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 CRC, researchers are investigating the interaction of turbulence, waves, and eddies in the ocean and the atmosphere. Copyright: nvphoto - stock.adobe.com

31.05.2024

Collaborative Research Center "Energy Transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean" extended

Third funding phase of the CRC was approved by the DFG for another four years.

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.

31.05.2024

Award for research into the deep biosphere

A MARUM-publication in Nature Microbiology has now been selected as one of the five best studies in 2023 for research into the deep biosphere.

Qing-Zeng Zhu monitors the laboratory experiment in which the team quantified for the first time how new biomass forms in the ocean floor. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; W. Liu

22.05.2024

New insights into the degradation dynamics of organic material

Many processes in the deep sea are not yet well understood, and the role of microbial communities in particular is often a big unknown. This includes, for ...

17.05.2024

Obituary Ousmane Coulibaly

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our young colleague Ousmane Coulibaly, who died suddenly on May 8, 2024.

Group photo of the participants of the Ocean Floor Symposium 2024 in front of the seafloor drilling rig MARUM-MeBo 200. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

14.05.2024

Experts look into the past

What insights can we derive from past climate states for the future? This question will be addressed by participants at a symposium at MARUM, which begins ...

26.04.2024

MARUM at the Hannover Messe

MARUM's core topic in focus: Climate change and sustainable solutions for achieving climate neutrality are the focus of this year's industry trade fair.

Prof. Dr. Sverre Planke

University of Oslo, Norway

MARUM 2070, 01.07.2024, 13:15

A multi-proxy high-resolution approach to past eutrophication and anoxia

MARUM Research Seminar

Dr. Petra Zahajska

Universität Bern, Department of Geography

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. Watch here: Deep Sea Moments

ZfT, 16.05.24; Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Center for Deep-Sea Research (ZfT)