Project Details
Projekt
GSC 119: Global Change in the Marine Realm - Bremen International Graduate School for Marine Sciences (GLOMAR)
Subject Area
Atmospheric Science, Oceanography and Climate Research
Term
from 2006 to 2012
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24615047
The challenges to society posed by global change - as already visible today and probably amplified in the future - require the interdisciplinary and international cooperation of the leading scientists in the relevant scientific fields to analyse, understand, predict, and - where necessary - to mitigate the changes to the natural environment and society.
The graduate school on "Global Change in the Marine Realm" will contribute to this task by educating young researchers in a stimulating research and training environment, to enable them early in their doctoral training, and especially in their subsequent career, to be part of this worldwide research effort. The graduate school will build on the particularly strong expertise in marine sciences in Bremen and Bremerhaven that are concentrated in several faculties and research institutions of the University of Bremen, in the Bremen-based Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and Center for Marine Tropical Ecology, as well as in the Bremerhaven-based Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and the German Maritime Museum.
Through the graduate school this combined competence will be utilised to educate doctoral students towards conducting independent research in all aspects of marine sciences comprising here the natural sciences as well as the humanities. Building on a clearly structured curriculum aligned with active participation in competitive research projects, the graduate school will guide its doctoral students to become disciplinary highly qualified, interdisciplinary thinking and internationally networking scientists within three years. In preparing its about 60 doctoral students for a successful career in academia, industry and administration the research training programme will not only include research related topics, but will also provide students with soft skills and with experience in project management all along the line from project development via proposal writing to reporting. In addition, the graduate school will offer an individually tailored family-support program to improve the compatibility of family and career.
Based on all these components, the graduate school finally aims at educating a new generation of expertly trained and cosmopolitan young researchers well-versed in other disciplines that will contribute to the exciting and challenging research and discoveries in the field of marine global change research that lie ahead.
The graduate school on "Global Change in the Marine Realm" will contribute to this task by educating young researchers in a stimulating research and training environment, to enable them early in their doctoral training, and especially in their subsequent career, to be part of this worldwide research effort. The graduate school will build on the particularly strong expertise in marine sciences in Bremen and Bremerhaven that are concentrated in several faculties and research institutions of the University of Bremen, in the Bremen-based Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and Center for Marine Tropical Ecology, as well as in the Bremerhaven-based Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and the German Maritime Museum.
Through the graduate school this combined competence will be utilised to educate doctoral students towards conducting independent research in all aspects of marine sciences comprising here the natural sciences as well as the humanities. Building on a clearly structured curriculum aligned with active participation in competitive research projects, the graduate school will guide its doctoral students to become disciplinary highly qualified, interdisciplinary thinking and internationally networking scientists within three years. In preparing its about 60 doctoral students for a successful career in academia, industry and administration the research training programme will not only include research related topics, but will also provide students with soft skills and with experience in project management all along the line from project development via proposal writing to reporting. In addition, the graduate school will offer an individually tailored family-support program to improve the compatibility of family and career.
Based on all these components, the graduate school finally aims at educating a new generation of expertly trained and cosmopolitan young researchers well-versed in other disciplines that will contribute to the exciting and challenging research and discoveries in the field of marine global change research that lie ahead.
DFG Programme
Graduate Schools
Applicant Institution
Universität Bremen
Participating Institution
Alfred-Wegener-Institut
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung; Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum (DSM); Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) GmbH; Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung; Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum (DSM); Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung (ZMT) GmbH; Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Dierk Hebbeln
Participating Researchers
Professorin Dr. Antje Boetius; Professor Dr. Wilhelm G. Hagen; Privatdozent Dr. Ingo Heidbrink; Professor Dr. Venugopalan A.W. Ittekkot; Professor Dr. Hellmuth Lange; Professorin Dr. Monika Rhein; Professor Dr. Michael Schulz; Professor Dr. Gerold Wefer; Professor Dr. Gerd Winter; Professor Dieter Wolf-Gladrow, Ph.D.
