Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment

Contact

Administration Office

+49 (0)441 798-5342

icbm@uni-oldenburg.de

Staff

Director

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Dittmar

Institute Management

Management

Birgit Stein

Jana Stone

Visitor adresses

Oldenburg
Campus Wechloy, Building W15
Carl-von-Ossietzky-Straße 9 - 11
26111 Oldenburg

Wilhelmshaven
Schleusenstraße 1
D-26382 Wilhelmshaven

Cooperations

The Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) is an interdisciplinary Institute at the University of Oldenburg with locations in Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven. It is the only university institute in Lower Saxony that covers broad areas of marine sciences, both in research and in teaching. Currently, 14 working groups of various scientific disciplines - including biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering - belong to the institute. ICBM operates the coastal observatory Spiekeroog and is the home institute of the research vessel Sonne.

News

08/18/2020 Marine Science

Are tipping points suitable concepts for developing environmental policies?

Environmental policy decisions are often based on so-called tipping points. A research team led by the biodiversity expert Helmut Hillebrand from the…

08/17/2020 Marine Science

Diving buoys with "sharpened sight"

A new pilot study within the scope of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funded project DArgo2025 aims at diving buoys with…

08/03/2020 Marine Science

Towards an improved montoring of pollutant releases at sea

In an EU Project headed by ICBM marine chemist Prof. Dr. Oliver Wurl, a German-French team of scientists is going to establish a monitoring network in…

07/29/2020 Marine Science

How plastic litter ends up in the seas

A well-known glass recipient in the wrong place and wooden drifters brought together Dr. Rosanna Schöneich-Argent of the ICBM research group…

07/16/2020 Marine Science

Slime Film

Slimy remnants and excretions of marine organisms form a wafer-thin surface layer almost everywhere on the global oceans. This delicate pellicle is…

07/02/2020 Marine Science

Environmentally more friendly ships and more reliable measurements through „sea cucumber technology“?

Scientists of the ICBM research group Environmental Biochemistry, headed by Prof. Dr. Peter Schupp, investigate marine animals which manage to prevent…

06/08/2020 Marine Science

8 June: UN World Oceans Day

In 1992, the Government of Canada proposed setting a World Ocean day during the so-called Earth Summit (United Nations Conference on Environment and…

06/03/2020 Marine Science

A return trip with obstacles

Since 22 February, Prof. Dr. Bettina Meyer was on the move for science in the Southern Polar Sea aboard the Norwegian krill harvesting vessel…

05/06/2020 Marine Science

Covid-19: University supports laboratory medicine

Usually, the ICBM research group for Aquatic Microbial Ecology around Prof. Dr. Thorsten Brinkhoff employs a so-called LightCycler exclusively for…

04/24/2020 Marine Science

Test area for marine and maritime technologies opens near Heligoland

From today onwards it will be open for operation: the test area a few sea miles off the red sand stone rocks of the Test Center for Maritime…

04/23/2020 Marine Science

Sink during Winter – Source in Summer

A team of scientists around ICBM doctoral candidate Janis Ahrens and inorganic geochemist Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Brumsack together with colleagues from…

04/20/2020 Marine Science

Kimberley Peters appointed Professor of Marine Governance

Dr. Kimberley Peters has been appointed to a joint professorship for Marine Governance at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine…

04/06/2020 Marine Science

Research expeditions curbed by virus pandemic

The corona pandemic also concerns the German research fleet. And the ICBM is affected as well. Deep sea research vessel „SONNE“ e.g., for which ICBM…

03/17/2020 Marine Science

Cooperation between ICBM and SIO

On the occasion of the Ocean Science Meeting, representatives of ICBM and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) signed a cooperation agreement at…

03/16/2020 Marine Science

Kick-off Event of DAM

Approximately 200 guests, among them Prof. Dr. Oliver Zielinski representing ICBM, recently participated in the kick-off event of the German Marine…

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Brief notes

Floats autonomously survey the oceans
About one half of the volume of the global oceans is considered to be unexplored. Therefore, autonomous diving buoys (so-called floats) are employed all around the world to fix that gap of knowledge. Germany participates in the global efforts with, to date, about 160 of these particulate buoys. At present, the ICBM and further German institutions for marine research work on a new generation of floats. They are equipped particularly with biogeochemical sensors and will in future increasingly be deployed.

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