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The MARIA S. MERIAN in the harbor of St. Johns, Canada. From here, expedition MSM 119 departs for the Reykjanes Ridge.

Jul 7, 2023

Expedition to the southern Reykjanes Ridge

The MARUM expedition MSM 119 will depart from St. John's, Canada, on July 8. Destination is the southern Reykjanes Ridge in the middle of the Atlantic ...

Fumio Inagaki (left) receives the Philipp Franz von Siebold Award from Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Photo: Humboldt Foundation/ D. Ausserhofer

Jun 30, 2023

Philipp Franz von Siebold Prize for Fumio Inagaki

Fumio Inagaki is one of the world's leading scientists in geomicrobiology. He studies the relationship between geochemical processes and microbial ...

Jun 12, 2023

Open Worlds - Share Knowledge: OPEN CAMPUS at the University of Bremen

The University of Bremen invites you to OPEN CAMPUS on Friday, June 23, and Saturday, June 24, 2023. After open-air concerts on Friday evening, OPEN CAMPUS ...

Hydrothermal vents in 860 meters water depth in the Menez Gwen hydrothermal field southwest of the Azores. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; University of Bremen

Jun 8, 2023

METEOR Expedition to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

No two black smokers are alike - this is true for the geology as well as for the fluids that emerge from the hydrothermal vents. Now, an approximately ...

The new, remote-controlled diving robot MARUM-QUEST 5000 is now standing in MARUM's Workshop II. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Jun 5, 2023

MARUM strengthens deep-sea research with new diving robot

The wait is over - the new remotely operated vehicle (ROV) MARUM-QUEST 5000 has now been delivered. Since the beginning of June, it can be found in MARUM's ...

Glacial meltwater streams supplying rock particles (incl. organic carbon) to downstream fjords ecosystems. Picture: Torben Stichel

Jun 1, 2023

Microbes use carbon from ancient rocks

Microbial communities in marine sediments are able to use ancient material as a carbon source. Although they prefer fresh organic material, if there is not ...

Group picture of the researchers of the DFG Priority Program "Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs. They are meeting this week at the University of Bremen. Photo: MARUM; V. Diekamp

May 31, 2023

Focus meeting on stress signatures in corals

Researchers from the DFG Priority Programme "Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs" are meeting at the University of Bremen this week. The topical ...

A stone coral in the Red Sea. It is one of the shallow water corals that researchers often use to reconstruct the climatic conditions of more recent times. Photo: Heinz Krimmer

May 26, 2023

New coral database for climate data of the past 2,000 years

What researchers know about climate change today is based mainly on instrumental data series of the past 150 years. For some regions there are very ...