Research funders visit MARUM

Dec 8, 2022

The visitors from NSF and DFG took the opportunity and also toured the dry construction site of the new Center for Deep-Sea Research, which is being built in the direct vicinity of MARUM. There will be another reefer hall for drill cores. They were accompanied by MARUM staff members. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp.

More than 164 kilometers of deep-sea cores retrieved during the scientific ocean drilling programs, currently IODP, from 97 expeditions are currently stored at the IODP Core Repository (BCR).These cores are sampled and analyzed by scientists from all over the world.

The BCR, the reefer and its associated laboratories were now the destination of a visiting group: James F. Allan, Program Director Ocean Drilling Program, and Kevin T. Johnson, Program Director Marine Geology and Geophysics, at the National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as Guido Lüniger, Program Director Geosciences at the German Research Foundation (DFG), also took the opportunity to look at the construction site of the new Center for Deep-Sea Research, which is being built in direct vicinity of MARUM. There, an additional reefer for marine cores will be integrated. An agreement on the core repository for the phase after the current ocean drilling program has also been coordinated.

After their visit in Bremen, the group will continue to Tarragona, Spain, for the port call of the drillship JOIDES Resolution between two expeditions over the weekend. This marks the end of IODP Expedition 397 "Iberian Margin Paleoclimate", followed by the start of Expedition 398 "Hellenic Arc Volcanic Field" in the eastern Mediterranean. The cores from both expeditions will be added to the Bremen core repository.

Further information:

https://www.marum.de/Forschung/IODP.html