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The brown algae Fucus vesiculosus - Photo: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology / M. Schultz-Johansen

Sugar turns brown algae into good carbon stores

27.05.2020

Brown algae are important players in the global carbon cycle by fixing large amounts of carbon dioxide and thus extracting this greenhouse gas from…

Peatland mosses are unable to regulate their water loss - photo: Martin Wilmking

Dry Peatlands are Fire Propagators in the Boreal Vegetation Zone

27.05.2020

An international team of researchers led by the Canadian McMaster University (Hamilton), with the participation of the University of Greifswald, has…

Nordischer Klang as a Digital Festival

06.05.2020

Festival feeling from the comfort of your own home – Greifswald’s festival of Northern European culture goes digital! Nordischer Klang was supposed to…

Group in laboratory - photo: Magnus Schult

STIBET Doctoral Programme: Scholarships for International PhD Students

17.04.2020

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The International Office will award the following scholarships for 2020 as part of the DAAD's STIBET doctoral programme:

Earthworms Stimulate the Nitrogen Cycle in Arctic Soils

16.04.2020

In Arctic soils, nitrogen cycling is very slow, leading to nitrogen limitation. This inhibits plant growth. An international research team from the…

New Chairperson of the Senate and First Ever Online Session of the Senate

16.04.2020

The University of Greifswald’s new Senate, which was elected at the beginning of the year, convened for its inaugural session on 15 April 2020. Due to…

Research into and Support for Dealing with COVID-19

08.04.2020

The chairs of Clinical Psychology / Physiology and Psychotherapy of the University of Greifswald have created two projects on COVID-19: on the one…

University of Greifswald Heavily Restricts Public Access to Campus

16.03.2020

Due to the ongoing development of the coronavirus pandemic, and in agreement with decisions made by the management at other universities, the…

Representatives of the new DAM-Members and DAM's Executive Board - photo: DAM/Sinje Hashelder

New members join the German Marine Research Alliance - Six research institutions have joined the alliance

13.02.2020

Only just founded and already growing: The German Marine Research Alliance (DAM), which was created in 2019, agreed to admit six new members to DAM at…

Viruses are dried on steel plates and then treated. in order to test which surface disinfection works how well against corona viruses, Photo: Toni Luise Meister and Stephanie Pfänder

How long coronaviruses persist on surfaces and how to inactivate them

07.02.2020

A review article summarises everything that researchers know about the lifetime of corona viruses on surfaces and the effect of disinfectants.

Sugar turns brown algae into good carbon stores

Dry Peatlands are Fire Propagators in the Boreal Vegetation Zone

Nordischer Klang as a Digital Festival

STIBET Doctoral Programme: Scholarships for International PhD Students

Earthworms Stimulate the Nitrogen Cycle in Arctic Soils

New Chairperson of the Senate and First Ever Online Session of the Senate

Research into and Support for Dealing with COVID-19

University of Greifswald Heavily Restricts Public Access to Campus

New members join the German Marine Research Alliance - Six research institutions have joined the alliance

How long coronaviruses persist on surfaces and how to inactivate them

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