ZMT - Leibniz Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung
Endangered harbor porpoises: ZMT researcher campaigns for protection of the North Sea
26/11/2025 | The North Sea is unique - but fishing, shipping traffic, plastic waste and noise from offshore installations are taking their toll. It urgently needs better protection - especially for the native harbour porpoises, whose populations have been...
Policy recommendations for the Bay of Sechura delivered to Peruvian stakeholders
14/11/2025 | As part of the subproject “Participatory Modelling of Social-Ecological Futures of the Bay of Sechura”, researchers from the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) have presented Spanish-language policy recommendations for the Bay of...
10th CAMPUS AWARD: Deadline for nominations on 16 December 2025
10/11/2025 | For this year's CAMPUS AWARD, lecturers at the University of Bremen can once again submit master's and doctoral theses on the topic of sustainability. The CAMPUS AWARD aims to provide a platform for theses on the topic of sustainability and to...
Leibniz Institutes at COP30 in Belém: Integrating Knowledge from Society and Science for Systemic Sustainability
With two events, Leibniz institutes from the Leibniz Lab ‘Systemic Sustainability’ - among them ZMT - and their partners are making strong contributions to sustainability transformation at the COP30 World Climate Conference in Belém. The focus lies on...
TropEcS Symposium – Three days of Earth System Modelling at ZMT
24/10/2025 | This September, the ZMT organised and hosted the TropEcS Symposium on Earth System Modelling. Over three days, more than 100 international experts, early-career researchers, colleagues, and partners from tropical regions – from Indonesia to Peru –...
News from the tropics and beyond: ZMT Newsletter #2/2025 now online
23/10/2025 | This edition of our newsletter takes you to a unique marine protected area south of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh – the “Swatch of No ground”. Here, ZMT has been contributing to the sustainable integration of fair and viable options...
COLDEMAR: New Colombian-German Platform on Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change
14/10/2025 | A new bilateral research initiative named COLDEMAR (Colombian-German Knowledge Platform for Tropical Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change) has started its operations. It is led by the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Germany,...
ZMT contributed to launching two new EU All-Atlantic initiatives for coastal resilience and ocean collaboration
07/10/2025 | ZMT will be contributing to two major initiatives of the All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance (AAORIA) that aim to strengthen coastal resilience and collaboration among early career ocean professionals (ECOPs). The new initiatives...
Report on ZMT research into sustainable aquaculture wins journalism award
29/09/2025 | The German Nutrition Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e. V. - DGE) has recently awarded its 2025 Journalism Prize recognising amongts other a feature in German P.M. Magazin about research conducted at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium 2025
19/09/2025 | ZMT’s social sciences groups will host the Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium (LEADS) on 10 - 11 December 2025. This lunch-to-lunch gathering is designed for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to present advanced full paper drafts and...