Glider deployment from an inflatable – a proven method in the open ocean, and equally successful in the shallow Baltic.  Photo: Michael Schneider, FS METEOR
08.07.2014

Why so cold all of a sudden?

First glider mission in the Baltic Sea provides new insights into the coastal upwelling in Bay of Eckernförde

20.06.2014

Re-defining a key role

How do bacteria react to elevated carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater?

Standardized water samples are taken monthly at Boknis Eck since 1957. Photo: Mirja Dunker, GEOMAR
19.06.2014

International Ocean Sampling Day in Kiel

Researchers at GEOMAR and Kiel University participate in a global measurement campaign

Use of a piston corer aboard R/Vl METEOR to recover the sediment cores off the coast of Peru used in the recently published study. Photo: Dirk Nürnberg, GEOMAR
18.06.2014

Does the Release of Iron from Sediments Promote Oxygen Depletion in the Tropical Ocean?

Scientists in Kiel identify additional processes in oxygen minimum zones

What does Microplastic look like and what is its effect on marine ecosystems? Scientists give answers during Kiel Week. Photo: Jan Steffen, GEOMAR
18.06.2014

Kiel Marine Science at the Kiel Week

Presentations, exhibitions and Open Ship offer a varied program for young and old

Representative of the fishery company Empresa Mocambicana De Atum (EMATUM) of Mozambique with GEOMAR Director Professor Peter Herzig, Peter Harry Carstensen, Dr. Rainer Froese, Professor Thorsten Reusch und Holger Kahl, Managing Director, Nobiskrug (left to right). Photo: Jan Steffen
11.06.2014

Fisheries in the Indian Ocean

Mozambique wants to significantly expand its own fishing fleet

A Brazilian guide explains one of the many exhibits to a group of high school students. Photo: Friederike Balzereit, Future Ocean
30.05.2014

Future Ocean Dialogue: Let‘s go Brazil!

The Kiel Cluster of Excellence “The Future Ocean” opens its traveling Exhibition in Fortaleza

30.05.2014

Exciting Research on Impacts of Climate Change in the Arctic

Fourth "Marie-Tharp Lecture" of the Women's Executive Board at GEOMAR

Schematic diagram of ESKP. Source: GfZ.
19.05.2014

New Information Platform on Earth and Environment

Information of the German Research Centre for Geosciences

Walvis Ridge which extends more than 3,000 kilometres into the South Atlantic is the target of SO233 with the German research vessel SONNE. Image reproduced from the GEBCO world map 2014, www.gebco.net
14.05.2014

Expedition into the History of the Earth

GEOMAR Scientists study volcanic mountains in the South Atlantic