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Outstanding Look into the Depths: 2024 Senckenberg Prizes Go to Marine Researchers

During the 13th Senckenberg Night, Prof. Dr. Lisa Levin will be honored in the category of Nature Research; Dr. Enric Sala will be awarded the prize in the category of Commitment to Nature

27.09.2024 · SAM
Citizen scientists help discover microplastics along the entire German coastline

The global production of plastics and the resulting plastic waste has increased to such an extent that plastics have become ubiquitous in our environment.

26.09.2024 · AWI
Study on the sinking of the “Melanie Schulte”

Hereon researchers have reconstructed one of the worst shipwrecks in German trade history

16.09.2024 · HEREON
Telepresence of MARUM-QUEST dive

The Knipovich Ridge in the North Atlantic is the destination of an expedition with the research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN, which is being led by MARUM scientist Prof. Gerhard Bohrmann.

13.09.2024 · MARUM
A bacterium infects deep-sea mussels and multiplies in their cells

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, now reveal how a bacterial parasite infects and reproduces in the nuclei of deep-sea mussels from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps.

06.09.2024 · MPI-MM
ROV MARUM SQUID – 100th dive

On New Year's Day 2016, the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) MARUM SQUID undertook its first dive.

06.09.2024 · MARUM
Photosynthesis in near darkness

Photosynthesis can take place at extremely low light levels. This is the result of an international study carried out as part of the MOSAiC expedition.

04.09.2024 · AWI
Mobile Test Platform for Offshore Wind Turbines

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed a mobile test platform that enables realistic tests to be performed at full load, even on offshore wind turbines out in the open.

02.09.2024 · FRAUNHOFER
Holistic change: Hereon meets ministry

Claus Ruhe Madsen for a professional exchange in Geesthacht

30.08.2024 · HEREON
YESSS – Kick-off for a year-long research marathon in the Arctic

Coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), YESSS is intended to yield new insights into climate change effects.

29.08.2024 · AWI
New concept for the protection of marine biodiversity

The AGELESS Project will leverage long-term data series for the ocean of the future

27.08.2024 · MARUM
Fisheries Research Overestimates Fish Stocks

GEOMAR Expert Calls for More Realistic Stock Assessments

22.08.2024 · GEOMAR
New research group “Protist Virology”

We are pleased and excited to welcome a new research group to our institute as of January 2025: Under the heading of Dr. Matthias Fischer, the researchers will explore the biology of giant viruses and their parasites.

22.08.2024 · MPI-MM
Underwater avalanche with prodigious extent decoded

An international team of researchers led by Kiel University mapped for the first time one of the world's largest underwater avalanches off the coast of Morocco, from source to sink.

21.08.2024 · CAU
Climate change: More and more people in Hamburg take precautionary measures

The Helmholtz-Center Hereon publishes study results on citizens' risk awareness for climate change

21.08.2024 · HEREON

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News

All press releases and news from the DAM

Outstanding Look into the Depths: 2024 Senckenberg Prizes Go to Marine Researchers

Citizen scientists help discover microplastics along the entire German coastline

Study on the sinking of the “Melanie Schulte”

Telepresence of MARUM-QUEST dive

A bacterium infects deep-sea mussels and multiplies in their cells

ROV MARUM SQUID – 100th dive

Photosynthesis in near darkness

Mobile Test Platform for Offshore Wind Turbines

Holistic change: Hereon meets ministry

YESSS – Kick-off for a year-long research marathon in the Arctic

New concept for the protection of marine biodiversity

Fisheries Research Overestimates Fish Stocks

New research group “Protist Virology”

Underwater avalanche with prodigious extent decoded

Climate change: More and more people in Hamburg take precautionary measures

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