Scientists Study Tropical Oceans OMZ Growth

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Long-term observations indicate that the oxygen minimum zones in the tropical oceans have expanded in recent ...

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Scientists Think Deep Water Melts Antarctic Glaciers

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The water temperatures on the West Antarctic shelf are rising. The reason for this is predominantly warm water from ...

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Researchers Team Up in Ocean Study Off Gran Canary

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GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) and the ...

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AWI Scientist Recognised by Werner Petersen Foundation

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AWI deep-sea expert Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius was honoured with the special professorship of the Werner Petersen ...

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Scientists Study Cold-Water Corals Off Norway

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Cold-water corals of the species Lophelia pertusa are able to fuse skeletons of genetically distinct individuals. ...

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Researchers Use New Detection for Seabed Oxygen Supply

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Based on the detailed investigation and new measurement technology described by a research team led by GEOMAR ...

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Researchers Team Up on Mediterranean Seismic Survey

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With the aim of expanding the so far only fragmentary knowledge about the processes on the seafloor of the ...

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Geomar: Researching Effects of Environment Change on Corals

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Scientists recover instruments and long-term experiments from two Norwegian cold-water coral reefs. How do ...

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New Junior Research Group Set Up at GEOMAR

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The Croatian/Canadian biologist Dr. Elizabeta Briski studies the question whether species from certain regions have ...

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GEOMAR Studies Ocean Acidification Impacts on Bacteria

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Two recent studies by members of the research group for Microbial Biogeochemistry at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for ...

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GEOMAR to Take Part in ‘Ocean Sampling Day’

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Saturday, 21 June, is “Ocean Sampling Day.” Marine scientists will take water samples at over 170 ...

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GEOMAR: Research on Impacts of Climate Change in Arctic

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As part of the Marie-Tharp Lecture Series of the Women’s Executive Board at GEOMAR, Prof. Antje Boetius of ...

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GEOMAR Carries Out Expedition of Volcanic Mountains in ...

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Recently the research vessel SONNE set off from Cape Town on a five and a half week long expedition in the South ...

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GEOMAR Researchers Study ‘Black Smokers’

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Researchers at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have used computer simulations to understand how ...

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GEOMAR Scientists Use Corals to Track Warming and ...

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The University of Western Australia with contribution by Professor Christian Dullo from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for ...

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Hydrographic Conditions Determine Fate of Western ...

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Scientists of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU Aqua) at ...

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GEOMAR and MARUM Observe Methane Hydrates Offshore Svalbard

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Off the coast of Svalbard methane gas flares originating from gas hydrate deposits at depth of several hundred ...

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Successful Merger of IfM and GEOMAR 10 Years Ago

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Exactly ten years ago a new era began for marine research in Kiel, Germany. The Institute for Marine Research and ...

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IFM-GEOMAR Scientists Examine Causes of Earthquakes and ...

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From late December 2011 till Mid January 2012 earth scientists from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences ...

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Germany: IFM-GEOMAR Scientist Wins Leibniz Prize

Prof. Dr. Ulf Riebesell from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) was honoured with the Leibniz ...

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IFM-GEOMAR Participates in Coral Reef Expedition in Red ...

  The Saudi coast of the Red Sea covers more than 11° latitudes featuring decreasing nutrients, decreasing ...

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