GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences - Department of Marine Environmental Geology

Universität Kiel - Institut für Meereskunde.

University of Hamburg - Institut für Meereskunde

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research - AWI's research targets are: ocean-ice-atmosphere system, polar and marine communities and geological evolution of the polar and marine oceans.

Universität Rostock, Institut fuer Ostseeforschung - Baltic Sea Research Institute,Warnemünde.

University of Bremen - Department of Geosciences.

Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (Marum) - MARUM offers the chance to integrate a wide variety of know-how from multiple research disciplines and institutes. Thus the great potential of marine research in the state of Bremen can be exploited to the optimum extent.

University of Oldenburg - Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Sea.