News 2019

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The first expedition to the Benguela upwelling area is planned for summer 2019 with the research vessel METEOR. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Jan 7, 2019

Focus on upwelling systems

What consequences could climate change have on key biogeochemical processes in the Benguela upwelling system off South West Africa? This question is the ...

Single-cell images of environmental marine ammonia oxidizing archaea. Panel (a) identifies the ammonia oxidizing archaea (green) and surrounding cells (blue), panel (b) reveals their uptake of cyanate. This can be determined with NanoSIMS, a technology th

Dec 11, 2018

Energy for archaea

The ammonia oxidizing archaea belong to taxonomic group of the Thaumarchaeota and are among the most abundant marine microorganisms. Yet, we are still ...

Renegar Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica. Once considered inert, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is now showing increasing signs of change. Photo: Nick Golledge, VUW

Feb 18, 2018

Effects of melt from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets

The future melting of ice sheets could cause sea level to rise by up to 25 centimetres by 2100. An international research team involving MARUM has ...