The ocean is a vast archive of Earth’s climate history—but much of it remains hidden in plain sight. Climate and coral scientists rely on subtle… Read More »Unlocking Hidden Stories of the Ocean: A New Global Database of Seawater Oxygen Isotopes
Blog written by Larissa Roy and Jessica Hargreaves, with information from Donghao Li (PhD Researcher from MARUM, University of Bremen). How do the tropics influence… Read More »How do we investigate tropical climate dynamics with climate models?
Many people dream of becoming a researcher and discovering new ways to explore the oceans. But few people realise what that actually looks like. If… Read More »How Life at Sea Prepared Luisa Meiritz for Studying Coral Bleaching
The DFG Priority Programme “Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs” (SPP 2299) has released a new video titled “Research & Future Directions” on its YouTube… Read More »New video: SPP 2299 Research and Future Directions
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Blog written by Larissa Roy and Jessica Hargreaves Thomas Felis (MARUM, University of Bremen), coordinator of the SPP 2299 Programme, welcomed our guests for the… Read More »Throwback to the Meeting & Status Seminar October 2025
How do environmental conditions influence microalgae and coral communities? Read all about it in the recent publication in Global Change Biology, “Coral Skeletal Cores as… Read More »Publication Highlight – Coral skeletons as windows into the past
A recently published study in Nature Geoscience, led by the SPP 2299 group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, driven by first… Read More »Publication Highlight – The driver of Sargassum blooms in the Atlantic Ocean
When we talk about tropical climate variability and coral reefs, it’s easy to get caught up in the science or the stunning underwater photos. But… Read More »Why Early Career Researcher Mobility Matters: Reflections from SPP 2299
Blog written by Larissa Roy, with information from Hannah Manns (Early Career Researcher from the University of Konstanz) and edited by Jessica Hargreaves. Coral bleaching… Read More »From the Field to the Lab: Hannah Manns’s Contribution to Understanding Heat Stress and Calcification in Reef Ecosystems
