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From the Baltic Sea to Optogenetics: The Wondrous Ways of Basic Research

This years’s Nobel Prize in Medicine includes a little bit of marine research from Bremen.

21.10.2026 · MPI-MM
A Voyage into the Slow-Motion World of the Deep Sea

Expedition SO322 is investigating the environmental consequences of future mining of polymetallic nodules

19.10.2026 · GEOMAR
Rung by Rung Into the Depths

GEOMAR expedition investigates vertical migrations of organisms using specialised cameras

12.10.2026 · GEOMAR
Kickoff for the second funding phase of the DFG Priority Programme SPP 2299 in Kiel

Research on tropical climate extremes and coral reefs to be the focus over the next three years – Kiel University climate researcher Miriam Pfeffer takes over coordination of the research network

06.10.2026 · CAU
A symbiotic marketplace: Stability through flexibility

Symbiotic stability arises from flexible, evolving partnerships between hosts and microbes.

06.10.2026 · MPI-MM
Historic fishery collapse holds lessons for the present

A new study by Kiel University shows that a combination of climate change, overfishing, and social change caused the herring of the Sound to disappear.

28.09.2026 · CAU
DNA analysis sheds new light on the gill microbiome of coral reef fish

A recent genomic study of coral reef fish by scientists from the ZMT and the ICBM has found previously undescribed microorganisms in the fish gills

25.09.2026 · ZMT
Planetary Health Check 2026: Why a healthy seafloor matters for the Earth system

Human influence nowadays reaches from the coast all the way to the deep sea

23.09.2026 · IOW
New life for stone reefs in the Baltic Sea

Launch event at the Marine Science Campus for the “Riffretter” project to restore a historic reef site

22.09.2026 · IOW
Changing Pacific climate, ENSO diversity and coral responses over the Common Era

Fossil and modern corals from the Marshall Islands reveal changes in Pacific climate variability, coral calcification and environmental conditions

11.09.2026 · MARUM
m-CONNECT

EU-funded project takes a connectivity-focused approach to coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass meadows

31.08.2026 · ZMT
“MeerZukunft” in Hamburg

A DAM parliamentary evening highlighted the role of research in the tension between the use and protection of Hamburg’s Elbe River

28.08.2026 · DAM
Reading ecosystems like a book

AI method reveals hidden patterns in microbial communities in the Warnow

07.08.2026 · IOW
Microorganisms actively shape the ocean floor

Hot fluids rising from Earth's interior have been driving mineral formation on the ocean floor for millions of years

29.07.2026 · MARUM
A coral’s Swiss Army knife: The numerous powers of cilia

In black corals, cilia perform many functions, from ventilation to external and internal nutrient transport

22.07.2026 · MPI-MM

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News

All press releases and news from the DAM

From the Baltic Sea to Op­to­gen­et­ics: The Won­drous Ways of Ba­sic Re­search

A Voyage into the Slow-Motion World of the Deep Sea

Rung by Rung Into the Depths

Kickoff for the second funding phase of the DFG Priority Programme SPP 2299 in Kiel

A sym­bi­otic mar­ket­place: Sta­bil­ity through flex­ib­il­ity

Historic fishery collapse holds lessons for the present

DNA analysis sheds new light on the gill microbiome of coral reef fish

Planetary Health Check 2026: Why a healthy seafloor matters for the Earth system

New life for stone reefs in the Baltic Sea

Changing Pacific climate, ENSO diversity and coral responses over the Common Era

m-CONNECT

“MeerZukunft” in Hamburg

Reading ecosystems like a book

Microorganisms actively shape the ocean floor

A cor­al’s Swiss Army knife: The nu­mer­ous powers of cilia

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