EXC 309:  The Ocean in the Earth System

• Subject Area: Geology and Palaeontology
• Term: from 2007 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 49926684

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

The Research Center / Cluster of Excellence were instrumental in strengthening marine sciences within the University of Bremen and in establishing the MARUM as a long-term organizational unit (Research Faculty) and cooperative partner for non-university institutions. MARUM has positioned itself internationally at the forefront of science in several interdisciplinary research areas, including the subseafloor biosphere, processes underlying natural climate variations, the role of microbial processes in shaping biogeochemical cycles, formation and disintegration of gas hydrates, and submarine geohazards, as well as the integration of numerical modeling into Earth-system science. The scientific advances achieved by the MARUM are documented by 230 peer-reviewed publications per year (average of the last 5 years). In the field of sediment-related research, MARUM is now one of the most productive single-site institutions worldwide, and 10% of our publications appeared in journals with an impact factor greater than nine. Over the past funding phase, the proportion of MARUM publications with international collaborators increased from 60% to 77%. Another sign of international visibility is the high number of applications we receive for advertised positions. Of 19 professorships the University has opened in the framework of the Research Center / Cluster of Excellence since 2001, ten were filled by researchers from abroad (five from the USA, four from the UK, and one from Greece). About 40% of the postdoc positions and 24% of the PhD student positions at MARUM are filled by persons from abroad. MARUM is one of about ten institutions worldwide that operate and develop large, high-technology underwater equipment, and it provides key infrastructure to the international scientific community. In 2003, the Research Center became the first institution in Germany to operate a work-class remotely operated vehicle (ROV) for deep-sea research. Today, the underwater systems include two ROVs, for 4,000 and 2,000 m water depths, and one autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for deployment down to 5,000 m. Furthermore, MARUM has blazed a new trail in scientific ocean-floor drilling through the development of robotic deep-sea drill rigs (drilling depths of 70 and 200 m) in cooperation with industry partners. Multidisciplinary data generated by the Research Center / Cluster of Excellence is hosted by the central data platform PANGAEA – Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science, which is jointly operated by MARUM and the AWI. Scientific achievements were closely related to advances in the training of Early Career Researchers, equal opportunity measures, public engagement and governance. In these areas, the Research Center / Cluster of Excellence has provided strategic momentum and has set standards for the University of Bremen and other institutions.

Link to the final report

https://dx.doi.org/10.2314/GBV:1695009800

Publications

• (2003) Control of sulfate pore-water profiles by sedimentary events and the significance of anaerobic oxidation of methane for the burial of sulfur in marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67(14). 2631-2647
  Hensen, C, Zabel, M, Pfeifer, K, Schwenk, T, Kasten, S, Riedinger, N, Schulz, HD and Boetius, A
  
• (2004) Antarctic timing of surface water changes off Chile and Patagonian ice-sheet response. Science, 304(5679). 1959-1962
  Lamy, F, Kaiser, J, Ninnemann, U, Hebbeln, D, Arz, HW and Stoner, JS
  
• (2004) Increased seasonality in Middle East temperatures during the last interglacial period. Nature, 429. 164-168
  Felis, T, Lohmann, G, Kuhnert, H, Lorenz, SJ, Scholz, D, Pätzold, J, Al-Rousan, S and Al-Moghrabi, SM
  
• (2004) Intermediate depth warming in the tropical Atlantic related to weakened thermohaline circulation: Combining paleoclimate and modeling data for the last deglaciation. Paleoceanography, 19. PA1025
  Rühlemann, C, Mulitza, S, Lohmann, G, Paul, A, Prange, M and Wefer, G
  
• (2005) Climatic controls on central African hydrology during the last 20,000 years. Nature, 437. 1003-1006
  Schefuß, E, Schouten, S and Schneider, RR
  
• (2005) Development of subaqueous barchanoid-shaped dunes due to lateral grain size variability in a tidal inlet channel of the Danish Wadden Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research-Earth Surface, 110
  Ernstsen, VB, Noormets, R, Winter, C, Hebbeln, D, Bartholomä, A, Flemming, B and Bartholdy, J
  
• (2005) Diagenetic alteration of magnetic signals by anaerobic oxidation of methane related to a change in sedimentation rate. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69. 4117-4126
  Riedinger, N, Pfeifer, K, Kasten, S, Garming, JFL, Vogt, C and Hensen, C
  
• (2005) Sea-surface temperature and sea ice distribution of the Southern Ocean at the EPILOG Last Glacial Maximum: A circum-Antarctic view based on siliceous microfossil records. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24(7-9). 869-896
  Gersonde, R, Crosta, X, Abelmann, A and Armand, LK
  
• (2007) Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science, 316. 66-69
  Lynch-Stieglitz, J, Adkins, J, Curry, WB, Dokken, T, Hall, IR, Herguera, JC, Hirschi, JJM, Ivanova, EV, Kissel, C, Marchal, O, Marchitto, TM, McCave, IN, McManus, JF, Mulitza, S, Ninnemann, U, Peeters, FJC, Yu, EF and Zahn, R
  
• (2007) Late Quaternary sedimentation within a submarine channel-level system offshore Cap Timiris, Mauritania. Marine Geology, 240(1-4). 217-234
  Zühlsdorff, C, Wien, K, Stuut, JB and Henrich, R
  
• (2007) Rapid 20th century increase in coastal upwelling off northwest Africa. Science, 315. 637-639
  McGregor, HV, Dima, M, Fischer, HW and Mulitza, S
  
• (2008) Abundance and diversity of microbial life in ocean crust. Nature, 453. 653-656
  Santelli, CM, Orcutt, BN, Banning, E, Bach, W, Moyer, CL, Sogin, ML, Staudigel, H and Edwards, KJ
  
• (2008) Ballast, sinking velocity, and apparent diffusivity within marine snow and fecal pellets: Implications for substrate turnover by attached bacteria. Limnology and Oceanography, 53(5). 1878-1886
  Ploug, H, Iversen, MH and Fischer, G
  
• (2008) Sahel megadroughts triggered by glacial slowdowns of Atlantic meridional overturning. Paleoceanography, 23. PA4206
  Mulitza, S, Prange, M, Stuut, JB, Zabel, M, von Dobeneck, T, Itambi, AC, Nizou, J, Schulz, M and Wefer, G
  
• (2008) Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesis. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 6. 725-740
  Dubilier, N, Bergin, C and Lott, C
  
• (2009) Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Geoscience, 2(2). 127-132
  MARGO Project Members, Waelbroeck, C, Paul, A, Kucera, M, Rosell-Melé, A, Weinelt, M, Schneider, RR, Mix, AC, Abelmann, A, Armand, LK, Bard, E, Barker, S, Barrows, TT, Benway, HM, Cacho Lascorz, I, Chen, MT, Cortijo, E, Crosta, X, de Vernal, A, Dokken, T, Duprat, J, Elderfield, H, Eynaud, F, Gersonde, R, Hayes, A, Henry, M, Hillaire-Marcel, C, Huang, CC, Jansen, E, Juggins, S, Kallel, N, Kiefer, T, Kienast, M, Labeyrie, LD, Leclaire, H, Londeix, L, Mangin, S, Matthiessen, J, Marret, F, Meland, MY, Morey, AE, Mulitza, S, Pflaumann, U, Pisias, NG, Radi, T, Rochon, A, Rohling, EJ, Sbaffi, L, Schäfer-Neth, C, Solignac, S, Spero, H, Tachikawa, K and Turon, JL
  
• (2009) Recurrent decadal-scale dust events over Holocene western Africa and their control on canyon turbidite activity (Mauritania). Quaternary Science Reviews, 28(3-4). 261-270
  Hanebuth, TJJ and Henrich, R
  
• (2010) Ballast minerals and the sinking carbon flux in the ocean: carbonspecific respiration rates and sinking velocity of marine snow aggregates. Biogeosciences, 7(9). 2613-2624
  Iversen, MH and Ploug, H
  
• (2010) Dual symbiosis of the vent shrimp Rimicaris exoculata with filamentous gamma- and epsilonproteobacteria at four Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent fields. Environmental Microbiology, 12(8). 2204-2218
  Petersen, JM, Ramette, A, Lott, C, Cambon-Bonavita, MA, Zbinden, M and Dubilier, N
  
• (2010) Holocene changes in the position and intensity of the southern westerly wind belt. Nature Geoscience, 3(10). 695-699
  Lamy, F, Kilian, R, Arz, HW, Francois, JP, Kaiser, J, Prange, M and Steinke, T
  
• (2010) Impact of natural oil and higher hydrocarbons on microbial diversity, distribution, and activity in Gulf of Mexico cold-seep sediments. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 57(21-23). 2008-2021
  Orcutt, BN, Joye, SB, Kleindienst, S, Knittel, K, Ramette, A, Reitz, A, Samarkin, VA, Treude, T and Boetius, A
  
• (2010) Long-term in situ monitoring at Dashgil mud volcano, Azerbaijan: a link between seismicity, pore-pressure transients and methane emission. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 99. S227-S240
  Kopf, AJ, Delisle, G, Faber, E, Panahi, B, Aliyev, CS and Guliyev, I
  
• (2010) Microbial sequestration of phosphorus in anoxic upwelling sediments. Nature Geoscience, 3(8). 557-561
  Goldhammer, T, Brüchert, V, Ferdelman, TG and Zabel, M
  
• (2010) Trends in coastal upwelling intensity during the late 20th century. Ocean Science, 6. 815-823
  Narayan, N, Paul, A, Mulitza, S and Schulz, M
  
• (2011) Catabolic and anabolic energy for chemolithoautotrophs in deep-sea hydrothermal systems hosted in different rock types. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75. 5736-5748
  Amend, JP, McCommon, TM, Hentscher, M and Bach, W
  
• (2011) Deep water formation, the subpolar gyre, and the meridional overturning circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 58(17-18). 1819-1832
  Rhein, M, Kieke, D, Hüttl-Kabus, S, Rößler, A, Mertens, C, Meissner, R, Klein, B, Böning, CW and Yashayaev, I
  
• (2011) Forcing of south-east African wet phases during the last 17,000 years. Nature, 480. 509-512
  Schefuß, E, Kuhlmann, H, Mollenhauer, G, Prange, M and Pätzold, J
  
• (2011) Hydrogen is an energy source for hydrothermal vent symbioses. Nature, 476. 176-180
  Petersen, JM, Zielinski, FU, Pape, T, Seifert, R, Moraru, C, Amann, R, Hourdez, S, Girguis, PR, Wankel, SD, Barbe, V, Pelletier, E, Fink, D, Borowski, C, Bach, W and Dubilier, N
  
• (2011) Influence of compound bedforms on hydraulic roughness in a tidal environment. Ocean Dynamics, 61(12). 2201-2210
  Lefebvre, A, Ernstsen, VB and Winter, C
  
• (2011) Interhemispheric symmetry of the tropical African rainbelt over the past 23,000 years. Nature Geoscience 4, 42-45
  Collins, JA, Schefuß, E, Heslop, D, Mulitza, S, Prange, M, Zabel, M, Tjallingii, R, Dokken, TM, Huang, EQ, Mackensen, A, Schulz, M, Tian, J, Zarriess, M, Wefer, G
  
• (2011) Slumping and mass transport deposition in the Nankai fore arc: Evidence from IODP drilling and 3-D reflection seismic data. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 12. Q0AD13
  Strasser, M, Moore, GF, Kimura, G, Kopf, AJ, Underwood, MB, Guo, J and Screaton, EJ
  
• (2011) Submarine landslide potential near the megasplay fault at the Nankai subduction zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 312(3-4). 453-462
  Ikari, MJ, Strasser, M, Saffer, DM and Kopf, AJ
  
• (2012) Autotrophy as a predominant mode of carbon fixation in anaerobic methane-oxidizing microbial communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109. 19321-19326
  Kellermann, MY, Wegener, G, Elvert, M, Yoshinaga, MY, Lin, YS, Holler, T, Mollar, XP, Knittel, K and Hinrichs, KU
  
• (2012) Genetic connectivity between North and South Mid-Atlantic Ridge chemosynthetic bivalves and their symbionts. PLoS One 7(7): e39994
  van der Heijden K, Petersen JM, Dubilier N, Borowski C
  
• (2012) Interstitial fluid chemistry of sediments underlying the North Atlantic gyre and the influence of subsurface fluid flow. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 323. 79-91
  Ziebis, W, McManus, J, Ferdelman, TG, Schmidt-Schierhorn, F, Bach, W, Muratli, JM, Edwards, KJ and Villinger, H
  
• (2012) Pronounced interannual variability in tropical South Pacific temperatures during Heinrich Stadial 1. Nature Communications, 3. 965
  Felis, T, Merkel, U, Asami, R, Deschamps, P, Hathorne, EC, Kölling, M, Bard, E, Cabioch, G, Durand, N, Prange, M, Schulz, M, Cahyarini, SY and Pfeiffer, M
  
• (2013) Compositional controls on hydrogen generation during serpentinization of ultramafic rocks. Lithos, 178. 55-69
  Klein, F, Bach, W and McCollom, TM
  
• (2013) Formation and entrainment of fluid mud layers in troughs of subtidal dunes in an estuarine turbidity zone. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 118(4). 2175-2187
  Becker, M, Schrottke, K, Bartholomä, A, Ernstsen, VB, Winter, C and Hebbeln, D
  
• (2013) On the stabilizing influence of silt on sand beds. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 83(8). 691-703
  Bartzke, G, Bryan, KR, Pilditch, CA and Huhn, K
  
• (2013) Oxygen consumption rates in subseafloor basaltic crust derived from a reaction transport model. Nature Communications, 4
  Orcutt, BN, Wheat, CG, Rouxel, OJ, Hulme, S, Edwards, KJ and Bach, W
  
• (2013) Seafloor oxygen consumption fuelled by methane from cold seeps. Nature Geoscience, 6(9). 725-734
  Boetius, A and Wenzhöfer, F
  
• (2013) Subduction zone earthquake as potential trigger of submarine hydrocarbon seepage. Nature Geoscience, 6(8). 647-651
  Fischer, D, Mogollón, JM, Strasser, M, Pape, T, Bohrmann, G, Fekete, N, Spiess, V and Kasten, S
  
• (2013) The influence of an embedded viscoelastic–plastic layer on kinematics and mass transport pattern within accretionary wedges. Tectonophysics, 608. 653-666
  Wenk, L and Huhn, K
  
• (2014) An inorganic geochemical argument for coupled anaerobic oxidation of methane and iron reduction in marine sediments. Geobiology, 12(2). 172-181
  Riedinger, N, Formolo, MJ, Lyons, TW, Henkel, S, Beck, A and Kasten, S
  
• (2014) Eruption of a deep-sea mud volcano triggers rapid sediment movement. Nature Communications, 5. 5385
  Feseker, T, Boetius, A, Wenzhöfer, F, Blandin, J, Olu, K, Yoerger, DR, Camilli, R, German, CR and de Beer, D
  
• (2014) Geotechnical characteristics and slope stability analysis on the deeper slope of the Ligurian Margin, Southern France. In: Sassa, K, Canuti, P and Yin, Y (eds.) Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment. Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland, 549-555
  Ai, F, Förster, A, Stegmann, S and Kopf, AJ
  
• (2014) Global rates of marine sulfate reduction and implications for sub-sea-floor metabolic activities. Science, 344(6186). 889-891
  Bowles, MW, Mogollón, JM, Kasten, S, Zabel, M and Hinrichs, KU
  
• (2014) How stable is the Nice slope? – An analysis based on strength and cohesion from ring shear experiments. In: Krastel, S et al. (eds.) Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences: 6th International Symposium. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 37. Springer International Publishing, 189-199
  Stegmann, S and Kopf, AJ
  
• (2014) Hydrocarbon seepage and its sources at mud volcanoes of the Kumano forearc basin, Nankai Trough subduction zone. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15(6). 2180-2194
  Pape, T, Geprägs, P, Hammerschmidt, S, Wintersteller, P, Wei, J, Fleischmann, T, Bohrmann, G and Kopf, AJ
  
• (2014) Identification and activity of acetate-assimilating bacteria in diffuse fluids venting from two deepsea hydrothermal systems. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 90(3). 731-746
  Winkel, M, Pjevac, P, Kleiner, M, Littmann, S, Meyerdierks, A, Amann, R and Mußmann, M
  
• (2014) Increased dust deposition in the Pacific Southern Ocean during glacial periods. Science, 343(6169). 403-407
  Lamy, F, Gersonde, R, Winckler, G, Esper, O, Jaeschke, A, Kuhn, G, Ullermann, J, Martinez-Garcia, A, Lambert, F and Kilian, R
  
• (2014) Instability of the Atlantic overturning circulation during Marine Isotope Stage 3. Geophysical Research Letters, 41(12). 4285-4293
  Zhang, X, Prange, M, Merkel, U and Schulz, M
  
• (2014) Methane fluxes and carbonate deposits at a cold seep area of the Central Nile Deep Sea Fan, Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Marine Geology, 347. 27-42
  Römer, M, Sahling, H, Pape, T, dos Santos Ferreira, C, Wenzhöfer, F, Boetius, A and Bohrmann, G
  
• (2014) Morphological and sedimentological response of a mixed-energy barrier island tidal inlet to storm and fair-weather conditions. Earth Surface Dynamics, 2(1). 363-382
  Herrling, G and Winter, C
  
• (2014) North Atlantic forcing of tropical Indian Ocean climate. Nature, 509(7498). 76-80
  Mohtadi, M, Prange, M, Oppo, DW, de Pol-Holz, R, Merkel, U, Zhang, X, Steinke, S and Lückge, A
  
• (2015) Advection of North Atlantic Deep Water from the Labrador Sea to the southern hemisphere, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 120
  Rhein, M, Kieke, D, and Steinfeldt, R
  
• (2015) Altered marine tephra deposits as potential slope failure planes? Geo-Marine Letters, 35(4). 305-314
  Wiemer, G and Kopf, AJ
  
• (2015) Intercellular wiring enables electron transfer between methanotrophic archaea and bacteria. Nature, 526(7574). 587-590
  Wegener, G, Krukenberg, V, Riedel, D, Tegetmeyer, HE and Boetius, A
  
• (2015) On the morphological development of embayed beaches. Geomorphology, 248. 252-263
  Daly, CJ, Winter, C and Bryan, KR
  
• (2015) Organic Cu-complexation at the shallow marine hydrothermal vent fields off the coast of Milos (Greece), Dominica (Lesser Antilles) and the Bay of Plenty (New Zealand). Marine Chemistry, 173. 244-252
  Kleint, C, Kuzmanovski, S, Powell, Z, Bühring, SI, Sander, SG and Koschinsky, A
  
• (2015) Palagonitization of Basalt Glass in the Flanks of Mid- Ocean Ridges: Implications for the Bioenergetics of Oceanic Intracrustal Ecosystems. Astrobiology, 15(10). 793-803
  Türke, A, Nakamura, K and Bach, W
  
• (2015) Spatial fingerprint and magnitude of changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during marine isotope stage 3. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(6). 1903-1911
  Zhang, X, Prange, M, Merkel, U and Schulz, M
  
• (2015) Spectrum of slip behaviour in Tohoku fault zone samples at plate tectonic slip rates. Nature Geoscience, 8(11). 870-874
  Ikari, MJ, Ito, Y, Ujiie, K and Kopf, AJ
  
• (2015) Studies of Labrador Sea Water formation and variability in the subpolar North Atlantic in the light of international partnership and collaboration, Prog. Oceanogr., 132(3), 220-232
  Kieke, D, and Yashayaev, I
  
• (2015) Submarine venting of magmatic volatiles in the Eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 163. 178-199
  Seewald, JS, Reeves, EP, Bach, W, Saccocia, PJ, Craddock, PR, Shanks, WC, Sylva, SP, Pichler, T, Rosner, M and Walsh, E
  
• (2015) The seasonal sea-ice zone in the glacial Southern Ocean as a carbon sink. Nature Communications, 6. 8136
  Abelmann, A, Gersonde, R, Knorr, G, Zhang, X, Chapligin, B, Maier, E, Esper, O, Friedrichsen, H, Lohmann, G, Meyer, H and Tiedemann, R
  
• (2015) Tropical Atlantic temperature seasonality at the end of the last interglacial. Nature Communications, 6. 6159
  Felis, T, Giry, C, Scholz, D, Lohmann, G, Pfeiffer, M, Pätzold, J, Kölling, M and Scheffers, SR
  
• (2016) A specific and widespread association between deep-sea Bathymodiolus mussels and a novel family of Epsilonproteobacteria. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 8(5). 805-813
  Assié, A, Borowski, C, van der Heijden, K, Raggi, L, Geier, B, Leisch, N, Schimak, MP, Dubilier, N and Petersen, JM
  
• (2016) Deep ocean mass fluxes in the coastal upwelling off Mauritania from 1988 to 2012: variability on seasonal to decadal timescales. Biogeosciences, 13(10). 3071-3090
  Fischer, G, Romero, OE, Merkel, U, Donner, B, Iversen, MH, Nowald, N, Ratmeyer, V, Ruhland, G, Klann, M and Wefer, G
  
• (2016) Diffusive transfer of oxygen from seamount basaltic crust into overlying sediments: An example from the Clarion–Clipperton Fracture Zone. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 433. 215-225
  Mewes, K, Mogollón, JM, Picard, A, Rühlemann, C, Eisenhauer, A, Kuhn, T, Ziebis, W and Kasten, S
  
• (2016) Equatorial Pacific forcing of western Amazonian precipitation during Heinrich Stadial 1. Scientific Reports, 6. 35866
  Zhang, Y, Zhang, X, Chiessi, CM, Mulitza, S, Zhang, X, Lohmann, G, Prange, M, Behling, H, Zabel, M, Govin, A, Sawakuchi, AO, Cruz, FW and Wefer, G
  
• (2016) Evidence for ice-free summers in the late Miocene central Arctic Ocean. Nature Communications, 7. 11148
  Stein, R, Fahl, K, Schreck, M, Knorr, G, Niessen, F, Forwick, M, Gebhardt, C, Jensen, L, Kaminski, M, Kopf, AJ, Matthiessen, J, Jokat, W and Lohmann, G
  
• (2016) Heterotrophic Proteobacteria in the vicinity of diffuse hydrothermal venting. Environmental Microbiology, 18(12). 4348-4368
  Meier, DV, Bach, W, Girguis, PR, Gruber-Vodicka, HR, Reeves, EP, Richter, M, Vidoudez, C, Amann, R and Meyerdierks, A
  
• (2016) Intensification and Poleward Shift of Subtropical Western Boundary Currents in a warming climate. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans 121, 4928–4945
  Yang, H, Lohmann, G, Wei, W, Dima, M, Ionita, M and Liu, J
  
• (2016) Lithofacies distribution and sediment dynamics on a storm-dominated shelf from combined photographic, acoustic and sedimentological profiling methods (Bay of Plenty, New Zealand). Marine Geology, 376. 158-174
  Kulgemeyer, T, von Dobeneck, T, Müller, H, Bryan, KR, de Lange, WP and Battershill, CN
  
• (2016) Massive asphalt deposits, oil seepage, and gas venting support abundant chemosynthetic communities at the Campeche Knolls, southern Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences, 13(15). 4491-4512
  Sahling, H, Borowski, C, Escobar-Briones, E, Gaytán-Caballero, A, Hsu, CW, Loher, M, MacDonald, I, Marcon, Y, Pape, T, Römer, M, Rubin-Blum, M, Schubotz, F, Smrzka, D, Wegener, G and Bohrmann, G
  
• (2016) Molecular alteration of marine dissolved organic matter under experimental hydrothermal conditions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 175. 68-85
  Hawkes, JA, Hansen, CT, Goldhammer, T, Bach, W and Dittmar, T
  
• (2016) On the role of fluid infiltration into gravel dunes — Using a 3D numerical model. Marine Geology, 380. 231-244
  Bartzke, G, Podszun, L and Huhn, K
  
• (2016) Palaeoclimatic insights into forcing and response of monsoon rainfall. Nature, 533(7602). 191-199
  Mohtadi, M, Prange, M and Steinke, S
  
• (2016) Simulated response of the mid-Holocene Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in ECHAM6-FESOM/MPIOM. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 121(8). 6444-6469
  Shi, X and Lohmann, G
  
• (2016) Some compositional and kinetic controls on the bioenergetic landscapes in oceanic basement. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7. 107
  Bach, W
  
• (2016) Thermophilic archaea activate butane via alkyl-coenzyme M formation. Nature, 539(7629). 396-401
  Laso-Pérez, R, Wegener, G, Knittel, K, Widdel, F, Harding, KJ, Krukenberg, V, Meier, DV, Richter, M, Tegetmeyer, HE, Riedel, D, Richnow, HH, Adrian, L, Reemtsma, T, Lechtenfeld, OJ and Musat, F
  
• (2017) A revised stratigraphical framework for the Quaternary deposits of the German North Sea sector: a geological-geotechnical approach. Boreas, 47(1). 80-105
  Coughlan, M, Fleischer, M, Wheeler, AJ, Hepp, DA, Hebbeln, D and Mörz, T
  
• (2017) Giant boulders and Last Interglacial storm intensity in the North Atlantic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(46). 12144-12149
  Rovere, A, Casella, E, Harris, DL, Lorscheid, T, Nandasena, NAK, Dyer, B, Sandstrom, MR, Stocchi, P, D’Andrea, WJ and Raymo, ME
  
• (2017) Late Holocene slowdown of the Indian Ocean Walker circulation. Nature Communications, 8(1)
  Mohtadi, M, Prange, M, Schefuß, E and Jennerjahn, TC
  
• (2017) Observations of Coherent flow structures over Sub-aqueous high- and low-angle Dunes. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
  Kwoll, E, Venditti, JG, Bradley, RW and Winter, C
  
• (2017) Regulation of benthic oxygen fluxes in permeable sediments of the coastal ocean. Limnology and Oceanography
  Ahmerkamp, S, Winter, C, Krämer, K, de Beer, D, Janssen, F, Friedrich, J, Kuypers, MMM and Holtappels, M
  
• (2017) Response of the Amazon rainforest to late Pleistocene climate variability. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 479. 50-59
  Häggi, C, Chiessi, CM, Merkel, U, Mulitza, S, Prange, M, Schulz, M and Schefuß, E
  
• (2017) Seismic potential of weak, near-surface faults revealed at plate tectonic slip rates. Science Advances, 3(11). e1701269
  Ikari, MJ and Kopf, AJ
  
• (2017) Short-chain alkanes fuel mussel and sponge Cycloclasticus symbionts from deep-sea gas and oil seeps. Nature Microbiology, 2. 17093
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