Center for Marine Environmental Sciences

Media Releases 2025

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Dr. Ilya Bobrovskiy will establish a research group at MARUM as part of his ERC Starting Grant. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, V. Diekamp

Aug 8, 2025

Deconvolving the early record of eukaryotic evolution

Geobiologist Dr. Ilya Bobrovskiy, previously employed at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, is moving to the University of Bremen to establish a ...

Changing precipitation patterns and weaker ocean circulation could dry out rainforests, threaten sensitive ecosystems, and destroy livelihoods in the tropics. This is the result of a new study in Nature, in which researchers from MARUM were also involved. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; U. Merkel

Jul 30, 2025

Rainy tropics could face unprecedented droughts as Atlantic Ocean circulation slows down

Some of the rainiest places on Earth could see their annual precipitation nearly halved if climate change continues to alter the way ocean water moves ...

Diver in front of a BlueDOT sensor. Calibration dive sites are now installed on costa brava (Spain) and on Gozo (Malta). Photo: BlueDOT, Christophe Galerne

Jul 21, 2025

Researching Heat Waves in the Ocean: Divers Collect Temperature Data

With the help of divers, the BlueDOT project is collecting temperature data from the ocean. The aim is to better track changes in ocean temperature and ...

Benthic foraminifera from one of the oxygen-rich sections found in our study. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; S. Barragán-Montilla

Jul 17, 2025

Tracking Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation using benthic foraminifera

How is ventilation at various depth layers of the Atlantic connected and what role do changes in ocean circulation play? Researchers from Bremen, Kiel and ...

Depiction of the diatom Conticribra weissflogii (red) and the sugar polymer structures it secretes (blue). Photo: Marlene Reich

Jul 10, 2025

Illuminated sugars show how microbes eat the ocean's carbon

Sugars are essential for life in the ocean, but some resist breakdown even by the hungriest marine microbes. Now, scientists have developed a new tool that ...

The diatom Conticribra weissflogii (red) and the sugar structures it secretes (blue). Photo: Marlene Reich

May 30, 2025

Oceans as Carbon Sinks: DFG Funds New Collaborative Research Center on Marine Sugars

On May 28, 2025, the University of Greifswald and the University of Bremen received funding approval for the Transregional Collaborative Research Center ...

Glacier at Caullaraju in Peru. Photo: Universität Bremen, Ben Marzeion

May 29, 2025

New Study: Significant Global Glacier Loss Inevitable

If global temperatures rise by 2.7 degrees Celsius – in line with current climate policy – only a quarter of the glacier masses will be left. This is the ...

In this Envisat image, a phytoplankton bloom swirls a figure-of-8 in the South Atlantic Ocean about 600 km east of the Falkland Islands. Photo: ESA

May 23, 2025

How marine plankton adapts to a changing world

Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. As the foundation of marine ecosystems, they support ocean food webs and help regulate ... +