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MARUM Re­search Award for Sina Schorn

Apr 20, 2023

Sina Schorn receives this year's MARUM Research Award for her dissertation "Microbial activities and interactions in anoxic methane-rich environments". The award is presented to young marine scientists who have written outstanding master's or doctoral theses.

„I am very happy to re­ceive the MARUM Re­search Award, which is is a great re­cog­ni­tion for my work,“ says Schorn. „This work would not have been pos­sible without the great sup­port of my col­leagues and fam­ily. Spe­cial thanks go to Jana Milucka and Mar­cel Kuypers who su­per­vised and sup­por­ted me dur­ing my doc­toral thesis.“

Sina Schorn wrote her dis­ser­ta­tion in the Green­house Gases Re­search Group of the Max Planck In­sti­tute for Mar­ine Mi­cro­bi­o­logy and de­fen­ded on the 12th of July 2021. We con­grat­u­late her very warmly on this award!

Award-win­ning re­search on seagrass mead­ows

Schorn's doc­toral thesis fo­cused on mi­cro­bial meth­ane meta­bol­ism in aquatic eco­sys­tems.Among other things, she stud­ied the meth­ane emis­sions from seagrass beds, and spe­cific­ally the mi­cro­bial activ­ity be­hind these emis­sions.

Seagrass mead­ows play an im­port­ant role in the mar­ine car­bon cycle and our cli­mate. On the one hand, they se­quester car­bon di­ox­ide from the at­mo­sphere and store it un­der­ground, on the other hand, they emit the po­tent green­house gas meth­ane. „My re­search en­abled a deeper un­der­stand­ing of the mar­ine car­bon cycle in coastal areas. We also met some sur­prises, for ex­ample that the same mi­cro­bial mech­an­isms un­der­lie meth­ane pro­duc­tion in sed­i­ments un­der­neath liv­ing and dead seagrass mead­ows. We need to un­der­stand how the seagrass meadow eco­sys­tem func­tions in or­der to de­term­ine the im­pact of the on­go­ing global change on it,” Schorn em­phas­izes.

Sina Schorn
Award-winning researcher Sina Schorn. © Latest Thinking/Sebastian Neumann

The MARUM Re­search Award for Mar­ine Sci­ences

The MARUM - Centre for Mar­ine En­vir­on­mental Sci­ences of the Uni­versity of Bre­men an­nu­ally is­sues the MARUM Re­search Award for Mar­ine Sci­ences. This prize is awar­ded to out­stand­ing mas­ter's or doc­toral theses that have been writ­ten over the past two years by young mar­ine sci­ent­ists at the Uni­versity of Bre­men. The prize money of up to € 3,000 is to be used as a schol­ar­ship and is in­ten­ded to be­ne­fit the sci­entific ob­ject­ives of the awardee.

The MARUM Re­search Award for Mar­ine Sci­ences is awar­ded in co­oper­a­tion with the „Verein zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung in der Freien Hansestadt Bremen (VFwF e.V.)“

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