Research branches in environmental processes

Physical oceanography

Coastal hydro- and morphodynamics

Harbour engineering

Rivers hydraulics and hydrodynamics

Water quality

Hydrogeology

Specific research areas:

• The measurements of physical fields in the Gulf of Riga, rivers and reservoirs (jointly with Latvian Fisheries Research Institute)
• Models of the dynamics for the vertical structure of physical fields in water basins (T, S, exchange on atmosphere/ocean interface)
• The modelling of non-steady horizontal physical fields (waves, currents, passive admixtures, E. Coli, load transport, morphodynamics) in coastal zone*
• Operational modelling of hydrodynamics of the Gulf of Riga
• Modelling of the physical fields in rivers*
• Integral long-term models of the littoral drift
• Synthesis of artificial typical and critical forcing data sets for prognostic (short, seasonal and long-term) calculations
• The modelling and visualisation of groundwater filtration processes in 3D geological structures*
• The water quality modelling (BOD, COD, oxygen, nutrients, food chain)*
• The water quality research (jointly with Institute of Biology) in rivers
• The development of net-based information technologies for joining data assimilation systems (data providers), mathematical models (modelers) and decision-making (end-users) (jointly with Brandenburg University of Technology)
• The design and building of oceanographic equipment (jointly with “Baltic Instruments, Ltd.”)