News All press releases and news from the DAM Topics All Topics Biodiversity Climate Change Management Pollution Research Structure Usage DAM news only 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. Holistic change: Hereon meets ministry Claus Ruhe Madsen for a professional exchange in Geesthacht 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. New concept for the protection of marine biodiversity The AGELESS Project will leverage long-term data series for the ocean of the future Fisheries Research Overestimates Fish Stocks GEOMAR Expert Calls for More Realistic Stock Assessments 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. 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. 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 Concealed Among Deep-water Corals: New Fish Species Discovered In Mauritanian Waters The fish from the rockling family was found at a depth of 595 meters Preservation of organic carbon in the ocean floor New publication on the dynamic role of iron oxides in organic carbon preservation in oceanfloor Change of staff in coastal research: AWI Vice Director Prof Karen Wiltshire to helm new climate institute at Trinity College Dublin In July, the AWI’s Vice Director for Coastal Research and Director of the Biological Institute Helgoland transfered to Trinity College Dublin, where she will head a newly founded climate institute. Biodiversity in the open ocean – a European monitoring project at ZMT Biodiversity is challenging to observe and assess in the open ocean, which is vast and difficult to access. The European research project "Monitoring the Open-Ocean Biodiversity with Fishers" (MOOBYF) is now pursuing a new strategy DAM transfer projects registered as official UN Ocean Decade projects The two transfer projects Ocean Online and the Interactive World Ocean are now also officially recognized as projects of the Ocean Decade. A belly full of jelly Fish in Greenlandic waters consume significantly more jellyfish than previously assumed. Marine heatwaves in the Baltic Sea: IOW researchers investigate causes and effects Periods in which the upper water layers in the sea temporarily become exceptionally warm are occurring with increasing frequency worldwide. Previous 1 … 17 18 19 … 50 Next Share this page Newsletter Always up to date with the DAM newsletter. (German only) Subscribe Our Sponsors The federal government and the governments of the five northern German states support the current development and sponsor the DAM.