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With the Munsell Soil Colour Chart the cores are described visually in colour and structure as acurately as possible. Photo: Diekamp(at)ECORD_IODP3_NSF
04.02.2026

Extensive freshened water beneath the ocean floor confirmed for the first time

International team provides first detailed evidence of long-suspected hidden fresh water aquifers.

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Juan David Escorcia is a fellow in the FRONTIERS residency program for journalists. Photo: Escorcia
03.02.2026

FRONTIERS Residency at MARUM

Journalist Juan David Escorcia is a fellow in the FRONTIERS residency program for journalists and will be working at MARUM until May.

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Coral Reef Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia. Photo: Ocean Image Bank, Matt Curnock
29.01.2026

New video: SPP 2299 “Research & Future Directions”

The DFG Priority Programme “Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs” has released a new video titled “Research & Future Directions”.

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Expedition logo, with ocean waves visible in the background. Graphic: Jamstec/Science Media NL
21.01.2026

Researchers discover clues as to why the 2011 tsunami in Japan was so powerful

International team examines drill cores from a fault zone off the coast of Japan.

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Only the top layer of a coral colony is inhabited. Coral polyps and unicellular algae subtenants called zooxanthellae have made their home in the tiny openings. The rest of the coral colony is composed of calcium carbonate. Photo: Daniel Nicholson / Ocean Image Bank
21.01.2026

A Look at the Environmental Archive of Coral Reefs

What do centuries-old calcium deposits reveal about why some coral reefs withstand the progressing global warming better than others?

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Dr. Luz María Mejía from MARUM prepares samples using the coccolith separation device her team designed at ETH Zurich. The technology for this was built in Zurich and modified for the laboratory at MARUM. Photo: Patrick Pollmeier, University of Bremen
08.01.2026

A new Temperature Record Challenges the Extreme High-Latitude Warmth Paradigm

Research team applies temperature proxy to exceptionally pure fossil phytoplankton for the first time / Results indicate cooler conditions than previously assumed in the North ...

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High tech in the deep sea

The latest technologies are playing an increasingly important role in marine research. MARUM uses various highly specialised technologies on expeditions around the world to explore the deep sea and the ocean floor.

More information about the technologies used at MARUM can be found here.

ZfT

Cen­ter for Deep-Sea Re­search. Photo: MARUM − Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Cen­ter for Deep-Sea Re­search

The Center for Deep-Sea Research (ZfT) was established in the immediate vicinity of MARUM. The ZfT will investigate fundamental processes in the deep sea. Organizationally, the ZfT will be located under the umbrella of the MARUM Research Faculty..

Our col­league Volker Diekamp has con­tinu­ously doc­u­mented the con­struc­tion pro­gress of the Cen­ter for Deep-Sea Re­search (ZfT) with his cam­era.