Current Projects

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

In addition, GEOMAR 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 (DAM) address pressing and socially relevant challenges in marine science. GEOMAR participates in all three DAM research missions. The CDRmare mission on marine carbon storage is coordinated at GEOMAR, as are several research consortia within all three missions.



ERC Grants 

The European Research Council (ERC) supports investigator-driven frontier research. GEOMAR 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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Paving the way from in situ plankton image data to a Digital Twin Ocean

January, 2023 - December, 2025

Funding body: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

Contact: Jan Taucher

DOME: The Impact of Microbes for Seafloor Massive Sulfide (SMS) Formation, Transformation and Dissolution in the Priority Programme “Dynamics of Ore Metals Enrichment

August, 2023 - July, 2026

Funding body: DFG

Contact: Mirjam Perner

Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean

September, 2023 - February, 2027

Funding body: EU

Contact: Florian Schütte

Horizont Europa SBEP 1: DTO-Track - Digital Twin - Erfassung von Tierbewegungen in der Nordsee; Vorhaben: Modellierung von Tierbewegungen

May, 2024 - April, 2027

Funding body: BMBF

Contact: Christopher Monk

Shifts in bacteria-algae symbiotic interactions - effects on plankton community dynamics and properties

September, 2024 - August, 2028

Funding body: DFG

Contact: Birte Matthiessen

Ecocentric management for sustainable fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems

September, 2021 - August, 2025

Funding body: EU

Contact: Thorsten B.H. Reusch

Einfluss von Lichtverschmutzung auf das Wachstum und die Verteidigungsfähigkeit von marinen Makroalgen im globalen Vergleich (ELMA)

March, 2024 - February, 2025

Funding body: Other

Contact: Mark Lenz

Influence of light pollution on marine macroalgae in global comparison

March, 2025 - December, 2025

Funding body: Other

Contact: Mark Lenz

Eastern Mediterranean Sea as a model for Future Ocean Research (EMS FORE)

January, 2022 - December, 2026

Funding body: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

Contact: Eric Achterberg

EMS-PS: Eastern Mediterranean Sea Process Study

October, 2023 - March, 2026

Funding body: DFG

Contact: Thomas Browning

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