The Max Planck research group for Marine Isotope Geochemistry was established at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) of the University of Oldenburg in August 2011.

Research Focus
Our research focuses on the understanding of past and present processes and changes in the ocean and the climate system that can be deduced from stable and radiogenic isotopes in seawater, marine sediments, biogenic calcite and terrestrial material deposited on the seafloor.
Radiogenic isotopes of neodymium (143Nd/144Nd) and strontium (87Sr/86Sr) provide a means to study the pathways and origin of water masses and terrigenous material within the ocean, as well as the sources and fluxes of particles and elements that are added to the ocean.