Handover of the International Baltic Earth Secretariat (IBES)
Joint press release of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, the Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot, Poland (IO PAN), and the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW)
International research network Baltic Earth:
New shared hosting of the secretariat in Germany and Poland
After more than 30 years, the International Baltic Earth Secretariat (IBES), which supports research and other science activities of the Baltic Earth research network, is handed over from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon to two prominent oceanographic institutes at the Baltic Sea: The Leibniz Institute of Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde, Germany (IOW), and the Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Sopot, Poland (IO PAN).
The secretariat’s move from Hereon to the two new hosts is linked to the retirement of the current IBES chair Marcus Reckermann in April 2025. “I am very happy that there is so much interest in hosting the future IBES,” Reckermann says. “It shows that the Baltic Earth network is well rooted in the scientific community of the Baltic Sea region, and that there is a high demand in maintaining such a network.”
The Baltic Earth network, to which researchers in the Baltic Sea catchment and beyond contribute with their expertise, organizes publication and research projects, conferences, workshops, as well as summer and winter schools for early career scientists. Internationally, it is best known for its comprehensive climate assessments for the Baltic region, which are designed to be a regional equivalent of the global climate report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). (Source: Joint Press Release)
