Current Projects

JPIOceans Mining Impact
Ecological aspects of deep-sea mining

BASE-LiNE Earth
B
rachiopods As SEnsitive tracers of gLobal mariNe Environment: Insights from alkaline, alkaline Earth metal, and metalloid trace element ratios and isotope systems

ROBEX
The Helmholtz Alliance “Robotic Exploration of Extreme Environments – ROBEX” brings together space and deep-sea research.

FLOWS
Impact of Fluid circulation in old oceanic Lithosphere on the seismicity of transfOrm-type plate boundaries: neW solutions for early seismic monitoring of major European Seismogenic zones. FLOWS is implemented as COST Action ES1301

MIDAS
Managing Impacts of Deep-seA reSource exploitation

MEDGATE
How did the sea get so salty? Beneath the Mediterranean Sea lies a layer of salt more than one kilometre thick. Where did this salt come from? A European research project is trying to find out.

BOXCAR
Biogeochemical investigations in anoxic Cariaco Basin sediments. Funded by BMBF, period Nov 2014 - Oct 2016. Contact: <link de mitarbeiter fb2 mg adale _blank einen externen link in einem neuen>Andrew Dale.

SPP 1319
Biological transformations of hydrocarbons without oxygen: from the molecular to the global scale, DFG Priority Programme

UNEP/GRID-Arendal
E-book and book about gas hydrates for public outreach and decision makers. "Frozen Heat - A global outlook on methane gas hydrates"

PERGAMON
Permafrost and gas hydrate related methane release in the Arctic and impact on climate change: European cooperation for long-term monitoring

SFB 754
Climate-Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean, DFG Collaborative Research Centre

The Future Ocean
DFG Cluster of Excellence

SFB 574
Volatiles and Fluids in Subduction Zones: Climate Feedback and Trigger Mechanisms for Natural Disasters, DFG Collaborative Research Centre

CHARON
Marine carbonate archives: controls on carbonate precipitation and pathways of diagenetic alteration, DFG Research Unit

Characterization and Energy Production Strategies of Gas Hydrate Deposits in the Northern South China Sea
Helmholtz-CAS Joint Research Group (Partners: GIEC-CAS, GFZ)

MICROBIOIL
Microbial degradation of hydrocarbons in petroleum‐impacted marine sediments,
Industry Project (RWE)

Microbial methane consumption in contrasting ocean environments:
Effects of elevated seepage and geochemical boundary conditions, D-A-CH Projekt (SNF-Lead)

Bubble Shuttle
Transport Methan-oxidierender Mikroorganismen aus dem Sediment in die Wassersäule über Gasblasen, DFG Projekt

SUGAR Projekt
Submarine Gas Hydrate Reservoirs
1. phase & 2. phase & 3. phase

TRION
"Stable isotopes of strontium as a new proxy for continental weathering, pedogenesis processes and seawater temperature"