High resolution simulation of ocean currents in the North Atlantic. Source: GEOMAR
07.04.2014

The Ocean - The Long-Term Memory of Our Climate System

International expert meeting on ocean modeling in Kiel

Three EU politicians (Ulrike Rodust, Isabelle Thomas and Dolores García-Hierro Caraballo (left to right) with representatives of the EU and GEOMAR in front of the JAGO submersible. Photo: A. Villwock, GEOMAR
27.03.2014

The Fine Line between Ecology and Economy

EU politicians gathered information on fisheries management

Polarstern (back) and Meteor (front) during their visit in the Atlantic. Photo: M. Visbeck, GEOMAR.
25.03.2014

Summit on the High Seas

German research vessels POLARSTERN and METEOR meet in the tropical Atlantic

Coral in the Red Sea. Diameter of the coral is approximately five metres. Photo: Helmut Schuhmacher
18.03.2014

Corals track strongest Indian Ocean Current over 334 years

Scientists from GEOMAR use corals as high-resolution temperature archive

On an experimental plate one can observe how  barnacles react to extreme environmental conditions, for example ocean acidification. Photo: Christian Pansch, GEOMAR
04.03.2014

Baltic Sea "Trains" Marine Life for Climate Change

Barnacles in Kiel Fjord show high stress tolerance to ocean acidification

Oceanographer Martin Visbeck deploying a float during an expedition in the tropical Atlantic. Photo credit: GEOMAR
27.02.2014

Climate Change: A Bumpy Road

Professor Martin Visbeck calls for enhanced ocean observations in “Nature Geoscience”

A fairy tern is feeding a goby to its chick in Mangawhai Harbour, New Zealand. Photo: Ian Southey
26.02.2014

Fragile food-web dependency of a critically endangered seabird

GEOMAR-scientist researches the feeding ecology of the New Zealand fairy tern

Dr. David Keller has compared several Climate-Engineering methods using a global computer model. Poto and Montage: Rita Erven, Kiel Earth Institute
25.02.2014

Climate Engineering: minor potential, major side effects

GEOMAR researchers show limitations and side effects of large-scale climate intervention

Methane hydrate from the sea floor - an energy resource for the future? Photo: GEOMAR
20.02.2014

Resources from the Sea

Can the ocean solve the resource problems of the future?