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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · 12d

📢 Save the date! 📢
Between 2-4 September 2026, we will organise the 5th Deep Water Circulation Research conference in Bremen at @marumunibremen.bsky.social

You can find the first information in the attached document and in the website that will be updated regularly:
www.marum.de/en/5th-Deep-...

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · 13d

🚨Paper alert🚨 What happens when a turbidity current meets a contour current? And how is this combined flow affected by channel morphology? Check it out in the new publication led by Pelle Adema 👇
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Sep 7

The ocean keeps bringing back super old yogurt cups. This one is from Frigo and has a logo that was used in the 60s 😱

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Sep 7

Muchas gracias a Sandra Penelas del @farodevigo.es por esta entrevista tan maravillosa en la que pude explicar a qué me dedico 😊
www.farodevigo.es/estela/2025/...

«Tenemos mapas de la Luna, pero desconocemos el océano profundo»

La geóloga marina Elda Miramontes García, que lidera su propio grupo en el centro de investigación MARUM de Bremen, dirigirá una campaña sobre el trasporte de microplásticos en las Rías Altas el año q...

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Aug 17

A couple of years ago I found at the beach a yogurt cup in almost perfect state with a logo probably from the 80s. Just a couple of days ago, I found the same type of cup at the beach but completely shrunk! I would love to know where they have been hiding all this time and what happened to them!

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Jun 28

Unravling the spatio-temporal development of cold-water coral ecosystems and related sedimentary processes on the Mauritanian slope.
www.marum.de/en/The-Ocean...

EXC1-05 Unraveling the spatio-temporal development of cold-water coral ecosystems and related sedimentary processes on the Mauritanian slope

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Jun 28

The role of lateral transport in enhacing carbon fluxes to the ocean floor
www.marum.de/en/The-Ocean...

EXC1-04 The role of lateral transport in enhancing carbon fluxes to the ocean floor

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Jun 28

Anthropogenic carbon from source to sink:
www.marum.de/en/The-Ocean...

EXC1-06 Anthropogenic particulate carbon from source to sink: quantifying the fluxes of plastic and black carbon from coastal environments to the deep ocean floor

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Jun 28

If you are interested in anthropogenic carbon (microplastics and black carbon), transport of organic carbon in the water column or cold-water coral mounds and contourites and want to have more information about these three projects, don't hesitate to contact me.

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Jun 28

🚨Job alert PhD 🚨 We are looking for 15 new doctoral researchers at @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity! The deadline is the 25th of July. More information about the projects and how to apply can be found here 👇
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚨Permanent job🚨 Are you a reasearcher with experience in geotechnics and/or hydrogeology and a passion for teaching? Come and join us at @unibremen.bsky.social 👇
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · May 13

🚨Paper alert🚨Check out how alongslope currents and internal waves create terrace-drift systems on continental slopes in a new study led by Ling Wang at @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social 👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sketch showing how ocean currents and internal waves shape the seafloor.

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · May 1

In the last days we have been doing a full program to investigate the transport of particles in the Rockall Bank using many different methods. Check the new post in our cruise log 👇
www.marum.de/en/Ship-slog...

Researcher taking a filter full of particles from an in situ pump.

Researcher looking at aggregates under the microscope.

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Apr 21

The Sedimentology team of @unibremen.bsky.social @marumunibremen.bsky.social is back at sea 🌊 We are going to the Irish margin to investigate the lateral transport of organic matter.
Follow our activities here 👇
www.marum.de/en/MSM136sta...

Sedimentology team in front of the research vessel Maria S Merian.

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Mar 31

Still 4 days to apply for this fantastic PhD project on coastal geomorphology! Don't miss the opportunity!
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Mar 15

Exactly, we have a very international community here, and more than half of the courses are in English because we have to international programs in Marine Geosciences.

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Mar 15

🚨Permanent job alert🚨 At @marumunibremen.bsky.social @unibremen.bsky.social, we are looking for a new professor in the field of Marine Geology. Check out the job description and how to apply here 👇
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Mar 12

🚨PhD offer🚨 We are looking for a doctoral researcher at @marumunibremen.bsky.social to work on a project on dunes in the German Bight and the German tidal estuaries.

More information about the project and how to apply can be found here👇
www.marum.de/Binaries/Bin...

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Jan 21

I am shocked by the sexism of Google search! 😠
I was looking for an article of my colleague Claudia Wienberg, which google found very well. Actually all the searches are correct, but it asked me if I meant Claude Weinberg! Only man can do research? I only find a chiropractor under this name.

Screenshot showing the results of the google shearch.

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Jan 15

We are back at sea 🌊 We are participating in the MSM133 cruise on board the R/V Maria S. Merian offshore Mauritania to investigate how particles (inorganic and organic particles and microplastics) get transported from the shelf to the deep sea.

Members of the sedimentology research group in front of the R/V Maria S. Merian

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Jan 11

🚨Paper alert🚨Pelle Adema did fantastic flume experiments that show the 3D flow structure of turbidity currents and combined turbidity current-contour current flows. Contour currents collapse the bi-cellular structure of turbidity currents and modulate overspilling 👇

doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

Sketch of the main results of the article that show that turbidity currents have a bi-cellular structure that collapses with the interaction of contour currents.

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Dec 18

Merry Christmas and see you next year! 🌲🎊

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Dec 17

Siempre es todo un placer hablar sobre contornitas a tus estudiantes 😊

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Nov 30

@makingripples.bsky.social probably knows the area well

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Elda Miramontes @elda-miramontes.bsky.social · Nov 14

I was lucky this year, we started with a lecture at 8 (in practice 8:30) and students asked to move it to 11:00. Everyone happy, me too 😅

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