Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

www:      Hinrichs Lab

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Lebenslauf

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Anaerobe Oxidation von Methan

• Hinrichs, K.-U., Hayes, J.M., Sylva, S.P., Brewer, P.G., and DeLong, E.F. (1999) Methane-consuming archaebacteria in marine sediments. Nature, 398, 802-805.
• Hinrichs, K.-U., Summons, R.E., Orphan, V., Sylva, S.P., & Hayes, J.M. (2000) Molecular and isotopic analyses of anaerobic methane-oxidizing communities in marine sediments. Organic Geochemistry, 31, 1685-1701.
• Orphan, V.J., House, C.H., Hinrichs, K.-U., McKeegan, K.D., & DeLong, E.F. (2001) Methane-consuming archaea revealed by directly coupled isotopic and phylogenetic analysis. Science, 293, 484-487.
• Hinrichs, K.-U. and Boetius, A. (2002) The anaerobic oxidation of methane: New insights in microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. Ocean Margin Systems (eds. G. Wefer, D. Billett, D. Hebbeln, B.B. Jørgensen, M. Schlüter, T.C.E. van Weering), Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, pp. 457-477.
• Rossel, P.E., Lipp, J.S., Fredricks, H.F., Arnds, J., Boetius, A., Elvert, M., Hinrichs, K.-U. (2008) Intact polar lipids of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea and associated bacteria. Organic Geochemistry, 39, 992-999.

Tiefe Biosphäre

• Biddle, J.F., Lipp, J.S., Lever, M., Lloyd, K., Sørensen, K., Anderson, R., Fredricks, H.F., Elvert, M., Kelly, T.J., Schrag, D.P., Sogin, M.L., Brenchley, J.E., Teske, A., House, C.H., Hinrichs, K.-U. (2006) Heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 103, 3846-3851.
• Hinrichs, K.-U., Hayes, J.M., Bach, W., Spivack, A., Hmelo, L.R., Holm, N., Johnson, C.G., Sylva, S.P. (2006) Biological formation of ethane and propane in the deep marine subsurface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 103, 14684-14689.
• Lipp, J.S., Morono, Y., Inagaki, F., Hinrichs, K.-U. (2008). Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments. Nature, 454, 991-994.
• Heuer, V.B., Pohlman, J.W., Torres, M.E., Elvert, M., Hinrichs, K.-U. (2009) The stable carbon isotope biogeochemistry of acetate and other dissolved carbon species in deep sub-seafloor sediments at the northern Cascadia Margin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 3323-3336.

Analytische Innovationen/Neue Biomarker

• Sturt, H.F., Summons, R.E., Smith, K.J., Elvert, M., and Hinrichs, K.-U. (2004) Intact polar membrane lipids in prokaryotes and sediments deciphered by ESI-HPLC-MSn – new biomarkers for biogeochemistry and microbial ecology. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 18, 617-628.
• Heuer V., Elvert M., Tille S., Krummen M., Prieto Mollar X., Hmelo L.R., Hinrichs K.-U. (2006) Online d13C analysis of volatile fatty acids in sediment/porewater systems by liquid chromatography-isotope ratio-mass spectrometry. Limnology and Oceanography-Methods, 4, 346-357.
• Schmidt, F., Elvert, M., Koch, B., Witt, M., Hinrichs, K.-U. (2009) Molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter in pore water in continental shelf sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 3337-3358.
• Schubotz, F., Wakeham, S.G., Lipp, J.S., Fredricks, H.F., Hinrichs, K.-U. (2009) Detection of microbial biomass by intact membrane lipid analysis in the water column and surface sediments of the Black Sea. Environmental Microbiology, 11, 2720-2734.

Paläoumwelt

• Hinrichs, K.-U. (2002) Microbial fixation of methane-carbon at 2.7 Ga: was an anaerobic mechanism possible? Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 3, doi:10.1029/2001GC000286.
• Hinrichs K.-U., Hmelo L.R., and Sylva, S.P. (2003) Molecular fossil record of elevated methane levels in late Pleistocene coastal waters, Science, 299, 1214-1217.
• Sepúlveda, J.C., Wendler, J., Summons, R.E., Hinrichs, K.-U. (2009) Rapid resurgence of marine productivity after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction, Science, 326, 129-132.