Media Releases 2018

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Organically preserved Dickinsonia fossil from the White Sea area of Russia. Photo: Australian National University

558 million-year-old fat reveals earliest known animal

Sep 21, 2018

An international team of scientists has discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record ...

Alessio Rovere will be funded for 5 years, starting in 2019. Photo: MARUM _ Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

ERC Starting Grant for researching sea-level changes

Jul 30, 2018

The Bremen marine researcher Dr. Alessio Rovere has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. The title of the research ...

The catchment area of the Limpopo River. Here lived an ancestor of man, Paranthropus robustus about two million years ago. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen

Evolution and climate change in Southeast Africa

Jul 9, 2018

Africa plays a prominent role in human evolution, and is considered by researchers to be the cradle of humanity. In the mid-20^th century anthropologists ...

The new research center is being built in the immediate vicinity of and under the umbrella of MARUM. Graphic: HTP, Brunswick; Google; MARUM

New research building for marine research in Bremen

Jun 29, 2018

The Joint Science Conference (Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz - GWK) decided to fund a new research center for deep sea research (Zentrum für ...

Sediment deposits in an estuary, various reservoirs and in a coastal wetland are examined in detail. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

BMBF funds joint project TRACES

Jun 19, 2018

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) finances the new joint project TRACES (Tracing Human and Climate Impacts in South Africa), starting ...