Marine Geodynamics - Projects

  • AI-QUIFER
    Helmholtz AI project (1.7.2023 - 30.06.2026)
  • BRASS, SO312
    Seismic structure of the Brothers volcano
  • CATRA
  • CLOCKS
    Northern Cascadia: Extent of locked zone, prism deformation, slip-to-toe, and the edge of subduction
  • DYNAMET 
    geoDYNAmics & METallogeny
  • Eurofleets+ HYDEE OBS
  • GeoSEA
    Geodetic Earthquake Observatory on the Seafloor
    - Chile
    - Marmara Sea
    - Mount Etna
  • MAWACAAP, SO310
    Quantifying the role of MAss WAsting in submarine CAnyons on Active and Passive margins

  • Automated event detection and data-analytics in distributed seafloor sensor networks
  • MarDATA
    Smart Networks
  • MOLA
  • MULTI-MAREX
    DAM mareXtreme MULTI-MAREX: Ein Real-Labor für verbesserte Prognose- und Aktionsmöglichkeiten für multiple geomarine Extremereignisse
  • PERBAS
    Permanent sequestration of gigatons of CO2 in continental margin basalt deposits
  • PISAGUA
  • PRE-COLLAPSE (ERC)
    Slow sliding of volcanic flanks as PREcursor to catastrophic COLLAPSE
  • REE-T
    Reconstructing volcanic eruptions and Tsunamis of Krakatau Volcano - Transit
  • SCIROCCO
  • SOURCE
    Offshore Groundwater Resources in a Changing Marine Environment: Continental Shelf Surrounding PEI
  • TRANSFORMERS (ERC)
  • T-SECTOR (ERC)
    Testing Solid Earth Climate connections Through mid Ocean Ridge time series

Approved projects

  • MAVERICS, SO319
  • MAKSIM
  • SUBTRANS
  • HESS EVOLUTION, SO320
  • ARCCYCLES
  • SAFATOR
  • SLOGARO II
    Slope failures and active gas expulsion along the Romanian margin of the Black Sea II

Concluded projects

Projects funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation):

  • LOBSTER
    AlpArray Schwerpunktprogramm
  • DOKU-GAS: Fluid flow in the Don-Kuban deep-sea fan (Black Sea) and deduced fluid venting at mud volcanoes and Cold Seeps; 01.11.2011-31.12.2014
  • ISOLDE: Elektromagnetische, gravimetrische und seismische Messungen zwecks Erforschung des Tristan da Cunha Hotspots und dessen Rolle in der Öffnung des Südatlantischen Ozeans; Laufzeit: 01.11.2010 - 31.06.2013 
  • ELCONA: On/offshore deep electrical conductivity structure to investigate the Walvis Ridge magmatism and its interaction with the Kaoko Mobile Belt in northern Namibia; Laufzeit: 01.01.2009-31.12.2011 
  • TYRRHENIS: TYRRENIan sea Seismic experiment on continental break-up and structure of conjugated rifted margins; Das Auseinanderbrechen von Kontinenten und die Bildung und Entwicklung von passiven Kontinentalrändern am Beispiel des Tyrrhenischen Meeres; Laufzeit: 01.01.2010-31.12.2012
  • : Plate re-organization in the western Mediterranean: Lithospheric causes and topographic consequences; Individualprojekt IP1-GE Ocean-bottom seismology in the Alboran Sea / Gibraltar Arc 
  • DIONYSUS: Deep Structure of the Ionian Sea and Sicily
  • SEKT: Sector collapse kinematics and tsunami implications
  • TRISCO
    Investigation of gas migration as a TRIggering mechanism for Submarine landslides on COntinental slopes

Projects funded by BMBF

  • COMBO
    Ganzheitliches Monitoring des Meeresbodens vor Chile

  • Submarine Gashydrat-Lagerstätten: Erkundung, Abbau und Transport
    1. Phase & 2. Phase & 3. Phase
  • RITTER ISLAND: Tsunami potential of volcanic flank collapses
  • : Understanding and modelling of cold vents
    along the Hikurangi Margin (HM) off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand
  • CHRIMP: CHatham RIseMethane Pockmarks
  • TAIFLUX: Cooperation between Germany and Taiwan

Projects funded by EU

  • Strategies for environmental monitoring of marine carbon capture and storage
  • Breakthrough solutions for mineral extraction and processing in extreme environments
  • : Sub-seabed CO2 storage: impact on marine ecosystems
  • Managing Impacts of Deep-sea resource exploitation

Projects funded by Excellence Cluster Future Ocean:

  • ICEFLOW ACTIVITY
  • MASS-Andaman-Sea (Morphodynamics and Slope Stability of the Andaman Sea Shelf Break)
  • Enhanced Subbottom Imagery
  • Managing Impacts of Deep-seA reSource exploitation

  • Topographically-driven meteoric groundwater an important geomorphic agent

Other projects: