Departments of IMARE

The coastal and marine environment is of high ecologic and economic value. In order to monitor this valuable environment, the department "Marine Physics and Sensors" develops and modifies sensors and sensor systems for the analysis of substances and organisms in water. [read more about marine physics and sensors].

Around the globe, it is mainly coastal states that engage in commercial cultivation of marine organisms. Marine aquaculture, or mariculture, is mostly confined to nearshore areas or land based flow-through or recirculation systems. [read more about marine aquaculture].

The oceans are home to a variety of highly complex, optimized structures for various applications. The Department “Marine Structures and Nanomaterials” deals with the study of these structures and their transfer into technical applications.  [read morea about marine structures].

Advances in materials science, microbiology and an improved understanding of the interactions of the different fields spread into offshore applications, aquaculture, technologies for biological energy generation and bioremediation. The Department “Blue Bioindustry” explores such aspects of bioengineering in marine environments. [read more about blue bioindustry].