HYDROMOD  Scientific Consulting

Brief Profile

HYDROMOD was founded in 1987 as an applied marine and aquatic research and related technology oriented enterprise and consulting firm. The company is based in Wedel located at the western city limit of Hamburg (Germany) and completely independent and privately owned. Two affiliated companies HYDROMOD Service Ltd. based in Hannover (responsible for field measurements and surveys) and OSAT Ltd. based in Heist (responsible for logistics and other supportive measures) supplement HYDROMOD's activities. By this a broad range of services and expertise in marine and aquatic environment topics can be provided.

The companies' main activities and services comprise:

• Provision of marine and oceanographic expertise for consulting purposes,
• conduction of consulting studies including risk and hazard analysis and environmental impact assessment,
• numerical modelling and system simulation of marine - and more generally - aquatic environments,
• operational modelling and forecasting,
• marine and environmental information systems,
• support of monitoring activities with system simulation, modelling and data processing,
• conduction of field measurements and surveys,
• data processing and evaluation,
• system and software design and development,
• data and information management,
• support of scientific research and RTD projects,
• transfer of basic research results into applications,
• chartering, furbishing and project related operation of research and survey vessels,
• organisation and management of large and multi-disciplinary RTD projects.

 
Ice formation impressions - heavy pack ice (left) and sail of a large ridge 

Images courtesy of K.D. Pfeiffer, HYDROMOD

Clients of HYDROMOD are public organisations like the European Commission, the German Federal Ministry of Education & Research (bmb+f) and the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Country Ministries and/or their subordinated administrations, port authorities and operators as well as the offshore oil and gas industry and other companies with activities in oceans, shelf seas, estuaries, rivers or lakes.

The company maintains an effective network of co-operation both with other service and consulting firms and with public research institutions and universities in Germany, Europe and overseas. This ensures provision of competent services  and tailored expertise in full compliance with task related specifications and requirements of our clients.

HYDROMOD's activities have a strong research and development component to keep up with newest technological developments and to ensure state of the art services at the front edge of technology. Among these the company has initialised and managed two EUREKA projects (EUROMAR-OPMOD and EUROMAR-MICSOS) and is active in European and national research and development programmes and frameworks. Within other RTD activities of the European Commission HYDROMOD is strongly engaged in the Marine Science and Technology Programme (MAST). Thereunder the company has initiated, co-ordinates and manages one project (MAST III OPCOM), was involved as research partners in three other MAST III projects (PROMISE, C-STAR, PROVESS) being operative until 1999. Presently HYDROMOD contributes significantly and supports the co-ordination of the still ongoing MAST III Concerted Action CARTUM. In the Fifth Framework Programme HYDROMOD has initiated and co-ordinates the large RTD project EUROLAKES.
 

 
Scientific and technical research support provided on the German Research Vessel R/V Sonne for research, environmental impact assessment and feasibility surveys in deep sea ocean mining and mineral resource exploration (left - image courtesy of J. Post, HYDROMOD Service Ltd). 

The right image shows a survey vessel chartered, fitted and operated for a research cruise conducted by GEOMAR Research Centre for which a long range sidescan sonar system was installed to support a site survey in the Greenland Sea in preparation of the Ocean Drilling Programme 

Left images courtesy of J. Post (HYDROMOD Service GmbH)
Right image courtesy of K.D. Pfeiffer (OSAT GmbH)

HYDROMOD has obtained competence in data and information management topics. Already in 1993, in the beginning of data and information management services for European research projects, HYDROMOD was a consortium member and contracted by the European Commission for data an information management services to the Mediterranean Targeted Project (MAST II - MTP-I) which clustered 14 European RTD projects in the Mediterranean region. Presently the company is engaged as contractor in several marine data management projects on the European and national scale. On subcontract of the Finnish Energy company FORTUM Oil and Gas Oy, Shipping, HYDROMOD conducts major parts of the data and information management work for the marine and arctic transportation research and demonstration project ARCDEV - Arctic Demonstration and Exploratory Voyage. Another data management activity serves the marine and coastal environmental research MAST III project F-ECTS. Within the project SeaNet Data Interface (SNDI), HYDROMOD is a member of the project's task force and responsible for elaboration of system specifications and development contributions for a communication system for operational data exchange among marine and hydrographic agencies from presently six European countries. HYDROMOD was also responsible for data and information management in the LOLEIF project.
 
 

 
The famous Arctic vulcan on Jan Mayen Island (left) in bright mid-summer sunlight during a research cruise with the German research vessel R/V Meteor  and an iceberg encountered in the Frans Josef Archipelago (right) on a polar cruise with the Russian nuclear icebreaker Yamal.

Images courtesy of K.D. Pfeiffer, HYDROMOD

HYDROMOD's role and activities in the STRICE Project

HYDROMOD leads the work package Data and information management (WP 8).

The institution contributes to the work packages End user workshop (WP 1) 
and Reporting and dissemination of results (WP 9).

• General support of the project in data and information management issues and topics,
• harmonisation and optimisation of data and information exchange among the project participants,
• set-up, operation and maintenance of the STRICE web site,
• merging of project data and information into a comprehensive collection,
• dissemination of intermediate and final data resulting from the on a CD-ROMs among the project teams,
• merging of final project data, information and results, their combination with assessment, retrieval, and visualisation tools and publication on CD-ROMs.

Contacts
 

HYDROMOD Scientific Consulting GbR HYDROMOD Scientific Consulting Postfach (P.O. Box) 12 29 D -22871 Wedel, Germany Residence: Bahnhofstr. 52 D - 22880 Wedel, Germany    Tel.: +49 4103 9 12 23 - 0  Fax.: +49 4103 9 12 23 - 23 Email: info@hydromod.de WWW: www.hydromod.de

For information regarding HYDROMOD's participation  in the STRICE project:  Dipl.-Ozeanogr. Klaus D. Pfeiffer STRICE Data Manager Email: pfeiffer@hydromod.de Dirk Goldmann Data and Information Technology Services  Email: goldmann@hydromod.de Project specific email address: Email:  STRICE@hydromod.de

For further information please visit also HYDROMOD's web site.
 
 

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