Marine Drilling
Russian Drilling Vessel at Stromboli
MeBo - the remotely operated sea floor drill rig
Marine geosciences are strongly connected to several major research programs in order to utilize ships, equipment and expertise as effectively as possible. The outstanding international marine research drilling program is the IODP.
The German IODP Program is coordinated at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hanover.
In particular the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) at the University of Kiel, the Center of Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) at the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) are leading institutions for further marine Earth sciences.
The MARUM also serves as European IODP-Laboratory and hosts one out of three global IODP core repositories.
MeBo, the remotely operated drill rig of the MARUM, can be launched to the sea floor from a ship and is capable to drill 60 m deep.
Contact: Dr. T. Freudenthal
Contact: Dr. T. Freudenthal
Most parts of our planet are covered by the oceans with its complex submarine geology. The ocean floor enables us to unravel climate history, the origin of oceans, subduction processes, the development of a rich living world and many important raw material deposits are underneath the sea. However, also large earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions arise from sea.