News & Events
Ocean Species Discoveries Published!
11 new marine species and a new platform for rapid species description.
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Inspiring Interest for Marine Invertebrates
SOSA's table at the Night of Science engages over 300 visitors.
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Spicy Species Spotted in Frankfurt!
SOSA’s billboard campaign makes a splash.
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Explore Natur + Medizin – open now!
New permanent exhibit open at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum.
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Luminous Land Snail Wins!
Over 6,000 people voted for their favorite mollusc competitor to win the ultimate prize: a complete genome sequencing. Now the results for the 2024 International Mollusc of the Year are in!
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Expedition in Western Ireland
Prof. Dr. Julia Sigwart joins geology-focused expedition as animal expert.
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What is a Limpet?
Research explores morphological changes of limpet structure
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Voting started for the International Mollusc of the Year Competition!
Five mollusc nominees compete for the ultimate prize: complete genome sequencing.
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Marketing project with Wiesbaden Business School
Students from the Wiesbaden Business School developed and presented ideas to take SOSA’s communication efforts to the next level.
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Cone Snail Red List Workshop
In an effort to conserve these fascinating animals, 17 experts gathered from 7 countries, at the SOSA offices last week to assess the global extinction risk of over 600 species of cone snails.
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"Dumbo octopus discovered"
Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt, the Head of Marine Zoology Department at the Senckenberg Research Center, shares in an interview the excitement filming rare deep-sea dwellers on expeditions.
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Deep-sea expedition in Japan and Kamchatka
SOSA researchers have joined AORI (Athmosphere and Ocean Research Institute) scientists on the Hakuho-Maru deep-sea expedition.
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Cold-Water Coral Red List Workshop
A SOSA-sponsored Red List workshop was held in Iceland where 26 cold-water coral species were assessed for their global extinction rate.
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United Nations World Ocean Assessment
SOSA co-chair at United Nations World Ocean Assessment
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ZDF TerraX Documentary in the Museum
The journey of the ship "Sonne" and Senckenberg researchers goes to the Aleutian Trench, which at 8000 meters is one of the longest deep-sea trenches in the oceans.
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SOSA's new approach to the taxonomy challenge
“Why is there no service to support taxonomy?" SOSA proposes a new model to solve this problem and address the larger taxonomic challenge: to describe vast numbers of unknown species before they vanish.
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An evening about snails
In a lecture and discussion evening about “Schnecken” (snails) at the "Frankfurter Bürgerstiftung" SOSA's co-chair, Prof Dr Julia Sigwart, gave a humorous insight into the world of marine and terrestrial snails.
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The International Polychaetology Conference comes to Frankfurt/Germany
Thanks to Dr. Ekin Tilic´s engagement, the next IPC in 2026 will be hosted right here in Frankfurt!
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New Paper out!
Why is there no service to support taxonomic species descriptions?
This new SOSA paper provides a model how to solve this problem.- SOSA News
“Science Live!” at the museum
As part of Ocean Week, our SOSA scientists presented a lecture on the deep sea. At the end of the event, the visitors had the opportunity to prove their knowledge in a quiz about marine invertebrates.
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The world of invertebrates
During the Ocean Week at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, SOSA presented the "World of Marine Invertebrates" with a sorting station.
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Happy Diversity Day!
We love the variety of marine species and we also believe and promote diversity and inclusion in the workspace.
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Night of the Museums
At the “Nacht der Museum” in Frankfurt am Main Andreas Kelch (PhD Student Section Crustacea) and Henry Knauber (PhD Student SOSA) represented marine and deep-sea research at Senckenberg.
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Girls Day 2023
On Girls Day 2023 we went on a excursion to the Senckenberg courtyard.
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Cristian SepulvedaMollusc of the Year 2023
The winner is set: The Chilean Abalone (Concholepas concholepas) is "International Mollusc of the Year" 2023!
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The case of the "pogo stick trails" has been likely solved
Mysterious holes in the bottom of the deep sea have been observed since the 1960s. Read the now published article by SOSA's co-chair Prof. Dr. Julia Sigwart and colleagues to learn which creature may create these "pogo stick trails".
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Malaysian Biodiversity Collections Society (MBioCS)
A council has been elected that will form a new national society of natural history collections in Malaysia (Malaysian Biodiversity Collections Society; MBioCS), headed by Nur Leena Wong and Thor Seng Liew.
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Watch the new Terra X Documentary
The new Terra X documentary investigates what happens aboard a research vessel.
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MIRLA – a new IUCN commission group
The IUCN SSC Marine Invertebrates Red List Authority (MIRLA) has been established, headed by SOSA´s co-chair Prof. Dr. Julia Sigwart.
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Meet the Metallica Isopod
SOSA´s researcher Dr. Torben Riehl named a newly described deep see crustacean in honour of the band Metallica: Macrostylis metallicola
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