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The new, remote-controlled diving robot MARUM-QUEST 5000 is now standing in MARUM's Workshop II. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

MARUM strengthens deep-sea research with new diving robot

Jun 5, 2023

The wait is over - the new remotely operated vehicle (ROV) MARUM-QUEST 5000 has now been delivered. Since the beginning of June, it can be found in MARUM's ...

Glacial meltwater streams supplying rock particles (incl. organic carbon) to downstream fjords ecosystems. Picture: Torben Stichel

Microbes use carbon from ancient rocks

Jun 1, 2023

Microbial communities in marine sediments are able to use ancient material as a carbon source. Although they prefer fresh organic material, if there is not ...

Group picture of the researchers of the DFG Priority Program

Focus meeting on stress signatures in corals

May 31, 2023

Researchers from the DFG Priority Programme "Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs" are meeting at the University of Bremen this week. The topical ...

A stone coral in the Red Sea. It is one of the shallow water corals that researchers often use to reconstruct the climatic conditions of more recent times. Photo: Heinz Krimmer

New coral database for climate data of the past 2,000 years

May 26, 2023

What researchers know about climate change today is based mainly on instrumental data series of the past 150 years. For some regions there are very ...

A deep sea octopus sits on a manganese nodule (Photo: AWI / OFOS)

High natural radioactivity detected in manganese nodules

May 24, 2023

Manganese nodules in the deep sea contain a wealth of valuable metals that are vital to e.g. the electronics and steelmaking industries. Accordingly, these ...