Systematische Beschaffung von Daten und Informationen in Form von Jahresreihen fuer Sanierungs- und Vorbeugemassnahmen; Pumpverfahren zur Entnahme von Wasserproben aus variablen Tiefen.
The Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative, or NEESPI, is a currently active, yet strategically evolving program of internationally-supported Earth systems science research, which has as its foci issues in northern Eurasia that are relevant to regional and Global scientific and decision-making communities (see NEESPI Mission Statement). This part of the globe is undergoing significant changes - particularly those changes associated with a rapidly warming climate in this region and with important changes in governmental structures since the early 1990s and their associated influences on land use and the environment across this broad expanse. How this carbon-rich, cold region component of the Earth system functions as a regional entity and interacts with and feeds back to the greater Global system is to a large extent unknown. Thus, the capability to predict future changes that may be expected to occur within this region and the consequences of those changes with any acceptable accuracy is currently uncertain. One of the reasons for this lack of regional Earth system understanding is the relative paucity of well-coordinated, multidisciplinary and integrating studies of the critical physical and biological systems. By establishing a large-scale, multidisciplinary program of funded research, NEESPI is aimed at developing an enhanced understanding of the interactions between the ecosystem, atmosphere, and human dynamics in northern Eurasia. Specifically, the NEESPI strives to understand how the land ecosystems and continental water dynamics in northern Eurasia interact with and alter the climatic system, biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the Earth. The contemporaneous changes in climate and land use are impacting the biological, chemical, and physical functions of the northern Eurasia, but little data and fewer models are available that can be used to understand the current status of this expansive regional system, much less the influence of the northern Eurasia region on the Global climate. NEESPI seeks to secure the necessary financial and related institutional support from an international cadre of sponsors for developing a viable understanding of the functioning of northern Eurasia and the impacts of extant changes on the regional and Earth systems. Many types of ground and integrative (e.g., satellite; GIS) data will be needed and many models must be applied, adapted or developed for properly understanding the functioning of this cold and diverse regional system. Mechanisms for obtaining the requisite data sets and models and sharing them among the participating scientists are essential and require international and active governmental participation. (abridged text)
Utilisation des communautes d'oligachetes comme indicateurs de l'etat des lacs. Mise au point d'indices biologiques d'eutrophisation. Suivi ecologique a long terme du Leman, des lacs de Neuchatel, Morat, Joux, des Brenets, de Bret, Chavannes et Lioson. (FRA)
In dem Vorhaben wird untersucht, wie wirksam die absorbierte Lichtenergie in Biomasse konvertiert wird. Vergleichend werden Grünalgen und Diatomeen unter verschiedenen Licht- und Nährstoffbedingungen studiert. Auf diese Weise können die metabolischen Kosten unter Nährstoffmangel oder anderen produktivitätsbegrenzenden Bedingungen studiert werden. So wird auch die Säureanpassung ausgewählter Phytoplankter untersucht, um die Biomassebildung in extrem sauren Tagebaurestseen auf physiologischer Ebene zu verstehen. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass unter Stickstoffmangel die Überführung anorganischen Kohlenstoffs in Biomassebildung durch eine Veränderung der makromolekularen Zusammensetzung der Zellen ähnlicher Effizienz stattfindet, wie unter optimaler Stickstoffversorgung. Dies führt zu einer ökologisch bedeutsamen Teilentkopplung des C und N Kreislaufs im Ökosystem. Ähnliches beobachtet man auch bei der Anpassung von Phytoplanktonalgen an extrem saure Bedingungen wie man sie in sauren Tagebaurestseen vorfindet.
Ziel des Vorhabens ist die Rekonstruktion der jungquartären Klima- und Landschaftsentwicklung des Werchojansker Gebirges und seines westlichen Vorlandes (NO-Sibirien). Im Vordergrund stehen folgende Fragen: (a) Wann war das Maximum der spätpleistozänen Vergletscherung? (b) Herrschte im Interstadial der letzten Kaltzeit (40-30 ka) ein warm-feuchtes Klima, welches möglicherweise die Zhiganskvergletscherung begünstigte? (c) War die mittelpleistozäne Samarov-Vergletscherung tatsächlich schwächer als das Maximum während des Spätpleistozäns? (d) Was war die Ursache für den Süßwasserzustrom aus Lena und Jana in die Laptevsee am Ende des Pleistozäns (Bölling/Alleröd)? Das Projekt wird von einem deutsch-russischen Team interdisziplinär (Paläoklimaforschung, Quartärgeologie, Geomorphologie, Geokryologie, Bodengeographie und Paläopedologie) durchgeführt. Ausgehend von der rezenten Vergletscherung im westlichen Werchojansker Gebirge werden die geomorphologischen, geokryologischen und bodengeographisch-paläopedologischen Befunde entlang ausgewählter Transsekte bis zu den Terrassen der Flüsse Lena und Aldan hin erfasst. Mit Hilfe absoluter und relativer Methoden wird die Chronologie der Gletschervorstöße und Klimaschwankungen erfasst. In der Synthese werden diese Befunde mit denen benachbarter Regionen verglichen.
Irrigation in the Yanqi Basin, Sinkiang, China has led to water table rise and soil salination. A model is used to assess management options. These include more irrigation with groundwater, water saving irrigation techniques and others. The model relies on input data from remote sensing.The Yanqi Basin is located in the north-western Chinese province of Xinjiang.This agriculturally highly productive region is heavily irrigated with water drawn from the Kaidu River. The Kaidu River itself is mainly fed by snow and glacier melt from the Tian Mountain surrounding the basin. A very poor drainage system and an overexploitation of surface water have lead to a series of environmental problems: 1. Seepage water under irrigated fields has raised the groundwater table during the last years, causing strongly increased groundwater evaporation. The salt dissolved in the groundwater accumulates at the soil surface as the groundwater evaporates. This soil salinization leads to degradation of vegetation as well as to a loss of arable farmland. 2. The runoff from the Bostan Lake to the downstream Corridor is limited since large amount of water is used for irrigation in the Yanqi Basin. Nowadays, the runoff is maintained by pumping water from the lake to the river. The environmental and ecological system is facing a serious threat.In order to improve the situation in the Yanqi Basin, a jointly funded cooperation has been set up by the Institute of Environmental Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) , China Institute of Geological and Environmental Monitoring (CIGEM) and Xinjiang Agricultural University. The situation could in principle be improved by using groundwater for irrigation, thus lowering the groundwater table and saving unproductive evaporation. However, this is associated with higher cost as groundwater has to be pumped. The major decision variable to steer the system into a desirable state is thus the ratio of irrigation water pumped from the aquifer and irrigation water drawn from the river. The basis to evaluate the ideal ratio between river and groundwater - applied to irrigation - will be a groundwater model combined with models describing the processes of the unsaturated zone. The project will focus on the following aspects of research: (...)
Mit der LTG Teschendorf wurde ein Projekt zur Sanierung der dortigen Seenkette beantragt. Seit der Bewilligung der Mittel an den LTG e.V. werden die Stoffeintraege in die Seenkette abgeschaetzt, verifiziert und als Grundlage fuer die weitere Sanierung in einer Studie zusammengestellt.
Since 2006, the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-TRO) is involved in intensive field measurements at the Dead Sea. Long term measurements of meteorological parameters, particle concentrations and ozone mixing ratios were initiated - accompanied by short term activities like vertical profiling and determination of radiation and the surface energy balance. Objective and Results: The objective is to study the mesoscale wind systems and their role in the distribution of pollutants near the Dead Sea. Preliminary data evaluation shows that a complexe superposition of various wind systems is abundant. The existence of the widespread lake plays a mayor role in the development of atmospheric layering during the course of the day. However, synoptic influence can disturb the regional system. Since September 2006 an permanent meteorological station is working at Massada National Monument approx. at elevation sea level. Measurements of the actual week are shown here . The whole data set is available on request.
To work against the high population pressure and the poverty problems in Egypt, rural areas are opened for new settlements in the Region of Lake Nasser. Due to its high potential for development the government is planning to settle approximately 1, 5 million people in this area within the following 10-15 years. In order to avoid unplanned settlements in the area with a negative impact on natural resources a Comprehensive Development Plan for Aswan and Lake Nasser was developed in 2003 by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) together with the Aswan Governorate.
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