Press reports

The Polar Regions - The End of the Eternal Ice

06. November 2019

New World Ocean Review published

The new "World Ocean Review 6", published by mare in cooperation with the German Marine Research Consortium and the Future Ocean Network in Kiel, focuses on the dramatic climate-induced changes in the Arctic and …

The Sea in Audio-visual Media

04. November 2019

The conference of the Department of Media Studies at Kiel University focused on the social and cultural role of ocean films

On October 24 and 25, 2019, around 80 students, researchers from the various humanities and natural science disciplines, …

Screening the Sea

22. October 2019

A conference held by the Department of Media Studies at the Institute of Modern German Literature and Media at Kiel University in cooperation with the CINEMARE International Ocean Film Festival Kiel

Apart from acting as a seemingly inexhaustible …

Strong Gulfstream System in the Miocene does not contradict Models

05. September 2019

Study shows separation between Caribbean and North Atlantic 10 million years ago

Differences in salinity of water masses drive the global ocean circulation. Model simulations show that the circulation can be weakened by high freshwater input in key …

2019 IMBeR Future Oceans2 Open Science Conference Brest

31. August 2019

Session on ocean recovery organized by Kiel scientists

Decades of marine research show that human activities have strongly altered marine systems. As a consequence, marine life, ecosystem functioning and the linked benefits for human societies are at …

Ocean Observations for Climate Science with the SY Malizia

27. August 2019

Racing yacht delivers important data from remote ocean regions

After about three thousand nautical miles across the Atlantic, racing yacht Malizia with skipper Boris Herrmann reaches New York this week. This ocean crossing attracted a lot of …

Stony corals: Limits of adaption

07. August 2019

New study on coral growth in times of climate change

Corals have been dominant framework builders of reef structures for millions of years, creating habitats for a diverse community of species. It is well known that ocean acidification, which is …

Mitigating climate change with seagrass meadows

24. July 2019

Kiel University develops a new method for largescale mapping of seagrass in the Baltic Sea

Seagrass meadows belong to the most important ecosystems in the ocean. They are nursery grounds for many sea creatures and serve as coastal protection by …

Recycling on Earth for more than 3 billion years

15. July 2019

Plate tectonics much older than previously thought

Only 100 years ago Alfred Wegener developed the theory of continental drift. However, the associated recycling process of crustal material began much earlier than previously thought. An international …

Living sustainably, at, from and with the ocean

03. July 2019

Kiel University honoured as a European University with a focus on marine sciences - 5 million Euros awarded for international cooperation

Through the ERASMUS+ project "SEA-EU - The European University of the Seas", Kiel University (CAU) is a member …