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Group photo of participants at this year's ECORD Summer School. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Sep 10, 2025

ECORD Summer School 2025

This year's ECORD Summer School topic is “Southern Ocean – Antarctic paleoclimate interactions”. 30 early career scientists from 13 countries will meet at ...

Participants at the Ocean Floor Symposium 2025. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Sep 9, 2025

From the ocean surface to the ocean floor: Experts exchange ideas at the Ocean Floor Symposium

The third Ocean Floor Symposium will focus on the topic of “Organic matter transportation, transformation, and preservation: From the ocean surface to the ...

A glimpse into the climate archive Ocean floor: Young visitors can view microfossils under a microscope. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; U. Prange

Sep 8, 2025

Hands-on experiments on climate and the environment in Bürgerpark

“Future STEM” is the topic of this year's Explore Science, which the Klaus Tschira Foundation is hosting in Bremen's Bürgerpark from September 11 to 13, ...

TIMES participants gather for a group photo in front of EPL's Abelson Building.

Aug 25, 2025

Kick-off workshop for TIMES initiative

TIMES is an ambitious ten-year project that aims to recalibrate global climate data from the past 100 million years on a uniform, accurate, and precise ...

Ballast testing is the first step: the team place the SPIRULA vehicle in shallow water, adjusting its position and buoyancy by adding or removing weight. “It’s important that the vehicle lies horizontally in the water and that it’s slightly buoyant,” says project leader Ralf Bachmayer (front). Photo: Werner Siemens-Stiftung; Oliver Lang Fotografie, Lenzburg

Jul 18, 2025

SPIRULA takes a successful dive in the Aegean Sea

In May, the deep-sea monitoring system SPIRULA embarked on its inaugural expedition in ocean waters. The test off the Greek island of Milos in the Aegean ...

World map of all screened metagenomic samples derived through short-read data mining with locations (green triangle) at which novel Ca. Penumbrarchaeia MAGs were detected. Figure from Maeke et al. 2025 (CC BY 4.0)

Jul 17, 2025

New publication: Data mining reveals biodiversity in the deep biosphere

Oceans are home to millions of microbes – some of which are already known for their functions in ocean and ocean floor ecosystems. Others are so rare that ...

Political scientist Klaus Schlichte (left) and geochemist Gesine Mollenhauer. Photo: Universität Bremen / Jens Lehmkühler

Jul 3, 2025

Awards for Outstanding Doctoral Supervision

Geochemist Gesine Mollenhauer has been honored by the University of Bremen for her outstanding doctoral supervision, as has political scientist Klaus ...

Workshop participants from USSSP Workshop “Targeting Pacific Highs for Past Records of Warm Climates”. Photo: Elizabeth M. Griffith, Ohio State University

Jun 23, 2025

Under the Pacific Ocean, ancient sediments reveal the history of the Earth

Deep-sea sediments contain a wealth of information about marine ecosystems and past climate scenarios. Over the past five decades, this treasure trove has ...