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News from the tropics and beyond: ZMT Newsletter #1/2025 now online

In our first newsletter of 2025 we visit the German island of Spiekeroog and Odisha beach in India to report on our research on submarine groundwater discharge and a new cooperation project between ZMT and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). We are also travelling back in time to a period when some three million years ago, when the Central American Isthmus (CAI), the land bridge between Central and South America, closed which left marine animals unable to cross between the two newly formed oceans. Previously connected marine populations were permanently separated, and sister species, known as geminate species, started to diverge. ZMT is studying the repeated marine adaptation and evolution of several species pairs of this kind. We also welcome a new co-leadership team for our ZMT Academy, the unit at ZMT that is looking after our early career researchers and hear about the role it plays at ZMT and plans for the future.

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A newsletter from the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), titled "Newsletter 1/2025." The top half features a large photograph of a beach at low tide with several people walking and standing on the wet sand, silhouetted against the hazy sky. The title "WHERE THE WATERS MEET" is displayed in a bold blue box, with the subtitle "The secret of underground rivers on the coast." Below, the article discusses submarine groundwater discharge and a collaborative research project between ZMT and Jawaharlal Nehru University. The left column contains a blue "CONTENTS" section listing four articles. The ZMT logo and branding elements are visible at the top left.