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Mar 9, 2020

Live dive to the ocean floor

The researchers of the SO272 expedition on board the research vessel SONNE are currently more than 10,000 kilometers away from Bremen. What can be seen ...

Otto Krümmel Prize 2019. Photo: Jan Steffen/GEOMAR

Mar 6, 2020

Katharina Bachmann receives Otto Krümmel Award

This year Katharina Bachmann received one of the two Otto Krümmel Awards endowed with 1,500 EURO for her bachelor´s thesis "Gas emission sites at the ...

Representatives of the DAM member institutions and DAM Executive Board. Photo: DAM/Dirk Enters

Mar 3, 2020

Kick-off for the DAM in Berlin

On 3 March, the German Marine Research Alliance (DAM) introduced itself to some 200 guests in the FUTURIUM – House of Futures and outlined its tasks and ...

Feb 28, 2020

Science in a pub

Due to the current situation all further events of the spring series are cancelled. Some of the lectures will be made up for in autumn, as of now between ...

Florence Schubotz of MARUM talks about Black Smokers in the deep sea. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Feb 25, 2020

Third Ocean Day in Bremen

The Bremen Ocean Day, organized by the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and the University of Bremen, allows 500 students to immerse themselves ...

On board the ALKOR new technology components are tested. Photo: Marc Petrikowski

Feb 21, 2020

Technology tests off the coast of southern France

The canyon in front of St. Tropez in southern France is the destination of an expedition with the research vessel ALKOR. The cruise, led by Prof. Ralf ...

Oil bubbles that seep into the water column on the oceanfloor form a natural oil slick on the water surface. Photo: Ian MacDonald

Feb 4, 2020

Record depth for hydrocarbon seeps from the oceanfloor

Naturally formed oil and methane from the oceanfloor seeps upward into the water column at many points in the sea and partially reaches the water surface. ...

Richard D. Norris with the drill core obtained on IODP expedition 342 showing the K-Pg boundary Photo: IODP

Jan 17, 2020

Asteroid instead of vulcanic eruptions

What triggered the latest of five mass extinction events - an asteroid impact or a series of volcanic eruptions? The scientific community has been dealing ...