Personal Data & Research Fields
Present position
- Director of the Hereon Institute of Coastal Systems - Analysis and Modeling
- Professor at the University of Hamburg
Degrees
- Diploma in Oceanography, University of Hamburg, 1990. Thesis: Modellierung barokliner Instabilitäten an mesoskaligen Fronten
- Dr. rer. nat., Department of Geosciences, University of Hamburg, 1994. Thesis: Numerische Modellierung von thermodynamischen Prozessen in der Deutschen Bucht
Expertise and significant contributions
Schrum has a broad interdisciplinary expertise in coastal research. She has studied dynamics of various coastal systems, including adjacent seas, mediterranean seas, enclosed seas and estuaries addressing topics such as air-sea, land-ocean and ocean-shelf coupling. Using coupled modelling together with a broad range of observations as a primary research tool, she studies dynamics and decadal to multi-decadal variability of shelf systems. A significant part of Schrum´s research efforts went into the development of coupled models, resulting in one of the first regional coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean models, a NPZD-hydrodynamic model, an End-to-End ecosystem model and a coupled ground water-sea water model. Current focus of her research is the impact of multiple drivers on matter transport, marine ecosystems and organisms and the predictability potential for marine resources.
Schrum guided the compilation of a number of modeling databases and observational based gridded products, which have found their way into a wider research community and are distributed to the users via the ICES working group WGOOFE and through the coastDat model database.
Current projects
- CliCCS excellence cluster University of Hamburg (Steering Board Member, PI)
- HAICU-local AIM, Helmholtz Artificial Intelligence Local Hub for Research Field Earth and Environment (Coordinator)
- Helmholtz Excellence Network CliCCS (Coordinator, HGF-IVF)
- Reduced complexity models RedMod (Coordinator, HGF-IVF)
- Earth System Modelling (Steering Board Member, PI, HGF-IVF)
- SponGes (PI, EU H2020)
- MiMeMo (BMBF/NERC)
- CHESS - Chinese and European Coastal Shelf Seas Ecosystem Dynamics – a Comparative Assessment, Sino-German Mobility Program funded by DFG and NSFC, 01/2020-12/2022 (PI: Corinna Schrum and Wenyan Zhang)
- MarEns (BSH)