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Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air worldwide. Photo: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Dec 26, 2022

Slime for the climate, delivered by brown algae

Brown algae take up large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and release parts of the carbon contained therein back into the environment in mucous ...

A MARUM expedition led researchers to Disko Bay in Greenland in the fall of 2022. The National Committee for Polar Research plans and coordinates the polar activities of German universities. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Univer

Dec 15, 2022

DFG appoints Monika Rhein as Chair of the National Committee for Polar Research

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) has reappointed MARUM's deputy director, Prof. Dr. Monika Rhein, as chair of the ...

The visitors from NSF and DFG took the opportunity and also toured the dry construction site of the new Center for Deep-Sea Research, which is being built in the direct vicinity of MARUM. There will be another reefer hall for drill cores. They were accomp

Dec 8, 2022

Research funders visit MARUM

More than 164 kilometers of deep-sea cores retrieved during the scientific ocean drilling programs, currently IODP, from 97 expeditions are currently ...

After the test dive, the remotely operated vehicle MARUM-SQUID returns to the surface. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Nov 24, 2022

ROV Workshop

Dives with remotely operated vehicles (ROV) are technically very demanding. At the same time, pilots must also be able to meet the requirements of the ...

No topping-out ceremony without a topping-out crown: For the important intermediate step, the following met at the future Center for Deep-Sea Research (from left): Professor Michal Kucera (Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer), MARUM Director Professor M

Nov 14, 2022

Topping-out ceremony at the University’s Center for Deep-Sea Research

About a year after construction work began, the topping-out ceremony was celebrated at the Center for Deep-Sea Research (ZfT). Situated next to the MARUM – ...

On Wednesday evening, the so-called Icebreaker took place in the MARUM foyer, where participants exchanged ideas in a relaxed atmosphere. Photo: MARUM/Prange

Nov 9, 2022

Annual Meeting of the TMS at MARUM

MARUM will host the annual meeting of the Micropaleontological Society (TMS) between November 9 and 11. The venue is MARUM - Center for Marine ...

It is not only directly on the water, as here on Hudson Bay, that the ocean influences. A new study shows that in addition to man-made global warming, regional variations are also to be expected. Photo: Ulrike Herzschuh

Nov 3, 2022

How the ocean affects climate on land

Climate on land appears to be much more variable than currently simulated in climate models. The reason for this is the oceanic influence, which shapes the ...

Oct 13, 2022

Science in a pub

Sports betting, female Nobel Prizes, working from home and alternatives to animal products are topics in the fall series of Science goes PUBlic. Scientists ...