Extreme events such as floods, droughts, heat waves, and storm surges pose a significant risk to coastal ecosystems and human communities, increasing in frequency and intensity due to climate change, ecosystem degradation, and growing coastal populations. By 2023, global temperatures will exceed pre-industrial levels by 1.5°C, and coastal and marine ecosystems face critical climate and non-climate-related risks, including pollution and infrastructure development. These risks cascade impact coastal infrastructure and human settlements, although coastal ecosystems are critical for climate mitigation and adaptation through nature-based solutions.
The ElbeXtreme project, which is part of the mareXtreme mission within the German Marine Research Alliance (DAM), addresses these challenges by investigating the impacts of extreme events on ecosystems and services, developing cost-effective monitoring technologies, using biogeochemical modeling to predict future conditions and developing adaptation measures together with stakeholders. On 5 December 2024, the ElbeXtreme project partners presented the project's work plan in a webinar for stakeholders from the Elbe region. The presentations covered all project topics, including data collection and analysis, biochemical and physical assessments of the Elbe, the impact of extreme events on microbial communities and key benthic species, knowledge integration, and the participatory approach to stakeholder engagement within the project. Three individual workshops will be organized for regional stakeholders. The first one will take place on 12 February in Hamburg. If you are interested in participating in the workshop on key risks of extreme events in the Elbe estuary, you can enter your contact details here. We will get back to you as soon as possible with further information. Would you like to find out more? You can find the webinar presentations here and the recording below.
Authorship: Frances Klatt & Katharina Kurzweil | s.Pro
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