The initiation of R&D projects is one of the genuine interests of the DDE MargSeas Task Group. 

In October 2021 the first Research Project “Morphological Evolution of Coastal Seas – Past and Future” was launched with participants from Poland, Germany and China co-ordinated by the PI, Dr. Wenyan Zhang, Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht, Germany, co-leader of the MargSeas TG. The general objective of this project is a feasibility study of high-resolution reconstruction and future projection of coastal shelf morphology, coastline change and hydrodynamics of three exemplary Eurasian marginal seas (North Sea, Baltic Sea and South China Sea). The run time of the project is 2021-2024 .