Media Releases 2022

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Large colony of the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa colonized by crinoids and soft corals in 700 meters of water (Porcupine Seabight, Irish continental margin). Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Lessons from the past: how cold-water corals respond to global warming

Jun 7, 2022

Corals react to changes in their environment. This is true for tropical as well as cold-water corals and includes, among others, changes in temperature, ...

Skeletal structure of tropical reef corals under 20x magnification. A growth interruption, clearly visible in the center of the image, is due to a partial death of the coral colony and could be caused by coral bleaching. Photo: Prof. Dr. Thomas Brachert

Corals as climate archives

May 23, 2022

Unusually well-preserved reef corals from the Geological and Palaeontological Collection at Leipzig University hold a great secret: They allow us to travel ...

White bacterial mats on the seafloor show where fluids seep up through the sediment. Photo: Thomas Pichler, University of Bremen

Hydrothermal catering

Apr 25, 2022

Regardless of the water depth at which they occur, hydrothermal vents are an extreme habitat. The microbial communities that live here adapt to this ...

Marine scientist Jan-Hendrik Hehemann will receive around 2 million Euros in funding from the European Research Council for their basic research. Photos: Jens Lehmkühler

Basic Research in the Field of Marine Carbon Storage

Mar 23, 2022

Jan-Hendrik Hehemann has been awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant, one of the European Research Council's most highly endowed awards. He and engineering ...

Expedition with the METEOR starts in Montevideo with course to the southeast Atlantic. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; M. Chouksey

Energy exchange in the ocean under the microscope

Feb 24, 2022

Climate models are based on a wealth of processes. To improve climate models, it is necessary to better understand these processes. The necessary data ...