91探花鈥檚 institutional funding is provided by the Programme-oriented Funding () of the Helmholtz Association. Together with other Helmholtz Centres in the research field , 91探花 has developed a joint research programme: 鈥�Changing Earth 鈥� Sustaining our Future鈥�.
In addition, 91探花 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.
The transdisciplinary research missions of the German Marine Research Alliance () address pressing and socially relevant challenges in marine science. 91探花 participates in all three DAM research missions. The CDRmare mission on marine carbon storage is coordinated at 91探花, as are several research consortia within all three missions.
Marine Carbon Sinks in Decarbonisation Pathways
Protection and Sustainable Use of Marine Spaces
Pathways to Improved Risk Management in the area of Marine Extreme Events and Natural Hazards
The European Research Council () supports investigator-driven frontier research. 91探花 is currently coordinating one ERC Advanced Grant and two ERC Synergy Grants.
Ingo Grevemeyer leads the ERC Advanced Grant TRANSFORMERS, which investigates oceanic transform faults to redefine their role and dynamics in plate tectonics (Start 2023).
Martin Frank, Heidrun Kopp and Kaj Hoernle, together with Charlie Langmuir (Harvard, USA) coordinate the ERC Synergy Grant T-SECTOR. The project aims to establish a link between climate and solid Earth processes on glacial-interglacial timescales (Start 2023).
Arne Biastoch coordinates the ERC Synergy Grant WHIRLS, in collaboration with Sabrina Speich (ENS, Paris), Sebastiaan Swart (Univ. G枚teborg) and Sarah Fawcett (Univ. Kapstadt). The project investigates the role of small-scale ocean eddies in climate and ecosystems (Start 2024).
Recipients of Starting Grants and Consolidator Grants can be found on the page Early Career Research Groups.
TRANSFORMERS The 鈥榦rphan鈥� boundary type in plate tectonics: oceanic transform faults reconstructed
T-SECTOR Testing Solid Earth Climate connections Through mid Ocean Ridge time series
WHIRLS The impacts of ocean fine-scale whirls on climate and ecosystems
ZOBLUC investigates, among other things, the carbon storage potential of seagrass meadows in the Baltic Sea (start 2025).
explores ways to recover legacy munitions from the ocean in collaboration with 20 partners from seven EU member states (start 2024).
MiningImpact investigates the ecological consequences and risks of deep-sea mining (third project phase start 2025).
ZOBLUC Zostera marina as a Blue Carbon Sink in the Baltic Sea
Marine Munition in Europe - Solutions with Economic and Ecological Profits for Efficient Remediation
MiningImpact Environmental Monitoring and Risks of Deep-Sea Mining
July, 2023 - June, 2026
Funding body: BMWK
Contact: Mirjam Perner
January, 2025 - December, 2027
Funding body: BMBF
Contact: Jan Taucher
October, 2024 - March, 2028
Funding body: EU
Contact: Jens Greinert
January, 2024 - December, 2026
Funding body: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
October, 2023 - September, 2026
Funding body: BMBF
Contact: Deniz Tasdemir
January, 2023 - December, 2029
Funding body: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
Contact: Henk-Jan T. Hoving
January, 2023 - December, 2025
Funding body: BMBF
Contact: Martha Gledhill
September, 2021 - August, 2025
Funding body: EU
Contact: Marcus Dengler
January, 2021 - September, 2026
Funding body: DFG
Contact: S枚ren Lorenz
