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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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Nov 3, 2010

Coring off Chile

During an expedition with the German research vessel SONNE the sea floor drill rig MARUM-MeBo will deployed off the coast of Chile. “The sediment samples ... +

Oct 31, 2010

Coral core in hospital

Recently MARUM geoscientists organized an exceptional cooperation with the radiology department of a Bremen hospital. They investigated a sediment core by ... +

Oct 28, 2010

AGU Award

Dr. Sabine Kasten was recently awarded with the “Editors' Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for `Paleoceanography`”. Dr. Kasten was recommended by the ... +

Oct 26, 2010

Science face-to-face

Wissenschaft im Dialog (Science in Dialogue) has started an interviews series with renowned German scientists. In the current interview MARUM director ... +

Oct 24, 2010

Deep sea: discover – research – ...

On November 4th the exhibition „Tiefsee entdecken – erforschen – erleben“ will be opened in Dresden. In this joint project of the Senckenberg Museum ... +

Oct 24, 2010

Long-term observatories in the sea f...

Prof. Achim Kopf is co-chief schientist on the current mission of the Japanese drilling vessel CHIKYU. During this IODP expedition long-term observatories ... +

Oct 7, 2010

Universe of the Oceans

From October 9th the public German TV ZDF presents the threepart series “Universe of the Oceans” hosted by the German best-selling author Frank Schätzing. ... +

Oct 6, 2010

Deep-sea hot springs discovered

Scientists from MARUM and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen on board the German research vessel METEOR have discovered new ... +

Oct 3, 2010

German Unity Day

On the occasion of the German Unity Day a number of outreach activities and festivities took place along the Weser river. Bremen`s marine research ... +

Oct 3, 2010

Future Energy

On October 1st the exhibition „The Future of Energy“ opened in the Bremen House of Science. MARUM contributes by presenting its research on methane ... +

Sep 29, 2010

In the aftermath of Deepwater Horizon

In an article which will be published tomorrow in the magazine “Forschung” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Prof. Antje Boetius portrays the ... +

Sep 26, 2010

ECORD Summer School

At the end of this years` ECORD Summer School the best talks were awarded. Awardees are: Rachel Brackenridge, Patrick Grunert, Enquing Huang, Chloé Pretet, ... +

Sep 22, 2010

Ministerial visit

Today His Excellency, Mr. Suhama Surapranata, Indonesian Minister for Research and Technology, visited MARUM. Mr. Surpranata was mainly interested in ... +

Sep 19, 2010

METOER online

The German research vessel METEOR currently operates southwest of the Azores. The daily newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt presents a blog which also contains ... +

Sep 19, 2010

MeBo Test

After the successful functional test of the sea floor drill rig MeBo in the water basin at MARUM, it now will be send to Chile. On board the research ... +

Sep 13, 2010

ECORD Summer School

All in all 28 young scientists from eight countries are visiting this year’s ECORD Summer School "Dynamics of Past Climate Changes", which takes place at ... +

Sep 13, 2010

BIOMARIS research award

Dr. Lubos Polerecky was awarded with the „BIOMARIS research award for the Advancement of marine sciences in Bremen 2010”. This award about 5000 Euro was ... +