SeaCities
Initiated and led by Professor Joerg Baumeister, the SeaCities Lab develops and implements water-adapted urban solutions (aquacities) and floating structures (aquatecture). This transition from terrestrial to amphibious to aquatic developments creates exciting design and engineering opportunities that can relieve land-based population pressures and foster innovative development solutions.
Current SeaCities projects include floating developments like:
Artificial reefs
- SeaManta
- Floating land SeaBase, and
- Growing islands (PhD candidate Despina Linaraki)
Aquatic urbanism for sea-Level rise (Cities+1m)
- Adaptive planning for seascapes (PhD candidate Thang Nguyen)
- Water-sensitive urban design (AquaCities), and
- Urban wetland development (PhD candidate Ioana Giurgiu)
Aquaculture for food security (SeaOasis) and
- Floating greenhouses (PhD candidate Elisa Fernandez-Ramos)
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The SeaCities team are also part of research projects:
$2M Blue Economy CRC - Novel off-shore fish-pen design (Phase 1 2022 - 2024), led by Prof Joerg Baumeister.
$0.8M Ian Potter Foundation - Development of sustainable Biofertilisers applications to combat Eutrophication (2020 - 2025), led by Dr Edoardo Bertone.
SeaCities: Urban Tactics for Sea-Level Rise
This book presents and discusses a strategy which includes four approaches to dealing with the risk of sea-level rise and other water hazards. It also offers opportunities for cities to explore urban extensions such as marine estates, aquatic food production systems, new sea related industries, maritime transport developments, new oceanic tourist attractions, and the designation of additional coastal ecological zones. The urban interface between Sea and Cities generates, therefore, both burning issues and valuable opportunities and raises the question of whether it is possible to solve the former by exploiting the latter?
SeaCities Researchers
- Professor Joerg Baumeister (Academic Lead)
- Dr Edoardo Bertone
- Dr. Cecilia Bischeri
- Associate Professor Christine Black
- Tessa Bradley
- Dr Jeung-Hwan Doh
- Dr Amir Etemad-Shahidi
- Jessica Harris
- Assoc Prof Hassan Karampour
- Adjunct Assoc Prof Daniela Ottmann
- Dr Elnaz Torabi
- Dr. Brit Winnen
- Professor Hong Zhang
SeaCities PhD Candidates
- Elisa Fernandez-Ramos
- Ioana Giurgiu
- Despina Linaraki
- Thang Nguyen
Applications from highly motivated PhD candidates with top GPA are very welcome.
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