Projects at the Institute of Environmental Systems Research

Applied Systems Science - Environmental Systems Analysis

• Elbe-DSS: Decision Support System for the Elbe Catchment (»German)
• ELPOS - Criteria for Persistence and Long-range Transport Potential of Pesticides and Industrial Chemicals
• GREAT-ER: Geography-referenced Regional Exposure Assessment Tool for European Rivers
• Validation of exposure models and parameters
• CemoS: Chemical exposure model System (including: ExpoMDB; Model Interchange Format(MIF))
• Material- and Energyflow Analysis of a University - Development of an Environmental Management System for Universities by Example of the University of Osnabrück
• eco-campus.net - German Network for an Environmentally Sound Development of Universities
• SARISK - Entwicklung eines Schadstoffausbreitungsmodells zur stoffbezogenen Risikoanalyse und -bewertung extremer Hochwasserereignisse am Beispiel des Landkreises und der Stadt Bitterfeld
• Feasibility study on sustainable aquaculture concepts in recirculating systems in Uzbekistan
• Amudelta - Restoration and Management Options for Ecosystems in the Amudarya Delta (Uzbekistan)
• EXPO2000: Sustainable Utilisation of Halophytes with saline irrigation

Theoretical Systems Science - Ecological Pattern Formation

Nonlinear systems analysis with applications to population dynamics

• Marine ecosystems under increasing anthropogenic activity: stability and pattern formation (NATO 1997-2000)
• Patterns in plankton communities: mobile fish schools as a factor of spatial structure formation (INTAS 1998-2000)
• Spatio-temporal pattern formation in marine plankton populations (DFG-RFBR 1997-2001)
• Impact of biotic and abiotic factors on the dynamics of spatially and physiologically structured populations in large aquatic ecosystems (DFG-RFBR 2001-04)
• Study of pattern formation in plankton populations under the effects of toxin producing phytoplankton, infection and environmental factors (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2004-05)
• Mathematical modelling and computer simulation of biological invasions with applications to the spatial spread of infectious diseases and genetically modified organisms (DFG-RFBR 2005-06)
• Mathematical modelling of transmission, spread and control of infectious diseases (DAAD, VIGONI Programme 2006-07)

Resource Flow Management

• FAMOJA - Framework for Agent-based MOdelling with JAva
• PartizipA: Partizipative Modellbildung, Akteurs- und Ökosystemanalyse in Agrarintensivregionen
• HarmoniCOP - Harmonizing COllaborative Planning
• Harmoni-CA - Harmonized Modelling Tools for River Basin Management
• NeWater - New Approaches to Adaptive Water Management under Uncertainty
• AquaStress - Characterization of Water Stress
• CAIWA - International Conference on Adaptive & Integrated Water Management