This week, the 'Benthic Ecological Biogeochemistry' group at @marumunibremen.bsky.social is busy packing for the upcoming #SO322 cruise to the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (Pacific). For the @erc.europa.eu project #SPYCLING I will measure nitrogen cycling in sponges 🧽.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch @drtanjastratmann.bsky.social! @erc.europa.eu fördert ihr Projekt zum marinen Stickstoffkreislauf und der Rolle von Tiefsee-Schwämmen ab 2026 am MARUM an der #UniBremen. 🧽🌊🔬
#ERCStG #OceanFloor #Umweltwissenschaften #MarineSciences
mehr Infos ➡️ www.marum.de/ERC-SPYCLING...

It arrived eventually on 6 pallets 💪. #SPYCLING #NewPI #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

While Itziar will leave the "Benthic Ecological Biogeochemistry" team soon, I'm hiring a new PhD student to work on my #ERCStG project #SPYCLING at @marumunibremen.bsky.social (@unibremen.bsky.social): www.marum.de/en/career/op...
Application deadline: 18th June 2026.

To cite a friend, „my office looks like a lab or a workshop“ because my new set of ex-situ incubation chambers arrived at @marumunibremen.bsky.social earlier this morning. After the last O2 optodes have arrived, I can start with the first incubation experiments of my #ERCStG project #Spycling.

I'm hiring a new Postdoctoral Researcher (40 months) to work on my #ERCStG project #SPYCLING 🧽🧽 at
@marumunibremen.bsky.social (@unibremen.bsky.social):
www.marum.de/en/career/op...
Application deadline: 15th July 2026.

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With the new sign on my new office door 🚪, my #ERCStG group ‚Benthic Ecological Biogeochemistry‘ at @marumunibremen.bsky.social (part of @unibremen.bsky.social) has officially started 💪. The group is funded by the @erc.europa.eu via my project #SPYCLING.

This month, I started my #ERCStG group 'Benthic Ecological Biogeochemistry' at @marumunibremen.bsky.social that is financed by the @erc.europa.eu via my #SPYCLING project. Now, the first preprint of the group about C+N cycling & metabolic activity of 🧽 is published: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I have been too busy to post anything here, but now I would like to share the news that the team size of the #ERCStG project #SPYCLING 🧽 doubled: Eearlier this week, I have welcomed my new PhD student Patrik Beggel at @marumunibremen.bsky.social. @erc.europa.eu #WomenInSTEM #NewPI

Task for today, preparing the purchase of a new GC/EA-IRMS for my #ERCStG project #SPYCLING, worth about 450,000 💶 (~520,000 💵).

Yesterday, my latest purchase arrived, oxygen optodes rated for 6000m water depth 💪. These optodes will be deployed in deep-sea incubation chambers that I am acquiring at the moment. Then, my lab incubation and my deep-sea incubation equipment is complete. #SPYCLING #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

As part of my #ERCStG #SPYCLING (funded by @erc.europa.eu ) I'm purchasing equipment (lab and field incubation chambers, O2 optodes, GC/EA-IRMS) and the first part of my new a equipment arrived last week.
So, now I'm the proud owner of O2 optodes for lab incubations 😆.
@pyroscience.bsky.social

The deep-sea incubation chambers can be deployed up to a depth of 6000 m and I used the predecessor version for the last 11 years, starting with my PhD for which they were developed originally. Now, I will finally get my own set, thanks to the #ERCStG project #SPYCLING (funded by @erc.europa.eu).

Last Friday, I went out into the field to collect marine sediment and seawater samples to prepare the bacteria 🦠culture that I will enrich in 13C & 15N. Later-on this culture will be fed to sponges and bryozoans in 3 experiments I will conduct until the end of this year. #SPYCLING

Last week and this week, I'm traveling a lot for purchasing field and lab equipment for my new #ERCStG group #SPYCLING, which will also benefit my current project, and to present my research on #deepseamining at @unipaderborn.bsky.social 🇩🇪 tomorrow (busy preparing the talk right now). 1/2

Only hours later, a lot of e-mails ended in my postbox that request timely to urgent action so that I can start my #ERCStG project SPYCLING in time on 1st February 2026. In this context, my favorite term is 'depreciation period' which is 5 years for all the equipment I will purchase. 2/n