Baltic Sea Basin

Jan Harff is a geologists and Professor emeritus for Marine Geology at the Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemunde, Germany. Currently, he serves as Humboldt Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Szczecin, Poland, and as adjunct Professor at two research institutes of the Academica sinica. He is a elected Foreign Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. His main fields of interest are marine geology, sedimentology, paleoceanography and mathematical geology. Svante Bjorck is Professor and head of Quaternary Sciences at the GeoBiosphere Science Centre in Lund. His main research interests concern paleoclimate and paleoenvironments, including sea levels, of the last 150.000 years. He is an elected member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, of the Royal Fysiographic Society. He was internationally evaluated 2006 by VR as 'Outstanding Swedish Quaternary Geologist', chosen as the "Geologist of the Year" (Arets Geolog) in 2006 by Sveriges Naturvetarforbund. Peer Hoth is a geologist with a Ph.D. from the Technical University in Berlin. He works now since two years for the energy department of the German Ministry of Economics and Technology. Before, he served as a research scientist for different research institutions mainly in the field of energy. His main field of interest are basin analysis, sedimentology, oil and gas exploration and geothermal energy.

• Introduction.- Geological and tectonic evolution.- The basin fill as a climate and sea level record.- Coastline changes.- Sediment dynamics.- Interactions between a changing environment and society.- Hydrogeological modelling.- Monitoring.

From the reviews: "Chapters in the book will be of interest not only for geologists but also for representatives of other disciplines (e.g. biology, ecology, oceanography) working in the Baltic Sea region and also in other areas. ... The combination of good reviews and original studies with an interdisciplinary approach makes the book potentially useful for advanced students, especially from the Baltic Sea region, and marine geologists dealing with semi-enclosed seas elsewhere in the world will certainly find valuable information." (Witold Szczucinski, Sedimentary Record, February, 2013)