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Figure 2: Cluster elements1.2.2.4 Multidisciplinary CooperationImproving our understanding of the oceans and their role in the climate system critically dependson the integration of a wide range of disciplines in the ocean and earth sciences. Marine researchat CAU and IFM-GEOMAR has traditionally relied on, and benefited from close ties between oceansciences and geosciences. This has permitted Kiel to become one of the few locations throughoutthe world where the ocean is studied from the seafloor to the atmosphere. The proposed Clusterwill further extend this spectrum to integrate additional disciplines which promise to open newfrontiers in ocean sciences. Through close collaboration between marine sciences, chemistry,applied mathematics, medicine, economics, social sciences and law of the sea, the Cluster aims tostudy the environmental, socio-economic and legal aspects of the ocean and its futuredevelopment in a highly multidisciplinary approach (Table 1).9