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A significant amount of dissolved organic carbon in the Arctic Ocean comes from land

New study shows that 16 percent of the Arctic Ocean’s organic carbon comes from terrestrial sources, such as thawing permafrost and eroding coastlines

12.11.2025 · AWI
Going digital with U16

A fragile, oversized tube was hoisted out of the North Sea off Cuxhaven in the summer. The find turned out to be the U16 submarine from the imperial era.

11.11.2025 · DSM
How to Make Model Experiments on the Atlantic Overturning Circulation More Realistic

Melting ice in the Arctic is causing an increasing amount of freshwater to enter the North Atlantic, which is expected to result in a weakening of the Atlantic overturning circulation.

11.11.2025 · MPI-M
The Ocean’s Role at the UN Climate Conference

GEOMAR contributes to the Ocean Pavilion and signs the Belém Ocean Declaration

10.11.2025 · GEOMAR
Major new project studies how the Greenland ice sheet responds to shrinking top layer “sponge”

The ice sheet in Greenland faces many changes and one of them is hiding in plain sight - the snowy layer covering most of its surface.

06.11.2025 · AWI
More eelgrass in the Baltic Sea thanks to AI

Kick-off meeting for SEAGUARD research project at the IOW

06.11.2025 · IOW
The Ocean: Guardian of Global Warming

Dr Karina von Schuckmann honoured with the Petersen Excellence Professorship

05.11.2025 · GEOMAR
The greenhouse gas trapped in the Black Sea

Understanding nitrous oxide turnover in the suboxic zone of the Black Sea

05.11.2025 · MPI-MM
First evidence: Herring return to their birthplaces for spawning

This finding is an important argument for the protection of coastal habitats.

03.11.2025 · THÜNEN
Job advertisement: Executive Chair of the DAM Executive Board

The German Marine Research Alliance is looking for a full-time chair of the executive board (m/f/d)

30.10.2025 · DAM
Fats provide clues to life at its limits in the deep sea

Researchers use lipid biomarkers to reveal survival strategies in extreme ecosystems

30.10.2025 · MARUM
How an industrial microbe converts carbon monoxide into biofuel

Scientists have demonstrated the key role of a tungsten-containing enzyme in the production of ethanol from carbon monoxide performed by the microbe Clostridium autoethanogenum.

29.10.2025 · MPI-MM
Krill in the Antarctic: Scientific data directly from krill fishing vessels

AWI study presents new concept for sustainable management of krill stocks in the Southern Ocean, in close cooperation with fisheries.

22.10.2025 · AWI
Iron’s Irony

A new review highlights how hydrothermal vents on the seafloor shape iron availability and influence the global oceanic element cycles.

20.10.2025 · MARUM
The Southern Ocean’s low-salinity water locked away CO2 for decades, but …

An AWI study gives a potential explanation as to why the ocean around Antarctica is defying climate model projections and continuing to absorb CO2.

17.10.2025 · AWI

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News

All press releases and news from the DAM

A significant amount of dissolved organic carbon in the Arctic Ocean comes from land

Going digital with U16

How to Make Model Experiments on the Atlantic Overturning Circulation More Realistic

The Ocean’s Role at the UN Climate Conference

Major new project studies how the Greenland ice sheet responds to shrinking top layer “sponge”

More eelgrass in the Baltic Sea thanks to AI

The Ocean: Guardian of Global Warming

The greenhouse gas trapped in the Black Sea

First evidence: Herring return to their birthplaces for spawning

Job advertisement: Executive Chair of the DAM Executive Board

Fats provide clues to life at its limits in the deep sea

How an industrial microbe converts carbon monoxide into biofuel

Krill in the Antarctic: Scientific data directly from krill fishing vessels

Iron’s Irony

The Southern Ocean’s low-salinity water locked away CO2 for decades, but …

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All press releases and news from the DAM

A significant amount of dissolved organic carbon in the Arctic Ocean comes from land

Going digital with U16

How to Make Model Experiments on the Atlantic Overturning Circulation More Realistic

The Ocean’s Role at the UN Climate Conference

Major new project studies how the Greenland ice sheet responds to shrinking top layer “sponge”

More eelgrass in the Baltic Sea thanks to AI

The Ocean: Guardian of Global Warming

The green­house gas trapped in the Black Sea

First evidence: Herring return to their birthplaces for spawning

Job advertisement: Executive Chair of the DAM Executive Board

Fats provide clues to life at its limits in the deep sea

How an in­dus­trial mi­crobe con­verts car­bon monox­ide into bio­fuel

Krill in the Antarctic: Scientific data directly from krill fishing vessels

Iron’s Irony

The Southern Ocean’s low-salinity water locked away CO2 for decades, but …

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The greenhouse gas trapped in the Black Sea

How an industrial microbe converts carbon monoxide into biofuel