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Marine science in Bremen is excellent: University of Bremen successful in the Excellence Strategy

Sep 27, 2018

“The Ocean Floor – Earth's Uncharted Interface”, a science cluster by the University of Bremen, was selected in the framework of the German Excellence Strategy and will be funded for seven years from 2019 onwards. The research project is housed at the MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences of the University of Bremen, where excellent marine and deep-sea research has been carried out for almost 20 years. Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology are part of the cluster in various projects.

“We are de­lighted that we can open a new chapter in ocean floor re­search with the new ap­proved cluster,” says MARUM Dir­ector Pro­f. Mi­chael Schulz, who is also the cluster’s spokes­per­son. “Over the next seven years, we will ex­plore ex­change pro­cesses on the ocean floor that play a key role in the Earth’s sys­tems. The fo­cus of our activ­it­ies will be on the deep sea,” says Schulz.

 

Numerous researchers from all departments of the Max Planck Institute in Bremen are involved in this research cluster.

 

Further information can be found in the accompanying press release of MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences.

The manipulator of the diving robot MARUM-QUEST takes a geological sample at a depth of 530 meters northwest of the Azores island of São Miguel.
The manipulator of the diving robot MARUM-QUEST takes a geological sample at a depth of 530 meters northwest of the Azores island of São Miguel. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
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