01.9.16 | On 5 and 6 September 2016, scientists from various disciplines will meet in the German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for German Maritime History (DSM) to discuss the mediation and visualisation of climate change. The ZMT is a co-organiser of the event.
Strengthening public awareness and broadening understanding of climate and ocean change are only achievable through joint efforts by the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Together with the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), the DSM invited experts from leading German and international research institutions, universities and museums to Bremerhaven for a workshop held alongside the annual conference of the Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association in Bremen (ECSA 56). The participants include experts from GEOMAR, Trinity College Dublin, Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the German Museum Munich.
The objective of the two-day workshop is the interdisciplinary development of a roadmap on how the knowledge of the diverse interactions between humans, sea and climate can be realised in the museum. The thematic area is an important focus of the reorientation of the DSM and the redesign of its permanent exhibition, which began this year in the so-called Cog Hall. In 2017 the process will be continued in the complex, which focuses on the present and future significance of human marine use through ships in the context of the maritime economy, seafaring research and against the background of changed environmental behaviour.
At the same time, the event is one of the diverse contributions of the DSM and the ZMT to Science Year 2016*17, which was initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, on the topic of »Seas and Oceans«.
The intended target group of the workshop shall be museum visitors, students, and disseminators specialised in maritime or museum fields from educational and research institutions located mainly in north-western Germany. In particular, these include member institutions in the German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) and the Northwest Marine Research Association (NWVM), which supports the conference as a sponsor.
In a public panel discussion in the DSM on the evening of 5 September, to which all people interested in climate change are warmly invited, Professor Ruth Schilling, historian and exhibition coordinator of the DSM, Professor Anna-Katharina Hornidge, expert for marine social sciences at the ZMT, and Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, head of Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, will discuss the topic and address the audience’s questions. Dr. Bevis Fedder, head of the Office for Knowledge Exchange at the ZMT, will give a lecture about the mediation of marine environmental law in the context of the session "Coasts and Harbours in Climate Change".
The »Small Climate Summit«
A roadmap for communicating climate and ocean change
5 September, 1:00 pm – 6 September, 2:30 pm
German Maritime Museum
www.dsm.museum
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