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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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Oct 17, 2012

Northern German Science Award

MARUM`s working group on cold water coral ecosystems has been nominated for the final round of the Northern German Science award with an endowment of ... +

Oct 16, 2012

Deep Sea Exhibition Rosenheim

About 160,000 guests have already visited the deep sea exhibition in the Bavarian town of Rosenheim. MARUM contributed exhibits and video material. Because ... +

Oct 14, 2012

BIOMARIS Research Award

On October 13th MARUM researcher Dr. Marcus Elvert received the BIOMARIS research award 2012 with an endowment of 5.000 Euros. The festive ceremony took ... +

Oct 10, 2012

Biomass in the Sea Floor

The question how much microbial biomass is buried below the seabed is lively debated in the marine scientific community. In the current edition of Science ... +

Oct 8, 2012

DustTraffic

From October 3rd until 25th MARUM scientist Jan-Berend Stuut is on expedition with the research vessel METEOR to study the marine environmental effects of ... +

Sep 16, 2012

Climate Change in the Marine Realm

From September 17-24th the second part of the International European Campus of Excellence Summer School takes place at MARUM in cooperation with the AWI. ... +

Sep 16, 2012

MARUM at Maritime Festival Week

Once again MARUM scientists will give lectures on maritime topics during the “Maritime Festival Week at the Weser”, which takes place September 15th to ... +

Sep 14, 2012

Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean

Dr. Mahyar Mohtadi is leading a Pacific expedition of the German research vessel SONNE. The MARUM team aims at investigating possible alternative sources ... +

Sep 10, 2012

SONNE Post Cruise Meeting

Recently scientists from Japan and Switzerland visited MARUM to sample cores which were achieved earlier this year during a German-Japanese cruise of RV ... +

Sep 6, 2012

Record Drill Depth

Scientific deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu set a world new record by drilling down and obtains rock samples from deeper than 2,111 meters below the ... +

Sep 6, 2012

Oceanic Carbon Dioxide

To date, the causes of the glacial/interglacial variations in atmospheric CO2 MARUM researchers under the direction of Dr. Mahyar Mohtadi undertake an ... +

Aug 27, 2012

Gas Hydrate Deposits

Currently about 50 participants meet in the MARUM building to hold the annual general assembly of the SUGAR project in which nearly 30 partners from ... +

Aug 26, 2012

Climate Change Stories from the Abyss

In the current issue of Nature magazine Prof. Heiko Pälike, Dr. Thomas Westerhold, and an international research teams show how during the past 55 million ... +

Aug 26, 2012

Summer Student Fellowship

The final presentations of the MARUM Summer Student Fellows 2012 will take place at the MARUM on August 29th, 09.00 - 12.00 a.m., in room 2060. +

Aug 22, 2012

Gold Award for Expo Contribution

Recently the Expo in Korea closed its gates. The German Pavilion received the “Gold Award” for the best realization of the Expo theme “The living ocean and ... +

Aug 22, 2012

150 Kilometres of Cores

The Bremen core repository of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) received another five kilometres of cores which were drilled during IODP ... +