News 2018

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Test of the long-range sonar with ROV SQUID in the MARUM test tank. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

MARUM deep-sea sonars on Underwater Observatory

Jun 26, 2018

MARUM scientists are about to connect long- and short-range sonars to the underwater cabled observatory of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) and the ...

Viewers were able to follow dives via different camera angles on the screens.

Live dive with MARUM-QUEST

Jun 25, 2018

The research vessel SONNE is currently about 16,000 kilometres away from its home port. In the South Pacific, a team of scientists investigated geological ...

MARUM Research Award

Jun 7, 2018

This year's "MARUM Research Award for Marine Sciences" is awarded to Dr. Kerstin Kretschmer and Clara Martínez-Pérez for their dissertations as well as ...

Participants of the international stakeholder conference in Walvis Bay, Namibia. Representatives from science, politics and industry exchanged their experiences in order to promote a new Institute of Marine Technology and Maritime Studies at the Universit

Experts discuss new marine institute in Namibia

Jun 6, 2018

More than 100 experts from academia, industry and the public administration have now discussed establishing a new School of Marine Engineering and Maritime ...

Asphalt flow deposits on the seafloor in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The image was taken by the diving robot MARUM-QUEST 4000. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Asphalt on the seafloor

May 11, 2018

In a recent study in the scientific magazine Oceanography, MARUM scientists describe the fascinating similarities of natural asphalt discharge in the deep ...