A team of international geosciences graduate students establishing the EAGE Student Chapter at the University of Bremen.

The European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers (EAGE) is a multi-disciplinary professional association with a worldwide membership. In June of this year, an international team of enthusiastic geoscience graduate students met to establish an EAGE Student Chapter at the University of Bremen (SC Bremen). The team represents various disciplines of Geosciences in particular, Geophysics, Biogeochemistry, Sedimentology, Petrology, Hydrogeology, and Geotechnical Engineering. Over the years, the University of Bremen has become one of the main hubs of marine geoscientific and continental margin research in Europe. The university offers motivated students exceptional opportunities to explore, in-depth, the diverse fields of marine geosciences. However, a divide currently exists between students and industrial sectors. Therefore, the primary intention behind organizing this Student Chapter is to collaborate with other institutions, industrial sectors, and to establish an active partnership with the global Student Chapter community. The EAGE platform will provide SC Bremen students focusing on marine projects with enormous opportunities to demonstrate their marine geoscientific research capabilities to both local and international geoscience companies. SC Bremen hopes that through these healthy relationships, not only comprehensive dialogues between university students and professional experts will be established, but geoscience students will also be exposed to information regarding opportunities outside of academia. In that regard, both student and industrial recruitment days will be orchestrated annually, where regional and local companies will be hosted at the department. Additionally, biannual field trips will also be coordinated for the department’s students. Through these initiatives, SC Bremen will meet its mission of establishing a concrete platform for bringing department students and industry together; bridging the divide between the academic and professional realm. Names of the first members of SC Bremen are: Sophie Möllenbeck, Janin Scheplitz, Anne-Christin Melcher, Johanna Pavlak, Janina Bösche, Alexander Rösner, Florian Stähler (front row left to right) and Timm Clausen, Niroshan Gajendra, Awais Saeed, Burhan Senyener, Patrick Boyden, Connor Schulze, Fynn Warnke, Bernd Oefner, Stefan Wenau, Stefan Langlotz (back row left to right).