Welcome to Bremen and to the Ocean Floor Symposium 2025!

 
 

Ocean Floor Symposium 2025
“Organic matter transportation, transformation, and preservation: From the ocean surface to the ocean floor"


September 8 to 11th, 2025

at MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Scientific Themes

The overarching topic of understanding organic matter transportation, transformation and preservation the symposium was organized along the following themes:

  • Transformation in the water column: Opening the black box of POM and DOM
  • Lateral transport: from shelf to deep sea
  • From process to projection: Modelling of carbon transformation and fluxes

The Ocean Floor Symposium Abstract volume:

 

Quicklinks:

 

Updates:

  • (September 2025) Check out the full program and the abstract volume here.
  • (August 2025) In just one month, scientists will gather again for the next Ocean Floor Symposium. Let's take a look back at the last Symposium in 2024.
  • (April 2025) The Ocean Floor Symposium 2025 will have the topic “Organic matter transportation, transformation, and preservation: From the ocean surface to the ocean floor" and will take place from September 8 to 11th, 2025 at the University of Bremen.