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The sea level has reached our Faculty

Since March 2019, Alessio Rovere has been head of the junior research group ´Sea-Level and Coastal Changes´ at MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen. In April 2020 he was appointed as ´Professor´ according to §17 BremHG. In November, he and his group moved to the third floor of our faculty (GEO2). We congratulate Alessio on his appointment and warmly welcome him in our building! We are pleased that the paths to "sea level and coastal research" have now drastically shortened for everyone working at the department. And that with Alessio´s inspiring teaching and scientific enthusiasm, the bright Mediterranean sun, which has been steadily rising in GEO2 for several years now, will make our beloved North German cloud cover shine even more beautifully!
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Graduation Ceremony Faculty 5

On 11th of December, it`s time again: the Department of Geosciences bids farewell to its 2019/20 graduates in a festive ceremony - this year as a video conference. A total of 26 Bachelor`s and 55 Master`s students have graduated. At the ceremony, the prizes for the best theses will also be awarded. This year, 6 prize winners are selected.
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Bem vindo Gustavo

Since 1st November 2020, the Isotope Geochemistry Group welcomes Dr. Gustavo Macedo de Paula Santos as a new member. Previously a postdoctorl researcher at the University of Campinas (Brazil), Gustavo has taken over from Dr. Friedrich Lucassen as an expert in the application of radiogenic and stable isotope systems to unveil environmental changes in Earth’s history. He is currently interested on how continental weathering evolved through time, and focusses on major climatic and tectonic changes and its impact over life evolution. Gustavo will also be involved in teaching, aiming to share his knowledge in geochemistry and earth system change. A warm welcome and a good start!
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Sarah Koopmann receives the "Preis Hydrogeologie" of the FH-DGGV

Sarah Koopmann, research associate in the Department of Geochemistry and Hydrogeology, is awarded for her outstanding master thesis „Eisen- und Mangankonzentrationen im Grundwasser der Bremer Niederung – Analyse der beeinflussenden Prozesse“ (Iron and manganese concentrations in the groundwater of the Bremer Niederung - analysis of the controlling processes). The Hydrogeology Section of the German Geological Society awards the prize of 1500 euros once a year for the best master´s thesis with a hydrogeological topic. We congratulate Sarah and wish her continued success.
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Orientation Week

Oct. 26 - 30, 2020

A warm welcome! You have decided to study at the Geosciences Department of the University of Bremen. We are very pleased about that. During the orientation days, we will provide you with all the information you need about your studies and give you the opportunity to get to know yourself and us a little bit. This year, the orientation days take place in a hybrid form - digitally and on campus. The program and the link to our video conference can be found by clicking on
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Einführung in das Studium der Geowissenschaften – Vom Kies zum Kontinent

Der Fachbereich Geowissenschaften lädt seine Studienanfänger*innen zur Einführungsveranstaltung „Vom Kies zum Kontinent“ herzlich ein. Im Rahmen des dreitägigen Workshops kommen die Studienanfänger*innen mit fortgeschrittenen Studierenden zusammen. Gemeinsam diskutieren sie über Studium und Geowissenschaften, nehmen an einer kurzen Exkursion teil, lösen kleinere geologische Probleme und präsentieren ihre Ergebnisse. Dabei kommen typische Methoden zum Einsatz und erste geowissenschaftliche Kenntnisse werden erworben. (only available in German)
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Mask compulsory from October 5th in the GEO building

From October 5th you must wear a mouth and nose protector in the corridors, toilets, stairs and elevators of the GEO building. In addition, the current hygiene and distance regulations of the university management remain in force.
Our three PhD students Wanzhang, Shettima and Adrian like to wear their masks!
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Focus issue "Rhenish Slate Mountains" published

The research focus of the department is far from the Palaeozoic. In teaching, however, we are broadly based and also deal with rocks from the Palaeozoic. A trilobite found by the dean Prof. Wolfgang Bach during a student excursion in the Sauerland region of Germany, brought up the idea to compile a special issue of the journal "Fossils - Experience Earth history" about the Rhenish Slate Mountains - and thus mainly on the Devonian. This issue has now been published.
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Benvenuto Marcello!

Benvenuto Marcello! Since 1.9. 2020 our department has been strengthened in the research of sedimentary systems. The first person to join the new staff category "Researcher/Senior-Researcher" in the Department of Geosciences is Dr. Marcello Gugliotta, who previously worked as a postdoc at the Geological Survey of Japan and Shimane University. Marcello is interested in sedimentation processes in rivers, coastal areas and shallow marine environments and studies both recent and fossil systems. With his research interests he builds a bridge between applied topics and basic research. Marcello will also be involved in teaching and will certainly provide new impulses. We warmly welcome Marcello and look forward to working with him.
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Gerhard Bohrmann receives Gustav Steinmann Medal

Gerhard Bohrmann, Professor at the Department of Geosciences and head of the research group "General - Marine Geology" is awarded for his outstanding overall performance in geosciences with the Gustav Steinmann Medal of the German Geological Society - Geologische Vereinigung (DGGV). Gerhard Bohrmann has been studying marine geological processes for more than three decades. His main interest is the exploration of the deep sea and especially of gas hydrates and cold seeps on the seafloor. We congratulate Gerhard Bohrmann and wish him further exciting results and much success.
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Tilo von Dobeneck receives award for outstanding teaching

The German Geophysical Society (DGG) honors Tilo von Dobeneck, Professor at the Department of Geosciences and head of the working group "Marine Geophysics" with the "Prize for Excellent Teaching" 2020. The prize and the associated medal are awarded on the recommendation of students of the Geophysical Action Program (GAP) to teachers of geophysics who distinguish themselves through special commitment and high quality of their teaching. Tilo von Dobeneck has been dedicating himself with great enthusiasm to teaching at our department since 1993. He has played a central role in the reforms of our study programs and has contributed innovative impulses to the new study structures. We are very pleased about this award and congratulate Tilo von Dobeneck very warmly.
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Alfred Treibs Medal for Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Professor at the Department of Geosciences and head of the research group "Organic Geochemistry" at MARUM receives the Alfred Treibs Medal 2020. With this award, the Geochemical Society honors Prof. Dr. Hinrichs´ many years of research and his significant findings on the understanding of microbial life and the interactions between microbial processes and material cycles of the earth. We congratulate Kai-Uwe Hinrichs and wish him and his group further exciting research results and much success.
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10 Videos for Prospective Students

If you are thinking about studying geosciences in Bremen, we have a few videos for you, explaining the different focuses of the Geosciences Bachelor and the study course in general. You can find them permanently on the YouTube-Channel of the StugA-Geowissenschaften and linked under:
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Bremen Polarstern expedition in the Google Arts

With extraordinary photographs, 360 degree images, videos, interviews and reports, the expedition of the research vessel POLARSTERN takes us to the waters around South Georgia and the South Sandwich Volcanic Islands. The mission: Exploring the ocean bottom in the Antarctic waters to investigate hot and cold vents, because little is known about the seabed in this difficult-to-access area.
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Janina Groninga is scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation

Janina Groninga, master student in our Marine Geosciences program, will receive the prestigious scholarship of The Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes – German Academic Scholarship Foundation. It awards scholarships to outstanding students, irrespective of their political, ideological or religious convictions and affiliations. In line with its statutes, it supports "the university education of young people who, on account of their exceptional academic or artistic talents and their personalities, can be expected to make an outstanding contribution to society as a whole".
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Fossil identification chart published

As part of its public relations work, but also for teaching, the Geosciences Collection has published a identification chart. It contains 80 images of the most common Cretaceous ammonites. A further identification map of the most important Jurassic ammonites was produced by the Staatliches Museum Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart. These are the first identification charts of a new series of folding maps on fossils, published by Quelle and Meyer Verlag in Wiebelsheim. They are compact (DIN-long format) and therefore "always in your pocket". They show the essential characteristics of the organisms treated - in each case in comparison to similar species. And they are inexpensive. Up to now, only non-geoscientific topics have been covered, such as identification maps of aquatic and coastal birds, amphibians and native beetles. The price of all determination maps of the publishing house program is 3,95 € each, maps available in sets of 10 are 20 € each. Whoever is interested in the fossil maps can contact the collection.
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Changeover in the Sedimentology research group

Since the first of April, Elda Miramontes has been head of the Sedimentology research group at our department. The previous head of the department, Rüdiger Henrich, has been transferred into well-deserved retirement on 31 March. Due to the current situation, the corresponding certificate could not yet be handed over, but we would like to thank Rüdiger Henrich very, very much for his many years of tireless and extraordinarily committed work in research and teaching at our department and for the many positive impulses that emanated from him.
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Important announcement: Emergency mode

By order of the Chancellor, the GEO building will be closed from March 25 until April 19 except for emergency operations. The heads of the research groups have already been informed and will regulate further matters of relevance to the individual groups. The examination office, the administration of third-party funds, the personnel administration and the departmental administration will continue to be (emergency) staffed. It will be prevented that, for example, contract extensions do not come about and people lose their jobs as a result. Laboratory operations are to be discontinued. Only essential activities that are necessary to prevent valuable instruments or computer/data clusters from being damaged (e.g. due to a lack of cooling, etc.) can be carried out. The working group leaders have nominated persons for this work, who are put on a list of personnel for emergency operation. Persons who are not on this list cannot enter the GEO building from Wednesday 25.3. until April 19.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Bach for the dean’s office and the department administration
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Corona information

Dear Sirs and madams,
Dear colleagues,
Dear students,
due to the current Corona-Situation please see the information of the University: https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/information-on-the-novel-coronavirus/ Please see in addition the mails from the Dean, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bach, which were sent on March 13th and 14th. If you have further questions don´t hesitate to ask the faculty administration, via Mail.
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Katharina Bachmann receives the Otto Krümmel Promotion Prize for excellent bachelor thesis

With the Otto Krümmel Prize, the Society for the Promotion of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel supports and motivates young marine science students who hold their first professional qualification in their hands with a bachelor´s degree. This year Katharina Bachmann received one of the two Otto Krümmel Prizes worth 1,500 EURO for her bachelor´s thesis "Gas emission sites at the continental margin of Romania", which she produced in our department and at MARUM 2018. As part of this marine geological bachelor thesis, she evaluated hydro-acoustic data from Meteor cruise M142 to the Romanian continental margin of the Black Sea and carried out an analysis of the gas emissions and their interaction with sediment structures. The department is pleased about the award to Katharina Bachmann and wishes her continued success and joy in her master studies on "Climate Resreach", which she is currently completing at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
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Romain Jattiot: New Postdoc in the Geosciences Collection

Romain Jattiot came from the university of Dijon respectively Zürich to work with us. In the framework of an Alexander von Humboldt-foundation scholarship he is Postdoc in the Geosciences Collection and is going to work about ammonites from the latest Early Cretaceous.
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„World of rocks“ - full success of the event in Bremen-Walle

For the first time, the Friends of the Geosciences Collection organised a weekend about fossils and minerals at the Brodelpott Cultural Centre in Bremen Walle on 29 February and 1 March 2020. The event, which was widely announced in the regional press, was primarily intended for interested people from the regional environment. However, it even attracted visitors from Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia. So the small former sports hall in the Brodelpott was already well filled on Saturday morning.
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We welcome Miriam Ahrenholz as head of the department administration

Since 1 February, our department has a new head of administration in Miriam Ahrenholz. Ms. Ahrenholz has already been employed at the University of Bremen since 2005 and previously worked in the legal department, where she was responsible for the election management, the processing of applications for work and fee contracts, and the management of the ethics committee. She studied Medieval and Modern History at the Philipps University of Marburg and graduated with a Magistra Artium in 2007. Between 2008 and 2012 she completed the "European Business and Administration Study Program" at the Hochschule Bremen and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. We are extremely pleased to have won over Ms. Ahrenholz, an administrative manager who knows university matters well from both the student and administrative levels. We wish Ms. Ahrenholz the best possible start in this new office.
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Geoscientific colloquium on January 29th, 2019

The next talk of the geoscientific colloquium in the winter term 2020 takes place on Wednesday January 29th at 12:15 in the lecture hall of the GEO building. Prof. Dr. Elda Miramontes Garcia will speak about "Current-controlled sedimentation in deep-water systems: past, present and future challenges". Abstract:
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Mysteries of the Arctic

Master Conference 13th and 14th of February 2019

The Master students organize another joint Conference in the first year of the master programs Geosciences & Marine Geosciences. The 7th International Master Conference deals with the Mysteries of the Arctic and will be held on 13.-14.02. 2020 in the large lecture hall GEO 1550.
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Geoscientific colloquium on January 22nd, 2019

The next talk of the geoscientific colloquium in the winter term 2020 takes place on Wednesday January 22nd at 12:15 in the lecture hall of the GEO building. Prof. Dr. Morten H. Iversen will speak about "Seasonal and regional variations in the biological carbon pump". Abstract:
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