ABOUT US
The Data Portal is developed by scientists for scientists in order to facilitate FAIR research data management to publish, visualize, browse and access research data from interdisciplinary research collaborations as well as individual research initiatives.
The Data Portal with its thematic data views and underlying collaborative data workflows is constantly evolving and jointly supported by
- the BMBF-initiative „Information and infrastructure for marine and integrated earth system research“ (DataHUB) via the Helmholtz Association’s (HGF) research programme “Earth and Environment” and
- the German Marine Research Alliance (Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung (DAM))
Overview
Within our earth system, seas, oceans and the Polar Regions play a central role in global climate processes. They are among the most important eco-systems and influence the lives of millions of people. There is a great need for knowledge on how to protect the oceans and make their use by humans more sustainable.
In 2019, the German marine research community, together with the federal government and the northern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, founded the German Marine Research Alliance (Deutsche Allianz Meeresforschung, DAM) and is jointly supported by the Helmholtz Association’s “Earth and Environment” research programme.
Objectives
We aim to strengthen the sustainable use of our Earth system, especially the coasts, seas, oceans and Polar Regions through research, data management and digitalisation, infrastructure and transfer. To this end, we are working together with our member institutions to develop solution-oriented knowledge.
Since the Data Portal is developed by scientists for scientists, we integrate research data from various interdisciplinary research collaborations as well as single research initiatives. Besides integrating individual research data sets into the portal, we foster the aggregation and visualisation of curated data products where possible as well as standardised web-based data services for re-use. We support machine-readable data driven science and the development of cloud computing in science. In that context, please be aware of varying data quality aspects due to originally different purpose of data acquisition (Terms of Use).
Feedback
Your feedback is very much appreciated. Please provide your comments and suggestions for how we could improve our data services and the Data Portal.
Members
We link leading German marine research institutions in order to contribute to a sustainable use of the
oceans and seas.
The following university and non-university marine research institutions are
currently
involved:

AWI Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

BSH Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency

BGR
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources

CEN Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg

DMM German Oceanographic Museum, Stralsund

DSM German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History

FZJ Forschungszentrum Jülich

FZK Coastal Research Center of Leibniz University Hannover and Technische Universität Braunschweig

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam for Geosciences

HEREON Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht

ICBM Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

IDOS German Institute of Development and Sustainability

IOW Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde

KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

KMS Kiel Marine Science, Kiel University

MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen

MPI-MM Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

MPI-M Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

MTS Department Maritime Systems, Universität Rostock

RIFS Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam

SAM Senckenberg am Meer, Senckenberg Society for Nature Research

UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

TIHO University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research

UBA Umweltbundesamt

UG University of Greifswald

ZMT Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research