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Media Releases 2017

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In the Eastern Antarctic, scientists are taking samples from the so-called nunataks. The team is now in Dronning Maud Land for the second time after an expedition in February 2017. Photo: Jennifer Newall

Dec 22, 2017

Does the ice sheet in East Antarctica shrink or grow under warming climate?

The Antarctic research season has begun 15 December, when researchers in the international research project MAGIC-DML returned to Dronning Maud Land in ...

Klimahaus Bremerhaven shows the exhibition "Ozeane im Wandel" until Mai 2018. Photo: Voigts, Klimahaus Bremerhaven

Dec 4, 2017

Oceans in Transition

Starting in December, the Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost will present a new interactive special exhibition, in which the MARUM - Center for Marine ...

Nov 8, 2017

Cooling in high and mid-latitudes led to aridification in Northern Africa

Researchers from several European institutions found that northern high-latitude cooling played a role in triggering the rapid termination of the African ...

Nov 2, 2017

Die Kaiserpassage wird zur Meerespassage: Schaufenster Ozean und Virtuelle Tiefsee in Bonn

virtual deep sea

Dr. Alessio Rovere and PhD student Thomas Lorscheid standing by the boulder called “bull”. Photo: Elisa Casella

Nov 2, 2017

Lessons for the future from past storm waves

Over 100,000 years ago, boulders weighing many tons were washed onto a cliff in the Bahamas. It has been long debated whether the rocks were actually ...

With the help of a device called a CTD rosette, scientists can takes samples from the water column and measure water parameters such as salinity, temperature, oxygen content and particle density. It is lowered into the water from the deck of the ship

Oct 18, 2017

Climate change weakens Walker circulation

Strong rains that produce flooding on one extreme, and droughts on the other, influence the lives of millions of people in tropical regions. Dr. Mahyar ...

Winner team of the Hochschulwettbewerb in the Year of Science 2016*17

Oct 4, 2017

Once upon a time… scientific short stories

A team of early career scientists from Bremen has won in the college competition that is sponsored every Science Year by Science in Dialog (Wissenschaft im ...

Arne Leider, Lennart van Maldegem and Christian Hallmann (from left) in the MARUM-Laboratories. Foto: Tom Pingel

Sep 21, 2017

Survival on snowball earth

Green algae form the foundation of the food pyramids on the earth and supply nutrients for many organisms. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for ...