Media Releases 2023

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During IODP Expedition 389 scientists are onboard the multipurpose vessel MMA VALOUR. Photo: MMA Offshore

Fossil coral reefs as a window into the past and future

Aug 31, 2023

A look back at environmental change throughout geologic history can tell us a lot about the future – especially when it comes to globally and societally ...

The MARUM camera installed at the ocean floor on the control screens of a remotely operated diving robot. Photo: MARUM, Eberhard Kopiske; ROV: ROPOS

Expedition to long-term observatory off Oregon

Aug 23, 2023

How much methane escapes from the ocean floor? This question is the focus of an international project in which MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental ...

As part of its research, MARUM deploys submersible vehicles to take samples of the ocean floor. This is the MARUM-QUEST diving in the Atlantic. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Research, University of Bremen.

Life on the Ocean Floor

Jul 12, 2023

The diverse impacts of the climate crisis pose global challenges that present marine researchers with new tasks of immense societal importance. The ocean ...

Benjamin Nettersheim, one of the lead authors of the study, examines ultra-high-resolution elemental and molecular maps of 1.64 billion years-old rock samples analyzed at the Geobiomolecular Imaging Laboratory at MARUM. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Scientists discover ‘lost world’ of our early ancestors in billion-year-old rocks

Jun 7, 2023

Newly discovered biomarker signatures point to a whole range of previously unknown organisms that dominated complex life on Earth about a billion years ...

In the spotlight of the U.S. deep-sea submersible ALVIN, a small reddish-brown vent massif can be seen on the seafloor of the Guaymas Basin. This formation is surrounded by abundant hydrothermally heated oil-rich sediments covered by white and orange bacterial mats. The core from which the Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea ultimately originated was collected by the team of the manned deep-sea submersible. Photo: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Photo: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Bremen researchers cultivate archaea that break down crude oil in novel ways

Jun 1, 2023

The seafloor is home to around one-third of all the microorganisms on the Earth and is inhabited even at a depth of several kilometers. Only when it ...