Conference Committ ees Venue and Travel

rd Scien� fi c Commi� ee Dom Zdrojowy 3 Bal� c Earth Conference Juris Aigars, Latvia ul. Kościuszki 2a Franz Berger, Germany 84-140 Jastarnia, Poland Inga Dailidienė, Lithuania Matt hias Gröger, Sweden Jari Haapala, Finland Karol Kulinski, Poland Andreas Lehmann, Germany Urmas Lips, Estonia Markus Meier, Germany (Chair) Kai Myrberg, Finland Anders Omstedt, Sweden Irina Danilovich, Belarus Piia Post, Estonia Earth system changes Marcus Reckermann, Germany Gregor Rehder, Germany The conference takes place in the Hotel Dom Zdrojowy Anna Rutgersson, Sweden and Bal� c Sea coasts in Jastarnia in Puck County, Pomeranian Voivodship, Corinna Schrum, Germany Poland, located on the Hel Peninsula. The peninsula Tarmo Soomere, Estonia is a narrow sandy spit, separati ng the Bay of Puck, the Marti n Stendel, Denmark western part of Gdansk Bay, from the Balti c Sea. Hel Ralf Weisse Germany Peninsula with its two main towns Jastarnia and Hel is Sergey Zhuravlev, Russia a holiday resort for the greater Gdynia-Sopot-Gdansk Organising Commi� ee metropolitan region. Karol Kulinski, Poland It can be reached from Gdansk central stati on and Beata Szymczycha, Poland internati onal airport by train, car and by boat during the Silke Köppen, Germany summer months. Markus Meier, Germany Marcus Reckermann, Germany

Principal Organizing Ins� tu� ons

Jastarnia Hel Peninsula Poland

Time Table nd 1 - 5 June 2020 2 Announcement November 2019 Further Informa� on: Abstract Submission February 2020 Registrati on and Hotel Reservati ons April 2020 bal� c.earth/hel2020 First Announcement

Scope Topics Location

Background The Baltic Earth Science Plan is organized along specific Baltic Earth strives to achieve an improved Earth System interdisciplinary research challenges which have been understanding of the Baltic Sea region as the basis for formulated by the Baltic Earth Science Steering Group. science-based management in the face of climatic, Additional topics are treated by dedicated Working environmental and human impact in the region. Baltic Groups. The sessions of this conference will reflect these Earth brings together a broad international research topics: community around core scientific issues identified as fundamental to informing societal efforts to achieve • Salinity dynamics in the Baltic Sea sustainability in the region. Baltic Earth targets the • Land-Sea biogeochemical linkages atmosphere, land and marine environment of the Baltic • Natural hazards and extreme events Sea, its drainage basin and nearby areas with relevance for the Baltic Sea region. • Sea level dynamics in the Baltic Sea

The conference • Regional variability of water and energy exchanges The Polish Baltic Sea coast is approximately 528 kilometres (328 mi) long and extends from Świnoujście The conference will cover the topics of Baltic Earth, in Multiple drivers for regional Earth system changes • on the islands of Usedom and Wolin in the west to particular highlighting the Baltic Earth Grand Challenges • Regional climate system modeling Krynica Morska on the Vistula Spit in the east. For as defined by the Baltic Earth Science Plan. The grand the most part, Poland has a smooth coastline, which topic of the conference „Earth system changes and A dedicated call for papers will be published in late 2019, has been shaped by the continual movement of sand Baltic Sea coasts“ refers to the manifold aspects of the specifying the scientific sessions. Results from any of by currents and winds. This continual erosion and changing Earth system of the Baltic Sea region, in the these research fields and related to the overall theme deposition has formed cliffs, dunes, and spits, many atmosphere, on land and in the sea. Climate change of the conference are welcome, as well as contributions of which have migrated landwards to close off former and the associated sea level rise, but also other human from related programmes. Invited and contributed papers lagoons, such as Łebsko Lake in Słowiński National activities puts a particular pressure on the coasts of will be presented in plenary along with parallel poster Park. the southern Baltic Sea, of which the Hel peninsula sessions. and the Polish coasts in general are examplary. Land- Hel Peninsula is a part of the Puck County of the sea interactions and human uses shape and modify the The conference is also intended as discussion forum for Pomeranian Voivodeship, and located close to the coasts all over the Baltic Sea. scientists, managers and other stakeholders. Conference metropolitan area of the Tricity: Gdynia, Sopot and language is English. Gdansk, with more than 1 million inhabitants, for many of which it serves as a recreational refuge.

Photos: Piotr Mądry (front, inner 3 top), Hotel Dom Zdrojowy, Jastarnia (back), M. Bizewski (inner 1, inner 3 bottom), Marcin Jagiellicz (inner 2); Maps: Google Maps; Text fragments on location: Wikipedia

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