DDE Mission and Vision

Mission of the DDE Marginal Seas Task Group is to describe the processes operating in marginal seas holistically as an interaction between geo-, ecosystem, climate and socioeconomic systems during the late Pleistocene, Holocene and Anthropocene based on big data analyses, functional numerical models and AI approaches to answer three basic questions:

• How did marginal seas of different climatic zones and tectonic settings change their paleo-geography, -oceanography, and -environment during the natural climate and environmental variation of the Last Glacial Cycle (last 130 ky)?
• What are the future expectations for the development of marginal seas and their coastal zones facing the challenge of climate change and increasing human impact on the environment for this century?
• What strategies for sustainable development of the marine and coastal realm can help to keep a balance between the protection of the environment and the economic use of marginal seas’ resources?

Our vision is to contribute to keep balance between the protection of the natural environment of marginal seas and the economic use of their resources based on environmental data sources and new model driven cognition methods