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.
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.
Coastal Research Laboratory - CORELAB: The Coastal Research Laboratory (Corelab) at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel is a research and teaching unit established to foster research in coastal environments.
GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences: Department of Marine Environmental Geology
The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel: Research specialties are ocean circulation, climate dynamics, marine biogeochemistry, marine ecology, and ocean floor dynamics. Page includes list of working groups. Located in Germany.
Universität Rostock, Institut fuer Ostseeforschung: Baltic Sea Research Institute,Warnemünde.
University of Bremen: Department of Geosciences.
University of Bremen: Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, ZMT is a research and training institution.
University of Hamburg: Institut für Meereskunde
University of Oldenburg: Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Sea.