ZMT - Leibniz Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung
Launch of the FUTURO research programme: West African and European partners are developing a long-term research programme with a one-year observation campaign off the coast of West Africa
19/12/2025 | From November 24 to 26, project partners from West Africa and Europe, jointly conducted a co-design workshop for the FUTURO (Future West African Marine Ecosystem) research project in the Senegalese coastal town of Saly. The nearly 70 participants...
Research in short: Governance Gaps in the managment of artisanal Pargo fishery in Northern Brazil
18/12/2025 | Lol Dahlet’s study examines the governance of the pargo (Lutjanus purpureus) fishery – a large‑scale artisanal and export‑oriented fishery based around Bragança, Pará, in northern Brazil – and specifically how artisanal fishers’ participation (or lack...
Meeting of the Higher Education Partnership for a Sustainable Blue Economy at ZMT
08/12/2025 | The STABLE project “Higher Education Partnership for a Sustainable Blue Economy” is a three-year collaboration (2025 - 2027) that brings together leading universities and research institutions from Indonesia, Malaysia, Germany, and the...
Impressions from the COP30: Impetus for systemic sustainability
This text is currently only available in German... Mit zwei Beiträgen hat das Leibniz-Lab „Systemische Nachhaltigkeit“, darunter das ZMT, auf der COP30 in Belém die Debatte über globale Transformationen bereichert. Die Veranstaltungen rückten die...
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...
Expanding the weather watch: New monitoring stations installed in schools southeast of Dakar
17/11/2025 | Scientists from the University of Potsdam, the University Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD), Dakar, and ZMT joined efforts again in June-July 2025 and September 2025 to expand the existing DakE weather station network in Senegal. DakE is a field campaign on...
Co-design for the Ocean Decade: African Mentoring Programme Empowers Next Generation of Ocean Leaders
11/11/2025 | The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) has successfully concluded the African leg of its Co-Designing Decade Actions mentoring programme, implemented with support from UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)....
Bridging the Science Policy Gap: ZMT co-organises COP30 session on coastal resilience and sea level rise
10/11/2025 | At COP30, the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) and its international partners will present the All-Atlantic Network of Coastal Resilience Beacon Sites – an initiative that brings together science, politics and local stakeholders to...
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...