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Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment
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, more than 20 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.
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Marine Science
Towards an increased carbon storage of coastal ecosystems
Marine Science
Citizen scientists welcome!
Marine Science
ICBM becomes member of Global Partnership on Marine Litter
Marine Science
Sulfur enhances carbon storage in the Black Sea
Marine Science
Miriam Gerhard awarded science prize
Marine Science
Oliver Zielinski appointed as new member of AWI Board of Governors
Marine Science
ICBM-Termine
BGC-Argo Floats deployed in the Baltic Sea
Marine Science
On the quest for Nemo’s clock
![‘Staghorn coral‘ (Acropora millepora) at the age of a few weeks in a lab aquarium at the Wilhelmshaven site of ICBM [Image: Samuel Nietzer, ICBM].](/f/5/_processed_/5/3/csm_ICBM_Jungkorallen_SNietzer_sh_841dff8d68.png)
Marine Science
Southern Summer in a Retort
![Phytoplankton, a huge variety of forms [Images: Irina Olenina (Environmental Protection Agency & Marine Research Institute of the Klaipeda University, Klaipėda, Lithuania), Leonilde Roselli (Agency for the Environmental Prevention and Protection (ARPA Puglia), Lecce, Italy); Graphics: sri]](/f/5/inst/icbm/bilder/pm/phytopl-math_mod02.7_sri.png)
Marine Science
Importance of shape and form
![Irreversible sea-level rise, dramatic weather events after passing certain tipping points? And the Earths surface temperatures, how much will they rise if the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is doubled? Current computer models fail in predicting these abrupt, potentially non-reversible changes. [Graphics: tipping elements in the Earth's climate system, based upon Lenton et al. (2008) (CodeOne (blank map), DeWikiMan (additional elements), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)]](/f/5/inst/icbm/bilder/pm/Climate-tipping-points-en-bsri.png "[Translate to English:]")
Marine Science
Training the next generation of climate researchers
Marine Science
"Marine organisms don't respect boundaries"
Marine Science
A dynamical world underground
![Delighted to have been granted university funding: Dr. Bianca Liguori (l.) and Dr. Corinna Mori [Image: T. Struve, ICBM].](/f/5/_processed_/f/9/csm_Picture_Bianca_and_Corinna_ICBM_web_f0501d132f.jpg)
Marine Science
Two ICBM – scientists receive university funding
![Only a small fraction of plastic litter floating in the seas ends up on the shores, as to be seen here at Unalau Bay, Hawaii. In future, scientists want to trace marine plastic litter by means of remote sensing to selctively organise cleanups, e.g. [Image: Sarah-Jeanne Royer].](/f/5/_processed_/4/e/csm_Unalau_Bay_8_b0693ffcf8.jpg)
Marine Science
Launch of international task force for remote sensing of marine debris
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News from DAM
Pilot missions of the DAM to study impact of bottom trawling on marine protected areas in the North Sea and Baltic Sea
ICBM Time Series Station
