Autonomous underwater vehicle explored hydrothermal field in the Atlantic Ocean

August 30, 2010/Kiel. The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) ABYSS from IFM-GEOMAR successfully completed its 50th dive last week during the Poseidon expedition P403 (PI: Prof. T. Kanzow). During the dive, ABYSS took high-resolution bathymetric measurements of the well-known Lucky Strike hydrothermal...

– International Experts meet at IFM-GEOMAR –

August 16, 2010/Kiel. Sea water not only contains salt but also different trace metals in small concentrations. These trace metals are very important for the growth of different life forms in the ocean. During a two-day meeting (August 16-17) at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany 30 experts from 14...

-Marine resources: Joint research projects envisaged

July 20, 2010/Kiel. On 20 July 2010, David Heydon, one of the pioneers in exploration of marine resources, visited IFM-GEOMAR. His visit was of an informative nature, focusing on discussions with Dr. Warner Brückmann concerning joint research projects in the field of marine resources, especially manganese nodules, polymetallic...

Professor Sebastian A. Gerlach passed away of June 17, 2010 at the age of 81. He started his academic career as a meiofauna taxonomist (nematoda) and doctoral student of Adolf Remane in Kiel and became 1977 director of the Institut für Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven. He left this place when the AWI was founded to become full professor of benthos ecology and head of the Department of Marine Botany...

– IFM-GEOMAR director awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Schleswig-Holstein –

June 05, 2010. Kiel/Rendsburg, Germany. Prof. Peter M. Herzig, Director of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel (Germany) and Maritime Coordinator for the State of Schleswig-Holstein, has recently been awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Schleswig-Holstein by Prime...

– German-Israeli-Palestinian marine research project launched –

June 14, 2010. Kiel/Jerusalem. International cooperation is a regular and vital practice in the field of marine sciences. Nevertheless, a collaboration by German, Israeli and Palestinian scientists appears exceptional. Such a joint effort has been initiated by the research project, TRION, funded by the German Research...

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of IFM-GEOMAR met on June 8-9, 2010. Main issues of the 7th SAB meeting were the evaluation of Research Division 2 Marine Biogeochemistry as well as the general performance of the institute. The panel with members from 7 countries under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Jochem Marotzke (MPI for Meteorology, Hamburg) were impressed by the excellent results of the...