15/01/2025 | On 8 and 9 April 2025, the Bremen Doctoral Researcher Symposium on Marine Sciences will take place jointly organised by the early career researcher support teams of MARUM – Center for Environmental Sciences and the Leibniz Centre for Tropical...
06/01/2025 | From 24 to 27 June, the 8th edition of the MARE conference People and the Sea will take place in Amsterdam. This year’s conference focuses on the balance between tensions, trade-offs, and the potential transformations required for the future of...
06/01/2025 | Kerala is an extraordinary place on our planet in many respects. It is the southernmost state of India with a long tropical coastline and it has the highest literacy rate and the highest life expectancy of the country. It is also called "God's own...
Elana Kysil, a doctoral candidate at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) in Halle, is working as a guest researcher at ZMT in the research group Geoecology and Carbonate Sedimentology. She has set up an experiment at ZMT’s marine...
Dr. Amon Kip Kimeli, an alumnus of ZMT, has recently been appointed as the country coordinator of the Kenyan chapter of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA), of which ZMT is also a member. Dr. Kimeli aims at furthering...
18/12/2024 | Mangrove forests are of immense value to humans and nature in the tropics: they protect coasts from erosion and storms, store large amounts of carbon and provide a habitat for numerous animal and plant species. At the same time, they secure the...
10/12/2024 | In collaboration with the Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre), ZMT has extended the application deadline for the prestigious 2025 Fellowship Programme. The new deadline is now Friday, 20...
Rebecca Lahl, Co-Lead of Programme Area 5 ‘Ocean Literacy, Equity and Leadership’ at ZMT, has been confirmed as the new head of the International Ocean Institute (IOI) Germany taking over the reins from ZMT Scientific Director, Prof. Dr. Raimund...
12/11/2024 | Side event at the German Pavilion with participation of the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) Mangrove forests, salt marshes and seagrass meadows absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, strengthen biodiversity and protect coastal...
07/11/2024 | Next year’s Winter School on “Computational modelling in marine ecology, fisheries and climate” cover a variety of important issues. The five-day event is aimed at exploring a number of ecological problems related to population growth,...