Lime-stone formation at the Changinola river, Panama. Photo: Kaj Hoernle, GEOMAR
16.04.2015

How continents grow from the oceans

An international research team including scientists from GEOMAR elucidates how continental crust can be formed in oceanic arcs even at the present

Ferromanganese crusts with typical band structure. Source: Buczkowski, USGS.
09.04.2015

More than just an economic resource: ferromanganese crusts record past climates

Marine scientists reconstruct past variations in Arctic climate

The program of the symposium began with an evening lecture of geobiologist Prof. Dr. Reinhold Leinfelder on thuesday. photo: J. Steffen, GEOMAR
17.03.2015

Can we use the ocean in a sustainable way?

In Kiel, marine scientists discuss strategies for responsible use of the oceans

Lighthouse in Büsum (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany). Sea level rise significantly differs from one coast to another. Photo: Klaus Heinrich Vanselow, Copyright: Uni Kiel / FTZ Westküste
16.03.2015

Sea level rise: More data from the oceans needed

Climate scientists from Kiel show how regional predictions can be enhanced

03.03.2015

GEOMAR cooperates with Cape Verde and Gran Canaria

Partners met in Kiel to exchange ideas

Massive coralline alga, Clathromorphum nereostratum, endemic to the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea with associated green sea urchins, Strongylocentrotus polyacanthus. Photo taken by Joe Tomoleoni as part of NSF PLR-1316141, PI: Bob S. Steneck, Univ. of Maine
23.02.2015

Via Laser into the Past of the Oceans

GEOMAR researchers reconstruct pH values for the past 120 years in the North Pacific

Brachiopod Paraspirifer bownockeri from the Middle Devonian of Ohio (USA); width: 5,6 centrimetre. photo: U. Jansen, Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt on the Main.
03.02.2015

500 Million Years of Ocean History

GEOMAR coordinates European research and training project BASE-LiNE Earth

In some regions of the oceans manganese nodules occur in vast amounts on the seafloor. Photo: Nils Brenke, CeNak
30.01.2015

Deep-Sea Mining: What are the risks?

GEOMAR coordinates European joint project on impact assessment

The Sahara is one of the most arid regions in the world. 9000 years ago, it was a green savannah. Details on the transition could now be reconstructed from samples obtained off the the mouth of the river Nile in the Mediterranean (yellow dot). Image Reproduced from the GEBCO world map 2014 www.gebco.net,
19.01.2015

Rapid end of the Green Sahara 8000 years ago

Scientists discover possible link between climate change and human sedentarization

These manganese nodules, now discovered during expedition SO237 in the Atlantic, are up to 10 million years old. Photo: Thomas Walter
16.01.2015

Looking for deep-sea animals – and finding manganese nodules

Surprising discovery during the maiden expedition of RV SONNE