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The BalticWay project is a part of the BONUS<\/a> activities. This framework of cooperation brings together the research communities of marine, maritime, economical and societal research to address the major challenges faced by the Baltic Sea region. Research in this framework is funded jointly by the marine research funding agencies in the nine Baltic Sea countries\u00a0countries together with the European Union.<\/p>\n The research proposal<\/p>\n has been proposed by a consortium of 8 research groups from 6 Baltic Sea countries.<\/p>\n See a short overview of the BalticWay ideas and developments in <\/em>BONUS in Brief, November 2011, p. 7<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Outline of key results achieved in the BalticWay cooperation: <\/em>BONUS Briefing No 7, October 2011: BalticWay<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n The proposal aims at a substantial decrease of marine\u2013industry\u2013induced environmental risks and impacts on bio\u2013diversity, particularly on fragile ecosystems. The core objective is to develop a scientific platform for an innovative low\u2013cost technology of environmental management of shipping, offshore, and coastal engineering activities. The technology will be applied to place dangerous activities in areas, an accident in which will have a minimum threat to vulnerable areas.<\/p>\n Our approach makes use of the existence of semi\u2013persistent current patterns that considerably affect the properties of pollution propagation: the probability of transport of dangerous substances from different open sea areas to the vulnerable areas is largely different. For certain regions (areas of reduced risk) this probability is relatively small.<\/p>\n The location of areas of reduced risk will be established numerically and verified experimentally. A combination of the classical risk analysis with novel mathematical methods (such as inverse methods) will be applied to identify the persistence, properties, and potential effect of such areas, and to establish generic criteria for their existence. Based on existing results, we concentrate on the Gulf of Finland and the Darss Sill.<\/p>\n As a first step we consider the consequences of current\u2013induced propagation of oil spills released from ships, aiming to route ships along the least dangerous paths, much like dangerous transports on land follow predefined routes.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Tarmo Soomere, Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Finnish Environmental Institute<\/a> (Helsinki);<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Department of Meteorology<\/a>, University of Stockholm,<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute<\/a> (Norrk\u00f6ping),<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Danish Meteorological Institute<\/a> (Copenhagen),<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Institute for Coastal Research<\/a>,\u00a0Helmholtz\u2013Zentrum Geesthacht,<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences<\/a> at the University of Kiel,<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0 Laser Diagnostic Instruments<\/a> (Tallinn)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nBalticWay: The potential of currents for environmental management of the Baltic Sea maritime industry<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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