Program and achievements of the DDE Marginal Seas Task Group

The work program is subdivided into two phases:

A) Phase of Marginal Seas Base Line Studies (2021 -2023): "Marginal Seas - Past and Future"

We have generalized the task and requirements of modern marginal seas research in particular by preparing the ground for advanced research including modern tools of data sciences, modeling and AI. We completed the first phase (A) by the following achievements:

1) Establishment of an international and interdisciplinary network of marine geoscientists, climatologists, mathematicians, socio- 
    economists, archaeologist andIT-scientists co-operating in the application of model approaches for structural and functional modeling of
    marginal seas (read more)
2) Initiation of an R&D project “Morphological Evolution of Coastal Seas – Past and Future” (read more)
3) organization and execution of 6 “International Marginal Seas Expert Meetings” (read more)
4) Publication of results of scientific meetings (read more)
5) Educational, training or capacity building activities as regular “Szczecin Marginal Seas Webinars” (read more)

B) Phase of Implementation of Marginal Seas Models for Sustainable Development (2024 onwards):

         "Marginal Seas - Sustainable Future of the Interface between Continents and Oceans“

The general target of this phase will be to bring together oceanographers and geoscientists - the developers of the advanced methodologies to reconstruct the geological past and to generate future scenarios of marginal seas and their coastal zones (represented by DDE and IAMG(link) with the stakeholders in effective management strategies to design a sustainable future of the continental/ocean margins

Detailed structure of this phase will be introduced during the 7th International Marginal Seas Expert Meeting to be held at Guangzhou, China Nov/Dec 2023.

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