The ocean floor, which makes up 71 percent of the Earth’s solid surface, lies an average of 3,700 meters beneath the ocean surface. The difficulties related to accessibility necessitate ship expeditions and the use of highly specialized underwater equipment for its exploration. As yet, only a small fraction of the ocean floor has been scientifically investigated, but it is already known that this supposedly passive environment is an important interface with a wide range of functions that impact the entire Earth system. Geological, physical, biological and chemical processes interact at and within the ocean floor, thus influencing the climate system, the global carbon cycle, and biological productivity in the world ocean. We still know too little about ocean-floor processes to compile detailed global mass budgets.
The Cluster of Excellence ›The Ocean Floor – Earth’s Uncharted Interface‹ aims to quantify exchange processes at this significant boundary layer and their roles in the Earth system. The associated tasks demand the use of novel technologies for ocean-floor observation and sampling, highly sensitive analytical methods, and an expanded application of numerical models. Because of their scientific and technological complexity, the goals listed below can only be achieved through interdisciplinary research.
Researcher from MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology Bremen, ...
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In May, the tour of the exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft will start as part of the Science Year 2022. Also on board is an interactive exhibit from MARUM - ...
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What exactly do researchers in marine sciences do? This question will be explored by young researchers at the “Zukunftstag”, a day dedicated to ...
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Dr. Miriam Römer, a scientist at MARUM and the Department of Geosciences at the University of Bremen, will receive this year's Hermann Credner Award of the ...
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MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen is getting a new remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The new system has a higher ...
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The first unified vision of the world ocean biodiversity, based on analysis of DNA sequences from the surface to deep-ocean sediments, unveils the rich and ...
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Between 9 and 4.6 million years ago, the oceans were very rich in nutrients; the period is also known as the "biogenic bloom". A Swedish-German research ...
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The teachers of the project schools of the MARUM school project " Klima – ich wandle mich!” (Climate - I'm changing!) have now participated in the first ...
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