The Geophysics Research Seminar has a long tradition at our faculty - this is where new members of the geophysics groups introduce themselves scientifically, initial expedition results are shared and doctoral students present their interim results. All interested students and faculty staff are cordially welcome to visit or contribute to the seminar.more »
On 5 April, the "FossilPit" was opened in Twistringen, 30 km south of Bremen. Visitors can now collect snails, bivalves and shark teeth from the Miocene. At the well-attended opening event, the Geosciences Collection was introduced as the body responsible for the palaeontological preservation of archaeological monuments, acting as an official assistant to the Geozentrum Hannover.more »
Dr. Firoz Badesab, now Senior Scientist at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography [CSIR-NIO], Goa, India, has returned as “Raman Research Fellow” to his former Marine Geophysics workgroup at our Faculty. Many will still remember, that Firoz earned his doctoral degree for his studies on magnetite enrichment at New Zealands’s coasts with INTERCOAST in 2012 and thereafter was postdoctoral researcher at MARUM until 2014.more »
Peter La Femina is Senior Scientist in the Geophysics Group at the AWI and is permanently dispatched to our department. A former Full Professor at The Pennsylvania State University, Peter has made seminal contributions to the fields of tectonics and volcanology. He strives to better understand tectonic and magmatic processes at active plate boundaries and their impact on society by combining terrestrial and satellite geodetic techniques with geophysical, geochemical, and geologic data.more »
In a recently published study, researchers from MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geosciences at the University of Bremen and the University of Oklahoma (USA) link changes in temperature and precipitation to pandemics. For the first time, they have created a high-resolution climate archive for the Gulf of Taranto (Italy) based on deposits on the ocean floor and compared it with pandemics in the Roman Empire.more »
Prof. Ella Schmidt - Junior Professor of Crystallography & Geomaterials at our faculty - has been awarded this year´s Max-von-Laue Prize. The award is presented by the German Society for Crystallography for "outstanding scientific work by young scientists in the field of crystallography". Ella Schmidt receives the award "in recognition of her work on a novel approach to the quantitative analysis of diffuse scattering using the three-dimensional difference pair distribution function".more »
Are you interested in applying to an international MSc program in Applied Geosciences, Marine Geosciences or Materials Science Chemistry and Mineralogy at the University of Bremen? Our geoscientific MSc study programs, which were refocused on new, future-oriented topics in 2021, are now starting their fourth round of applications!more »
Would you like to start a Bachelor´s degree in Geosciences or Marine Geosciences in the summer semester? You can still apply until January 15th! Information on how to apply can be found under the following links: https://www.geo.uni-bremen.de/page.php?pageid=853&langid=EN and https://www.geo.uni-bremen.de/page.php?pageid=854more »