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In September, the Tschira Foundation will once again be hosting the “Explore Science” festival. Photo: Klaus Tschira Foundation

Jun 10, 2024

Explore Science returns to Bremen

Registration for workshops and competitions now open “Climate and Environment” is the topic of this year’s Explore Science. The Klaus Tschira Foundation is ...

Icebergs in the Antarctic during the PS104 research expedition. Around 34 million years ago, at the end of the Eocene, West Antarctica was largely ice-free. Photo: MARUM, University of Bremen; T. Bickert

Jun 5, 2024

MARUM-MeBo in the Antarctic

Antarctica was not always an isolated, ice-covered landmass. Until about 100 million years ago, it formed the central part of the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

In the spotlight of the U.S. deep-sea submersible ALVIN, a small reddish-brown vent massif can be seen on the seafloor of the Guaymas Basin. This formation is surrounded by abundant hydrothermally heated oil-rich sediments covered by white and orange bacterial mats. The core from which the Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea ultimately originated was collected by the team of the manned deep-sea submersible. Photo: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

May 31, 2024

Award for research into the deep biosphere

How and what do microorganisms in deep-sea soils live on? How do their metabolic cycles work, and how do the individual members of these buried communities ...

In the CRC, researchers are investigating the interaction of turbulence, waves, and eddies in the ocean and the atmosphere. Copyright: nvphoto - stock.adobe.com

May 31, 2024

Energy Transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean" Collaborative Research Center Extended for a Further Four Years

The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) "Energy Transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean" has existed at the University of Bremen since 2016. The German Research ...

Qing-Zeng Zhu monitors the laboratory experiment in which the team quantified for the first time how new biomass forms in the ocean floor. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; W. Liu

May 22, 2024

New insights into the degradation dynamics of organic material in the seafloor

Many processes in the deep sea are not yet well understood, and the role of microbial communities in particular is often a big unknown. This includes, for ...

May 17, 2024

Obituary Ousmane Coulibaly

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our young colleague Ousmane Coulibaly, who died suddenly on May 8, 2024 without any apparent illness and ...

The Ocean Floor Symposium 2024 kicked off on Monday with the Icebreaker. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

May 14, 2024

Experts look into the past

What insights can we derive from past climate states for the future? This question will be addressed by participants at a symposium at MARUM – Center for ...

Achim Kopf gives a keynote speech on "Engineering Professions in Climate Change" at the Hannover Messe. Photo: MARUM

Apr 26, 2024

MARUM at the Hannover Messe

This year's world's most important industrial trade fair in Hanover will focus on the presentation of sustainable solutions for achieving climate ...