The Birth of the Atlantic Ocean

24 May 2013/Kiel/Southampton. An international team of marine scientists is taking off this week for an expedition to the northeast Atlantic off the coast of Galicia. With two research vessels, the American MARCUS G. LANGSETH and the German POSEIDON, the scientists want to learn more about the birth...

Launch of the P-Cable 3d seismic system during cruise JC45 off the coast of Montserrat. Photo: J. Karstens, GEOMAR

Each layer a natural disaster

14 May 2013/Kiel. The volcanic centre of Soufrière Hills on the Caribbean island of Montserrat has been active almost continuously since 1995. Pyroclastic flows are emplaced time and again into the sea and even entire slopes have slipped into the coastal waters. In 2010, aboard the British research ...

Kiel and Seoul bridging the gap

May 7, 2013. Not only in the field of ship and car building or the consumer electronics, South Korea is a striving nation. The country in the Far East has also well-known expertise in marine research. To further strengthen the cooperation between GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the ...

International cooperation in climate and marine research

May 07, 2013/Kiel. How does our climate vary naturally? What is the role of the ocean in the climate system? How will climate change in future? The international CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability) Programme of the World Climate Research Programme aims to answer such questions through in...