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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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Dec 21, 2010

Secrets of the sea floor

Under this title Bickle et al summarize the successes of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programm IODP. In the January edition of Nature Geoscience they also ... +

Dec 14, 2010

MARUM scientist on TV

On December 14th the TV show „buten un binnen“ broadcasted a short video about MARUM scientist and Leibniz awardee Kai-Uwe Hinrichs. The video can be seen ... +

Dec 13, 2010

Underwater land slides

Currently MARUM scientist Michael Strasser is onboard the drilling vessel CHIKYU. Off the coast of Japan he and his team will operate a drilling, which ... +

Dec 12, 2010

MeBo off the coast of Chile

During November MARUM scientists were on expedition with the research vessel SONNE off the coast of Chile. All in all they investigated about 250 meters of ... +

Dec 12, 2010

Rain over Africa

MARUM scientist James Collins and his international team reconstructed the extent and position of the African rainbelt over the last 23 000 years. Their ... +

Dec 8, 2010

GLOMAR Best Paper Award 2010

This year’s awardee of the „Best Paper Award“ from the Graduate School GLOMAR is Ines Heßler. The prize endowed with 1000 Euro was given to her in the ... +

Dec 1, 2010

Leibniz Award for Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

Today the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft announced the winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award 2011. One of the ten awards, endowed with 2.5 ... +

Nov 21, 2010

Photo Awards

On November 20th the German popular science magazine „Bild der Wissenschaft“, the media agency Brendel, and the University of Bremen assigned the “German ... +

Nov 21, 2010

The Ice is Melting

A TV documentary which aired last weekend offers interesting insights about an Antarctic expedition of the German research vessel Polarstern in which also ... +

Nov 18, 2010

Understanding Earthquake Dynamics

During an expedition onboard the Japanese drilling vessel CHIKYU to the Nankai Trough region co-chief scientist Achim Kopf recovered an observatory from a ... +

Nov 17, 2010

Science for Teachers

MARUM PhD student David Fischer takes us on a trip to the bottom of the sea to learn about cold seeps – their ecosystems, potential fuels, and possible ... +

Nov 17, 2010

The Future of German Research Vessels

On behalf of the German Ministry for Science and Technology the Wissenschaftsrat (Science Council) has now published recommendations regarding the ... +

Nov 17, 2010

40 Years of Ocean Drilling

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program IODP and its predecessors were introduced in Eos (Vol. 91, No. 43, 26 October 2010) as Scientific Ocean Drilling ... +