Vand & Ord

ESA Interview Today’s interview gives us the opportunity to focus on another very hot topic: water. Our interlocutor is Head of the Ecology and Environment department at DHI Water and Environment. Can you introduce your company to our readers? DHI Water and Environment is an international consulting and research organisation officially born in 2000 from the fusion of the former Danish Hydraulic Institute with the Institute for the Water Environment (VKI), joined in 2005 by the Danish Toxicology Centre (DTC). Thanks to these merged competencies, in a few years DHI reached out to all continents, being now present in 19 countries with about 600 employees. Near-future forecasts foresee 700 employees by the end of 2007 and a steady growth leading us to a 1000 people staff in three years’ time. DHI is a private, self-owned company with no shareholders, offering consultancy based on highly qualified research: our first two founding institutions have been doing research for over 40 years and 3...

Af Jan Dahlmann, i Ingeniøren Danske forskeres evne til at lave modeller af vandmiljøet er i top, viser en opgørelse fra tidsskriftet Journal of Marine Systems. På førstepladsen over de mest downloadede artikler siden maj 2005 ligger et papir fra DHI - Vand & Miljø, der drejer sig om numerisk modellering af phytoplankton i kystnære områder. Afdelingsleder Karl Iver Dahl Madsen, DHI, frem­hæver, at DHI for fem år siden begyndte et samarbejde med rumfartsorganisationen ESA, hvis satellitdata indgår i vandmiljømodellerne. »Det danske overvågningsprogram bruger ikke satellitmålinger, men DHI har talt for, at det bør gøre det, for det er en meget effektiv måde at skaffe data til modellerne på. Betydningen af de klassiske felttogter med skibe rundt i havmiljøet er for nedadgående,« siger han. Den succesrige artikel konkluderer dog, at modellering af næringsstoffer og hydrodynamiske forhold i kombination med satellitdata og må­linger fra traditionelle togter tilvejebringer de mest ...