MARUM – The ocean in depth!

Research

MARUM research focusses on the role of the ocean in the climate system, interactions between geosphere and biosphere, and dynamics of the ocean floor.
Infrastructure

MARUM operates and develops-cutting edge underwater technologies, archives for seafloors samples, the data center PANGAEA, and laboratories.
Early Career

Training of early career scientists is a major goal of MARUM. We provide training and services for our students from the PhD to the Postdoc level.
Discover

Exhibitions and videos, books and brochures, a school lab, press releases and social media inform the public about MARUM`s research activities.
Research

MARUM research focusses on the role of the ocean in the climate system, interactions between geosphere and biosphere, and dynamics of the ocean floor.
Infrastructure

MARUM operates and develops cutting-edge underwater technologies, archives for seafloor samples, the data center PANGAEA, and laboratories.
Early Career

Training of early career scientists is a major goal of MARUM. We provide training and services for our students from the PhD to the Postdoc level.
Discover

Exhibitions and videos, books and brochures, a school lab, press releases and social media inform the public about MARUM`s research activities.

In the spotlight of the U.S. deep-sea submersible ALVIN, a small reddish-brown vent massif can be seen on the seafloor of the Guaymas Basin. This formation is surrounded by abundant hydrothermally heated oil-rich sediments covered by white and orange bacterial mats. The core from which the Candidatus Alkanophaga archaea ultimately originated was collected by the team of the manned deep-sea submersible. Photo: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Photo: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

01.06.2023

How microorganisms deep in the seabed render crude oil harmless

New MARUM publication: Bremen researchers cultivate archaea that break down crude oil in novel ways.

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

01.06.2023

Microbes use carbon from ancient rocks

New study with MARUM participation: Process is an additional source of fossil greenhouse gases.

Group picture of the researchers of the DFG Priority Program

31.05.2023

Exchange about stress signatures in corals

Researchers of the DFG Priority Program "Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs" meet at the University of Bremen.

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

26.05.2023

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

Previously existing data sets from coral climate archives were compiled and are now available in the new PAGES (Past Global Changes) CoralHydro2k database.

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

24.05.2023

High natural radioactivity detected in manganese nodules

New AWI-study with MARUM participation shows: Handling manganese nodules can pose health risks.

The gutless marine worm Olavius algarvensis under the microscope. It is about two centimeters long and only 0.5 milimeters wide, and lives in between the sand grains (shown on photo) next to seagrass beds in the Mediterranean Sea. Photo: Rebekka Jahnke / Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

04.05.2023

New publication: Animals can synthesize phytosterols

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and MARUM have now discovered that tiny gutless worms from the Mediterranean ...

Dates & Events

MARUM 2070, 05.06.2023, 13:15

Simulating the future ocean: Towards an improved projection of phytoplankton biomass and community composition

MARUM Seminar

Dr. Miriam Seifert

MARUM 2070, 19.06.2023, 13:15

FAIR Scientific Information with the Open Research Knowledge Graph

MARUM Seminar

Dr. Markus Stocker

TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek

Haus der Wissenschaft Bremen, 01.07.2023, 11:00

Arktis im Wandel – Über schwindendes Meereis, ein sich akklimatisierendes Ökosystem und rostigen Kohlenstoff

Talk

Dr. Johan Faust

MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen

Tauch ab – und frag nach!

Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung bei KiTa Bremen
am Beispiel des Projekts „Tauch ab – und frag nach!“

Die filmische Dokumentation „Tauch ab – und frag nach!“ im Kinder- und Familienzentrum Berckstraße verdeutlicht, wie Kindern Naturwissenschaften nahegebracht werden und wie die Kinder eine eigene Forschungsfrage entwickeln und beantworten. Unterstützt von den Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern des Zentrums für Marine Umweltwissenschaften (MARUM) und den pädagogischen Fachkräften sowie der Fachberatung von KiTa Bremen, lernen die Kinder darüber hinaus das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten und Denken kennen.

ZfT, 31.05.23; Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Center for Deep-Sea Research (ZfT)

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