Management and Structure

Scientific Steering Committee
NEBROC is overseen by a Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) that meets twice a year. It is responsible for the appropriate spending of the funds and for controlling and further developing all the activities within NEBROC. A special task is to show new ways and mechanisms to intensify and extend the co-operation between the Netherlands and Bremen. Further duties of the SSC include the compilation of reports to the funding agencies, preparation of continuation and expansion proposals and, of course, the organisation of the annual NEBROC workshops and other meetings.
The number of 12 members of the SSC has proven to be an effective size, allowing a rapid response to all kind of challenges. Presently, the NEBROC SSC consists of the following members:

Dieter Wolf-Gladrow, Hein de Baar, Jelle BijmaGeert-Jan Brummer, Gerold Wefer, Stefan Schouten, Dierk Hebbeln, Tjeerd van Weering, Karsten Reise, Jaap van der Meer

Workshops
The five annual NEBROC workshops held in phase I (1998-2002) and the NEBROC Open Science Meeting in 2001 have been attended by numerous NEBROC scientists and colleagues from outside NEBROC, who used the opportunity to learn more about NEBROC and the work of the colleagues from the other institutes and to establish personal relationships for joint scientific work. Also in the future the series of annual NEBROC workshops is continued. As in the past years the annual NEBROC workshop will alternate between Texel and Bremen. Besides these major NEBROC events, numerous smaller scale meetings between individual NEBROC scientists are taking place, as well as several exchanges of NEBROC scientists between Bremen and Royal NIOZ. The opportunities to organise international workshops provided by the Hanse Institute of Advanced Studies in Delmenhorst have been used by NEBROC scientists in recent years and will be used also in the future.

Courses
Here, also the course programme offered by ECOLMAS is to name, which, as an essential part of NEBROC, aims to bring together NEBROC scientists and to stimulate co-operation in all fields of science covered within NEBROC. Especially, the ECOLMAS course Introduction to Marine Sciences, which as a basic course is a must for the PhD students in their first year offers a wealth of possibilities for contacts and co-operation. As the annual NEBROC workshop, also this course alternates between Texel and Bremen.