Media Releases 2024

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Sea-floor samples for the study were taken with this deep-sea submersible vehicle (Alvin) from inactive as well as active hydrothermal systems in several thousands of meters of water. Photo: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, National Deep Submergence Facility, National Science Foundation.

Feb 20, 2024

Even inactive smokers are densely colonized by microbial communities

Everything is everywhere – under certain conditions microbial communities can grow and thrive, even in places that are seemingly uninhabitable. This is the ...

Prof. Kai Bischof from the University of Bremen and MARUM during field work at Kongsfjord, Spitsbergen. Photo: Simon Jungblut/University of Bremen

Feb 15, 2024

Kick-off Meeting for a New Polar Research Project

The seasonal aspects of Arctic warming are the focus of the new YESSS research project. The team observes life cycles, foraging and wintering of selected ...

Theater in Pompeii. In its heyday, the Roman Empire was one of the most densely populated regions. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; K. Zonneveld

Feb 2, 2024

Did climate change trigger pandemics in antiquity?

Is there a link between climate change and pandemics? In a recently published study, researchers from MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and ...

The aim of mareXtreme is to significantly improve the predictability of extreme marine events and natural hazards, support the sustainable development of coastal communities and strengthen the resilience of coastal society. Photo: AdobeStock by Itxu

Jan 18, 2024

mareXtreme research starts

Under the short title mareXtreme, around 150 scientists are researching strategies for dealing with extreme marine events and natural hazards in the third ...