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Participants of the 11. POGO annual meeting in Moscow, Russia. In the center of the photo: incoming chair Prof. Dr. Peter Herzig (IFM-GEOMAR), with present chair Dr. Kiyoshi Suyehiro (IODP)(right).
January 29, 2010, Kiel. The 11th annual meeting of the Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO), an international group of the leading marine research institutes, took place in Moscow, Russia from January 26-28, 2010. With about 60 participants from 35 marine research institute...
Mobile winch and cable owned by the U.S. GEOTRACES-programme. Photo: Gregory Cutter, Old Dominion University, Norfolk (USA)
– Marine scientists investigate the distribution of important micro-nutrients in the Atlantic –
28.01.2010/Kiel. They are invisible and very difficult to measure but no life in the oceans would be possible without them. We are talking about trace metals such as cadmium, copper or iron...
The visitors from Saudi Arabia with IFM-GEOMAR director Prof. Peter Herzig, Dr. Warner Brückmann and Jan Fraeb, GTZ.
The four visitors from the King Abdulaziz University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia were a bit under a climate shock. Within few hours they had to face a temperature difference of more than 30 degree C. Nevertheless Prof. Ali M. Al-Aidroos, Prof. Hisham S. Ghomies, Prof. Abdulmohsin A. Al-Sofyani and Prof....
Fishing for scientific purposes: Marine scientists during a fish stock assessment cruise. Source: IFM-GEOMAR.
Europe misses by more than 30 Years the international goal of rebuilding its fish stocks
Joint press release of the Excellence Cluster „Future Ocean“ and the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR)
Kiel, Germany, 21.01.2010. At the Development Summit in Johannesburg...
Glider under water. Photo: Holger v. Neuhoff, IFM-GEOMAR
– For the first time IFM-GEOMAR will be using a fleet of new high-tech-robots in a concerted mission –
January 14, 2010/Kiel. The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany, recently obtained the biggest fleet of so-called gliders in Europe. These instrum...
Starfish. Photo: Stephanie Pohl, Sabrina Warnk, Alena Gall
– New study reveals important impact of benthic organisms –
January 13, 2010/Kiel. They need calcium carbonate (CaCO3) for many aspects of their life cycle, releasing this material to the seabed when they die: Echinoderms, such as starfish, or sea lilies, have a much larger...
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
- A new study by researchers in Kiel emphasizes the need for further research -
Joint press release of the excellence cluster Future Ocean and IFM-GEOMAR
December 15, 2009/Kiel. Ocean iron fertilization (OIF) is generally considered to constitute a potential geoengineering met...
The KALMAR participants (Photo: Maike Nicolai).
Russian and German scientists met at Kiel
December 1th, 2009, Kiel. The container with the samples of this year’s expeditions has just arrived at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), when the participants of KALMAR (Kurile-Kamchatka and Aleutean Marginal Sea-Island...
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.
- Climate changes supplies more saline waters from the Indian Ocean -
November 25, 2009, Kiel. The Gulf Stream system is known for its impact on Europe’s mild climate. For quite some time oceanographers and climate scientists worry that its strength could decline due to the climate change...
A Polynja in the Laptev Sea. These areas stay ice free even in winter. They're very important for the ice production of the Arctic and therefore indicate climate-changes. Russian and German scientists study these Polynjas in close cooperation. There work is coordinated at the Otto Schmidt Laboratory in St. Petersburg, Russia. Photo: H. Kassens, IFM-GEOMAR
- Prestigious awards for the German partners at the anniversary of the Otto Schmidt Laboratory in Saint Petersburg-
Joint press release IFM-GEOMAR and Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
November 25th 2009/St. Petersburg. The Arctic regions are essential fo...
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