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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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Aug 21, 2012

Brazil joins IODP

Brazil recently joined an international marine research effort to document environmental change by monitoring and sampling the unseen world beneath the sea ... +

Aug 21, 2012

Methane off Svalbard

MARUM scientists are currently on board the German research vessel HEINCKE. Off the west coast of Svalbard they are investigating methane reservoirs in the ... +

Aug 20, 2012

Open House

On August 18th and 19th the German Federal Government organized an open house event. The German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) presented ocean research ... +

Aug 15, 2012

Top Ranking for Bremen University

According to a nationwide evaluation report on the quality of education in schools and universities Bremen university scored best – especially with regard ... +

Aug 14, 2012

Pilot training for the deep sea

MARUM scientist Dr. Volker Ratmeyer developed a computer simulation to practice and optimize missions with the remotely operated vehicle MARUM-QUEST under ... +

Aug 8, 2012

German Research Vessels

A new portal is available now regarding expeditions of German research vessels. From today on expeditions can be proposed at +

Aug 8, 2012

Experience Technology!

This weekend the exhibition Ideenpark initiated by the Thyssen Krupp AG company will be opened. Ideenpark focusses on technology. From August 11 – 23 ... +

Aug 7, 2012

Black Smoker Experiments

In order to better study the nature of fluids which circulate in the ocean crust the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft will fund experimental research of ... +

Jul 31, 2012

Tropical Antarctica

In the current edition of Nature an international team of scientists – amongst them MARUM colleague Dr. Ursula Röhl – report about the IODP Wilkes Land ... +

Jul 30, 2012

Deep Biosphere

MARUM scientists take part in an expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program off Japan. Onboard the drilling vessel CHIKYU and in cooperation with ... +

Jul 29, 2012

Holidays in a Quarry

Last weekend a group of school kids was looking for fossils in a quarry close to the town of Hannover. They were invited by colleagues of the Geosciences ... +

Jul 24, 2012

Pacific Climate Snapshot

In study now published in Nature Communications MARUM researcher Dr. Thomas Felis and a group of international marine scientists demonstrate that, unlike ... +

Jul 22, 2012

Professorship Micropalaeontology

Recently Prof. Michal Kucera joined the MARUM team. By applying novel approaches such as molecular genetics, the micropalaeonlogist studies biological and ... +

Jul 19, 2012

Farewell Workshop

Farewell Workshop
At the end of his term as Rector of the University of Bremen Prof. Wilfried Müller organized a workshop which takes place in the MARUM ... +

Jul 18, 2012

Ocean Iron Fertilization

MARUM colleague Dr. Ilka Peeken is co-author of a paper which was now published in Nature. The study deals with the controversially discussed issue of ... +

Jul 17, 2012

100,000 Visitors

The Deep Sea Exhibition in the Bavarian town of Rosenheim opened on March 23rd. Now visitor number 100,000 was welcomed. In the exhibition MARUM presents ... +