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Manita Chouksy is a new member of the CLIVAR panel. Photo: private
Manita Chouksy is a new member of the CLIVAR panel. Photo: private
Feb 8, 2023

MARUM scientist was selected to be a member of the CLIVAR Ocean Model Development Panel

MARUM scientist Dr. Manita Chouksey, Project leader in the Transregional Collaborative Research Center 181 (TRR 181), is since January 2023 a member of the ...

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Altered ocean circulation in the Indian Ocean could lead to more and stronger flood events in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean and drought and dry periods in the western part of the Indian Ocean. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
Altered ocean circulation in the Indian Ocean could lead to more and stronger flood events in the eastern part of the Indian Ocean and drought and dry periods in the western part of the Indian Ocean. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; M. Mohtadi
Jan 5, 2023

Changing ocean circulation intensifies extreme events in the Indian Ocean

Dry regions experience more drought events, wet regions more precipitation: In a new study, researchers from the U.S., Germany and China have investigated ...

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Foraminifera under the microscope, taken during an expedition with the research vessel SONNE. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Foraminifera under the microscope, taken during an expedition with the research vessel SONNE. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Dec 22, 2022

Colonization of microorganisms from the ocean floor into the water column

Planktonic foraminifera are key to understanding and deciphering past climate. They live and lived in the water column, but their origins are unclear. In a ...

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Aug 25, 2021
An octopus approaches a coral grown on basalt fragments in a water depth of 900 meters, recorded with the remotely operated vehicle MARUM-QUEST. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
An octopus approaches a coral grown on basalt fragments in a water depth of 900 meters, recorded with the remotely operated vehicle MARUM-QUEST. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Research Mission Investigates the Ocean as a Carbon Store

How can the ocean help to effectively contain climate change? This question forms the core of the first research mission of the German Marine Resea...

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Aug 6, 2021
The new brochure provides facts and background information on surveying the Atlantic circulation. Photo: KDM/DKK
The new brochure provides facts and background information on surveying the Atlantic circulation. Photo: KDM/DKK

Measuring the Atlantic circulation

The German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) and the German Climate Consortium (DKK) have now published a background brochure on the measurement of ...

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May 31, 2021
The samples studied come from a core recovered by researchers in Morocco's Lake Tislit. Photo: Rachid Cheddadi, University of Montpellier
The samples studied come from a core recovered by researchers in Morocco's Lake Tislit. Photo: Rachid Cheddadi, University of Montpellier

Using fossil plant molecules to track down the Green Sahara

Researchers have developed a new concept to explain the phenomenon known as Green Sahara. To achieve this, they first studied the fossil pollen and...

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Apr 13, 2021
The basis for GLOMAP is data obtained from deep-sea sediment cores. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp
The basis for GLOMAP is data obtained from deep-sea sediment cores. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

New world map of sea-surface temperature and sea-ice extent during the Last Glacial Maximum

Researchers use maps to visualize their data. Using paleodata from the international MARGO project ("Multiproxy Approach for the Reconstruction of ...

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Feb 17, 2021
Icebreaker Oden on the Arctic Ocean. Credits: Lars Lehnert, SPRS
Icebreaker Oden on the Arctic Ocean. Credits: Lars Lehnert, SPRS

ArcOP – A novel scientific ocean drilling expedition to explore Arctic Ocean paleoceanography and climate

The European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (SPRS) and Arctic Marine Solutions (AMS) will j...

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Feb 24, 2011

Expedition log METEOR

Until April 02 MARUM scientists are on expedition in the Black Sea exploring deposits of methane hydrates. In an expedition log chief scientist Gerhard ... +

Feb 21, 2011

Black Sea Mud Volcanoes

A new MARUM video is available on YouTube. Prof. Gerhard Bohrmann reports about an exciting research cruise on board the German research vessel MARIA S. ... +

Feb 20, 2011

Ice-smothered UK

Nature magazine`s recent edition highlights an article coauthored by MARUM scientists which deals with the onset of the glaciation of the British Isles. ... +

Feb 20, 2011

Arctic Drilling

Recently ECORD, the European branch of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program published a new brochure on Scientific Drilling in the Arctic Ocean. In the ... +

Feb 9, 2011

INTERCOAST Workshop

From February 14th – 20th scientists from New Zealand visit Bremen. They take part in the annual INTERCOAST workshop. On this occasion the Ambassador of ... +

Feb 8, 2011

The Future of IODP

Currently a science plan is being developed for the next phase of ocean research drilling. A milestone on the way to a post 2013 programme was the INVEST ... +

Feb 7, 2011

Science and Art

In the framework of a cooperation between the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst and the Hamburg based magazine mare the German painter Andreas ... +

Feb 7, 2011

BIOMARIS Research Award

This year the Bremen based cosmetics manufacturing company BIOMARIS together with MARUM awards a research prize for the promotion of marine research in the ... +

Feb 7, 2011

Arctic Climate History

On Thursday, February 10th, marine geologist Prof. Rüdiger Stein (AWI) gives a talk on Arctic climate history: “100 Millionen Jahre Klimageschichte des ... +

Feb 6, 2011

Core Repository for lake sediments

On Friday the 4th February representatives of the University of Bremen and the German Scientific Earth Probing Consortium GESEP signed a cooperation ... +

Feb 2, 2011

Film crew at the MARUM

A WDR film crew filmed the international team of scientists from the ICDP, which currently studies sediment cores from the Turkish Lake Van in the MARUM ... +

Jan 26, 2011

MARUM UniSchoollab at the Roland-Center

Yesterday the MARUM UniSchoollab attended the campaign „Bremen bildet sich“ at the Roland-Center with the workshop “Der blaue Planet”. Together with pupils ... +

Jan 18, 2011

ICDP Science Party

25 scientists from four European countries are currently investigating sediment cores which where drilled by the International Continental Scientific ... +

Jan 9, 2011

Focal points

This week both a German and a French ARTE TV-Team are shooting in the MARUM building. The reports and documentaries planned will cover METEOR expedition M ... +

Jan 4, 2011

Corals from the desert

Recently MARUM scientist Dr. Thomas Felis was on a 12-day expedition in the Jordanian desert. At the Gulf of Aqaba he gained drilling cores out of fossil ... +