📢Today we are celebrating #WorldMangroveDay with our colleagues from the #MangroveEcology working group! Let’s join them and find out what makes mangroves such important ecosystems.🎬 youtu.be/HQ38rSbc_GA. 🎉 HAPPY WORLD MANGROVE DAY to you all!🎉 🌳🦀 🦐 🐅 🌊 🐚 🍃 🐒

Some exciting news for our #shipwreck paper! In 2022, together with Blue Resources Trust, @BremenUniversity, and Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), we conducted surveys in Sri Lanka, to study fish assemblages on wrecks. Published with Bulletin of Marine Science: go.shr.lc/3Yw2zyy

Welcome to Dr Banukie Nirosha Jayasuriya, Dr Amila Sandaruwan Ratnayake and Dr Alison Kim Shan Wee who will soon spend three months at ZMT as part of the NAM Fellowship Programme, awarded by ZMT and the NAM S&T Centre. Find out more about them🔗 leibniz-zmt.de/en/news-at-zmt…

Das Meer als Geldanlage? Ja, aber bitte mit konkreten Nachhaltigkeitszielen und unter wissenschaftlicher Begleitung. Hier ein guter Beitrag in tagesschau. Dank auch an Tim Jennerjahn für die Mitarbeit an der Studie für unser Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/fin…

📢 HOT OFF THE PRESS. Our Newsletter features ZMT's strategic extension on 🌍earth system #modelling. Highlights include a study on opinion dynamics in the #climatechange debate and a project using Fish Aggregating Devices for biodiversity research🌊.tinyurl.com/3c2k3k8v

🎉Congratulations to Dr Mirco Wölfelschneider!🎉 This morning, Mirco successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Tracing organic matter in a tropical estuary, Jaguaripe River, Brazil - Implications of its origin and distribution". We wish him all the best for the future!🎓

🌿✨ Just published ✨🌿 Individual #mangrove trees growing on backreefs attract large numbers of #reef #fish 🌊🐟 Read more & discover how these trees contribute to fish habitat in reef areas where overall complexity is low 🔗rdcu.be/dQxhG

🐳 Hello #ICYMAREfamily ! 🐳 Our online registration for #ICYMARE2024 is now open! Go to conference.icymare.com to register as participant and design your personal conference badge! We are looking forward to seeing you in September at the University of Bremen. 🐟 #marinescience

🌍🚢 The #MOOBYF project is using fish aggregating devices (FADs) to monitor #biodiversity in the Indian Ocean. Collaborating with local fishers the researchers want learn more about pelagic #ecosystems and biodiversiy in the open ocean. tinyurl.com/smj79d5r #CitizenScience

Can we fight climate change without economic growth? Join us on Sep 4 at 17:30 for an After Work Talk with Prof. Manfred Lenzen University of Sydney at ZMT. He’ll discuss degrowth as a climate strategy. Register by Aug 28: [email protected]. See you there! Raimund Bleischwitz

Globale Korallenbleiche bedroht Riffe. Dr. Sonia Bejarano verweist auf Risiken des "Ecological Replacement", sieht es aber als notwendige Option: "Der Verlust der Korallenriffe erfordert verstärkten Schutz." Mehr dazu im FOCUS online Artikel: focus.de/260216948

🌊 Meeresökologe Dr. Andreas Kunzmann bei BR24 über die Auswirkungen steigender Temperaturen im Mittelmeer: Heimische Arten könnten durch tropische ersetzt werden, was zu einem Ungleichgewicht im Ökosystem führt. Mehr dazu erfahren: [tinyurl.com/37kjreyf]

ACHTUNG #Nachwuchsforscherinnen & -forscher! #Bewerbungsschluss für den #BRIESEPreis für #Meeresforschung ist 31.10.2024!! Gestiftet von der #BrieseReederei und von Leibniz_IOW wissenschaftlich betreut, ist der Preis mit 5000 Euro dotiert. Alle Infos: tinyurl.com/mr422w6f

‼️#VERANSTALTUNGSTIPP‼️ Woher kommt #Mikroplastik im Meer & wieviel ist das überhaupt? Was passiert damit, welche Gefahren birgt es & gibt es gute Vermeidungsstrategien? Mehr dazu am Donnerstag bei #WarnemünderAbende Leibniz_IOW! #EintrittFrei | Mehr: tinyurl.com/yx8z9tbh

New ZMT study: AI-powered 3D tracking gives new insights into the energy dynamics of coral reef fishes! 🐟🌊 Julian Lilkendey & his team have tracked fish movements in the Red Sea and analysed surgeonfish roles maintaining ecosystem balance on coral reefs t1p.de/lswe1

Congratulations to Dr Rifki Furqan! Yesterday, Rifki successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Towards Sustainable Fisheries Management: Understanding Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries (TURF) and Environmental Stewardship Actions". We wish him all the best for the future!

Rethinking Climate Action: Last night, Prof. Manfred Lenzen discussed how relying on growth and carbon removal overlooks alternatives like degrowth. How far are we willing to change to fight climate change? Thanks to Prof. Lenzen and all! Raimund Bleischwitz

Huge thanks to all members of the audit team for encouraging us on our way & preparing us for the evaluation planned for 2027! Raimund Bleischwitz, Martin Visbeck, Cath Lovelock, Bernhard Riegl, Maarten Bavinck, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Barbara Neumann , Andres Osorio, Joanna Staneva!

Our friends at CEMarin host a workshop on "Green Strategies for Blue Ecosystems" ahead of #COP16 in #Colombia! Learn from experts & local communities about the wealth of the Colombian Pacific. 📅 Oct 16-19, 2024 |🌐 Cali & Buenaventura🔗cemarin.org/pre-cop16

New study co-authored by ZMT hydrogeologist Nils Moosdorf finds rivers export 20% more carbon from land to oceans, reshaping our understanding of the global carbon cycle and climate projections. Learn more: nature.com/articles/s4156…