News Archive 2009

Dust storm over the eastern Atlantic. The dust contains iron which is a natural fertilizer of the ocean leading to enhanced plankton production and subsequently to a higher uptake of CO2. Photo: NASA

15.12.2009

Ocean Iron Fertilization: A Curse or a Blessing?

Temperatures and currents at 450 m depth in the high-resolution Kiel computer model (snapshot). The Agulhas Current flows along the South African coast. Southwest of Cape Town it abruptly turns back into the Indian Ocean. In this process huge rings of water (“Agulhas Rings”) are separated, carrying warm and saline waters into the Atlantic.

25.11.2009

Live saver for the Gulf Stream?

Title Page of the Copenhagen Diagnosis

24.11.2009

Climate Scientists issue the Copenhagen Diagnosis

His Excellency Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires, president of the Republic of Cape Verde, and Prof. Dr. Peter Herzig, Director of IFM-GEOMAR, in front of the submersible JAGO. Photo: Jan Steffen

16.10.2009

Important Visitor to IFM-GEOMAR

[Translate to English:] Prof. Macke vor Radiometer. Foto: Maike Nicolai, IFM-GEOMAR

02.10.2009

Filling the gaps – more and better observations from ocean areas

High resolution map of the Liliput hydrothermal field at 9 degrees south in the Atlantic. Source: AUV ABYSS, IFM-GEOMAR

27.09.2009

High-tech in the Deep Sea

Drastical change of Phytoplankton: the left pictures shows a microscopic photo of the spring bloom on current environmental conditions. Big diatoms are dominating. With a warming of six degrees (right picture) much smaller flagellates are dominating. Photos: IFM-GEOMAR

23.09.2009

Big Advantage for the Small

Example of a fossil coral reef. Photo: A. Eisenhauer, IFM-GEOMAR.

15.09.2009

Rapid sea level changes during interglacials caused by unstable ice-sheets?

The dark layers (bottom left und and at the top) of the sediment core in 61 metres depths document that 119 million years ago the world ocean contained very little or no oxygen. Photo: Sascha Flögel, IFM-GEOMAR

10.09.2009

When the ocean is suffocating

[Translate to English:] Das IFM-GEOMAR am Ufer der Kieler Förde (Foto: S. Kiesche).

10.09.2009

Top Position for IFM-GEOMAR in Reserch Funding