Scientific Programme
August 28
Changing environment, development of the Baltic SeaConvenors: M. Brookfield and I. Tuuling10.00-10.30 Jan Harff, Rudolf Endler, Sergey Kotov, Ricardo Olea and Emelyan Emelyanov. Sediments of the Baltic Proper vs. environmental change during the late Pleistocene and Holocene at the Northern Atlantic – Baltic Region
10.30-10.50 Jurgita Paškauskaitė. Pleistocene deposits in the south-eastern part of the Baltic Sea
10.50-11.10 Volli Kalm, Tiit Hang, Igor Tuuling, Arkady Tsurylnikov and Tom Floden. Lithostratigraphy of Late Glacial and Holocene deposits in the northeastern part of the Gulf of Riga
11.10-11.30 Laimdota Kalniņa, Aija Ceriņa, Arnis Jakubovskis, Sandijs Mešķis. Paleoecological record from lake sediments in the coastal area of Latvia
Coffee break12.00-12.20 Arkady Tsyrulnikov, Igor Tuuling and Tiit Hang. Streamlined topographic features reflecting the ice flow directions in the northern Gulf of Riga
12.20-12.40 Jury Vassiljev, A. Rosentau, Leili Saarse and A. Miidel. Development of proglacial lakes in Estonia
12.40-13.00 Kaisa-Leena Hutri and Aarno T. Kotilainen. Postglacial faults in the Baltic Proper Holocene sediments
13.00-13.20 Jarmila Krzymińska, G. Miotk-Szpiganowicz and Małgorzata Witak. Application of biostratigraphic methods to the interpretation of palaeoenvironments of Late Glacial and Holocene (Puck Bay, Baltic Sea)
13.20-13.40 Maria Rucinska. Kame-like ridges on the nearshore bottom in Sopot
13.40-14.00
Lunch
Workshops
15.00-16.30 Towards a Baltic IODPConvenor: J. HarffJan Harff, Thomas Andrén, O. Bennike, Albertas Bitinas, R. Endler, D. Eroshenko, Aarno T. Kotilainen, S. Krastel, M. Moros, Volkhard Spieß, and B. Wagner. Towards a Baltic IODP – the last glacial cycle
Volkhard Spieß, S. Krastel, A. Trampe, R. Endler, B. Wagner, Jan Harff, Thomas Andrén, O. Bennike. A seismic pre-site survey of Quaternary Sequences in Kattegat and Southeastern Baltic Sea for IODP Drilling – Preliminary Results
16.45-18.30 Towards a real Holocene time stratigraphy of the Baltic SeaConvenors: B. Winterhalter, A. GrigelisBoris Winterhalter. Introduction to the workshop
Algimantas Grigelis. Holocene stratigraphy of the Baltic Sea – few internationally guided points
Matti Räsänen. Use of formal litho- and allostratigraphy in creating a stratigraphic framework.
DiscussionAugust 29
Coastal processes and sediment dynamicsConvenors: G. Eberhards and J. B. Jensen9.00-9.30 Michael Brookfield and I.P. Martini. Sedimentological and stratigraphic effects of forebulge migration and differential isostasy in large proglacial lakes
Session 1. Dynamics of Baltic Sea sediments
9.30-9.50 Nico Schmedemann, M.-Th. Schafmeister, R. Lampe, and Gösta Hoffmann. Stress related de-compaction of unconsolidated near-surface sediments
9.50-10.10 Emelyan M. Emelyanov. The thickness of the marine Holocene sediments of the Baltic Sea and their resuspension and redeposition
10.10-10.30 Jørn Bo Jensen, C. Christiansen, P. Lohmann, T. Laier, N.E. Poulsen, and Faustino Manso. Bathymetric controlled inflow sedimentology in the Bornholm Basin. A detailed study of the Baltic Sea environmental history
Coffee break11.00-11.20 Gösta Hoffmann. Calculating sediment budget on the Pomeranian Bight (SW Baltic Sea, Germany)
11.20-11.40 Ants Erm and Tarmo Soomere. Optical detection of sediment resuspension by wakes from fast ferries
11.40-12.00 Marina Chestnova and Vadim Sivkov. New data on concentrations of hydrocarbon gases in bottom sediments of Gdansk Basin
12.00-12.20 Stanislaw Rudowski, Leonard Gajewski and Łukasz Gajewski. Application of the non-invasive researches in offshore sandy ridges studies, South Baltic examples
LunchSession 2. Coastal area and near-shore processes
13.30-13.50 Guntis Eberhards and Baiba Saltupe. Hurricane Erwin 2005 coastal erosion in the Gulf of Riga
13.50-14.10 H. Tõnisson, K. Orviku, J. Jaagus, Ü. Suursaar, A. Kont and R. Rivis. Hurricane Gudrun and its impact to the shoreline and coastal processes in Estonia
14.10-14.30 Leonora Živile Gelumbauskaite and Jonas Šečkus. Sea level changes and coastal evolution in the southeastern Baltic
14.30-14.50 Saulius Sliaupa, Albertas Bitinas and Algimantas Zakarevicius. Prediction of the vertical movements of the earth’s surface in the Lithuanian coastal area
14.50-15.10 Tycjan Wodzinowski. Shoreline transformation in digital photomonitoring, Gdynia example
Coffee break
Workshop
15.45-18.00 GIS, sea floor mapping, and sediment transport modellingConvenors: J. Harff, G. EberhardsTarmo Soomere, Andres Kask and Jüri Kask. Modelling of sand transport at Pirita beach and formulation of principles of beach nourishment
Florian Peine and Gerhard Graf. A combined laboratory and field annular flume study to investigate the bioresuspension- and biodeposition potential of macrofauna organisms.
Vladimir Zhamoida, D. Ryabchuk, M. Spiridonov and V. Shakhverdov. GIS-Atlas of geological and geoecological maps of the Russian Sector of the Baltic Sea and its coastal zone
Aarno Kotilainen, Anu M. Reijonen, Ulla Alanen, Anu Hirvonen, Jyrki Hämäläinen, Ari Laine, Jouni Leinikki, Panu Oulasvirta, Henna Piekäinen, Tapio Suominen and Petri Vahteri. Marine habitat mapping – results from the Archipelago Sea pilot
Jan Harff, Bernd Bobertz, Ricardo Olea and Torsten Seifert. Parameterization and sediment transport modelling in shallow seas
18.00 Social event – excursion to Old Riga
August 30
Evolving environmentConvenors: A. Kotilainen, V. Zhamoida9.00-9.30. Ivar Murdmaa, Emelyan Emelyanov and Elena Ivanova. Deglaciation of the last North European ice sheet: sedimentary records from the Baltic Sea and other marine basins around Scandinavia
9.30-9.50 Markus Diesing. Relict features on the seafloor of the Western and Southern Baltic Sea: evidence from high-resolution hydroacoustic surveys
9.50-10.10 Mikhail Spiridonov, Aarno Kotilainen, D. Ryabchuk, E. Nesterova, G. Suslov and Henry Vallius. Sedimentation history of the Neva Bay since the foundation of the city of St.Petersburg (1703 AD)
10.10-10.30 Henry Vallius, D. Ryabchuk, Aarno Kotilainen, Mikhail Spiridonov, G. Suslov and V.A. Zhamoida. Pollution history of the Neva Bay since the foundation of the city of St.Petersburg (1703 AD)
Coffee break11.00-11.20 Regina Kramarska and Joanna Zachowicz. Lithological atlas of the Southern Baltic as a base of raw materials prospecting
11.20-11.40 Adam Kubicki, Faustino Manso and Markus Diesing. Evolution of a pit in a gravel extraction site, Tromper Wiek, Southern Baltic Sea
11.40-12.00 Faustino Manso, Nerijus Blažauskas, R. Radzevicius and Klaus Schwarzer. Marine aggregates in the Baltic Sea, a sustainable resource?
12.00-12.20 Emelyan Emelyanov and V.A. Kravtsov. Toxic metals and sunken chemical weapon in the Baltic Sea
12.20-12.40 A. Grigoriev, K. Gruzdov, Vladimir A. Zhamoida and R. Krymsky. Possibility of determination of the growth rates of ferromanganese concretions from the Gulf of Finland using Pb-210
Lunch
Bedrock geologyConvenors: E. Lukševičs and co-convenor14.00-14.20 Igor Tuuling and Tom Flodèn. The Trans-Baltic Llandoverian sequence between Saaremaa and Gotland, subdivision and thicknesses, based on marine seismic studies
14.20-14.40 Ģirts Stinkulis. Devonian deposits in exposures at the eastern coast of the Riga Gulf
14.40-15.00 Nadezhda Lukashina. New data on Paleogene in the south Baltic Region (by results of industrial drilling in Kaliningrad Region)
15.00-15.20 Tarmo All, Tom Flodén and Väino Puura. A complex geophysics-based model of large Mesoproterozoic igneous suites in the basement of the Baltic Sea proper
Coffee break
16.00-17.00 Meeting of the Baltic Sea Geologists
Poster sessionAlbertas Bitinas, Vadim L. Boldyrev, Aldona Damušyte, Dmitry V. Dorokhov, Dalia Kiselienė, Y. Kropachev and Vladimir A. Zhamoida. New data on the formation of the Curonian Spit
Dgyraboy T. Fidaev and Denis V. Eroshenko. The particularities of sedimentation in the “fordelta”of the “underwater Stolpe River” of the Baltic Sea
Vija Hodireva, Denis Korpechkov, Nina Samburg and Alexander S. Savvaitov. Supposed spread of kimberlites in area of the Baltic Sea (by mineralogical data of the marine beach placers in Latvia)
Dorota Emilia Jankowska andMałgorzata Witak. Freshwater diatom flora from the Early Holocene sediments of the Puck Bay region
Georgy Konshin and Ināra Nulle. Participation of Latvia in international projects on geology of European seafloor
Sergey Kotov and Jan Harff. A characteristic of marine sediment redistribution based on Weibull grain size distribution
Viktor Kravtsov and Marina Kravchishina. The distribution of biogenic components and trace metals in the Gulf of Finland
Jānis Lapinskis. Coastal geological processes in Western Kurzeme (Latvia) associated with storm of January 2005
Algimantas Mečislovas Olšauskas. Sea-shore of Lithuania in past century
Anna-Maria Pawłowska, K.A. Palińska and H. Piekarek-Jankowska. Biodegradation of mussel shell detritus in early diagenesis of sediments
Donatas Pupienis and Andrzej Jankowski. Modelling of sediment transport in the dumps in the Lithuanian offshore
Eugenija Rudnickaite and Aldona Damušyte. The reconstruction of paleoclimatic conditions of the Western Curonian Spit based on carbonate analysis data
D.V. Ryabchuk, M.A. Spiridonov, Vladimir A. Zhamoida and G.G. Gogoberidze. Key area at the eastern Gulf of Finland as an example of the model of State Cadastre of the Coastal Zone
Vadim Sivkov. Modelling of sediment dynamics in the Gdansk Basin
V. Spieß. Fine Structure of Shallow Gas Occurrences in the Southwestern Baltic Sea in the Light of Multifrequency Seismic Data
Mikhail Spiridonov, Zhamoida V., Grigoriev A., Lukashina N., Sharapova A., Sivkov V. and Zykova E. Some features of geological development of the Gdansk Basin in the Late Pleistocene - Holocene according to the new data of investigations of the core-section #301700-7 sampled in r/v Poseidon cruise (POS 07/05/01)
P. Talviste, Tiit Hang and Siim Veski. Low Early Holocene sealevel in Pärnu area, western Estonia, as recorded from buried organic deposits
Egidijus Trimonis, Emelyan Emelyanov and Giedre Vaikutiene. Palaeoenvironmental conditions in the Northern Baltic Sea Basin during Late Glacial and Holocene
Nanna Tuovinen, J.J. Virtasalo and Aarno T. Kotilainen. Diatom stratigraphy and the Holocene history of the Archipelago Sea, SW Finland
Radoslaw Wróblewski. Sedimentary environment of sandy barriers in the non-tidal sea. An example of the Hel Peninsula