Priority Programmes
The Priority Programmes aim to give clear impetus to the advancement of science and the humanities through coordinated multi-location funding for important new topics. As a rule, Priority Programmes receive funding for a period of six years. They are funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
MIN Faculty Priority Programmes
Kürzlich abgelaufene Schwerpunktprogramme
PP 1889 - Regional Sea Level Change and Society (SeaLevel)
Spokesperson:
Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer
Universität Hamburg
CEN Centrum für Erdsystemforschung und Nachhaltigkeit
Bundesstraße 53
20146 Hamburg
Email: detlef.stammer@uni-hamburg.de(detlef.stammer"AT"uni-hamburg.de)<br /><br />( detlef.stammer"AT"uni-hamburg.de)1. Funding period: 2016 - 2019<br />( detlef.stammer"AT"uni-hamburg.de)2. Funding period: 2019 - 2022<br />( detlef.stammer"AT"uni-hamburg.de)
Global and regional sea level rise: Research project receives about 12 million euros in funding
The German Research Foundation (DFG) awarded the new Priority Programme “SeaLevel” about €12 million. “SeaLevel” (Regional Sea Level Change and Society) was developed ...
The German Research Foundation (DFG) awarded the new Priority Programme “SeaLevel” about €12 million. “SeaLevel” (Regional Sea Level Change and Society) was developed under the overall control of climate researchers in Hamburg. Over the next six years, Professor Detlef Stammer from Universität Hamburg’s Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) will coordinate the “SeaLevel” research across Germany. The program’s pivotal goal is to predict sea level changes in select coastal areas in order to establish effective regional counter strategies. Climate experts project an average global sea level rise of 25 to 85 centimeters by 2100. Regional increases may even be higher. Their ramifications and necessary adaptations are considered the most cost-intensive aspects of climate change. Impacts vary greatly, however, depending on which coastal section is affected.
Therefore, the DFG-funded “SeaLevel” will investigate said repercussions based on two exemplary regions: Germany and southeastern Asia—the latter characterized by numerous megacities and river deltas. As the selected areas differ enormously in technical, social, economic, political, and cultural respect, data mining and analysis will provide us with very diverse information. This will allow us to simulate a broad spectrum of potential world-wide scenarios.
“Crafting “SeaLevel” into an interdisciplinary project was a conscious choice,” explains Professor Detlef Stammer, deputy chair of the strongly interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence CliSAP. “Only in this form can we capture the complex interaction between societies and sea level rises.” In the end, we hope to create a toolbox of sorts that is to help the responsible local authorities find the best possible solutions for climate-induced problems.
Hence, “Sea Level” researchers have set out to pioneer the development of regional prognoses about sea level rise. They use basic oceanographic data of both regions to establish computer-generated climate simulations. Until now, results of simulations thus produced had a maximum resolution of five-hundred kilometers. Based on the so-called downscaling, “SeaLevel”, by contrast, will deliver prognoses with a rough accuracy of one kilometer, thus enabling us to make very exact predictions about specific coastal sections.
At the same time, the program will investigate and compare economic performance and resources as well as administrative organization and planning approaches in both regions. This requires that oceanographers, geographers, geophysicists and geodesists, glaciologists, and climate scientists cooperate closely with sociologists and economists. Germany’s earth system and climate research institutions offer ideal conditions for this major project“, says Detlef Stammer. “More than twenty researchers from all over Germany have jointly developed the newly approved program.” (source)
Participations in Priority Programmes
SPP |
Project title |
Start |
Department |
PI |
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Skyrmionics: Topological Spin Phenomena in Real-Space for Applications (Technical University of Munich) |
2018 |
Physics |
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Electronic-Photonic Integrated Systems for Ultrafast Signal Processing (Paderborn University) |
2018 |
Physics |
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Geometry at infinity (University of Augsburg) |
2017 |
Mathematics |
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Small Proteins in Prokaryotes, an Unexplored World (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) |
2017 |
Chemistry |
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Robust Argumentation Machines (RATIO) (Bielefeld University) |
2017 |
Informatics |
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Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets (Technische Universität Berlin) |
2017 |
Physics | ||
Taxon-Omics: New approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
2017 |
Biology | ||
Non-smooth and Complementarity-Based Distributed Parameter Systems: Simulation and Hierarchical Optimization (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
2016 |
Mathematics | ||
Deciphering the mRNP code: RNA-bound determinants of post-transcriptional gene regulation (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) |
2016 |
Biology | ||
Giant Interactions in Rydberg Systems (GiRyd) (University of Stuttgart) |
2016 |
Physics | ||
Calm, Smooth and Smart - Novel Approaches for Influencing Vibrations by Means of Deliberately Introduced Dissipation (University of Stuttgart) |
2016 |
Mathematics | ||
Nucleotide Second Messenger Signaling in Bacteria (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
2016 |
Chemistry | ||
Elektromagnetische Sensoren für Life Sciences (ESSENCE) (Technische Universität Darmstadt) |
2015 |
Physics | ||
Quantum Dynamics in Tailored Intense Fields (QUTIF) (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover) |
2015 |
Physics | ||
Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Geometry (University of Duisburg-Essen) |
2015 |
Mathematics | ||
Climate Engineering: Risks, Challenges, Opportunities? (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel) |
2013 |
Earth System Science |
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Field controlled particle matrix interaction: synthesis, multi-scale modelling and application of magnetic hybrid-materials (Technische Universität Dresden) |
2013 |
Chemistry | ||
Topological Insulators: Materials - Fundamental Properties - Devices (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin) |
2013 |
Physics | ||
Ökologie und Speziesbarrieren bei neuartigen Viruserkrankungen (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin) |
2013 |
Biology | ||
Software für Exascale Computing (Technische Universität Dresden) |
2012 |
Informatics | ||
Design for Future - Managed Software Evolution (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology) |
2012 |
Informatics | ||
Porous Media with defined Pore Stucture in Process Engineering - Modelling, Application, Synthesis (Hamburg University of Technology) |
2011 |
Chemistry | ||
Spin Caloric Transport (SpinCaT) (Technical University of Munich) |
2011 |
Physics |