MARUM Research Academy
2025
© U. Röhl, MARUM and IODP
The Aim
The major goal is to bring PhD students and Postdocs in touch with scientific ocean drilling at an early stage of their career, inform them about the exciting research within the scientific ocean drilling programs that have been proven to be the most successful internationally collaborative research programs in the history of Earth sciences, and to prepare them for future participation in drilling expeditions. Such training will be achieved by taking the summer school participants on a “shipboard simulation” where they get familiarized with a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art analytical technologies and core description and scanning methods according to the high standards of scientific ocean drilling expeditions. In addition, the thematic topic of the summer school will be reviewed by various scientific lectures by the leading experts in the field.
© V. Diekamp, MARUM and IODP
Located on the university campus, MARUM hosts the Bremen Core Repository (BCR), the only scientific ocean drilling programs core repository in Europe.
Location and Organization
The ECORD Summer School on “Southern Ocean – Antarctic paleoclimate interactions” 2025 will take place from 8 to 19 September 2025 at the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen University, Germany. It will be organized by Dr. Ursula Röhl, Head of the Bremen Core Repository (BCR) at MARUM, Dr. Frank Lamy, Senior Researcher at AWI, Bremerhaven, and Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln, Graduate Dean of the Bremen International Graduate School for Marine Sciences (GLOMAR).
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The Topic
The Southern Ocean and Antarctic ice sheet stability play a critical role for global ocean circulation, climate, the marine carbon cycle and global sea level. A major feature is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) as the world’s largest ocean current system controlled by atmospheric forcing, oceanic density gradients, and eddy activity. The ACC connects all three major basins of the global ocean and therefore integrates, and responds to, climate signals throughout the globe. While reconstructions of southern, high-latitude paleoclimate are still sparse, recent years have seen much progress, including a multitude of land and sea-based coring efforts, key IODP expeditions and work on legacy sediment cores. These studies suggest for example regional heterogeneity in ACC position and strength over the Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles, while the long-term evolution of the ACC is still comparatively poorly known. Recent IODP expeditions in the subantarctic South Pacific allowed to reconstruct ACC changes over the past five million years, showing strong ~400,000-year eccentricity cycles, likely originating from modulation of precessional changes linked to tropical Pacific temperature variability.
Preliminary program
List of speakers
| André Bornemann | Hannover, Germany |
| David de Vleeshouwer | Muenster, Germany |
| Bernhard Diekmann | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Arianna Del Gaudio | Muenster, Germany |
| Oliver Esper | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Dimitros Evangelinos | London, UK |
| Julia Gottschalk | Kiel, Germany |
| Marcus Gutjahr | Kiel, Germany |
| Alexander Haumann | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Dierk Hebbeln | Bremen, Germany |
| Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand | Cambridge, UK |
| Samuel Jaccard | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Andrea Jaeschke | Bonn, Germany |
| Heather Jones | Bremen, Germany |
| Johann Klages | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Peter Köhler | Bremerhaven. Germany |
| Martin Kölling | Bremen, Germany |
| Holger Kuhlmann | Bremen, Germany |
| Frank Lamy | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Lester Lembke-Jene | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Gerrit Lohmann | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Andrew Mackintosh | Melbourne, Australia |
| Alfredo Martinez-Garcia | Bremen, Germany |
| Jens Mathiessen | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Andrew McIntyre | Leicester, UK |
| Juliane Müller | Bremerhaven, Germany |
| Emmanuel Okuma | Bremen, Germany |
| Katharina Pahnke | Oldenburg, Germany |
| Ursula Röhl | Bremen, Germany |
| Jürgen Titschack | Bremen, Germany |
| Maria Toyos | Bremen, Germany |
| Thomas Westerhold | Bremen, Germany |
| Giesela Winckler | New York, USA |
Application
The deadline for applications was on 15 May 2025.
Successful applicants will be notified by e-mail about admission in June 2025. After receiving the acceptance letter, admitted participants will have to confirm their participation via email and by payment of the course fee. If you have questions regarding the application process, please contact: [Bitte aktivieren Sie Javascript]
In case of withdrawal after 1 August 2025, only 50% of the course fee is refunded.
To ensure a most effective training the maximum number of participants will be limited to 30. We aim to comprise a diverse group with participants from all status groups.
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