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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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Jan 30, 2018

PhD Defence of Weichao Wu

GEO building, room 1550

Everybody is welcome!

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Jan 30, 2018

Congratulations to Weichao Wu

GEO building, room 1550

... for his successful PhD defence!

On 30 January 2018, Weichao defended his PhD thesis.

The colloquium talk was entitled "Assessing microbial ...

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Jan 30, 2018

Congratulations to Shuchai Gan

GEO building, room 1550

... for her successful PhD defence!

On 30 January 2018, Shuchai defended her PhD thesis.

The colloquium talk was entitled "Carbon cycling ...

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Jan 30, 2018

PhD Defence of Shuchai Gan

GEO building, room 1550

Everybody is welcome!

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Jan 25, 2018, 10:00

GLOMAR Joint Seminar

MARUM I, room 2070

Monthly research seminar for all GLOMAR PhD students

25 January 2018

10.00 - 13.00

MARUM I, room 2070, BCR and labs

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Jan 24, 2018, 09:00

GLOMAR Workshop No. 73

MARUM I, room 2070

24 January 2018
09.00 hrs.

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The image does not represent a topographic map, but shows how much material dissolves. The so-called pulses, which resemble crater waves, are clearly visible. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Research, University of Bremen

Jan 16, 2018

Study: Pulsating dissolution found in crystals

When German researchers zoomed in to the nanometer scale on time-lapse images of dissolving crystals, they found a surprise: Dissolution occurred in ...

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Michael Strasser (right), then assistant professor at ETH Zurich, and expedition leader Gerold Wefer, professor at MARUM, discuss the core of the drill on board the research vessel Sonne. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University

Jan 9, 2018

Earthquakes as a motor for carbon supply sustaining life in the deep sea?

An international team led by geologist Michael Strasser has used novel methods to analyse sediment deposits in the Japanese trench in order to gain new ...

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After having been recovered by the deck crew, sea floor drill rig MARUM-MeBo slides on a rail system to its position on deck for unloading of the core barrels. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; G. Bohr

Jan 8, 2018

Methane hydrate dissociation off Spitsbergen not caused by climate change

For years, methane emissions from the seabed have been observed in the Arctic Ocean off Spitsbergen. The assumption that the warming of seawater by climate ...

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Steinbruch Schmidt (Bad Wildungen): The geological expression of the Late Devonian mass extinction event in Germany. The mass extinction event is displayed by a level of black shales (indicated by the geological hammer) interrupting the succession of lime

Jan 3, 2018

Nutrient surplus causes the oceans to suffocate

What favoured the Devonian extinction about 374 million years ago? Based on rock samples, a team of scientists from Germany, Belgium, China and the USA ...

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Jan 2, 2018

Welcome Chelsea

GLOMAR welcomes its new research associate Dr. Chelsea Korpanty.

Chelsea will work with the GLOMAR PhD students in researcg themes A "Ocean & Climate" and ...

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Dec 22, 2017

Bernhard Viehweger @ ETH 2017

Report of GLOMAR PhD student Bernhard Viehweger about his research stay at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland from 1 October to 22 December 2017

Report

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Dec 22, 2017

Winter holidays

The GLOMAR Office will be closed
from 22 December 2017 to 7 January 2018

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In the Eastern Antarctic, scientists are taking samples from the so-called nunataks. The team is now in Dronning Maud Land for the second time after an expedition in February 2017. Photo: Jennifer Newall

Dec 22, 2017

Does the ice sheet in East Antarctica shrink or grow under warming climate?

The Antarctic research season has begun 15 December, when researchers in the international research project MAGIC-DML returned to Dronning Maud Land in ...

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ArcTrain members presented their research results at the annual meeting of the Research Training Group. Photo: MARUM, University of Bremen

Dec 21, 2017

DFG extends Research Training Group

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding the ArcTrain Research Training Group at MARUM for a further four years. Twelve doctoral students will be ...

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Dec 21, 2017

PhD defense of Henriette Kolling

On December 21st, 15:15 pm in the lecture hall of the GEO building (room 1550), University of Bremen, ArcTrain student Henriette Kolling will defend her ...

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