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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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May 12, 2013

RV SONNE in the Pacific

On a seven-week expedition with the German research vessel SONNE in the Western Pacific MARUM scientists study amongst others sediments to test whether and ... +

May 12, 2013

Science Barge on Tour

Recently the science exhibition barge MS Wissenschaft started its 2013 tour in Berlin. Secretary of State, Dr. Georg Schütte and Prof. Gerold Wefer, Chair ... +

May 7, 2013

Phytoplankton Productivity

For a 4-week period, a MARUM team investigates the impact of hydrodynamics on phytoplankton activity. The team connected their instruments to the COSYNA ... +

May 1, 2013

From the Gulf of Cádiz

From April 24, to May 1, PhD-students from the Bremen International Graduate School GLOMAR were onboard the research vessel POSEIDON in the Gulf of Cádiz. ... +

Apr 24, 2013

Nature Geoscience

An image taken by the ROV MARUM-QUEST can be found on the cover oft he May edition of Nature Geoscience. In a letter and a News& Views contribution ... +

Apr 18, 2013

Antarctic Marine Ecosystem

Dr. Ursula Röhl is co-author of a Science paper which was published on April 19. It demonstrates that the development of the Antarctic ice sheet 33.5 ... +

Apr 15, 2013

Polarstern Expedition Finished

On April 16th the MARUM expedition onboard RV Polarstern ended in Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands. More than 30,000 visitors followed the expedition ... +

Apr 15, 2013

A New German Research Vessel

On Friday, April 12th, the keel for the new German research vessel SONNE was laid down in the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg. The new, 116 metres long deep ... +

Apr 14, 2013

EGU Medal for John Burrows

During the EGU General Assembly which is taking place n Vienna the 2013 Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal was awarded to John Burrows in recognition of his ... +

Apr 14, 2013

BIOMARIS Research Award

The Bremen based cosmetics manufacturing company BIOMARIS together with MARUM awards a research prize for the promotion of marine research in the State of ... +

Apr 14, 2013

Northern German Science Award

These days the Northern German Science Award 2013 was announced. This year researchers from northern Germany who are active in the fields of bio and ... +

Mar 27, 2013

Carbon Dioxide and Climate

Dr. Ursula Röhl is co-author of a new Nature study in which A.N. Meckler from ETH Zurich and an international team found new evidence that ocean ... +

Mar 27, 2013

Marginal Living

On March 28 the TV station ARTE presented a documentary by Florian Guthknecht. Amongst others the author reports about expedition 82/3 of RV Meteor during ... +

Mar 26, 2013

IODP Newfoundland Expedition

Recently the science party of IODP expedition 342 Newfoundland took place in the Bremen core repository of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. More than ... +

Mar 25, 2013

Study published in PNAS

MARUM scientist Sitan Xie studied the turnover of microbial lipids in the deep biosphere and the growth of benthic archaeal populations. Together with her ... +

Mar 25, 2013

Transit RV SONNE

At the end of this week the German research vessel SONNE will finish a transit from New Zealand to Taiwan. During the cruise Prof. Michal Kucera and his ... +

Mar 24, 2013

Deep Biosphere

MARUM scientists Elvert/Hinrichs/Mollar are co-authors of a study that was now published in Science in which Lever et al. document life deep within the ... +

Mar 24, 2013

Planet 3.0

The natural history museum Senckenberg in Frankfurt recently opened a new special exhibition: Planet 3.0 offers a journey through the history of climate ... +

Mar 20, 2013

Jung trifft steinalt

Again the MARUM-UniSchoollab participates in this year’s Kids-Uni at the University of Bremen. In the workshop on fossils "Jung trifft steinalt" on March ... +