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08/24/2021 Marine Science

Towards an increased carbon storage of coastal ecosystems

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

08/11/2021 Marine Science

Citizen scientists welcome!

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

07/22/2021 Marine Science

ICBM becomes member of Global Partnership on Marine Litter

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…

06/17/2021 Marine Science

Sulfur enhances carbon storage in the Black Sea

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…

Delighted with her award: Dr Miriam Gerhard [Image: private]

05/17/2021 Marine Science

Miriam Gerhard awarded science prize

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

Now one of the members of the AWI Board of Governors: marine scientist Prof. Dr Oliver Zielinski [Image: DFKI GmbH]

05/11/2021 Marine Science

Oliver Zielinski appointed as new member of AWI Board of Governors

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

Deployed diving buoy, German research vessel “Elisabeth Mann Borgese“ [Image: Michael Naumann, IOW].

04/28/2021 Marine Science ICBM-Termine

BGC-Argo Floats deployed in the Baltic Sea

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

Resting clownfish and sea anemone, ready for sleeping, at their natural habitat in the archipelago of Raja Ampat, Indonesia [Image: Gabriele Gerlach, IBU].

03/26/2021 Marine Science

On the quest for Nemo’s clock

An international team around the doctoral candidates Gregor Schalm and Kristina Bruns investigated the behavioural and genetic basis of diel rhythms…

‘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].

02/24/2021 Marine Science

Southern Summer in a Retort

At the lab aquarium facility of the ICBM research group Environmental Biochemistry, headed by Prof. Dr. Peter Schupp, Dr. Samuel Nietzer and Matthew…

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]

02/12/2021 Marine Science

Importance of shape and form

It depends to a major degree on size and shape whether an organism manages to prevail in a given environment. Physicist Dr. Alexey Ryabov and…

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)]

02/12/2021 Marine Science

Training the next generation of climate researchers

The Trans-European scientist training programme CriticalEarth is scheduled to start in March. At ICBM, the research group Theoretical Physics/Complex…

Ecosystems in the ocean are threatened by pollutants from terrestrial sources. Marine mammals such as these melon-headed whales accumulate persistent organic pollutants in their blubber. Photo: NOAA on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/@noaa)

01/25/2021 Marine Science

"Marine organisms don't respect boundaries"

Marine biodiversity is threatened by climate change, pollution and overfishing. Biodiversity expert Helmut Hillebrand explains in this interview how…

The transition zone between land and sea is particularly dynamic on North Sea beaches with high waves and strong tidal ranges – also below the surface. Photo: University of Oldenburg

12/11/2020 Marine Science

A dynamical world underground

The German Research Foundation is funding a new research group at the university. The DynaDeep project, led by hydrogeologist Gudrun Massmann, is…

Delighted to have been granted university funding: Dr. Bianca Liguori (l.) and Dr. Corinna Mori [Image: T. Struve, ICBM].

12/11/2020 Marine Science

Two ICBM – scientists receive university funding

Dr. Bianca Torres Liguori Pires and Dr. Corinna Mori are the two young ICBM researchers to receive 24 months funding from the programme budget of the…

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].

11/25/2020 Marine Science

Launch of international task force for remote sensing of marine debris

How can remote sensing technologies such as drones, airplanes and satellites support monitoring strategies to better understand the spread and…

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