Center for Marine Environmental Sciences

Media Releases 2020

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Working deck on the research icebreaker POLARSTERN: With combined forces, the diving robot MARUM-QUEST is deployed in Antarctic waters for the first time during the expedition PS 119. Photo: Holger von Neuhoff, Google Arts & Culture

Jun 8, 2020

Science meets Culture

The Ocean between Picasso and Monet. Marine scientists in the World's largest digital museum. In more than 20 online exhibitions, an international team of ...

Shells of planktonic foraminifera from ice-age sediments in the Atlantic Ocean. Fossils like these were used in this study to reveal that global warming may lead to decline in tropical marine biodiversity. (Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental S

May 26, 2020

An international team including scientists from MARUM discovered ongoing and future tropical diversity decline

How can patterns in the marine biodiversity of the past help us to understand how it may change in the future? A study published today by an ...

The brown algae Fucus vesiculosus grows on stones almost everywhere along the North Sea and Baltic Sea. For the study the researchers also examined fucoidan of these algae like those at the coast of Heligoland. (Photo: Max Planck Institute for Marine Micr

May 25, 2020

Sugar turns brown algae into good carbon stores

Brown algae are important players in the global carbon cycle by fixing large amounts of carbon dioxide and thus extracting this greenhouse gas from the ...

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea under the electron microscope. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; M. Könneke

May 12, 2020

Marine waste management: recycling efficiency by marine microbes

It was only relatively recently that tiny, single-celled thaumarchaea were discovered to exist and thrive in the pelagic ocean, where their population size ...

Cold water coral reef with Lophelia pertusa in 350 meter water depth in the centre of the oxygen minimum zone off Angola in the southeast Atlantic. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Apr 28, 2020

New study: Corals in the deep sea adapt to extreme oxygen depletion

Reefs of cold water corals are unique biodiversity hot spots in the deep sea. In order to grow, reef-building species like Lophelia pertusa need good ...

Diving in the Gulf of Mexico: With the submersible ALVIN, the researchers from Bremen were able to reach the seafloor. There they used ALVIN's grab arm to collect sediment cores from the seabed. White-orange coloured microbial mats made of sulfur-oxidizin

Apr 21, 2020

New ethane-munching microbes discovered at hot vents

Researchers from MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen ...

MARUM-MeBo-pilots Thorsten Klein (left) und Siefke Fröhlich in the MARUM-MeBo70 operation container on deck of RV Polarstern during a drill. Photo: T. Ronge, Alfred-Wegener-Institut

Apr 1, 2020

Traces of rainforests in West Antarctica

An international team of researchers led by geoscientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, have now ...

Coscinodiscus wailesii is a microalgae belonging to the diatoms, which form algal blooms and produce substantial amounts of polysaccharides in energy stores, cell walls and as exudates. The research group Marine Glycobiology studies the turnover and role

Mar 18, 2020

Sugar brings a lot of carbon dioxide into the deeper sea

The oceans are a very important reservoir for carbon in the system of the earth. However, many aspects of the marine carbon cycle are still unknown. ...