#quicktake from a coral researcher

"Internationality is a matter of course in our work." For sure, because Gert Wörheide is dealing with a topic of global importance: together with teams from all over the world, he is researching the effects of climate change on the oceans. But because larger research trips to the tropics are not currently possible, he has simply brought the tropics to Munich.

"We operate large research aquariums in which we can study the effects of changing environmental influences on the skeletal formation of corals," the geobiologist explains. "Not only can we continue our research in times of a pandemic, but we can also save CO₂ that would actually be emitted by flights."

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2020 was the launch of the UN Decade of Oceans. The aim of the large-scale project: to raise awareness of the difficulties the oceans are currently facing and the important work of marine biologists. Professor Gert Wörheide explains in an interview why the oceans in general deserve more attention.