Underwater Technologies

develop & apply

MARUM has set itself the goal of gaining fundamental scientific knowledge about the ocean and the seabed in the interests of society and a healthy marine environment. We are driven by this commitment and the increasingly complex questions that need to be answered. To help answer these questions, we are constantly working to improve our operational systems. In order to be prepared for the developments and questions of tomorrow, we are already researching new and sustainable technologies and methods today to better observe, sample and monitor our oceans now and in the future.

Specific questions that arise are:

How can we develop sustainable observation technologies from the sea surface to the deep sea?
How can we enable persistent, robust and autonomous monitoring of dynamic processes?
Which new technologies in the areas of sensor technology, sampling and data processing need to be adapted or newly developed?

To answer these questions, we develop and test new robotic systems from scratch or adapt existing systems for a specific use.

Working groups involved

Visualization of a hydrodynamic analysis of a new autonomous underwater vehicle. (Copyright P.Riesen/MARUM) — Visualization of a hydrodynamic analysis of a new autonomous underwater vehicle. ( P. Riesen/MARUM)

Selection of current research projects

SPIRULA

SPiraling Intelligent Robotic Underwater monitoring pLAtform

Slider camera system

Camera module for seabed observation with underwater glider

Latest news

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Sebastian Meckel and his colleagues control the harbor test of the MARUM-Wave Glider while sitting in a rubber dinghy. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Mar 18, 2025

In the water: MARUM-OTTER and MARUM-Wave Glider complete harbor test

On 11 March, the MARUM research group for Marine Environmental Technology and Deepsea Engineering launched the unmanned surface vehicle (USV) MARUM-OTTER ...

The Center for Deep-Sea Research (ZfT) at the University of Bremen. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Mar 5, 2025

New Center for Deep-Sea Research Inaugurated

The new Center for Deep-Sea Research has been opened at the University of Bremen. The 4,000 square-meter facility will allow the resident research groups ...

The dives of the ROV MARUM-SQUID can be followed live. Photo: MARUM – Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Jan 18, 2025

Live dive with MARUM-SQUID

An international team of scientists and technicians is currently off the coast of New Zealand to study cold-water corals.

The research vessel SONNE and the remotely operated diving robot MARUM-SQUID in action during expedition SO306 in the West Indies. Photo: Tim Kalvelage

Jan 16, 2025

Cold-water corals off New Zealand

36 marine researchers are currently traveling with the German research vessel SONNE off New Zealand to study a previously poorly understood but ...