The University of Bremen has long enjoyed an international reputation in the field of marine sciences. True to this tradition, recently a new center was founded for research and education in the area of marine ecological processes. “Bremen Marine Ecology – Center for Research and Education”, BreMarE for short – encompasses research groups for marine chemistry, microbial ecophysiology, marine botany, and marine zoology embedded in the Faculty of Biology/Chemistry. Director of the center is Wilhelm Hagen, since 1998 Professor of Marine Zoology at the University of Bremen.
Scientists working at BreMarE carry out research on how marine organisms are adjusting to the changing living environment in the wake of climate change. They investigate the repercussions of these changes on marine food webs – from the tiniest bacteria to the whale, from the tropics to the polar regions, from the ocean margins to the deep sea.
Research on the marine ecology calls for interdisciplinary cooperation and the new center has a number of non-university partners, including the Center for Marine Ecological Sciences (MARUM), the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP), the Leibniz Center for Marine Tropical Ecology (ZMT), the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI), and the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).
Students also benefit
BreMarE lecturers assisted by professors and research personnel of these non-university institutes ensure that fresh research findings are transferred directly to students via lecture courses delivered at the University of Bremen. Currently, the Faculty of Biology/Chemistry offers four international study programs for undergraduate and Master’s students in the field of marine biology and marine chemistry.
Doctoral students are catered for in the recently granted EU-financed MARES Graduate School. MARES stands for "Marine Ecosystem Health and Conservation": A worldwide network of more than 20 universities and institutes of marine research. The University of Bremen is thus consolidating its claim to be one of the leading international locations for education in the field of marine biology.
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