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Outline
Persistent Pollution is one of the key features of the "Anthropocene". This current era is characterized by growing impacts of human activities on the Earth's system which are equal or even higher than the natural forcing. Although anthropogenic releases of acidifying gases and heavy metals into the atmosphere and hydrosphere can be dated back to ancient times, the "Chemical Anthropocene" may be considered as the time period from around 1950 to today where the impact of man-made persistent pollution reaches a global dimension.
The Fifth GKSS School of Environmental Research focuses on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), Heavy Metals and Aerosols and offered courses on
- Description, comparison and assessment of anthropogenic environmental change
- Causes and consequences on different time scales
- Long-term hazards and impacts on human society
- Modelling of transport, transformation and deposition from regional to global scales
- Emissions and policy issues
People
Initiators of the School are Ralf Ebinghaus and Markus Quante, both from the Institute of Coastal Research from GKSS Research Centre.
Lecturers:
- Claude Boutron, Université Joseph Fourier, Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Grenoble, France
- Peter Brimblecombe, University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom
- Hendrik Elbern, University of Köln, Rhenish Institute for Environmental Research, Köln, Germany
- Hartmut Graßl, University of Hamburg, Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
- Ivan Holoubek, Research Centre for Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology, Brno, Czech Republic
- Holger Hintelmann, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada
- Jozef Pacyna, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Center for Ecological Economics, Kjeller, Norway
- Gerrit Schüürmann, Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Department Ecological Chemistry, Leipzig, Germany
- William Shotyk, University of Heidelberg, Institute for Environmental Geochemistry, Heidelberg, Germany
- Wolf-Ulrich Palm, University of Lüneburg, Institute for Ecology and Environmental Chemistry, Lüneburg, Germany
- Hans von Storch, GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
- Ralf Ebinghaus, GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
- Markus Quante, GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
- Volker Matthias, GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
- Armin Aulinger, GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
- Heike Helmholz, GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
- Veronika Hellwig, GKSS Research Centre, Institute for Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
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Documents for participants !!
and the Society for Promotion of the GKSS Research Centre.
