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14.02.2014

The Briese Sponsorship Award for Young Marine Researchers 2013 goes to Dr. Daniel Zitterbart

The awarding of the „Briese-Preis für Meeresforschung“ (Briese Award for Marine Research) will take place for the fourth time now at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, next Wednesday 19th February, 2014.

22.04.2013

Witnesses wanted....and found

Geochemists from Warnemünde use mineral formation to decipher the conditions during the deposition of marine sediments

20.02.2013

HELCOM workshop in Warnemünde

Experts agree on a position paper on the effects of climate change in the Baltic Sea.

29.01.2013

IOW discovers and cultivates two previously unknown unicellular species from the Baltic Sea

IOW researchers, in collaboration with their Russian colleagues, are the first to have successfully cultivated unicellular collared flagellates from oxygen-depleted areas of the ocean. The two previously unknown species from the Baltic Sea appear to have adapted extremely well to the changing oxygen conditions of their native environment and have a cell structure that heretofore has not been observed in collared flagellates.

02.08.2012

The smallest predators in the Baltic Sea

To shed light onto the vastly unresolved biodiversity of the Baltic Sea's tiniest hunters – researchers of the IOW did just the opposite: they turned off the light!

29.05.2012

Research vessel METEOR is in the Baltic Sea

The 87th expedition of the METEOR, under scientific leadership of the IOW, is heading to one of the largest brackish water seas on Earth.

02.04.2012

The future of the Wadden Sea

Does more rain prevent it from drowning?

28.02.2012

Autumn Gales Carried Oxygen into the Baltic

Since a decade, the first relevant salt water intrusion finally occurred.

21.10.2011

Tracking down volatile mercury in the Atlantic

Marine chemists from Warnemünde identify unexpected places and seasons of higher emission.

18.10.2011

Polar scientist takes charge at the IOW

This week, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bathmann took over as Director of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde (IOW)