- https://www.nat-esm.de/services/workshops-and-trainings/events/tropecs-symposium-coupling-tropical-coastal-ecosystems-to-earth-system-models
- 🎓 TropEcS Symposium – Coupling Tropical Coastal Ecosystems to Earth System Models
- 2025-09-22T00:00:00+02:00
- 2025-09-25T23:59:59+02:00
- The TropEcS Symposium brings together international experts in Earth System Modelling (ESM) to address a growing scientific challenge: how to better represent tropical coastal ecosystems in comprehensive climate and Earth system frameworks.
Sep 22, 2025
to
Sep 25, 2025
(Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
ATLANTIC Hotel Universum, Wiener Straße 4 and Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Fahrenheitstraße 6, Bremen
The TropEcS Symposium brings together international experts in Earth System Modelling (ESM) to address a growing scientific challenge: how to better represent tropical coastal ecosystems in comprehensive climate and Earth system frameworks. Supported by new funding from state and federal governments, ZMT is expanding its modelling capacities and seeks to position itself at the forefront of this effort.
Over three days, participants will evaluate existing ESM platforms, identify key socio-ecological processes to be integrated, and define modelling strategies relevant to coastal dynamics, biosphere interactions, and human dimensions. The symposium will foster collaborations with leading research institutions worldwide and initiate a shared scientific agenda for TropEcS.
Catalyst Talk: Veronika Eyring (DLR & University of Bremen, Germany)
Keynote: Moninya Roughan (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Keynote: Edward Gross (GEI Consultants, USA)
Keynote: Erma Yulihastin (BRIN, Indonesia)
Keynote: Julia Moriarty (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Keynote: Shardul Agrawala (OECD, France)
- Strengths and Limitations of Existing Earth System Models (23.09.2025)Â
ATLANTIC Hotel Universum, Wiener Straße 4
A comparative review of global and regional Earth System Models, focusing on model architecture, scalability, and their capacity to represent tropical coastal systems. - Coupling Components (24.09.2025)
ATLANTIC Hotel Universum, Wiener Straße 4
Identifying key components to integrate - ocean, atmosphere, land, ecosystems, and biogeochemistry - with emphasis on TropEcS priorities: coastal dynamics, land-sea fluxes, biosphere interactions, and marine food systems. - Spatio-Temporal Scales and Socio-Economic Perspectives (25.09.2025)
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Fahrenheitstraße 6
Determining appropriate spatial and temporal resolutions. Integrating socio-economic processes and collaborative governance structures.
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