ABOUT THE PROJECT
BALTIC GAS is a BONUS project addressing climate change.
BALTIC GAS is a research project exploring emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from the seabed of the Baltic Sea into the overlying water column and further into the atmosphere.
BALTIC GAS applies seismo-acoustic and geochemical approaches to map shallow gas in Baltic Sea sediments and to analyze how climate change and eutrophication impact methane gas production, gas accumulation and methane flux.
DELIVERABLES
- 1.2: Scientific reports
- 1.3: BALTIC GAS workshops and meetings (reports)
- 1.4: Submission of data to a common database
- 1.5: Research cruises
- 2.2: GIS-map of methane flux and distribution in sediments
- 2.3: GIS-map of hot-spots of present and future CH4-emmission
- 3.1: Mapping of shallow gas and physical characterisation of gas bearing sediments
- 3.2: Identification of zones of potential weakness
- 3.3: Detection and monitoring of methane ebullition
- 4.1: Methane Distributions and Breakdown
- 4.2: Methane emission through sediment-water and sea-air interfaces
- 4.3: Holocene evolution of the Baltic Sea ecosystem
- 5.1: Transport/ reaction models reg. methane and sulphur dynamics
- 5.2: Predictive model and climate change scenarios
NEWS
- The next and last BALTIC GAS workshop will be held in Aarhus, November 1-3, 2011 (02.09.2011).
- Henrik Fossing participated in the "2nd Annual Forum for the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region
Development Forum" in Gdansk on October 24-26, 2011. Here you find the Baltic Gas poster and Baltic Gas briefing document (26.10.2011) - Bo Barker Jørgensen participates in the Russian TV-program "Sea News" on the TV-channel "Russia 1". The topic is Baltic Sea ecology and climate, and a written version of the interview can be found here (01.03.2011).
- Baltic Gas Workshop and post-Merian Cruise Meeting in Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad, February 22-24, 2011.
RESEARCH GROUP
- Group photo from the final BALTIC GAS Workshop, held in Aarhus, Denmark, November 1-3, 2011 (click to enlarge).