AGELESS project: How fossil data is helping to protect the ocean of the future
The AGELESS project is researching how marine life in the open ocean outside national jurisdiction can be better protected in the face of climate change. An interdisciplinary team of scientists from MARUM – Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), the University of Oldenburg and the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University of Oldenburg is using fossil data from the past to make predictions for the future of the oceans. They are investigating how marine ecosystems have adapted to environmental changes in the past in order to develop protection concepts for the future ocean. The project is being funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with 2.5 million euros. More…