Vast amounts of dissolved charcoal are transported to the sea by the Amazon river, as reported in the current issue of Nature Communications by an…

Around 100 experts from all over the world gathered at the "Marine Microbiota" symposium in Oldenburg at the end of August.

Recently, students of the ICBM study programme „Environmental Sciences“ completed their practical training on “Microbial Ecology”. The junior…

Decaying plants release organic carbon compounds into soil, further distributed throughout the soil by rain and moisture. Hence, the global soils are…

On 18 July, the administrative agreement for the German Marine Research Alliance came into force. It was signed by Anja Karliczek, German Federal…

Mara Heinrichs from the Institute of Chemistry and Marine Biology (ICBM) is investigating the impact of viruses on deep-sea bacteria affecting key…

Work on the new building of the Centre for Marine Sensors proceeds: At the Wilhelmshaven site of the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine…

ICBM staff members once again took part in the „Meerlauf Bad Zwischenahn“ last weekend. It was the third participation of the institute’s team in this…

ICBM staff members can be watched in the course of German famous children’s TV programme „Broadcast with the Mouse“ on Sunday, 19 May. The Institute…

For a long time it has been known that a fresh water supply through rain, groundwater leaks and over rivers can be an important source of nutrients…

Dr. Oliver Wurl, who is heading the research group „Sea Surface“ at ICBM, has been appointed for the professorship „Processes and Sensing of Marine…

Dr. Katharina Pahnke-May has been appointed for a professorship on „Marine Isotope Geochemistry“ at the University of Oldenburg. She is heading the…

In the most beautiful spring weather, staff members of ICBM met in the course of the action "Oldenburg cleans up" last Friday to free the campus…

This (or something like that) was what the ICBM-collegues heard from several young students during Girls‘ and Boys‘ Day at the Wilhelmshaven site of…

A number of bacterial species capable of degrading robust organic compounds in the absence of oxygen have been merged by microbiologists around Prof.…

Hanne Marie Banko-Kubis accepted the Otto Krümmel Promotional Award today for her Bachelor thesis on carbon dioxide exchange in Norwegian coastal…

Initially, about 40 students of the Wilhelmshaven comprehensive school (IGS) informed themselves on marine litter at ICBM. Later on, the young…

Any stone coral, creator of giant reef structures such as the Great Barrier Reef near Australia, began its life as a tiny floating larva. ICBM…

Still until 13 February, German RV SONNE is on research cruise again in the Pacific Ocean. The current mission, headed by ICBM staff, started from the…

A gossamer pellicle, frequently observed on marine surfaces, often is more saline than the underlying bulk water in the tropical Pacific, despite the…