Maintained by:The Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) at Bremen University and Foundation Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

Summary of Data Held: The WDC is aimed at collecting, scrutinizing, and disseminating data related to global change in the fields of environmental oceanography, marine geology, paleoceanography, and marine biology. It focuses on georeferenced data using the information system PANGAEA. The WDC stores and handles numeric, string, and image data. Users can retrieve data through the Internet via different gateways. Data are accepted in any format.

User Services: The WDC for Marine Environmental Sciences offers data management services, in particular project data management and data publication. It maintaines an inventory of site and sampling locations for all related fields. It provides hosting and mirroring of electronic journals and serves software products for analyzing, visualization, and transformation of data. Visitors are welcome.