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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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Jun 7, 2018

MARUM Research Award

Kerstin Kretschmer won the MARUM Research Award for her dissertation. Congratulations to Kerstin!

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Clara Martínez-Pérez (left) und Maren Elisabeth Richter were awwarded the MARUM Research Award 2017. Foto: MARUM - Center for Ma­ri­ne Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Jun 7, 2018

MARUM Research Award

This year's "MARUM Research Award for Marine Sciences" is awarded to Dr. Kerstin Kretschmer and Clara Martínez-Pérez for their dissertations as well as ...

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Yusuf El-Khaled @ KASUT 2018

Jun 1, 2018

Yusuf El-Khaled @ KASUT 2018

Report of GLOMAR PhD student Yusuf C. El-Khaled about his research stay at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology from October 2017 to June ...

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Asphalt flow deposits on the seafloor in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The image was taken by the diving robot MARUM-QUEST 4000. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

May 11, 2018

Asphalt on the seafloor

In a recent study in the scientific magazine Oceanography, MARUM scientists describe the fascinating similarities of natural asphalt discharge in the deep ...

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Heiko Sahling

May 7, 2018

In Memoriam

We mourn our dear colleague and wonderful person Heiko Sahling. He had to leave us at the age of only 49 years after a serious illness on April 23, 2018. ...

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PhD defence of Stefan Partelow

May 7, 2018

Congratulations to Stefan Partelow

... for his suc­cess­ful PhD de­fence!

On 7 May 2018, Stefan de­fen­ded his PhD thesis.

The col­lo­quium talk was en­titled "Finding sustainability: ...

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MARUM Vice Director Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius (Photo: Al­fred-We­ge­ner-In­sti­tut / Kers­tin Rol­fes)

Apr 20, 2018

Communicator Award 2018

MARUM Vice Director Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius receives the Communicator Award 2018 of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Stifterverband. The prize ...

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