Faculty of Geosciences

FB5

Faculty of
Geosciences

FB5

Research Areas

Earth system research: interaction between continents, oceans, ice, atmosphere, and biosphere; climate phases, natural and human drivers; effects on sea level, polar regions, and tropics; sediment archives; University of Bremen.

Coastal and
Ocean Dynamics

Coastal and sedimentary systems: from ripples to canyons; driven by tides, waves, currents and slope processes; deep-sea sediments and biogenic controls; impacts of coastal protection, bottom trawling, deep-sea mining; MARUM.

Coastal and
Sedimentary Systems

Earth`s water-air-rock-life interactions: microbes drive CO2 uptake and nutrient cycles; from hydrothermal vents to sediments and coral reefs; isotope tracers read natural archives of past biogeochemical change.

Marine Geology-
Geochemistry-
Geobiology

Dynamic Earth: plate tectonics from mid-ocean ridges to mountains, seafloor mapping and geophysics, plate motion and magmatism, exhumation, water-rock reactions, zeolites, resources.

Solid Earth and
Geomaterials

pplied Geology: resources and engineering; environment and CO2-neutral energy; natural hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, floods); exploration, mapping and monitoring; hydrogeology, engineering geology, geotechnics, mineralogy.

Applied Geology

List of research groups in the Faculty of Geosciences

Research Groups

Partners and collaborations: 25 years of worldwide research, cooperation with host and coastal countries, leading marine, polar and geoscience centers in Europe and overseas, joint expeditions, workshops and publications, open to new partnerships.

Research Groups

Geoscience Collection: fossils, rocks, minerals and mollusk shells, cataloging, preparation, research; core since 1994 from the Übersee-Museum Bremen collection; networked databases; paleontology focus: acquisitions, exchanges, excavations.

Geosciences Collection

Programme und Partner

MARUM, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen

AWI Bremerhaven: Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

MPI Bremen – Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Senckenberg – Society for Nature Research

ZMT Bremen – Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research

Fraunhofer IWES – Institute for Wind Energy Systems: R&D and testing of wind turbines, rotor blades, drivetrains and nacelles, offshore/onshore, measurement, modeling, validation, grid integration.

University of Waikato – Earth Sciences

GDfB - Geologischer Dienst Bremen

Ocean Drilling Programs at MARUM

ECORD Science

MARUM Research Academy

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