ABOUT US
The Marine 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.
Mission Statement of the DAM:
“We promote the sustainable use of the coasts, seas and oceans through research, data management and
digitalisation, infrastructure and transfer.”
Germany has thereby created one of the world’s largest marine research alliances.
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 Marine 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
Marine 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

BAW Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute

BGR
Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources

BSH Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency

CEN Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg

DMM German Oceanographic Museum, Stralsund

DSM German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History

FRAUNHOFER Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.

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

GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

HEREON Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Geesthacht

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

IOW Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde

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

SAM Senckenberg am Meer, Senckenberg Society for Nature Research

THÜNEN Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute

UG University of Greifswald

ZMT Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research