Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
- AWI's research targets are: ocean-ice-atmosphere system, polar and marine communities and geological evolution of the polar and marine oceans.
- http://www.awi.de/

GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences
- Department of Marine Environmental Geology
- http://www.ifm-geomar.de/index.php?id=1&L=1

Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (Marum)
- MARUM offers the chance to integrate a wide variety of know-how from multiple research disciplines and institutes. Thus the great potential of marine research in the state of Bremen can be exploited to the optimum extent.
- http://www.rcom.marum.de/English/

The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel
- Research specialties are ocean circulation, climate dynamics, marine biogeochemistry, marine ecology, and ocean floor dynamics. Page includes list of working groups. Located in Germany.
- http://www.ifm-geomar.de/index.php?id=home&L=1

Coastal Research Laboratory - CORELAB
- The Coastal Research Laboratory (Corelab) at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel is a research and teaching unit established to foster research in coastal environments.
- http://www.corelab.uni-kiel.de/

University of Bremen
- Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, ZMT is a research and training institution.
- http://www.zmt.uni-bremen.de/

University of Oldenburg
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Sea.
- http://www.icbm.uni-oldenburg.de/index_e.html

Universität Rostock, Institut fuer Ostseeforschung
- Baltic Sea Research Institute,Warnemünde.
- http://www.io-warnemuende.de/

University of Hamburg
- Institut für Meereskunde
- http://www.ifm.uni-hamburg.de/index.html