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K . Hinsby and J.C. Refsgaard Hydrologisk afdeling, GEUS

Soils2Sea - Reducing nutrient loadings from agricultural soils to the Baltic Sea via groundwater and streams – . K . Hinsby and J.C. Refsgaard Hydrologisk afdeling, GEUS.

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K . Hinsby and J.C. Refsgaard Hydrologisk afdeling, GEUS

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  1. Soils2Sea - Reducing nutrient loadings from agricultural soils to the Baltic Sea via groundwater and streams– K. Hinsby and J.C. Refsgaard Hydrologisk afdeling, GEUS 8th annual meeting of the Danish Water Research and Innovation Platform – DWRIP - January 30th, 2014, KU Science, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen

  2. HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM (Cyanobacteria) BALTIC SEA BETWEEN DENMARK AND GERMANY – 25.8.2006 Outline • Introduction to the problem addressed in Soils2Sea • The BONUS program (Article 185) • Objectives of Soils2Sea • Partners, WPs and organisation of Soils2Sea • Expectedkeyoutcomes Photo from ferrybetween Gedser, DK and Rostock, DE: Klaus Hinsby

  3. PlanetaryBoundaries: 3) Climate Change • Are transgressed for1,2: 1) Biodiversity loss 2) Nitrogen cycle Rockström et al. (~30 env. Scientists from Europe, USA and Australia) suggest to reduce the human N-input to 25 % of the present input 1. Rockström et al., Nature, 461, 472-475, 2009 and 2- Rockström et al., Ecology and Society, 14 (2): 32, 2009.

  4. Global review of hypoxia (oxygen depletion)in coastal marine waters Diaz and Rosenberg, 2008. Science, 321, 926-929

  5. Chemical status of transitional and coastalwaters in the EU. Source: EEA reportno 8/2012

  6. Eutrophication –> harmful algal blooms –> oxygen depletion -> fish kills SE DK Sea Floor Anoxia PL DE Harmful Algal Blooms/ HABs (Cyanobacteria) - Baltic Sea Photo: NERI – Univ. Aarhus / Peter Bondo Christensen Photo: NERI – Univ. Aarhus / Peter Bondo Christensen

  7. Nutrients in European rivers: 2027 2015 Average river concentrations Total ammonium Good status Decreasing trends  Total phosphorus Nitrate However, not enough for N  Source: EEA reportno 9/2012

  8. The Bonus Programme- Science for a better future of the Baltic Sea Region The BONUS Programme is supported by the national research funding institutions in the eight EU member states around the Baltic Sea and the EU Research Framework Programme (Article 185). Scientists from the Russian Federation participate in BONUS research projects through special agreements. For info on BONUS see: http://www.bonusportal.org/ For info on EC Article 185 see: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/art185/about-185_en.html

  9. Main objective of Soils2Sea: • To develop new innovative tools for reducingnutrientloadings to the Baltic Sea throughimprovedunderstanding of nutrientspathways, retention processes and differentiated and optimizedregulation

  10. Project info: • Duration: 4 years (Russia 3 years) • Budget: € 3.2 mill.

  11. Partners • GEUS, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark (GEUS - coordinator) • Aarhus University, Denmark (AU) • AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland (AGH) • Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (KTH) • SwedishMeteorological and HydrologicalInstitute, Norrköping, Sweden (SMHI) • ECOLOGIC Institute, Berlin, Germany (EI) • Sorbisense A/S, Denmark (SOR) • Atlantic Branch of P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Sciences, Kaliningrad, Russia(ABIORAS)

  12. Project organisation

  13. Project organisation • Workpackages / WP lead: WP1) Coordinationand dissemination / GEUS WP2) Land2Soils: Climate change, land use and nutrient load / AU, WP3) Soils2Streams: Nutrient transport and retention in groundwater, soils and subsurfacedrainage / GEUS WP4) Streams2Sea: Transport and retention of nutrientsin surfaceflows / KTH WP5) Catchment2Sea: Nutrient transport and retention in catchments regional to Baltic Seabasinscale / SMHI WP6) Governance, monitoring and stakeholderprocesses / ECOLOGIC

  14. Soils2Sea workpackages

  15. STUDY SITES AND SCALES From: hillslopescale in the catchment to Norsminde fjord: ~ 1km2 To: Baltic Sea basin: ~ 1.8 mill. km2

  16. Advisory panel Carl Aage Pedersen, Knowledge Centre for Agriculture, Denmark Tomasz Walcykiewiecz, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Poland KajsaBerggren, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Sweden Rune Hallgren, Swedish Farmers Association IsokovaNatalya, Kaliningrad Office of Neva-Ladoga Watershed Administration, Kaliningrad,Russia

  17. Stakeholder workshops Farmers Union, Landboforeningen Odder-Skanderborg, Denmark MykanówCommune, Poland The Water and Sewage System Company of the Czestochowa District – Joint Stock Company, Poland Ministry of Environment, Nature Agency, Denmark (Stakeholder workshops) Landwirtschaftskammer (AgriculturalCommissionfor) Schleswig-Holstein

  18. Keyoutcomes - 1 Soils2Sea will carry out a joint research effort at a macroregional level with the following key outcomes: • New methodologies for the planning of differentiated regulations based on new knowledge of nutrient transport and retention processes between soils/sewage outlets and the coast. • Evaluation of how differentiated regulation can offer more cost efficient solutions towards reducing the nutrient loads to the Baltic Sea. • Analysis of how changes in land use and climate may affect the nutrient load to the Baltic Sea as well as the optimal location of measures aiming at reducing the load.

  19. Keyoutcomes - 2 4. A high-resolution model for the entire Baltic Sea Basin with improved process descriptions of nutrient retention in groundwater and surface water tailored to make detailed simulations of management regulationsdifferentiated in space. 5. New knowledge based governance and monitoring concepts that acknowledge the relevant aspects of EU directives and are tailored towards decentralised decision making and differentiated regulations. 6.Test of concepts and tools at a hierarchy of scales ranging from small scale (km2) through medium scale (103 km2) to the Baltic Sea catchment scale (106 km2).

  20. HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM (Cyanobacteria) BALTIC SEA BETWEEN DENMARK AND GERMANY – 25.8.2006 ThankYou  Photo from ferrybetween Gedser, DK and Rostock, DE: Klaus Hinsby

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