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SPICE III: Kick-Off Meeting at the ZMT

21.5.12
After two successful phases, another three-year prolongation could be achieved for the SPICE project. From May 22 to 24 the ZMT is hosting a kick-off workshop to concretize project aims and implementation. more ...

Galapagos – a changing paradise

9.5.12
Since the end of the 19th century the Galapagos Archipelago is a prime example for studying the principles of evolution. In times of climate change and ocean acidification, the islands have moved into another research focus. On the 7th and 8th of May, the ZMT organized an international symposium in Bremen and invited Galapagos researchers to discuss new approaches. more ...

A second phase for GENUS

2.5.12
After an excellent evaluation, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) sent the cooperative project GENUS into a second three-year phase starting the 1st of May. The ZMT is taking part in GENUS with two subprojects, which are dedicated on the one hand to biogeochemical aspects, on the other to the marine life in the upwelling system off Namibia. more ...

SPICE starts into a third phase

6.3.12
Since 2003 the ZMT coordinates the comprehensive research program SPICE, which focuses on the endangered coastal ecosytems in Indonesia. As a result of its successful evaluation, the BMBF will finance SPICE for another three years. more ...

ZMT main contributor to YOUMARES 2012

29.3.12
Under the topic “Between Space and Seafloor - Aqua vita est!” young academics are invited to Lübeck from 12th to 14th of September 2012 to contribute within ten different theme sessions. The ZMT is again, like in the previous year, instrumental in planning and performing the convention. more ...

„Summa cum Laude“ for marine ecologist

23.2.12
Marine ecologist Lucia Herbeck was awarded a “Summa cum laude” for her dissertation about the impact of aquaculture on coastal ecosystems. In the frame of the project LANCET she investigated the effects of pond systems on the coast of the island of Hainan in the South China Sea. more ...

Cooperation with International Ocean Institute – IOI to be continued

13.2.12
On February 8 festivities for the 40th anniversary of the IOI took place in Malta. Prof. H. Westphal and Dr. Werner Ekau attended the festivities, in the frame of which a new cooperation agreement between ZMT and IOI was signed. more ...

Understanding Research through a Film Project

16.1.12
How do children approach scientific research, if provided with the means to produce a digital film? This is the central question of a cooperation project carried out by the University of Bremen, the ZMT and the International School of Bremen. more ...

How do fishes react to hypoxia?

15.12.11
Back from a research stay at the Leigh Marine Laboratory in New Zealand ecophysiologist Andreas Kunzmann reports about his work with triplefin fish. They show special adaptations to inhospitable environmental conditions. more ...

Vice President of the Leibniz Association

25.11.11
On Friday 25th, Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal, Director of the ZMT, has been elected Vice President of the Leibniz Association in the frame of the annual General Assembly in Frankfurt. more ...

20 years of research in tropical coastal ecosystems

26.10.11
The Center for Tropical Marine Ecology was launched 20 years ago. On Friday, November 4th, the ZMT celebrated its 20th anniversary in the “Glocke” in Bremen. more ...

Ocean acidification – a problem in the tropics?

24.10.11
On November 1st the ZMT will organize a symposium, which brings together international experts to discuss the problem of ocean acidification. It will focus on the question of the impact of increasing acidification on tropical oceans. more ...

Study trip to Namibia with Maria S. Merian

4.10.11
On Sunday, 2nd of October at 11:00, the research vessel Maria S. Merian took off for the second part of a study trip. The trip is an initiative in the frame of the SPACES Program from the BMBF, which integrates several cooperation activities with South Africa. more ...

Introducing joung scientists to interdisciplinary research

29.9.11
On October 4 and 5, the ZMT is hosting the first forum for PhD students from the ten research institutes belonging to the environmental research section of the Leibniz Association. The forum will discuss trans- and interdisciplinarity in science. more ...

LANCET: Final workshop in Shanghai

28.9.11
From September 27 to 29 the final workshop of the German-Chinese Project LANCET is being held in Shanghai. The project started in 2006 and is coordinated by the ZMT on the German side. The East China Normal University, one of the cooperation partners, is hosting the meeting. more ...

Mini-symposium on the evolution of cooperation in socio-ecological systems

2.9.11
From a strictly Darwinian point of view cooperation in nature is a puzzling concept. This symposium, to be held at the ZMT on September 28, will cover different theoretical and experimental topics of cooperation studies. more ...

A bridging of East and West in marine sciences

7.9.11
"To learn from and with each other" - this is the aim of the first joint Chinese-German workshop and a summerschool, which is being organized from the 5th to the 17th of September by the Center for Sino-German Cooperation in Marine Sciences in Qingdao, China. One of the German partners is the ZMT. more ...

Expanding the scientific expertise

24.8.11
A talk about remote sensing by Prof. Justus Notholt from the Institute for Environmental Physics (Bremen University) on August 24 completed a series of seminars at ZMT. It brought experts to the ZMT covering research fields, which complement the research areas of the institute. more ...

Ying Wu: Humboldt Fellow from Shanghai

22.8.11
She is a professor for Marine Biogeochemistry at the University of Shanghai. A Humboldt Fellowship brought Ying Wu to the ZMT in Bremen. During a stay of a year she will persue her research about organic material in the oceans. more ...

How typhoons damage tropical coastal ecosystems

15.8.11
The South China Sea with the island of Hainan is worldwide the marine area most often impacted by typhoons. In the year of 2008, typhoon Kammuri hit the coast of Hainan. Scientists from the ZMT and their Chinese partners investigated the impacts of the storm on the coastal ecosystems of the island immediately after the typhoon event. more ...

CEMarin: Center of Excellence for Marine Research

3.8.11
At the end of 2010 it was inaugurated in Santa Marta: the German-Columbian Center of Excellence in Marine Research, in which the ZMT is taking active part. On the 3rd of August, Dr. Valeria Pizarro from Columbia visited the ZMT for cooperation discussions and a seminar. She is a lecturer at CEMarin and an expert for caribbean coral reef ecology. more ...

Conference about marine environmental history

13.7.11
During the first days of July a conference of the „European Society for Environmental History“ took place in Turku (Finland). The members disucssed the historical dimensions of the interactions between man and the sea. Social scientist Kathleen Schwerdtner Máñez from the ZMT coorganised one of the sessions and presented her research in Indonesia. more ...

Tropical oceans without coral reefs

5.7.11
What would a tropical coastal ecosystem look like, where coral reefs have not survived? During two expeditions to the north african west coast Prof. Hildegard Westphal, Director at ZMT, and her team were able to get an insight into such a scenario. more ...

Resource management: which strategy ist the best?

29.6.11
Back from a research stay in Nicaragua, Achim Schlüter from ZMT and his team are bringing interesting insights into the management approaches of ocean turtle refuges of Central America. more ...

Oil pollution in mangroves

22.6.11
Scientists from the ZMT investigated the impact of organic contaminants on the fauna of the Segara-Anakan Lagoon in Indonesia. The lagoon is sorrounded by the largest mangrove area of Java and harbours a high variety of animal species. more ...

Stress tolerance in fishes

17.6.11
In a cooperation with the University of Auckland, New Zealand, the ZMT is conducting a project on the stress tolerance of fishes. During his stay at the ZMT, Neill Herbert from the Leigh Marine Laboratory and the research group from Andreas Kunzmann are documenting the oxygen consumption at different activity phases. more ...

Successful scientific rearing programme for clownfishes

7.6.11
Since 2009 a scientific rearing programme for clownfishes and other reef organisms is successfully in progress at ZMT. On occasion, the animals are placed at the disposal of cooperation partners like the "Klimahaus" in Bremerhaven. more ...

Scientists discover a new species

30.5.11
Kinorhynchs are tiny wormlike marine invertebrates, which inhabit the upper layer of tidal and subtidal sediments. During research work at the Segara Anakan Lagoon, a team of scientists from the ZMT has found a new species (Echinoderes applicitus sp. nov.) in Java´s largest mangrove forest. more ...

Indian cooperation partners are guests at ZMT

25.5.11
Geographer Dr. Mahamaya Chattopadhyay from the Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS) in Trivandrum, Kerala, is staying at the ZMT for the duration of three weeks. She is the first one of a group of scientists from India, who will be visiting the institute in the frame of a new cooperation project. more ...

Expedition to the Gulf of Beibu in China

12.5.11
Back from an expedition to the Gulf of Beibu in southwest China, scientists from the ZMT brought back data regarding the filter function of mangroves located between the land and the sea. more ...

Microbial world in coral reef sediments

11.5.11
Hidden in the sediments of tropical coral reefs live diverse bacterial communities. They are important links in the food chains of coral reefs. Scientists from ZMT and MPI in Bremen are investigating their role for the material fluxes in the reef. more ...

Practical training with an integrative concept

27.4.11
In April the ZMT invited the students from the international master course ISATEC to a week-long course about biogeochemical cycles. The course is a compact unit with an integrative concept encompassing the sampling, laboratory work and interpretation of results and thus all those steps necessary for scientific work. more ...

The ZMT participates in the research programme CARIMA

20.4.11
With two projects, the ZMT is participating in the research programme CARIMA, which will explore the impact of natural and anthropogenic influences on the monsoon in central Asia. more ...

The role of biodiversity in coral reefs

6.4.11
Together with scientists from about 50 countries the ZMT took part in a global census of fish assemblages in coral reefs. The recently issued report shows that the role of biodiversity in coral reefs has been severely underestimated. more ...

Venerable visitors at the ZMT

14.3.11
Following the invitation of the Bremen Senate, the new secretary general of the “Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz - GWK” visited the ZMT together with the Senator for Education and Science on Monday, 14.3. more ...

An interview with a coral reef expert

8.3.11
A pupil asked Prof. Christian Wild from the ZMT questions about coral reefs and their reactions to hazards. more ...

Center for Sino-German Cooperation in Marine Sciences

24.2.11
The official inauguration of a new center of marine research took place in the coastal town of Qingdao, China. more ...

Expedition to cholera regions

17.2.11
Since 2007 a team of scientists from the ZMT is investigating the environmental influences which facilitate the spreading of the cholera. In January, another successful expedition was conducted to the delta of the Ganges River. more ...

New marine recirculation system

10.2.11
At the beginning of 2011, the ZMT has put into operation its new, state-of-the-art marine recirculation system MAREE (MARine Experimental Ecology). The main element is a cultivation tank with a volume of 15 cubic meters, in which a coral reef will be recreated. more ...