Algal Bloom
in the Baltic Seas (13.7.2005), Source: ESA/Envisat
- Part of the Research Center Ocean Margins at Bremen University is one of six centers of excellence funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in Germany.
- Established in 2001 it conducts research on the transitional zones between our oceans and continents.
- The Research Center is cooperating with various University departments
- the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (Marum),
- the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven,
- the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology,
- the Center for Tropical Marine Ecology and
- the Senckenberg Research Institute in Wilhelmshaven.
- Some 100 scientists work at the Research Center, which has rapidly become one of the world’s leading institutions for ocean research.
Potential contributions to GMES / GOB Bremen
- Marine/Maritime focus
- Physical and biological processes at the sea/atmosphere interface and their role in climate change
- Mapping of algal blooms (classification of species, spatial and temporal distribution worldwide)
- Monitoring of eolian dust transportation
- Mapping of hydrocarbon emissions from sea bed
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