Climate research in the oceans, building under-water vehicles, or the coastal mud flats and its inhabitants: these are just a few of the topics which make up the MINTIA “Water Worlds” event open to female high-school students from the eighth to the thirteenth grades from May to July 2011 – a new program launched by the schools girls’ club at the University of Bremen.

Female ocean researchers from the University of Bremen and biologists from the seal sanctuary in Norddeich will be on hand to talk about their everyday work above and under water. Female university students from the biology, marine biology and geosciences departments will give accounts of their excursions in Germany and abroad, report on research stays in exotic places and life on the campus.

The Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the MARUM UNISchullabor [schools lab] will initiate the girls and young women into the secrets of the deep. During the summer holiday period MARUM invites female students from schools in the states of Bremen and Lower Saxony to participate and marvel in an exciting program of experimentation. It is possible to register online now at www.mintia.uni-bremen.de.

Event dates:

• 7.05.2011: Studies in Biology and Marine Biology – What to expect as a university student?
• 18.06.2011: MINTIA visits the seal sanctuary in Norddeich
• 2.07.2011: What are Geosciences all about?

Summer holiday program MARUM, MARUM UNISchullabor:

• 12.07. – 14.07.2011: The secret depths of the oceans and how they can be researched (8th to 10th grades)
• 19.07. – 21.07.2011: The secret depths of the oceans and how they can be researched (10th to 12th grades)
• 20.07.2011: What the oceans can tell us about the Earth’s climate – Find out for yourself!

You can obtain more information by contacting Susanne Peter from Kompetenzzentrum Frauen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik, [Competence center for women in science and engineering] Phone 0421-218-64470, e-mail
susanne.peter@uni-bremen.de, and in the Internet at www.mintia.uni-bremen.de.