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The scientific drilling vessel CHIKYU. Photo: JAMSTEC
04.12.2024

On the trail of the 2011 mega earthquake

How can we better understand geological processes in order to protect coastal infrastructure in the long term? These questions are the focus of a scientific expedition with ...

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Sampling the ocean floor in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
26.11.2024

The Ocean Floor: A Deep Dive

Researchers from Bremen and Oldenburg are working together on important issues for the future. They have submitted a joint application to the Excellence Strategy. In this ...

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The GMT Advisory Board was given a tour of MARUM during the meeting break. Photos: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
15.11.2024

Visit of the GMT Advisory Board at MARUM

New developments in marine technologies and marine robotics were the topics of the advisory board meeting of the Gesellschaft für Maritime Technik (GMT) at MARUM. 

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Water mirror under a flanche of Yggdrasil. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
14.11.2024

First results of the MSM 131 expedition

The researchers' aim was to find out more about the Jøtul hydrothermal field. They are now presenting the initial results of their investigations off Norway.

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Presumed tree bark fragments preserved as microinclusions in an amber of MeBo core PS104_20-2. Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute / Johann Klages
13.11.2024

First amber find on the Antarctic continent

Southernmost discovery of amber allows new insights into Cretaceous forests near the South Pole.

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During the winter semester 24/25, the lecture series "Waves" will highlight aspects of the wave from the perspective of various faculties at the University of Bremen. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
11.11.2024

Interdisciplinary lecture series on waves

Waves are the topic and title of an interdisciplinary lecture series at the University of Bremen. Alice Lefebvre and Elda Miramontes from MARUM are taking part.

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Corals in the Pacific, Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Deep-sea corals from the cold

Do corals only exist in warm tropical waters? In the ORF science program "Mayrs Magazin – Wissen für alle", Prof. Dr. Dierk Hebbeln from MARUM explores this question and reports on the research expedition SO306 in the West Indian Ocean.

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Deep Sea Moments

MARUM's Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) are in use in the oceans worldwide. On their way into the deep sea and at the bottom of the oceans, the researchers discover unique habitats with the help of the robots, encounter their inhabitants and experience very special Deep-Sea Moments again and again on their expeditions.

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Deep Sea Moments No.12

Hot Vents in the East China Sea

Hot fluids also occur in the area of the Okinawa Trough, an elongated trench that forms north of the Ryuku Island Arc, where the Philippine Plate dives beneath the Eurasian Plate in the Western Pacific. Depending on the fluid composition and temperature, very different macro-organisms with chemosynthetic lifestyles settle here. During an expedition with the RV SONNE, hydrothermal vents in the two submarine hills “Hatoma” and “Yonaguni” were investigated at water depths of 1,200 - 1,600 metres. The special feature of this area in the East China Sea is the emission of liquid carbon dioxide in addition to the metal-rich fluids. This is formed in the subsurface by magmatic processes from the rocks and sediments.

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Cen­ter for Deep-Sea Re­search. Photo: MARUM − Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Cen­ter for Deep-Sea Re­search

Con­struc­tion work for the Cen­ter for Deep-Sea Re­search (ZfT) began in Feb­ru­ary 2021. Fundamental processes in the deep sea are to be investigated at the ZfT. Or­gan­iz­a­tion­ally, the ZfT will be loc­ated un­der the um­brella of the Re­search Fac­ulty MARUM.

Our col­league Volker Diekamp con­tinu­ously doc­u­ments the con­struc­tion pro­gress of the Cen­ter for Deep-Sea Re­search (ZfT) with his cam­era.