Marum (University of Bremen)
| Marum - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences | |
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 Marum (University of Bremen) |
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| Category: | Research Center |
| Carrier: | University of Bremen |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Public corporation |
| Facility location: | Bremen |
| Type of research: | Basic research |
| Subjects: | Natural sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Geology , biology , oceanography , geochemistry , geophysics |
| Management: | Michael Schulz |
| Homepage: | www.marum.de |
The Marum - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (spelling: MARUM ) is a research facility of the University of Bremen . The Cluster of Excellence ›The Ocean Floor - Unexplored Interface of the Earth‹ is also located at the Marum . The focus at Marum is on the following three research fields:
tasks
In marine research, the research facility focuses on the areas of global change and sustainability:
“The MARUM gains fundamental scientific knowledge about the role of the ocean and the sea floor in the entire earth system. The dynamics of the ocean and the sea floor significantly shape the entire earth system through interactions between geological, physical, biological and chemical processes. This influences the climate and the global carbon cycle and creates unique biological systems. MARUM stands for fundamentally oriented and open-ended research that is responsible for society, for the benefit of the marine environment and in accordance with the sustainability goals of the United Nations. It publishes its quality-checked, scientific data and makes it freely accessible. MARUM informs the public about new findings on the marine environment and provides practical knowledge in dialogue with society. MARUM cooperates with companies and industrial partners while maintaining its goal of protecting the marine environment. "
The focus of research ranges from environmental changes in the tertiary to the effects of current coastal construction measures on sedimentation conditions and from microbial degradation processes in the sediment to extensive sediment slides on the continental slope to the processes that control gas and fluid escapes on the sea floor. In addition to research activities, the Marum provides infrastructure for external scientists, develops new technologies and trains doctoral students. According to the Federal Report on Research and Innovation 2008, "the scientific focus marine sciences with the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (Marum) at the University of Bremen is part of one of the largest, internationally recognized, interdisciplinary research focuses in the university and non-university sector".
new technologies
At the Marum, engineers and marine scientists develop research equipment together. This includes measuring and sampling devices for measurements and sampling on expeditions. These include, for example, the remote-controlled diving robot ( Remotely Operated Vehicle ) MARUM-QUEST . It penetrates to a depth of 4,000 meters and explores a. a. Mud volcanoes and cold water corals. With the Marum-MeBo seabed drilling rig, newly developed at the Marum, sediment cores up to 70 meters long can be extracted . The MARUM-MeBo200 , completed in 2014, can drill up to 200 meters into the sea floor in water depths of up to 2,700 meters. The autonomously operating submersible vehicle ( Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ) MARUM-Seal can dive 5,000 meters deep. Its fan-shaped echo sounder delivers precise maps from previously unknown regions of the sea.
PhD training
The international Bremen Graduate School for Marine Sciences Glomar (spelling: GLOMAR) is located under the umbrella of the Marum . Glomar offers doctoral candidates who are enrolled in marine sciences at the University of Bremen or who work at non-university marine research institutes in the state of Bremen a structured training program. The graduate school covers the field of marine science in the broadest sense. It therefore not only trains natural scientists, but also social and legal scientists who deal with socially relevant aspects of the seas and coasts. The aim of Glomar is to prepare young scientists to independently increase their knowledge of the role of the ocean in the Earth system, which of course also includes humans. Based on a structured curriculum and integrated into research projects, they are trained to become experts in their respective fields. They should be able to develop research perspectives that go beyond the boundaries of their own specialist discipline, integrated into international networks.
Science communication
The Marum is committed to a. in the field of exhibitions. In cooperation with partners from the business world, the “Sea Experience” exhibition was developed at the Marum and has been shown in large shopping centers since 2009. In addition, the research institution has to sea-oriented permanent exhibitions u. a. in the Deutsches Museum Munich , the Ozeaneum Stralsund and the International Maritime Museum Hamburg . - Marum has been represented on YouTube with the MarumTV channel since 2008 . Around 100 short films on marine research will be presented there; many of them contain deep-sea recordings made with the submersible Marum-Quest on expeditions in the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Atlantic or Indian Ocean. - The Marum university laboratory offers courses on geo and marine science topics. Special courses are aimed at kindergartens and primary schools or at pupils with disabilities. In addition, the school laboratory u. a. Further training for educators and teachers.
Data archiving and core storage
Together with the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, the research facility operates an information system in which data from earth system research is archived and published. Since the system is intended to promote a holistic view of the earth, it is named after the supercontinent in which all continents were united 200 million years ago: PANGEA . The Marum maintains two stores for drill cores extracted from the seabed on expeditions. The core repository of the International Ocean Discovery Program IODP contains cores that were drilled on international expeditions of the IODP in the Atlantic and its Mediterranean and tributaries. - The Marum and the Geosciences Department of the University of Bremen conduct their own expeditions. Another storage facility is available for sediment or solid rock cores that were extracted on these trips with the help of gravity, vibro and piston plumbing or seabed drilling equipment.
Cooperations
The research institution cooperates with other German and international research institutions. These include the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, the Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel , Ifremer (France), the Center Southampton, Great Britain, the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research NIOZ, the Netherlands, and in the USA the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography .
Web links
- MARUM website
- MARUM YouTube channel
- International Graduate School GLOMAR
- Marum University Laboratory
- Department of Geosciences at the University of Bremen
- German Marine Research Consortium
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- ↑ Marum website: [1] , accessed October 10, 2019
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Education and Research : Federal Report on Research and Innovation 2008 , page 334
- ↑ Glomar Graduate School
Coordinates: 53 ° 6 '37.3 " N , 8 ° 51' 3.7" E