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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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Jan 7, 2013

Climate Snapshots

In the current edition of the popular science magazine Impulse, published by the University of Bremen, MARUM researcher Dr. Thomas Felis reports how he ... +

Dec 19, 2012

Happy Holidays

MARUM wishes all colleagues in partner institutions and companies a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. +

Dec 16, 2012

GLOMAR Graduation Day

On 14 December 2012, thirteen graduates received their certificates at the Graduation ceremony of the Bremen International Graduate School for Marine ... +

Dec 10, 2012

Deep sea diving simulation on TV

Recently a film crew of the television broadcasting station SAT.1 visited MARUM to film a telecast about the deep sea diving simulation QUESTSim. This ... +

Dec 6, 2012

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation award

On December, 3rd, marine researcher Prof. Nicole Dubilier received the prestigious investigator award for Marine Microbiology Initiatives from the Gordon ... +

Nov 29, 2012

Colourful Expedition

On a recent expedition of the German research vessel SONNE lead by Dr. Mahyar Mohtadi two pinhole cameras took pictures for an art exhibition will be ... +

Nov 28, 2012

Nature Paper specify climate models

MARUM scientist Prof. Heiko Pälike is co-author of a paper which was now published in Nature. In this study he and his colleagues provide a much more ... +

Nov 28, 2012

Seas of Opportunity

The German Marine Research Consortium organized an „Parliamentarian Evening“ in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban ... +

Nov 19, 2012

Freshwater Fern in the Arctic Ocean

The 2004 IODP Arctic Coring Expedition still generates interesting scientific papers. Now the Public Library of Science (PLOS) published an article which ... +

Nov 12, 2012

New Research Training Group

Prof. Michael Kucera and colleagues successfully applied for a German-Canadian research training group called ArcTrain. Within ArcTrain PhD students will ... +

Nov 8, 2012

„Unbekannte Paradiese“

This is the title of an ARTE documentation about cold water coral reefs, that will be televised on 9th November at 19:30 pm. The film crew accompanied ... +

Nov 7, 2012

Methane Seeps in the Deep Sea

The Journal of Geophysical Research now published an article by Dr. Miriam Römer and her MARUM co-workers in which for the first time gas bubble emissions ... +

Nov 5, 2012

African Climate

From 4 - 8th November 40 participants from 13 countries meet for the workshop on African climate-vegetation interactions 2012 at MARUM. The focus will be ... +

Nov 5, 2012

Strange Diet

Researchers from Bremen have proven that marine microorganisms are quite picky about their diet. They now published their results in the Proceedings of the ... +

Oct 29, 2012

Change in Leadership

On November 1st, 2012, Prof. Gerold Wefer hands over the leadership of MARUM to the marine geologist and climate modeler Prof. Michael Schulz. With the ... +