Partners

Involved Personnel

1

Markus Meier
Head of Division of Oceanography at the Research Department of SMHI

Research Interests:
Past, present and future climate variability of the Baltic Sea and Arctic Ocean; dynamical downscaling using regional climate system models; ocean and sea ice processes; coupled physical-biogeochemicalprocesses with impact on the marine ecosystem; interdisciplinary research

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Research Department, Norrköpping

and
Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology

Web sites:
www.smhi.se/cmp/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=7067&a=19643&l=en
www.smhi.se/cmp/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=5222&l=en

2

Thorsten Blenckner
Research Scientist

Research Interests:
Aquatic ecology; climate-induced effects on ecosystems; ecosystem management

Baltic Nest Institute, Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden

Web site:
www.balticnest.org

3

Boris Chubarenko
Head of Laboratory for Coastal Systems Study

Research interests:
Modelling the water quality of the Vistula Lagoon and impact assessment

Atlantic Branch of P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Boris Chubarenko
Elena Esyukova
Julia Gorbunova
Dmitrii Domnin
Anastasia Domnina
Konstantin Karmanov
Svetlana Navrotskaya

4

Jonathan Havenhand
Professor

Research Interests:
Effects of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems; fertilization ecology of marine invertebrates; variability in gamete compatibility; causes of intra-specific variability in fertilization success; larval ecology of marine invertebrates

Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory, Göteborg University, Sweden

Web site:
www.tmbl.gu.se/staff/JonHavenhand.html

5

Brian MacKenzie
Research Scientist

Research Interests:
Effects of climate change/variability and human impacts (e. g., exploitation, eutrophicaton) on fish populations and marine ecosystems; Larval/juvenile fish ecology (feeding, growth, distribution, survival); Long-term changes in populations (e. g., recruitment, distribution, condition) and ecosystems (biodiversity, structure/function); Historical marine ecology

National Institute for Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua), Technical University of Denmark
and
Department of Marine Ecology, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Web site:
www.aqua.dtu.dk/english/cv/hoek/brian_mackenzie/cv.aspx

6

Thomas Neumann
Research Scientist

Research Interests:
Physical-biological interactions; numerical modeling of the Baltic Sea ecosystem; impact of nutrient loads and climate variability on biogeochemical cycles; modeling of higher trophic levels

Baltic Sea Research Institute Warnemünde, Germany

Web site:
www.io-warnemuende.de/phy-ag-modelling.html

7

Jan-Marcin Weslawski
Professor

Research Interests:
Biodiversity, coastal ecosystems, crustacean ecology, food web, climate change effects on marine ecosystems

Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Gdansk, Poland

Web site:
iopan.gda.pl

8

Urmas Raudsepp
Head of Ecohydrodynamics Department

Research Interests:
Coupled physical-biogeochemical modelling of the Gulf of Finland

Marine Systems Institute at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Web site:
www.msi.ttu.ee

9

Tuija Ruoho-Airola
Research Scientist

Research Interests:
Time series analysis of atmospheric compounds, airborne loads to the Baltic Sea

Finnish Meteorological Insitute
Helsinki, Finland

Web site:
www.fmi.fi

10

Eduardo Zorita
Research Scientist

Research Interests:
Modelling the global and European climate of the Holocene; Statistical methods to derive future regional climate changes; Climate and sea-level in the Baltic Sea in the past centuries; Statistical methods applied to climatology

GKSS-Research Centre Geesthacht GmbH
Geesthacht, Germany

Web site:
coast.gkss.de/staff/zorita/

11

Björn-Ola Linnér
Director of the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research

Research interests:
Socio-economic analysis

Center for Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping University, Sweden

Web site:
www.cspr.se