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News 2018

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Foraminifera under the fluorescence microscope (Photo: Erik Freier, Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften - ISAS - e.V.)

Feb 28, 2018

Foraminifera under stress

A study, in which MARUM scientist Prof. Michal Kucera is involved, provides new information on the reaction of reef organisms to environmental stress.

Bacteria living on red seaweed (picture) digest its cell walls with a newly discovered class of enzymes. Photo: Jan-Hendrik Hehemann

Feb 21, 2018

Scientists identify a new class of biocatalysts in the degradation of marine carbohydrates

Enzymes are of crucial importance for the degradation of algae biomass in the sea. Scientists from Greifswald and Bremen were able to prove this for the ...

Visitors look at MARUM's input for the exhibition. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Feb 16, 2018

Research international

The exhibition "EINFACH WISSENSWERT: Forschung international" can be seen at the Bremen House of Science from 16 February to 21 April. The exhibition ...

Mai Linh Doan uses the fall cone to measure the resistance of the sediment. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Feb 14, 2018

Onshore science Party

In December last year, the offshore phase of IODP Expedition 381 – Corinth Active Rift Development ended with the recovery of 1,645 meters of core. The ...

Diver transporting a water chemistry sensor to the study site. Photo: HYDRA/C. Lott

Feb 8, 2018

Influence of increasing carbon dioxide levels on the seabed

Storing carbon dioxide (CO₂) deep below the seabed is one way to counteract the increasing concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere. But what happens if such ...

Soeren Ahmerkamp at the deployment of his autonomous seabed observatory "LanceALot" in the North Sea. Photo: MPI Bremen)

Feb 7, 2018

Briese Research Award

Dr. Soeren Ahmerkamp is awarded the Briese Research Prize for his doctoral thesis. The jury honored Ahmerkamp's research into oxygen transport in the sandy ...

Michael Strasser (right), then assistant professor at ETH Zurich, and expedition leader Gerold Wefer, professor at MARUM, discuss the core of the drill on board the research vessel Sonne. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University

Jan 9, 2018

Earthquakes as a motor for carbon supply sustaining life in the deep sea?

An international team led by geologist Michael Strasser has used novel methods to analyse sediment deposits in the Japanese trench in order to gain new ...