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        Research Projects
Current projects
| Since 2014 | HGF FRAM - Frontiers in Arctic marine monitoring | 
| Since 2013 | EU SenseOCEAN - Creating a highly integrated multifunctional and cost-effective in situ marine biogeochemical sensor system | 
| Since 2012 | HGF ROBEX - Robotic exploration of extreme environments | 
| Since 2012 | MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences - Project GB3 - Contribution of cold seeps to geological processes, carbon fluxes, and ecosystem diversity | 
| Since 2009 | HAUSGARTEN - Deep-sea long-term Observatory: Biodiversity and functioning of polar deep-sea ecosystems | 
| Since 2008 | EMSO - European multidisciplinary seafloor observatory | 
Previous projects
| 2011-2014 | EU ECO2 - Sub-seabed CO2 Storage: Impact on Marine Ecosystems | 
| 2010-2013 | EU Eurofleets - Towards an Alliance of European Research Fleets | 
| 2009-2013 | ITN SENSEnet- International Sensor Development Network | 
| 2009-2012 | EU HERMIONE - Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European Seas | 
| 2009-2011 | EU HYPOX - In situ monitoring of oxygen depletion in hypoxic ecosystems of coastal and open-seas, and land-locked water bodies | 
| 2007-2011 | ESONET NOE - European Seas Observatory Network | 
| 2009-2012 | MARUM - Research area geo-biosphere interactions; Project GB5: Linking benthic fluxes and ecology of the ocean floor | 
| 2007-2012 | DFG-Cluster of Excellence (MARUM) Research Area "F2 Geofuel inventory and utilization" | 
| 2005-2007 | DFG Research Center Ocean Margins (RCOM) – Research Area: Seepage of fluids and gases | 
| 2002-2009 | EU-HERMES Hotspot Ecosystem Research on the Margins of European Seas | 
| 2005-2007 | DFG-Priority Program SPP 1144: From Mantle to Ocean: Energy-, Material-, and Life-Cycles at Spreading Axes | 
| 2005-2008 | Geotechnology project MUMM_2 (Methane in the GeoBio-system – turnover, metabolism, and microorganisms | 
| 2004-2007 | MarTech - The virtual institute for development of Marine Technologies (HGF-special program Impuls- und Vernetzungsfonds) | 
| 2003-004 | EU-Project EXOCET/D - EXtreme ecosystem studies in the deep OCEan: Technological Developments | 
| 2003-2005 | EU-project COSA (Costal Sands as Biocatalytical Filters) | 
| 2000 | SNF project CAMP (Change in Arctic Marine Production) | 
| 1999-2000 | BMBF project BIGSET (Biogeochemical Transport of Mater and Energy in the Deep Sea) | 
| 1996-2001 | DFG-Special Research Project SFB261 "The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary: Reconstruction of Material Budget and Current System"; Subproject: Processes and fluxes in sediment/porewater - systems |