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MARUM ROV SQUID being deployed (left), MARUM BlueROV resting on deck after deployment (right). Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Oct 21, 2020

First successful work with underwater robots during the expedition M167

After a week of quarantine in a hotel in northern Germany, the German research vessel METEOR set out on an expedition in the framework of the EU Marine ...

The research vessel SONNE en route in the Pacific Ocean. Here, in the so-called Indo-Pacific Warm Pool, the interaction of ocean and atmosphere is particularly evident. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; M. Moht

Oct 14, 2020

Climate phenomena could have a stronger impact

Climate phenomena are globally controlled by the interaction between ocean and atmosphere. These include El Niño and La Niña and the so-called Walker ...

Coordinator Ralf Bachmayer (left) exchanges ideas with Arne Kausche. Photo: Margit Wild, Siemens Foundation

Oct 13, 2020

New online module in the context of European cooperation

Observation in the deep sea is becoming more and more important, and new technologies are needed accordingly. Such technologies are researched, developed ...

A Wave Glider in front of the harbor in Taliarte, Las Palmas, Spain. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences of the University of Bremen

Oct 6, 2020

International, Horizon 2020 project, “Mission Atlantic” launched

International ocean experts from Europe, Brazil, South Africa, Canada and the USA have joined forces to map and assess the current and future risks from ...

David De Vleeschouwer aboard the drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution. Photo: Bill Crawford, IODP JRSO

Oct 1, 2020

AGU-Award for David De Vleeschouwer

For his significant contributions to paleoceanography and paleoclimatology MARUM’s David De Vleeschouwer is being awarded the Nanne Weber Early Career ...

In her celebratory lecture, Prof. Dr. Nicole Dubilier explained to the guests the importance of symbiotic communities in the deep sea, but also in shallow water. Photo: Jan Steffen/GEOMAR

Sep 17, 2020

Petersen Excellence Professorship for Nicole Dubilier

Marine biologist and symbiosis researcher Prof. Dr. Nicole Dubilier, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, received an ...

Climate researchers have compiled facts on climate change - including on glacier melt and rising sea levels. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Sep 15, 2020

Facts about climate change: What science knows today

Six organizations from the field of climate research and science-based climate communication - German Climate Consortium, German Meteorological Society, ...

Close to the island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, there is apparently a hotspot that has been active for 130 million years. Photo: Wolfram Geißler, AWI

Sep 11, 2020

Magmatic hotspot in the South Atlantic

Island chains like Hawaii are situated above so-called hotspots, where hot magma flows upward continuously over long time periods. It has been much ...