… but fully grown breaker waves at the currently world’s largest wave flume near Hanover knocked over humans – in the service of science.

Thaumarchaeota are able to utilize simple organic nitrogen compounds, such as cyanate or urea, as an additional energy and nitrogen source. This is…

The building complex of ICBM at its Wilhelmshaven site will grow about 600 square metres in usable floor space. The new part of the building is…

Numerous prospective students informed themselves at the Jade University of Applied Sciences about academic and professional career chances last…

Plastic litter on the ocean surface can be identified and categorized from a distance by a new measuring method on the basis of infrared radiation.…

GPS equipped electronic drifters, affectionately called „Eddies“ by ICBM Research Group Marine Sensors staff, shall help to investigate the…

In Germany, the Ocean Plastics Lab may be visited until 29 October on the river Spree near the Reichstag building. Berlin is the sixth stop of the…

This year, Dr. Maren Striebel is one of two laureates awarded the „Prize for excellent Research“, sponsored by the University Society Oldenburg (UGO)…

On 1 October, the head of ICBM research group Paleoecology, Prof. Dr. Heribert Cypionka, retired after 26 years at the University of Oldenburg. Since…

Rising water temperatures bear an increasing risk for pathogenic germs in marine environments. The German-French project ENVICOPAS, headed by Gunnar…

The former member of the ICBM research group Marine Geochemistry, Dr. Anika Pohlabeln, was recently awarded the renowned Paul Crutzen Prize.…

The oceans contain huge amounts of carbon, originating from the degradation of living organisms and their excretions. The structure of these carbon…

Some small blue copepods in the nutrient rich thin layer at marine surfaces apparently protect themselves against sun and visibility by predators by…

German famous children’s TV programme „Broadcast with the Mouse“ visited ICBM this week. On a story around marine litter, video shooting took place…

Big success for German biodiversity scientists: The scientific project DynaCom, chaired by the head of ICBM research group Planktology and founding…

On 16 June, Prof. Dr. Joerg-Olaf Wolff and Ph.D. student Rosanna Schoeneich-Argent took part in the awards ceremony of the Barthel Foundation funded…

Recently, participants of the ICBM excursion to the mediterranean island of Giglio depicted their first impressions in a webblog. The students were…

The 147th RV METEOR expedition led scientists of ICBM, amongst team members of other research facilities, to the Amazon estuary. On whit sunday, 20…

The Amazon is the largest river on Earth. About 20 per cent of the freshwater that flows from the continents into the world oceans comes from this…

It is known for quite some time that most bacteria of the open ocean "despise" dissolved organic matter. However, microorganisms from porous areas of…