Dr. Joanna Staneva

Dr. Joanna Staneva

Hydrodynamics and Data Assimilation

Head of Department

Phone: +49 (0)4152 87-1804

Fax: +49 (0)4152 87-41804

E-mail contact

Research
Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Recent Research Topics: Circulation and wave modelling, coastal ocean predictions, coupled model systems, modelling of marine environment, wave dynamics, coastal and regional oceanography.
Projects: Principle Investigator of national and international projects:

EU-FP5 Project: NUtrient Management in the DAnube Basin and its Impact on the Black Sea –DANUBS. Responsible for the modeling work package.

EU-FP6 Project: ASSEMBLAGE: ASSEssMent of the BLAck Sea sedimentary system since the last Glacial Extreme, EVK3-CT-2002-00090

EU-FP6 Project: Proposal N° 036949-2 SESAME: “Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem Changes” (2006-2010)

EU-FP6 Project: Proposal N° 036355-2 ECOOP: “European COastal-shelf sea OPerational observing and forecasting system (2007-2010)

DFG Research Project: “BioGeoChemistry of Tidal Flats” (2007-2009)

Monitoring and planning support of the German Bight, German Science Foundation
Project (2010-2012)

EU-FP7 UPGRDE BS-SCENE - BLACK SEA SCIENTIFIC NETWORK, 226592

EU-FP7 PERSEUS: Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research in the Southern EUropean Seas, 287600

EU-FP7 CoCoNET: Towards COast to COast NETworks of marine protected areas (from the shore to the high and deep sea), coupled with sea-based wind energy potential, Nr. 287844

German Funded Project: WIMO „Wissenschaftliche Monitoringkonzepte für die Deutsche Bucht, German Project“ - Monitoring Concepts for the German Bight‘
Responsible for TP19.4 in EU-FP7-MyOcean-2 Project : coupling wave and circulation models

Responsible for TP19.4 in EU-Horizon2020 MyOcean-FO Project: coupling wave and circulation models

PI of COPERNICUS BS-MFC Project – Hereon is responsible for the wave modelling

Coordinator of COPERNICUS SE Project WAVE2NEMO

PI of CEASELESS H2020 project

Task Leader ESM

Curriculum Vitae

Since 11/2017 Group Leader: “Hydrodynamics and Data Assimilation”

Previous positions: 2013-2017 Senior scientist, Topic Coordinator “Wave Modelling, Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht (Hereon), Germany.

2007-2013 Scientist: Climate System, Institute for Coastal Research, Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht (Hereon), Germany.

2003-2007 PostDoc: Climate System Division, Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany, University of Oldenburg, Germany.

1999-2000 Scientist: National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgaria.

1998-1999 PostDoc: Écologie des Systèmes Aquatiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

1994-1998 Scientist: University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

Education and Training: 1998 PhD in Physical Oceanography, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria

1993 MSc in Meteorology and Geophysics, Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Sofia, Sofia Bulgaria

Schools: 1994 Regional Training Course on Strategies and Methodologies for Applied Marine Radioactivity and Environmental Isotope Studies for the Black Sea, Istanbul, Turkey.

1996 International School on Ecological Modelling. Erdemli, Turkey.

1998 NATO ASI on Ocean Modelling and parameterization, Les Houches, France.

1998 Course on Mediterranean Sea(s) Circulation and Ecosystem Functioning, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

2004 OceanWeather Forecasting. An Integrated view in Oceanography, La Londe Les Maures, France

Selected Activities: Member of different editorial and scientific boards and reviewer of scientific programmers, projects (H2020, DFG, FP7) and journals.

Coordinator of the CMEMS Service Evolution Project Wave2NAMO

Principle Investigator (PI) in many international (e.g. H2020, CMEMS, FP7, FP4-6) and national (BMBF, DFG) funded projects.

Member of the GODAE The Coastal Ocean and Shelf Seas Task Team (COSS-TT)

Member NEMO Developer steering committee

Expert in Wave-NEMO modelling working group

Publications 2020 - 2021

Publications 2018 - 2019

Publications 2016 - 2017

Publications 2011 - 2015

Publications 1995 - 2010

Barth A, Alvera-Azcárate A, Staneva J, Port A, Gurgel K-W, Beckers J-M, Stanev E. (2010): Ensemble perturbation smoother for optimizing tidal boundary conditions by assimilation of High-Frequency radar surface currents – application to the German Bight. Ocean Sci., 6, 161–178
Staneva, J., V. Kourafalou, and K. Tsiaras (2010): Seasonal and Interannual Variability of the North-Western Black Sea Ecosystem, Terr. Atmos. Ocean. Sci. Journal, 163-180
Tian, T., Merico, A., Su, J., Staneva, J., Wiltshire, K., Wirtz, K (2009): Importance of resuspended sediment dynamics for the phytoplankton spring bloom in a coastal marine ecosystem (2009), Journal Sea Research 62(4), 214-228
Tsiaras, K., V.H. Kourafalou, A. Davidov and J. Staneva (2008): A three-dimensional coupled model of the western Black Sea plankton dynamics: seasonal variability and comparison to SEAWIFS data. J. Geophys. Res, 113, C07007
Ribbe, J., Wolff, J.-O., Staneva, J., Gräwe, U., Assessing Ventilation Times Scales for Marine Environments from Three-Dimensional Modelling, A Case Study for Hervey Bay, Australia. Env. Modelling and Software, Vol. 23(10), 1217-1228
Staneva J.V., K. Bolding and H. Burchard (2005): A study of the German Bight circulation using a nested ocean circulation model, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 07920, 2005
Staneva, J.V., V.H. Kourafalou and K. Tsiaras, 2005. Modeling the seasonal cycle of the Northwestern black Sea ecosystem. Mediterranean Marine Systems, 1, 204, 133-142.
Kourafalou, V.H., K. Tsiaras and J.V. Staneva , 2005. Numerical studies on the dynamics of the Northwestern Black Sea shelf. Mediterranean Marine Systems, 1, 204,-121-133.
Kourafalou, V., K. Tsiaras and J. Staneva, 2004, Numerical studies on the dynamics of the Nortwestern Black Sea shelf, Med. Mar. Sci., Vol.5/1, 133-142.
Stanev E., J. Staneva, J. L. Bullister, J.W. Murray, 2004, Ventilation of the Black Sea Pycnocline Inferred from Observed and Model Simulated Chlorofluorocarbon Data. Deep-Sea Res., 51(12), 2137–2169
Staneva, J., V.H. Kourafalou and E.V. Stanev, 2003. The response of the Black Sea ecosystem to changes of nutrient discharge from the Danube River. In: “Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea,” A. Yilmaz (ed.), Tubitak publ., Ankara, Turkey, pp. 307-313
Stanev E., M. Bowman, E. Peneva , and J. Staneva, 2003. Control of Black Sea intermediate water mass formation by dynamics and topography: comparisons of numerical simulations, survey and satellite data. Journal of Marine Research , 26, 69-99
Stanev, E. V., J. M. Beckers, Ch. Lancelot, J. V. Staneva, P. Y. Le Traon, E. L. Peneva and M. Gregoire, 2002, Coastal-open ocean exchange in the Black Sea: Observations and modeling. Estua. Coast and Shelf Sci., 54, 601-620
Lancelot, C. L., J. V. Staneva, D. Van Eeckhout, J.-M. Beckers, and E.V. Stanev, 2002, Modelling the Danube-influenced North-Western continental shelf of the Black Sea. Ecosystem response to changes in nutrient delivery by the Danube River after its damming in 1972. Estua. Coast and Shelf Sci., 54, 473-499
Beckers, J. M., M. L. Gregoire, J. C. J. Nihoul, E. Stanev, J. Staneva and C. Lancelot,, 2002. Modelling the Danube-influenced Nort-Western continrntal shelf of the Black Sea. I: Hydrodynamical processes simulated by 3-D and box models. Estua. Coast and Shelf Sci., 54, 453-472
Staneva, J. and E.V. Stanev, 2002. Water mass formation in the Black Sea during 1991-1995. J. Mar. Sys., 32, 199-218
Staneva, J., D. Dietrich, E. Stanev, and M. Bowman, 2001. Rim current and coastal eddy mechanisms in an eddy-resolving Black Sea general circulation model. J. Mar. Sys.3, 137-157
Schrum, C., J. Staneva, and E. Stanev, 2001. Black Sea surface climatological data for the period 1979-1993: A study based on the ECMWF atmospheric re-analysis. Berichte aus dem Zentrum für Meeres- und Klimaforschung, Reihe B: Oceanographie, Nr. 39, 74pp
Stanev, E, V, and J. V. Staneva, 2001. The sensitivity of the heat exchange at ocean surface to meso and sub-basin scale eddies. Model study for the Black Sea. Dyn. Atmos. and Oceans, 33, 163-189
Stanev, E.V., and J.V. Staneva., 2000. The impact of mesoscale eddies in the transitions of quasistable states in the circulation of the Black Sea. Ch. Mooers (editor), Special Issue in J. Mar. Sys., 24, 3-26
Peneva, E.V E.V. Stanev, E.K. Koleva, L. Krastev, and J.V. Staneva, 1999. Verification of high resolution climatic simulations for the area of Bulgaria. Part II: Intercomparison between UKMO, HIRHAM and ARPEGE simulations and climatic data for the period 1961-1990. Bulg. J. Meteorol. and Hydrol, 7, 84-102
Staneva J.V., E.V. Stanev and T. Oguz, 1998 The Impact of Atmospheric Forcing and Water Column Stratification on the Yearly Plankton Cycle, NATO- in: T. Oguz and L. Ivanov (eds.) NATO-ASI Kluwer academic publisher, 301-323
Stanev, E.V., J.V. Staneva and I.G. Gospodinov, 1998. Numerical tracer model of surface and intermediate water formation in the Black Sea. In: T. Oguz and L. Ivanov (eds.), NATO Series, Kluwer academic publisher; 197-221
Stanev, E.V., K.O. Buesseler, J.V. Staneva and H.D. Livingston, 1999. The fate of Chernobyl 90Sr in the Black Sea. Validation of numerical simulations against observed data. Journal of Envir. Radioactivity, 43, 2, 187-203
Staneva J.V., K.O. Buesseler, E.V. Stanev, and H.D. Livingston, 1999. Application of radiotracers to study Black Sea circulation: Validation of numerical simulations against observed weapon testing and Chernobyl 137Cs data. J. Geoph. Res., 104, 11099-11114
Staneva J.V. and E.V. Stanev, 1998. Oceanic Response to Atmospheric Forcing Derived from Different Climatic Data Sets. Intercomparison Study for the Black Sea. Oceanol. Acta, 21, 3, 393-417
Stanev, E.V, J.V. Staneva and V.M. Roussenov, 1997. On the Black Sea Water Mass Formation. Model Sensitivity Study to Atmospheric Forcing and to Parameterizations of some Physical Processes. J. Mar. Sys., 13, 245-272
Staneva, J.V. and E.V. Stanev, 1997. Cold water mass formation in the Black Sea and its sensitivity to horizontal resolution in numerical models. E. Ozsoy and A. Mikaelyan (eds.): Sensitivity of North Sea, Baltic Sea and Black Sea to anthropogenic and climatic changes, NATO Series, Kluwer academic publisher; 375-393
Stanev, E.V., V.M. Roussenov, N.H. Rachev and J.V. Staneva, 1995. Sea response to atmospheric variability. Model study for the Black Sea. J. Mar. Sys., 6, 241-267
Staneva, J. V., E.V. Stanev and N.H. Rachev, 1995. Heat balance estimates using atmospheric analysis data: A case study for the Black Sea. J. Geoph. Res., 100, C9, 18581-18596