INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BREMEN

Continental Margins in Focus

   

On Monday, November 14 , IUB's research center, The International Research Consortium on Continental Margins (IRCCM), offerred a campus workshop. 18 participants from the oil industry and academic institutions accepted the invitation.

[ Nov 14, 2005]  Among them are representatives from companies such as MAERSK, Norsk Hydro and Wintershall as well as academic partners from the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, the Max-Planck-Institute, the Research Center on Ocean Margins and the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University. The main focus of the workshop is the exchange of ideas and an intensified contact between Science and Business. On the agenda are detailed introductions into the research of the academic partners. The second emphasis lies on projects, ideas and visions of the participating oil companies.



IRCCM
The International Consortium on Continental Margins (IRCCM) is a broadly-based partnership in marine research and education. It was formally founded in June 2002 to study processes on continental margins, such as fluid flow, the methane/carbon cycle, as well as surface and subsurface imaging.

 


Author: Dagmar Becker. Last updated on 14.11.2005. © 2005 International University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen. All rights reserved. No unauthorized reproduction. http://www.iu-bremen.de. For all general inquiries, please call IUB at +49 421 200-4100 or mail to iub@iu-bremen.de.