Kurile Kamchatka and Aleuten Marginal Sea Island Arc Systems: Geodynamic and Climate Interaction in Space and Time

KALMAR

Kurile Kamchatka and Aleuten Marginal Sea Island Arc Systems: Geodynamic and Climate Interaction in Space and Time

The German-Russian multidisciplinary research project KALMAR aims at investigating the climate-affecting system "Kurile-Kamchatka-Aleutean arc" with its adjacent marine parts in the NW Pacific and the Bering Sea. This complex geosystem represents a unique investigation area for recent marine geosciences, because the interrelations of astenosphere, lithosphere, hydosphere, and atmosphere can be studied examplarily here. In a broad, but integrative scientific approach investigations focus on the effects of the geodynamic and oceanographic processes in this area on matter distribution and cycles, water mass formation and circulation, climate, and natural hazards. The different scientific approaches within the project, comprised in five closely coupled German-Russian subprojects, concentrate on two scientific focuses: the geodynamic-volcanic-magmatic and the oceanographic-climatic evolution of the Kurile-Kamchatka-Aleutean Arc system. KALMAR is a marine research project, but has an amphibian approach in order to investigate the interrelations between land and ocean. This is fundamental for a better understanding of the complex and climate-controlling geosystem "Kurile-Kamchatka-Aleutean arc and its adjacent marginal seas". In the framework of KALMAR German-Russian marine and land expeditions with different scientific and technical focuses will be conducted. During the first phase of the project land-based expeditions on Kamchatka are carried out, for the second project phase marine expeditions in the NW Pacific and in the Bering Sea are planned.

Januar 2009

Dezember 2011

764000

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Other / The Ministry of Education and Science of the BMBF /

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Wolf-Christian Dullo

Alfred Wegener Institute of Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR)
Geological-Paleontological Institute (GPI), University Münster
Institute of Geosciences (IGW), University Jena
Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR)
Saxonian Academy of Sciences, Department Quarternary Geochronology (SAW)
Center for Coordination of Oceanic Rearches of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CCOR RAS)
Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GIN RAS)
Institute of Limnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IL RAS)
Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IVS FEB RAS)
North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute (NEISRI)
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IO RAS)
V.I. Il`ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (POI FEB RAS)