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News 2019

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Jun 13, 2019

Open Campus

"Open Worlds - Share Knowledge" is this year’s motto for the Open Campus at the University of Bremen. It starts on Saturday, 15 June, at 2 pm. MARUM will ...

View of the METEOR working deck and the working area southeast of Montserrat. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

May 13, 2019

Tsunami prediction: Research team investigates dynamics of volcanic flank collapses

An international team of researchers is currently investigating collapse events and their tsunami potential off the coast of the Caribbean island of ...

New pathway of methylotrophic methanogenesis found in Helgoland Mud Area, North Sea: The known pathway of methane formation from methanol is shown in blue, involving exclusive formation of methane (CH4) from methanol (CH3OH). The new pathway (labelled wit

May 7, 2019

New way of methane formation in the oceanfloor discovered

The warming of our atmosphere is driven by climate-relevant trace gases such as methane. Methane is produced, for example, in ocean sediments. Here, ...

The dives are being broadcast live via stream. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Apr 29, 2019

Live dive to the ocean floor

The researchers of the PS119 expedition on board the POLARSTERN are currently more than 14,000 kilometers away from Bremen. What can be seen during the ...

Kai-Uwe Hinrichs is now a member of the Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Apr 25, 2019

Kai-Uwe Hinrichs is member of Leopoldina

The Bremen geoscientist Prof. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs has been elected to the Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences. The admission as a member of the academy ...

Participants of this year's traning course. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Mar 26, 2019

ECORD Training Course

Working like on a drilling vessel - this is the focus of the fifth ECORD training course for 29 participants. In training units in the laboratory, ...

Mar 6, 2019

Researchers from Bremen and the Netherlands strengthen cooperation

Researchers from Bremen and the Netherlands have strengthened their cooperation in coastal, marine and polar research. Scientists from the MARUM - Center ...

Unicellular algae of the Rhizaria family. Photo: Fabrice Not

Mar 4, 2019

Early rise of animals questioned by new discovery on sponge biomarkers

Fossils, molecules and genes disagree on the rise of early animals. A large international team of researchers around Christian Hallmann and Benjamin ...