Students can attend both the internal and external seminar series of the MPI as well as seminars of interest at the University of Bremen, the Jacobs University Bremen, the Alfred Wegener Institute, the Center for Marine Tropical Ecology, the MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, etc. In the first year of their research, students give a seminar on their plans for their Ph. D. thesis in the internal seminar of the MPI and in their final year, on the results of their thesis.