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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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The current issue of the MARUM newsletter is out. Graphics: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Jan 21, 2019

MARUM Newsletter

The current issue of the MARUM Newsletter "The ocean in depth!" is out now: News from the areas of research, education, technologies, and science communication.

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Uwe Rosiak. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; T. Klein

Jan 12, 2019

In Memoriam

We mourn the death of Uwe Rosiak, who died on 6 January at the age of 61 after a brief but serious illness. We are grateful for almost three decades of his ...

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The ocean floor is the focus of the nes cluster of excellence. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Jan 10, 2019

Cluster has been launched

A new Cluster of Excellence has been launched at MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen at the beginning of January. ...

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The first expedition to the Benguela upwelling area is planned for summer 2019 with the research vessel METEOR. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Jan 7, 2019

Focus on upwelling systems

What consequences could climate change have on key biogeochemical processes in the Benguela upwelling system off South West Africa? This question is the ...

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Describing cores is one of the practical exercises in the training course. Here a participant takes a close look at hard rock, taken from a core. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Dec 21, 2018

ECORD Training Course 2019

During the fifth edition of the ECORD Training Course, scientists will be introduced to the standards on procedures and analyses on research drilling ...

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Bremer Weihnachtsmarkt (photo credit: obs/Testberichte.de/Juergen Sack)

Dec 14, 2018

Christmas Market Tour

PAPP Café

14 December 2018

We meet at 18.00 in front of the PAPP Café (Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 1, Neustadt)

See you there! Your PhD representatives
Rebecca, Aisgo, ...

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Single-cell images of environmental marine ammonia oxidizing archaea. Panel (a) identifies the ammonia oxidizing archaea (green) and surrounding cells (blue), panel (b) reveals their uptake of cyanate. This can be determined with NanoSIMS, a technology th

Dec 11, 2018

Energy for archaea

The ammonia oxidizing archaea belong to taxonomic group of the Thaumarchaeota and are among the most abundant marine microorganisms. Yet, we are still ...

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Torsten Bickert from MARUM talks about the instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; T. Bickert

Dec 3, 2018

Ocean Day

MARUM and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen are organising the second Ocean Day on February 13. 500 pupils from the upper ...

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