News 2021

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The MARUM-CTD (foreground), was deployed on the seafloor last year and connected to the box-like multi-plug box (background) of the OOI observatory. Photo: OOI/WHOI/NSF

Follow a live dive

Aug 12, 2021

Sonar devices developed at MARUM have been in use off the west coast of the USA for more than three years. They are part of the underwater observatory ...

New brochure on research at MARUM

Aug 11, 2021

The ocean in the Earth system is the focus of research at MARUM – and this is exactly the title of the new brochure that MARUM – Center for Marine ...

A new study of shorelines in the Bahamas may change estimates of past sea levels. Here, some of the authors survey coastal rocks on the archipelago’s Crooked Island formed when sea levels were higher. Photo: Blake Dyer

New study on changing sea levels

Aug 11, 2021

One of the current mysteries of climate science surrounds the widely accepted evidence that during the planet’s most recent past natural warm period, about ...

The new brochure provides facts and background information on surveying the Atlantic circulation. Photo: KDM/DKK

Measuring the Atlantic circulation

Aug 6, 2021

The German Marine Research Consortium (KDM) and the German Climate Consortium (DKK) have now published a background brochure on the measurement of the ...

The last El Niño in 2016 led to a prolonged temperature increase in the oceans of the tropics worldwide. Large-scale coral bleaching occurred worldwide, as here in American Samoa in the Pacific. The picture of the same reef section before (left side) and

Strategy paper for the protection of coral reefs

Jul 21, 2021

Within the framework of the International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) 2021, a team of researchers has now published a strategy paper for the protection of ...