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

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

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

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

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…

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

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 has been appointed to a joint professorship in Ecosystem Data Science at the Institute for the Chemistry and Biology of the…

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…

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

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

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…

Private lecturer Dr Maren Striebel was given the Award for Excellent Doctoral Supervision in the context of the new event format “Sound of Science” of…

Coastal ecosystems, such as seagrass beds, salt marshes, mangrove forests, or kelp forests, absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the…

Oceanographer Dr Thomas Badewien from the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) is receiving a lot of calls from…

As of late, ICBM is a member of the Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GMPL). A few days ago, Dr Shungu Garaba received the certificate confirming…

The Black Sea is an unusual body of water: below a depth of 150 metres the dissolved oxygen concentration sinks to around zero, meaning that higher…

The Uruguayan-German Limnologist Miriam Libertad Gerhard recently has been awarded the second prize in the category Doctoral Dissertations of the…

Professor Dr Oliver Zielinski, who heads the Center for Marine Sensors (ZfMarS) as well as the research group Marine Sensorsystems at ICBM, recently…

The ICBM research group Marine Sensorsystems is currently testing four diving buoys for biogeochemical („BGC“) measurements, so-called BGC Argo…