Current Projects

ºÚÁÏÊÓÆµâ€™s institutional funding is provided by the Programme-oriented Funding () of the Helmholtz Association. Together with other Helmholtz Centres in the research field , ºÚÁÏÊÓÆµ has developed a joint research programme: „Changing Earth – Sustaining our Future“.

In addition, ºÚÁÏÊÓÆµ collaborates with numerous partners at local, national, and international level in third-party funded projects. These projects are essential to drive scientific innovation and enable specialised research across disciplinary and national boundaries.



Research missions of the German Marine Research Alliance (DAM)

The transdisciplinary research missions of the German Marine Research Alliance () address pressing and socially relevant challenges in marine science. ºÚÁÏÊÓÆµ participates in all three DAM research missions. The CDRmare mission on marine carbon storage is coordinated at ºÚÁÏÊÓÆµ, as are several research consortia within all three missions.



ERC Grants 

The European Research Council () supports investigator-driven frontier research. ºÚÁÏÊÓÆµ is currently coordinating one ERC Advanced Grant and two ERC Synergy Grants. Recipients of Starting Grants and Consolidator Grants can be found on the page Early Career Research Groups.



Key Projects

Project Search (ongoing projects)

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Early diagenetic alteration of rare earth element and yttrium (REY) signals in marine sediments and impact on the use of REY as tracers in past and present marine environments

July, 2021 - July, 2026

Funding body: DFG

Contact: Sophie A. L. Paul

FUBLUC: Blasentang (Fucus spp.) als Blue Carbon-Kohlenstoffspeicher in der Ostsee

July, 2025 - June, 2030

Funding body: Other, Other

Contact: Frank Melzner

FUTURO: Future West African Marine Ecosystem

January, 2025 - December, 2030

Funding body: Other

Contact: Arne Körtzinger

Next generation multiplatform Ocean observing technologies for research infrastructures

January, 2023 - June, 2027

Funding body: EU

Contact: Tobias Steinhoff

CDRMare GEOSTOR 2: Submarine Carbon Dioxide Storage in Geological Formations of the German North Sea

August, 2024 - July, 2027

Funding body: BMBF

Contact: Klaus Wallmann

Historical and emerging contaminant trace elements and isotopes. Sources, fluxes and cycling of Pb isotopes, Pt, Tl, Te, Ag and Gd in the oceans – a contribution to GEOTRACES

December, 2024 - November, 2027

Funding body: DFG

Contact: Eric Achterberg

SO308: GEOTRACES-SIO

July, 2024 - December, 2026

Funding body: BMBF

Contact: Eric Achterberg

GhostNetBusters: Development of AI-based methods for detecting ghost nets on the seabed

June, 2024 - December, 2025

Funding body: Other

Contact: Mia Schumacher

Including intraspecific diversity of eDNA analyses to develop a new holistic approach for Environmental Status Assessments of the benthic deep-sea

January, 2024 - December, 2025

Funding body: EU

Contact: Henk-Jan T. Hoving

Systematic variations in the eruptive history of the Christiana-Santorini-Kolumbo volcanic field (Greece) - The IODP Expedition 398 tephra time series and its implications

October, 2023 - March, 2027

Funding body: DFG

Contact: Steffen Kutterolf

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