Geochemical thermodynamics of submarine hydrothermal systems: relevance for chemolithoautotrophic life

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Bach
• Subject Area: Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry
• Term: from 2010 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 157154612

• Final Report Year: 2014

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

Publications

• (2011) Colonization of subsurface microbial observatories deployed in young ocean crust. The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology
  Orcutt BN, Bach, W, Becker K, Fisher AT, Hentscher M, Toner BM, Wheat CG, and Edwards KJ
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2010.157)
• (2011) Hydrogen is an energy source for hydrothermal vent symbioses. Nature 476: 176-180
  Petersen JM, Zielinski FU, Pape T, Seifert R, Moraru T, Amann R, Hourdez S, Girguis PR, Wankel SD, Barbe V, Pelletier E, Fink D, Borowski C, Bach W, Dubilier N
  
• (2011) Metabolic Energy for Chemolithoautotrophs in Peridotite-Hosted and Basalt-Hosted Hydrothermal Systems. Geochimica et Cosmochima Acta 75: 5736-5748
  Amend JP, McCollom TM, Hentscher M, Bach W
  
• (2011) Ultra-diffuse Hydrothermal Venting Supports Fe-oxidizing Bacteria and Massive Umber Deposition at 5000m off Hawai`i. The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology
  Edwards KJ, Glazer BT, Rouxel OJ, Bach W, Emerson D, Davis RE, Toner BM, Chan CS, Tebo BM, Staudigel H, Moyer CL
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2011.48)
• (2011): Geochemistry of vent fluid particles formed during initial hydrothermal fluidseawater mixing along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 12 Q0AE05
  Klevenz V, Bach W, Schmidt K, Hentscher M, Koschinsky A, and Petersen S
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GC003704)
• (2012) Driving forces behind the biotope structures of low-temperature venting areas at 5°S and 9°S MAR, Environmental Microbiology Reports 3: 727-737
  Perner M, Hentscher M, Rychlik N, Seifert R, Strauss H, Bach W
  
• (2012) Geochemically induced shifts in catabolic energy yields explain past ecological changes of diffuse vents in the East Pacific Rise 9°50’N area. Geochemical Transactions 13:2.
  Hentscher M, Bach W
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1186/1467-4866-13-2)
• (2013) Energy yields from chemolithotrophic metabolisms in igneous basement of the Juan de Fuca ridge flank system. Chemical Geology 337-338:11-19
  Boettger J, Lin H-T, Cowen JP, Hentscher M, Amend JP
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.10.053)