CLIMATE COAST
Sea levels are rising - melting ice masses and thermal expansion of the oceans could lead to a rise of up to 60-100 centimeters by the end of the century, according to scientific forecasts. This will pose major challenges, especially for coastal regions, in the coming decades.
In our first collective work CLIMATE COAST we shed light on the coastal changes that happen due to the rising sea levels and how we as humans try to adapt to this growing threat for coastal regions.
CLIMATE COAST focuses on two landscape types: Salt marshes and dune landscapes. These landscapes are habitats for a variety of species - which are also threatened by rising sea levels. The native plants of salt marshes, the halophytes, are especially endangered because of their adaptation to the salty environment and daily flooding. Whereas Anne Speltz‘s contribution to CLIAMTE COAST aims to create a herbarium of the salt marshes‘ unique flora, Thea Marie Klinger and Hannah Aders look at how coasts can be protected in times of sea-level rise. Here, the focus lies on nature-based coastal protection, in which natural landscapes like dunes are integrated into coastal protection.
The project aims to give a visibility to this urging topic and local endangered biotopes.
It has been exhibited in Hanover and published several times.