MarDATA Retreat 2026

24.08.2026, 12:00 → 26.08.2026, 15:00 Europe/Berlin

Bremen

We are happy to welcome you to the 2026 MarDATA Retreat in Bremen

Registration Now Open!

We are excited to announce the upcoming MarDATA Retreat 2026, bringing together our community of doctoral researchers, supervisors and principal investigators for another inspiring exchange of ideas and scientific progress.

While the full program is still in development, registration is already open and warmly welcomed!

The program will officially begin on Monday, August 24th 13:30 PM at Übersee-Museum Bremen with a Welcome by the MarDATA Coordinator.

 

 

 

MarDATA Retreat Program 2026.pdf

Mo., 24. August

12:00 Arrival & Lunch

1 Welcome

Dr. Enno Prigge (GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research)

2 Porject Updates "Marine Biodiversity"

14:00 - 14:30 Hannes Gelbhardt (AWI)
14:30 - 15:00 Asma Javaid (GEOMAR)

15:00 Coffee Break

3 Project Updates "Polar Research"

15:30 - 16:00 Faramarz Bagherzadeh (AWI)
16:00 - 16:30 Nina Öhlckers (AWI)

16:30 Break

4 Keynote: “Machine Learning Eliminates Reanalysis Warm Bias and Reveals Weaker Winter Surface Cooling over Arctic Sea Ice“

Dr. Akil Hossain (AWI)

5 Dinner & Icebreaker

Di., 25. August

6 Project Updates "Marine Observations & Monitoring"

09:00 - 09:30 David Graf (GEOMAR)
09:30 - 10:00 Naina Said (Kiel University)
10:00 - 10:30 LukasSchattenhofer (GEOMAR)

10:30 Coffee Break

7 Poject Updates "Ocean Processes & Biogeochemistry"

11:00 - 11:30 Felix Rodriguez Rasmussen (GEOMAR)
11:30 - 12:00 Anna Broschke (AWI)
12:00 - 12:30 Nils Müller (AWI)

12:30 Lunch

8 WORKSHOP: Preparing MarDATA for the 2028 Evaluation

15:00 Coffee Break

9 WORKSHOP: Preparing MarDATA for the 2028 Evaluation

10 Dinner & MarDATA Social: Markthalle ACHT

Mi., 26. August

11 Project Updates "miscellaneous"

10:30 Coffee Break

12 Project Updates "AI Methods & Modeling"

11:00 - 11:30 Jan Blunk (GEOMAR)
11:30 - 12:00 Hannah Scherer (Kiel University)

12:00 Farewell, Lunch & Departure