Supersites
Supersites are the components of the DANUBIUS-RI distributed Research Infrastructure which will be the test beds of the DANUBIUS-RI scientifically excellent ideas, areas where the developed concepts will be refined and verified. They will provide natural laboratories for observation, research, modelling and innovation at locations of high scientific importance and opportunity, covering RS systems from river source to transitional waters and coastal seas. Ranging from the near pristine to the heavily impacted, the Supersites will be selected to provide contrasting systems across environmental, social and economic gradients that have been impacted, to varying degrees either directly or indirectly, by industrialisation, urbanisation, population expansion, land use change and farming. They will provide interdisciplinary research platforms and identify, model and define system states and conditions for naturally and anthropogenically triggered transitions in the physical, biogeochemical and biological states. They will provide excellent opportunities to undertake social and economic investigations in contrasting settings.
Architecture established for 10 supersites:
Middle Rhine
German Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW) at Karlsruhe, in collaboration with the -Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG, Koblenz),
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nils Huber
Project Manager Middle Rhine Supersite
Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), Karlsruhe
+49 721 9726-2030
danubius@baw.de
Dr. Martin Struck
Coordinator Middle Rhine Supersit
Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), Karlsruhe
+49 721 9726-3126
danubius@baw.de
Guadalquivir Estuary
Seville Port Authority, Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Antonio Bejarano Moreno
Head of the Environment Division (Project Manager Guadalquivir estuary Supersite)
+34 954 24 73 00
abejarano@apsevilla.com
Ángel Pulido Hernández
Director (Coordinator Guadalquivir estuary Supersite)
+34 954 24 73 00
direccion@apsevilla.com
www.puertodesevilla.com/en/the-port/location-and-access
Tay Catchment
Thames Estuary
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
Dr. Mike Bowes
(Thames Estuary Supersite Manager)
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
+44 1491 692255
mibo@ceh.ac.uk
Nestos
Po Delta
Elbe North-Sea
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM HEREON GmbH (Hereon),
Dr. Jana Friedrich
+49 4152 87 1891
danubius@hereon.de
Max-Planck Strasse 1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany
