Center for Marine Environmental Sciences

News 2018

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Iceberg in the North Atlantic. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Jul 12, 2018

Melting triggers melting

The melting of glaciers on one side of the globe can trigger disintegration of glaciers on the other side of the globe, as has been presented in a recent ...

The cable is being wound from a transport reel via a rewinding block onto the winch. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, T. Klein

Jul 10, 2018

MeBo umbilical serviced

A cable connects the seafloor drill rig MARUM-MeBo 200 to the research vessel from where it is deployed for deep sea drilling. This cable – also known as ...

Margot Cramwinckel in the Bremen Core Repository. Photo: Carlijne Wijngaarden

Jul 3, 2018

Larger polar warming caused by rising CO2

Geoscientists have shown for the first time that the earth's polar regions, even if they were ice-free, are warming much more strongly due to rising CO₂ ...

Measurements on living and fossil corals may lead to conclusions about past temperatures and sea level fluctuations. Photo: Eric Matson / Australian Institute for Marine Science

Jun 26, 2018

Lessons about a future warmer world using data from the past

Selected intervals in the past that were as warm or warmer than today can help us understand what the Earth may be like under future global warming. A ...

Test of the long-range sonar with ROV SQUID in the MARUM test tank. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Jun 26, 2018

MARUM deep-sea sonars on Underwater Observatory

MARUM scientists are about to connect long- and short-range sonars to the underwater cabled observatory of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) and the ...

Viewers were able to follow dives via different camera angles on the screens.

Jun 25, 2018

Live dive with MARUM-QUEST

The research vessel SONNE is currently about 16,000 kilometres away from its home port. In the South Pacific, a team of scientists investigated geological ...

Jun 7, 2018

MARUM Research Award

This year's "MARUM Research Award for Marine Sciences" is awarded to Dr. Kerstin Kretschmer and Clara Martínez-Pérez for their dissertations as well as ...

Participants of the international stakeholder conference in Walvis Bay, Namibia. Representatives from science, politics and industry exchanged their experiences in order to promote a new Institute of Marine Technology and Maritime Studies at the Universit

Jun 6, 2018

Experts discuss new marine institute in Namibia

More than 100 experts from academia, industry and the public administration have now discussed establishing a new School of Marine Engineering and Maritime ...