Welcome to MARUM!

We extend a warm welcome to you as a new colleague!

Starting a new job requires getting to know your new work place. With this welcome information we would like to provide you with some basic organisational information.

MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences is a research faculty (actually, the only one) of the University of Bremen. The acronym MARUM derives from its German name "Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften".

MARUM has five overarching goals:

• To create an environment that enables top-level research in an international framework,
• To promote the education of young scientists, specifically in an international research environment,
• To develop/provide technologies and infrastructure for marine research in cooperation with industry,
• To communicate scientific issues to the general public, and
• To coordinate the university's high-profile area in "Marine, Polar and Climate Research" across all disciplines and faculties.

Accordingly, MARUM is much more than just the name of a building. It is in fact an umbrella structure for several large research projects. The most important one is the Cluster of Excellence ›The Ocean Floor – Earth’s Uncharted Interface‹. In addition, a large number of research, technology and educational projects with various funding sources are operated through MARUM. Finally, MARUM hosts one of the three repositories for deep-sea cores of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), the Bremen Core Repository (BCR).

Office equipment

The leader of your working group or its secretary are responsible for providing you with the office equipment you may need.

Library Card

If you want to loan books from the University library (SuUB), you need to sign up and get a SuUB library card.
Information on how to proceed, can be found on the SuUB web page.

Canteens and Cafeterias

MARUM e-mail account

People who have their office in MARUM and / or work in a project that is funded by MARUM are required to use a MARUM e-mail address. The latter consists of "the first letter of the first name followed by the last [Bitte aktivieren Sie Javascript]" (e.g. [Bitte aktivieren Sie Javascript]).
Accounts can be obtained from Carmen Murken.

Find your MARUM colleagues in the MARUM staff list

Computer / IT Support

Mailing lists

There are some e-mail distributors (mailing lists) which provide you with all kinds of information regarding your daily business in MARUM and with announcements for events that might be of interest for you.

New employees are usually added automatically to one of the mailing lists. If you haven't received a note that you have been added to the relevant mailing lists, please contact the respective list administrator (you will find them by following the links given in the table below and scrolling down to the bottom of the page).

Corporate identity helps to make an institution more memorable, provide other scientists, employers, and funding bodies with a sense of stability/quality, differentiate the institution from others, and finally, helps to attract people and funding. Corporate identity also increases the (international) visibility of the individual scientists.

Corporate identity also includes regulations on providing reference to your affiliation in your publications.

Scientists who are affiliated with MARUM and/or its integrated Graduate School GLOMAR are expected to follow the corporate identity regulations of MARUM (see guidelines, provided under the link on the right)

The MARUM Ombudsperson is a senior faculty member of the University who assists MARUM and GLOMAR scientists in addressing possible conflicts.

Specifically, she is the contact person for

• Compliance with the rules of good scientific practice
• PhD students and/or supervisors who experience conflicts in the graduate education

At MARUM, we care for a good work­ing en­vir­on­ment!

On this web page, you will find links to of­fers and re­sources you might find help­ful to im­prove your work ex­per­i­ence.