Dr. Marcus Elvert

Working Group Organic Geochemistry

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Haas A, Peckmann J, Elvert M, Sahling H, Bohrmann G (2010). Patterns of carbonate authigenesis at the Kouilou pockmarks on the Congo deep-sea fan. Marine Geology 268(1-4), 129-136.
Heuer VB, Krüger M, Elvert M, Hinrichs K-U (2010). Experimental studies on the stable carbon isotope biogeochemistry of acetate in lake sediments. Organic Geochemistry 41(1), 22-40.
Schmidt F, Hinrichs K-U, Elvert M (2010). Sources, transport, and partitioning of organic matter at a highly dynamic continental margin. Marine Chemistry 118(1-2), 37-55.

Heuer VB, Pohlman JW, Torres ME, 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(11), 3323-3336.
Joye SB, Samarkin VS, Orcutt BN, MacDonald IR, Hinrichs K-U, Elvert M, Teske, AP, Llyod K, Meile CD, Montoya JP (2009). Methane and sulfur dynamics in seafloor brines – surprising metabolic variability in an extreme habitat. Nature Geoscience 2(5), 349-354.
Schmidt F, Elvert M, Koch BP, Witt M, Hinrichs K-U (2009). Molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter in pore water of continental shelf sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73(11), 3337-3358.

Birgel D, Elvert M, Han X, Peckmann J (2008). 13C-depleted biphytanic diacids as tracers of past anaerobic oxidation of methane. Organic Geochemistry 39(1), 152-156.
Elvert M, Niemann H (2008). Occurrence of unusual steroids and hopanoids derived from aerobic methanotrophs at an active marine mud volcano. Organic Geochemistry 39(2), 167-177.
Niemann H, Elvert M (2008). Diagnostic lipid biomarker and stable carbon isotope signatures of microbial communities mediating the anaerobic oxidation of methane with sulphate. Organic Geochemistry 39(12), 1668-1677.
Rossel P, Lipp JS, Fredericks HF, Arnds J, Boetius A, Elvert M, Hinrichs K-U (2008). Intact polar lipids of anaerobic methanotrophic archaea and associated bacteria. Organic Geochemistry 39(8), 992-999.
Stadnitskaia A, Bouloubassi I, Elvert M, Hinrichs K-U, Sinninghe Damsté JS (2008). Extended hydroxyarchaeol, a novel lipid biomarker for anaerobic methanotrophy in cold seepage habitats. Organic Geochemistry 39(8), 1007-1014.
Wegener G, Niemann H, Elvert M, Hinrichs K-U, Boetius A (2008). Assimilation of methane and inorganic carbon by microbial communities mediating the anaerobic oxidation of methane. Environmental Microbiology 10(9), 2287-2298.

Nauhaus K, Albrecht M, Elvert M, Boetius A, Widdel F (2007). In vitro cell growth of marine archaeal-bacterial consortia by anaerobic oxidation of methane with sulfate. Environmental Microbiology 9(1), 187-196.

Alain K, Holler T, Musat F, Elvert M, Treude T, Krüger M (2006). Microbiological investigation of methane- and hydrocarbon-discharging mud volcanoes in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. Environmental Microbiology 8(4), 574-590.
Biddle JF, Lipp JS, Lever M, Lloyd K, Sørensen K, Anderson R, Fredricks HF, Elvert M, Kelly TJ, Schrag DP, Sogin ML, Brenchley JE, Teske A, House CH, Hinrichs K-U (2006). Heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 103(10), 3846-3851.
Birgel D, Thiel V, Hinrichs K-U, Elvert M, Campbell KA, Reitner J, Farmer JD, Peckmann J (2006). Lipid biomarker patterns of methane-seep microbialites from the Mesozoic convergent margin of California. Organic Geochemistry 37(10), 1289-1302.
Heuer V, Elvert M, Tille S, Krummen M, Prieto Mollar X, Hmelo LR, 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.
Niemann H, Duarte J, Hensen C, Omoregie E, Magalhães VH, Elvert M, Pinheiro LM, Kopf A, Boetius A (2006). Microbial methane turnover at mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70(21), 5336-5355.
Niemann H, Lösekann T, de Beer D, Elvert M, Nadalig T, Knittel K, Amann R, Sauter E, Schlüter M, Klages M, Foucher JP, Boetius A (2006). Novel microbial communities of the Haakon Mosby mud volcano and their role as a methane sink. Nature 443(5227), 854-858.

• Organic Chemistry for Geoscientists (since 2006)
• Methods in Marine Biogeochemistry and Molecular Geochemistry (since 2006)
• Molecular Paleontology (since 2006)
• Molecular Geochemistry (since 2005)
• Lab exercises in Organic Geochemistry (Practical course, since 2003)
• Analytical Procedures in Organic Geochemistry (2003-2005)
• Current Research in Organic Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry (Seminar series, 2003-2005)
• Biogeochemistry of Seawater and Sediments (2003-2004)