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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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Mar 19, 2012

Mysterious Deep Sea

Recently the German-French TV station Arte presented deep sea research „made in Bremen“ in its science magazine X:enius. The reports focused on the deep ... +

Mar 5, 2012

MERIAN in the Gulf of Mexico

From March 14 to April 7 an international team of researchers around MARUM scientist Dierk Hebbeln will be on expedition onboard the research vessel MARIA ... +

Mar 4, 2012

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 ... +

Feb 27, 2012

DKK Statement

On February 6th the German Climate Consortium (Deutsches Klima-Konsortium - DKK) made a statement on the book "Die kalte Sonne: Warum die Klimakatastrophe ... +

Feb 26, 2012

Prof. Michael Ivanov passed away

On Wednesday, February 15th, our colleague Prof. Michael Ivanov, who held a professorship for petroleum geology, passed away after a severe illness. An ... +

Feb 9, 2012

Mentoring Programme

Bremen University recently started a new mentoring programme for female scientists. Young researchers will cooperate with senior scientists to promote ... +

Feb 8, 2012

Dust from the Sahara

In its serial X:enius ARTE TV airs a programme on dust export from the Sahara desert on February 8. The programme features MARUM scientist Dr. Inka Meyer ... +

Feb 7, 2012

Icy Records

In cooperation with Gothenburg University MARUM deployed an underwater observatory in a Swedish fjord. The instrument has been measuring the oxygen content ... +

Feb 1, 2012

Briese Research Award

MARUM researcher Dr. Tobias Goldhammer receives the Briese Research Award 2011 for his excellent PhD thesis. The award worth Euro 5,000 is donated by the ... +

Jan 31, 2012

MARUM Research Award

Sebastian Hammerschmidt, Bernhard David A. Naafs and James Collins received the „MARUM Research Award for Marine Geosciences 2011“ for their outstanding ... +

Jan 23, 2012

Open Ship JOIDES Resolution

The US-American drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution finished expedition 339 in Lisbon. 600 politicians, scientists, and students visited the vessel during ... +

Jan 23, 2012

Our Blue Future

The German Marine Research Constortium organized a special meeting of science ministers from Northern German and an exhibition on marine research which ... +

Jan 15, 2012

Von den Genen zum Ökosystem

Am 17. Januar 2012 findet die EuroMarine-Vollversammlung in Bremen statt. Mehr als 100 Wissenschaftler des multidisziplinären EU-Projekts EuroMarine ... +

Jan 10, 2012

Köppen Award

MARUM scientist Dr. Ines Heßler received the Köppen Award for Climate and Earth System Research 2012 for her excellent doctoral thesis on climate ... +

Jan 10, 2012

Bighorn Basin Project

From January 9 to 27, 16 scientists from four countries meet in the Bremen Core Repository of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. They analyze in detail ... +

Jan 10, 2012

„Floating University“ started

From 6th until 15th of January 12 students from different universities in Germany and Namibia are onboard the RV MARIA S. MERIAN. They are taught by three ... +