wide range of disciplines and proven excellence come together to focus on questions of such key relevance to the Future Ocean. The research programme will, therefore, significantly broaden and enhance the understanding of the ocean - understanding which is needed to provide sound guidance to decision makers.
Research within the cluster will be organised under two themes:
(1) Oceans in the Greenhouse World and
(2) Marine Resources and Risks. Within both themes, strong existing research groups will be strategically augmented by new Junior Research Groups (JRG) and be supported by research platforms. Integrated curricula for training PhD and Master's students will be developed in a new school of ocean sciences. Forums will be established to transfer research results acquired in the cluster to decision makers, stakeholders, industry and the general public. Most of the funding requested will, however, be used to establish and endow JRGs in emerging research fields currently not covered by, but complementary to, those of the proponents. JRG leaders will be recruited from the international scientific community, with a tenure track option for permanent professor positions (W2/W3) for highly successful researchers. Significant cluster funding and the tenure track perspective provided by the university and the participating Leibniz Institutes will permit the cluster to attract, recruit and integrate truly outstanding young scientists. Through these means, the cluster will strengthen and promote the university's profile as a leading European centre for the study of the ocean system at large.
The cluster will expand this research approach by including experts from disciplines which are not traditionally seen as marine, such as medicine, economics, social sciences and law, to study the environmental, socio-economic and legal aspects of the ocean in a truly multidisciplinary approach. Nowhere previously have experts from this wide range of disciplines and proven excellence come together to focus on questions of such key relevance to the Future Ocean. The research programme will, therefore, significantly broaden and enhance the understanding of the ocean - understanding which is needed to provide sound guidance to decision makers.
Research within the cluster will be organised under two themes:
(1) Oceans in the Greenhouse World and
(2) Marine Resources and Risks. Within both themes, strong existing research groups will be strategically augmented by new Junior Research Groups (JRG) and be supported by research platforms. Integrated curricula for training PhD and Master's students will be developed in a new school of ocean sciences. Forums will be established to transfer research results acquired in the cluster to decision makers, stakeholders, industry and the general public. Most of the funding requested will, however, be used to establish and endow JRGs in emerging research fields currently not covered by, but complementary to, those of the proponents. JRG leaders will be recruited from the international scientific community, with a tenure track option for permanent professor positions (W2/W3) for highly successful researchers. Significant cluster funding and the tenure track perspective provided by the university and the participating Leibniz Institutes will permit the cluster to attract, recruit and integrate truly outstanding young scientists. Through these means, the cluster will strengthen and promote the university's profile as a leading European centre for the study of the ocean system at large.
DFG Programme
Clusters of Excellence
Applicant Institution
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Participating Institution
GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel; Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW Kiel)
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Martin Visbeck
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Christian Berndt; Professor Dr. Markus Bleich; Professor Dr. Thomas C. G. Bosch; Professor Dr. Malte Braack; Professor Dr. Claus Böning; Professorin Dr. Kerstin von der Decken; Professor Dr. Stanislav N. Gorb; Professor Dr. Wilhelm Hasselbring; Professor Dr. Kaj Hoernle; Professor Dr. Gernot Klepper; Professor Dr. Arne Körtzinger; Professor Dr. Mojib Latif; Professorin Dr. Sonja Peterson; Professor Dr. Till Requate; Professor Dr. Thorsten Reusch, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Ulf Riebesell; Professorin Dr. Ruth Anne Schmitz-Streit; Professor Dr. Ralph Schneider; Professor Manfred Schulz; Professor Dr. Ulrich Sommer; Professor Dr. Anand Srivastav; Professor Dr. Karl Stattegger; Professor Dr. Friedrich Temps; Professor Dr.-Ing. Klaus Wallmann
