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The expedition team is going to install borehole observatories. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Trigger for earthquakes in focus

Jul 25, 2018

Events that trigger landslides and earthquakes are the focus of MARUM's M149 expedition, which takes the team to the Gulf of Cadiz off the ...

Iceberg in the North Atlantic. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Melting triggers melting

Jul 12, 2018

The melting of glaciers on one side of the globe can trigger disintegration of glaciers on the other side of the globe, as has been presented in a recent ...

The cable is being wound from a transport reel via a rewinding block onto the winch. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, T. Klein

MeBo umbilical serviced

Jul 10, 2018

A cable connects the seafloor drill rig MARUM-MeBo 200 to the research vessel from where it is deployed for deep sea drilling. This cable – also known as ...

Margot Cramwinckel in the Bremen Core Repository. Photo: Carlijne Wijngaarden

Larger polar warming caused by rising CO2

Jul 3, 2018

Geoscientists have shown for the first time that the earth's polar regions, even if they were ice-free, are warming much more strongly due to rising CO₂ ...

Measurements on living and fossil corals may lead to conclusions about past temperatures and sea level fluctuations. Photo: Eric Matson / Australian Institute for Marine Science

Lessons about a future warmer world using data from the past

Jun 26, 2018

Selected intervals in the past that were as warm or warmer than today can help us understand what the Earth may be like under future global warming. A ...