Archive 2021

After servicing the OBS, the team of expedition SO244 of the German research vessel SONNE re-deploys an ocean bottom seismometer off the coast of northern Chile. Photo: Jan Steffen/GEOMAR
11.05.2021

Strong quake, small tsunami

GEOMAR scientists publish unique data set on the northern Chilean subduction zone

A bleached reef-building coral of the genus Porites. These coral species are important builders of most reefs in the entire Indo-Pacific region. Due to increasingly prolonged heat waves and more extreme temperatures, corals and thus marine ecosystems in the tropics are already on the verge of collapse. Photo: A. Roik
07.05.2021

With bacteria against coral bleaching

Probiotic approaches could protect corals against heat stress

The new deep-sea rover PANTA RHEI during its first sea trials in the Baltic Sea. Photo: Florian Huber
07.05.2021

New deep-sea rover to explore the variability of material turnover in the seafloor

DSR PANTA RHEI completed first trials in the Baltic Sea

Deep-sea shrimp with a pyrosome on the sea floor. Photo: JAGO Team, GEOMAR.
04.05.2021

Pyrosomes - enigmatic marine inhabitants with an important role in the Cabo Verde ecosystem

New study led by GEOMAR provides fascinating insight into a largely unknown marine life form

Schematic illustration of the interaction of the crawler VIATOR with its digital twin. Graphic: C. Kersten, GEOMAR
30.04.2021

Awards for plankton imaging system and digital twins

GEOMAR honours new and innovative methods in marine research

[Translate to English:] Prof. Dr. Martin Wahl (links), Gründer des GAME-Programms am GEOMAR, und sein Nachfolger Prof. Dr Arne Körtzinger stehen vor den Benthokosmen an der Kiellinie.
30.04.2021

Change in the leadership of the GAME programme

Prof. Dr. Arne Körtzinger takes over as scientific supervisor from Prof. Dr. Martin Wahl

Bathymetric chart of a part of the Red Sea. Source GEOMAR.
23.04.2021

Red Sea is no longer a Baby Ocean

Hidden structures reveal 13 million years of seafloor spreading

Dr. Morelia Urlaub during a land excursion on Mount Etna. Photo: Marc-Andre Gutscher/CNRS
21.04.2021

Dr. Morelia Urlaub from GEOMAR gives Gauss Lecture at the EGU

Geoscientist informs about the causes and hazard potential of volcano flank collapses

Zooplankton ingestion of microplastic reduces grazing pressure and permits more algal growth. More algal growth leads to more organic particles sinking out of the surface ocean. When these extra particles sink, they are consumed by bacteria, which leads to an additional loss of oxygen in the water column. Graphics modified from Kvale et al. 2021.
21.04.2021

Microplastics affect global nutrient cycle and oxygen levels in the ocean

GEOMAR study points to possible major changes in the marine ecosystem

Synopsis of 3D seismic data and information from a borehole into a basaltic basement. Figure courtesy by P. Carlevaris using PaleoScan software
21.04.2021

Opening of the Core-Log-Seismic Integration Research Centre

Three Helmholtz Centres team up for a virtual facility for geological and geophysical data