Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment

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Administration Office

+49 (0)441 798-5279

icbm@uni-oldenburg.de

Staff

Director

Prof. Dr. Heinz Wilkes

Institute Management

Management

Birgit Stein

Jana Stone

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

Wilhelmshaven
Schleusenstraße 1
D-26382 Wilhelmshaven

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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.

News

Right on the water: the campus of the University of Oldenburg in Wilhelmshaven. Photo: Markus Hibbeler

03 Aug 2022 Marine Science

University by the sea

Part of the university is located directly at the Jade Bay in Wilhelmshaven: the Institute of Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM)…

27 Jul 2022 Marine Science

Natural clean-up

A study of 29 European lakes has found that some naturally-occurring lake bacteria grow faster and more efficiently on the remains of plastic bags…

For the first time since the whaling ban began, researchers and filmmakers have observed larger aggregations of southern fin whales in Antarctica. Photo: Dan Beecham

11 Jul 2022 Marine Science

Fin whales back in Antarctica

For the first time since whaling was banned, a team of researchers and filmmakers has documented large groups of fin whales in the Southern Ocean. The…

Einige fossile Exemplare der Steinkoralle Desmophyllum dianthus[Foto: Eleni Anagnostou]

05 Jul 2022 Marine Science

Stronger circulation in the Pacific during the Ice Age

Data from cold water corals point to changes in the global ocean circulation system during the last glacial period, an international team led by…

20 Jun 2022 Marine Science

Night of Science in Wilhelmshaven

The ICBM is taking part at the Night of Science in Wilhelmshaven! On 24 June 2022, eleven scientific institutions and associations will present…

07 Jun 2022 Marine Science

Sinikka Lennartz appointed

Dr Sinikka Lennartz has been appointed Junior Professor of Biogeochemical Ocean Modelling at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine…

02 Jun 2022 Marine Science

Catching microplastics with spider webs

Flies, mosquitoes, dust and even microplastics – spider webs capture whatever travels through the air. ICBM scientists have now for the first time…

The new autonomous research catamaran on its first mission in the North Sea in early May. In the foreground, two measuring buoys can be seen passively drifting with the ocean currents and collecting data in the process [Photo: ICBM/Lisa Gassen].

11 May 2022 Marine Science

Exploring the ocean's thin skin

The uppermost layer of the oceans is a very special but as yet little explored part of the planet. Less than a millimetre thick, this surface layer…

Die weißen Tiefseekrebse der Art Munidopsis alvisca sind an hydrothermalen Quellen weit verbreitet. Foto: Thorsten Brinkhoff

02 Mar 2022 Marine Science

A mutually beneficial relationship

Hydrothermal vents on the seafloor are home to some unusual communities. The galatheid squat lobster species Munidopsis alvisca is among the organisms…

14 Feb 2022 Marine Science

Flower meadows under the sea

Seagrasses belong to the flowering plants and are the only ones of this plant group that can grow in the sea. To explore these fascinating ecosystems,…

Prof. Dr. A. Murat Eren. Foto: Universität Oldenburg

14 Feb 2022 Marine Science

Computer Engineer A. Murat Eren appointed

Prof. Dr. A. Murat Eren has been appointed to a joint professorship in Ecosystem Data Science at the Institute for the Chemistry and Biology of the…

To make visible marine microbes using more sophisticated microscopy such as a epifluorescence microscope, they have to be dyed with a fluorescence stain [Photography: Meinhard Simon, ICBM].

26 Jan 2022 Marine Science

Regionally well adapted: Microbial communities in the Atlantic Ocean

At first glance, the open ocean seems to be a uniform habitat: Water as far as the eye can see. A research team from the Universities of Oldenburg and…

A yellowbelly hamlet (Hypoplectrus aberrans) from Barbados [Photograph by O. Puebla, ZMT].

19 Jan 2022 Marine Science

Rapid diversification in coral reefs

Hamlets are dwellers of Caribbean coral reefs, where they exhibit a stunning diversity of colours and patterns. In a newly published article in the…

Tracks down marine litter from space: remote sensing expert Shungudzemwoyo Garaba [Photo: University of Oldenburg, Sibet Riexinger].

11 Jan 2022 Marine Science

Satellites detect marine litter

Shungudzemwoyo Garaba does research at the Wilhelmshaven-based research group Marine Sensor Systems at ICBM. In doing so, he is particularly…

02 Dec 2021 Marine Science

How volcanic eruptions drove severe mass extinctions

Volcanism probably triggered a period of global cooling that caused one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history. A new study by Jack…

11 Jul 2022 Marine Science

Fin whales back in Antarctica

For the first time since whaling was banned, a team of researchers and filmmakers has documented large groups of fin whales in the Southern Ocean. The…