Press reports

Career Day at Kiel University

27. February 2017

Academic career paths in Germany and the legal framework

Academic career paths in Germany are mostly characterized by temporary employment often for many years. Information about legal regulations and opportunities are therefore important …

Where Does the Fish on Our Plate Come From?

20. February 2017

Kick-off workshop for the Citizen Science Project #fischdetektive at GEOMAR

Nine out of ten fish which end up on our table are not from local waters. Within the framework of the citizen science project #fischdetektive (fish detectives) at the GEOMAR …

Summit Meeting on an Underwater Mountain

17. February 2017

Marine scientists from Kiel install observatory in the tropical Atlantic

Seamounts are oases of the oceans: they form diverse ecosystems and provide habitats for numerous organisms. However, the links between physical, biological and biogeochemical …

Global Ocean De-Oxygenation Quantified

15. February 2017

The first in-depth study on the observed global ocean oxygen content was just published by Kiel scientists in Nature.

The ongoing global change causes rising ocean temperatures and changes the ocean circulation. Therefore less oxygen is dissolved in …

Subsea mining moves closer to shore

09. February 2017

Marine scientists from GEOMAR focus on shelf areas

Mining in the deep sea is technically very challenging and at present not economically feasible. However, deposits in coastal areas beneath the shallow, more accessible continental shelf could help …

A Surprise on the Lava Plateau

09. February 2017

Marine researchers from Kiel refute the previous classification of rock types

What happens in the interior of the earth when volcanoes form and tectonic plates move? To answer these questions, research is dependent on traces these processes leave on …

Southern Italy: Earthquake hazard due to active plate boundary

24. January 2017

International team of researchers publishes latest seafloor maps

Tectonically, the Mediterranean is extremely active and thus threatened by natural catastrophes. This is underpinned by the recent earthquakes in Central Italy. Over the last few years …

Humans caused Megafauna extinction in Australia

23. January 2017

International research team publishes new findings on environmental changes at the end of the Pleistocene

During the Earth's history catastrophic mass extinction events have repeatedly decimated the diversity of animals and plants on global as well …

New Underwater Observatory at Boknis Eck

18. January 2017

GEOMAR and Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht install sensor nodes in the Baltic Sea

Boknis Eck - the name is known to marine researchers around the world. Since 1957 data concerning the state of the Baltic Sea have been collected here once a month in the …

The Plankton Puzzle

11. January 2017

Marine scientists start citizen science project to reveal the secrets of unicellular organisms in the ocean

The task is gigantic—Marine biologists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany), Kiel University and the …