Dr. Bernd Brügge

Dr. Bernd Brügge has been fascinated by the sea since he was young. He wanted to go to sea and entered the German Navy in 1977 after graduating from high school. When he left the navy as an officer on submarines in 1980, he studied oceanography in Kiel and, after successfully completing his studies, worked as a research assistant at the Kiel Institute for Marine Science (IfM). Herealized his early interest in being able to make statements about the state of the oceans by collecting marine data and incorporating them into current scientific investigations in practical projects at the IfM and later at the BSH. In his doctoral thesis, he studied surface currents and energy distribution near the ocean surface within the framework of a Collaborative Research Centre in the North Atlantic. As a scientific employee at the BSH from 1994 onwards, he initially assessed the data quality and operation of automatic measuring stations in the North and Baltic Seas. Later he tested new measuring and data management systems for the marine environmental monitoring network MARNET and, after various management functions in the areas of measuring networks and forecasting services, finally took over the management of the Marine Sciences department. For Dr. Bernd Brügge, interdisciplinary work of all adjacent departments as well as the provision and integration of all available current information sources on the state of the oceans are essential for trend-setting work at the BSH.