– German marine ecologist gives bad marks for the Common Fisheries Policy of Europe –

July 6, 2011/Kiel. Ecological disastrous, economical senseless and questionable from a democratic point of view – this is how marine ecologist Dr Rainer Froese from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel (Germany) describes the Common Fisheries Policy of Europe in the...

- Marine Scientists in Kiel mourn South-african Colleague and long-standing Partner

<June 14, 2011, Cape Town/Kiel.</i>. Johann R. E. Lutjeharms, emeritus professor of physical oceanography at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, died at his home in Stellenbosch on June 8, 2011. He was one of the world's leading authorities on the Agulhas Current system and recipient of the German...

– German – Canadian Cooperation in Marine Sciences strengthened –
Kiel-Halifax Cooperation Agreement Signed

June 3, 2011/Halifax, Kiel. Marine scientists of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany and the Halifax Marine Research Institute (HMRI) in Halifax, Canada signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen their cooperation in the field of...

- EU-project led by IFM-GEOMAR started -

20.05.2011/Kiel. The European Union (EU) funded project ECO2 to evaluate the potential impact of sub-seabed carbon dioxide (CO2) leakage from storage sites on marine ecosystems has now been launched. 27 project partners from nine nations will study existing sub-seabed storage sites in the Norwegian North Sea and the Barents Sea as well as...

– Oceanographers from Kiel document the effect of equatorial deep currents on West African rainfall –

May 18, 2011/Kiel. Our climate is affected by the ocean in many ways. The most prominent example is the El Niño phenomenon in the Pacific, a well-documented interannual climate signal. Oceanographers from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel (IFM-GEOMAR) and Woods Hole...

– Unique series of measurements by Kiel marine scientists document change in the Baltic Sea –
May 12, 2011/Kiel. For more than 50 years marine researchers at the Kiel Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) have regularly been taking measurements at the Boknis Eck station in Eckernförde Bay. This unique time series of various parameters documents the changes in the...

- Study warns about further sinking of the pH value and documents the stability of methane hydrates -

Joint press release of the Cluster of Excellence "Future Ocean" and the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR)

April 27, 2011/Kiel. In the next hundred years a large part of the methane stored in the arctic sea floor will remain stable. The climate gas that is...