Suchergebnisse

The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) has lived through a period of intense unrest during most of 2006. This was a consequence of the decision by the Danish Government in 2005 to carry out a major reorganisation of the Danish research world. The aim was to improve the quality and competitiveness of Danish universities and research organisations (such as GEUS), by means of a fusion of universities and the merging of independent research institutions with the universities. At the conclusion of this process all but three of the major government research institutions were merged with the universities in Århus and Copenhagen, and the Technical University in Lyngby. For many reasons, one being the special tasks that GEUS is responsible for in Greenland, the Government decided that GEUS should continue as one of these three independent national research institutions.

Following the expected ratification in 2004 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS from 1982), Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands have a period of maximum 10 years to make claims beyond 200 nautical miles (NM) in five potential areas off Greenland and the Faroe Islands (Fig. 1). In order to provide the necessary database, the Danish Continental Shelf Project has been launched by the Ministry for Science, Technology and Innovation in cooperation with the Faroese and Greenland Home Rule governments. Several institutions are participating in this project, with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) as the coordinator of the technical work for the Greenland part of the project, and sharing the responsibility for coordination of the Faroese part with the Faroese Geological Survey (JFS).