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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 ...

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 ...

In a workshop, the students examine a sediment core more closely. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Apr 25, 2024

MARUM Zukunftstag - Insights into marine research

What exactly do scientists actually do in marine research? This question will be explored by twelve young researchers at the Zukunftstag (Future Day) at ...

Let's go: The team sets off together on the run. The finish line is the Weser Stadium. Photo: MARUM; J. Nitsch

Apr 23, 2024

Deep-Sea Runners take part in Germany's biggest company run

Where are they running? With several thousand participants in the B2Run Bremen, the question was not so easy to answer - but the 14 runners of the MARUM ...

Group photo of MARUM researchers attending the European Geosciences Union conference in Vienna from Monday to Friday. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; U. Prange

Apr 15, 2024

MARUM research at the EGU 2024

Climate variability, carbon storage, paleoclimate research and diversity in the geosciences – researchers from MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental ...

The two speakers of the graduate school Michal Kucera (MARUM, University of Bremen) and Anne de Vernal (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) show their highlights of the ArcTrain program. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; Simon Wett

Mar 15, 2024

International Research Training Group ArcTrain draws an excellent balance after ten years

For ten years, young researchers have been researching the processes and effects of climate change in the North Atlantic and the Canadian Arctic as part of ...