The uppermost layer of the oceans is a very special but as yet little explored part of the planet. Less than a millimetre thick, this surface layer…

Hydrothermal vents on the seafloor are home to some unusual communities. The galatheid squat lobster species Munidopsis alvisca is among the organisms…

Seagrasses belong to the flowering plants and are the only ones of this plant group that can grow in the sea. To explore these fascinating ecosystems,…

Prof. Dr. A. Murat Eren has been appointed to a joint professorship in Ecosystem Data Science at the Institute for the Chemistry and Biology of the…

At first glance, the open ocean seems to be a uniform habitat: Water as far as the eye can see. A research team from the Universities of Oldenburg and…

Hamlets are dwellers of Caribbean coral reefs, where they exhibit a stunning diversity of colours and patterns. In a newly published article in the…

Shungudzemwoyo Garaba does research at the Wilhelmshaven-based research group Marine Sensor Systems at ICBM. In doing so, he is particularly…

Volcanism probably triggered a period of global cooling that caused one of the most severe mass extinctions in Earth history. A new study by Jack…

Private lecturer Dr Maren Striebel was given the Award for Excellent Doctoral Supervision in the context of the new event format “Sound of Science” of…

Coastal ecosystems, such as seagrass beds, salt marshes, mangrove forests, or kelp forests, absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the…

Oceanographer Dr Thomas Badewien from the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) is receiving a lot of calls from…

As of late, ICBM is a member of the Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GMPL). A few days ago, Dr Shungu Garaba received the certificate confirming…

The Black Sea is an unusual body of water: below a depth of 150 metres the dissolved oxygen concentration sinks to around zero, meaning that higher…

The Uruguayan-German Limnologist Miriam Libertad Gerhard recently has been awarded the second prize in the category Doctoral Dissertations of the…

Professor Dr Oliver Zielinski, who heads the Center for Marine Sensors (ZfMarS) as well as the research group Marine Sensorsystems at ICBM, recently…

The ICBM research group Marine Sensorsystems is currently testing four diving buoys for biogeochemical („BGC“) measurements, so-called BGC Argo…

An international team around the doctoral candidates Gregor Schalm and Kristina Bruns investigated the behavioural and genetic basis of diel rhythms…

At the lab aquarium facility of the ICBM research group Environmental Biochemistry, headed by Prof. Dr. Peter Schupp, Dr. Samuel Nietzer and Matthew…

It depends to a major degree on size and shape whether an organism manages to prevail in a given environment. Physicist Dr. Alexey Ryabov and…

The Trans-European scientist training programme CriticalEarth is scheduled to start in March. At ICBM, the research group Theoretical Physics/Complex…