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 The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine Microbiology in Bremen was founded in 1992 and is one of the three youngest MPIs in the old (western) States of Germany.
The Max Planck Institute investigates microbial processes and the diversity of the involved bacteria in the marine environment and other aquatic habitats, and the role of these bacteria in the global chemical cycles.
The MPI in Bremen dedicates most of its research activities to bacteria and bacterial processes in sediments. Sediments are the sites with the most intense and diverse transformation processes of organic and inorganic substances in the sea.
Bacterial activities in sediments significantly influence the global cycles of elements, and have led to major depositions of minerals over geological periods.
The MPI coordinates the project COSA and co-organizes the field campaigns and meetings with the field stations on Hel and Sylt.
The research of the MPI within COSA addresses the fluxes of dissolved and particulate matter between sediment and overlying water column, the assessment of reaction rates within the permeable sands (e.g. mineralization rates, nitrification, denitrification), studies of groundwater eflux, the investigation of bacterial transport through the sediment, and characterization of the flow environment.
The main tools for this research are benthic chambers, bottom landers, Acoustic Doppler Velocimetry, flow through column reactors, and laboratory chamber and bottle incubations.
For further information see: http://www.mpi-bremen.de/
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