Dr. Marcus Elvert

Working Group Organic Geochemistry

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Kellermann M, Schubotz F, Elvert M, Lipp JS, Birgel D, Mollar XP, Dubilier N, Hinrichs K-U (2012). Symbiont-host relationships in chemosynthetic mussels: A comprehensive lipid biomarker study. Organic Geochemistry 43(2), 112-124.

Rossel PE, Elvert M, Ramette A, Boetius A, Hinrichs K-U (2011). Factors controlling the distribution of anaerobic methanotrophic communities in marine environments: Evidence from intact polar membrane lipids. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75(1), 164-184.
Schmidt F, Koch, BP, Elvert M, Schmidt G, Witt M, Hinrichs K-U (2011). Diagenetic transformation of dissolved organic nitrogen compounds under contrasting sedimentary redox conditions in the Black Sea. Environmental Science & Technology 45(12), 5223-5229.
Schubotz F, Lipp JS, Elvert M, Kasten S, Prieto XM, Zabel M, Bohrmann G, Hinrichs K-U (2011). Petroleum degradation and associated microbial signatures at the Chapopote asphalt volcano, Southern Gulf of Mexico. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75(16), 4377-4398.
Schubotz F, Lipp JS, Elvert M, Hinrichs K-U (2011). Stable carbon isotopic compositions of intact polar lipids reveal complex carbon flow patterns among hydrocarbon degrading microbial communities at the Chapopote asphalt volcano. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75(16), 4399-4415.

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.
Lin Y-S, Lipp JS, Yoshinaga M, Lin S-H, Elvert M, Hinrichs K-U (2010). Intramolecular stable carbon isotopic analysis of archaeal glycosyl tetraether lipids. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 24(19), 2817-2826.
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.

• Project Course in Biogeochemistry (since 2009)
• Organic Chemistry for Geoscientists (since 2006)
• Molecular Paleontology (since 2006)
• Molecular Geochemistry (since 2005)
• Lab exercises in Organic Geochemistry (Practical course, since 2003)
• Methods in Marine Biogeochemistry and Molecular Geochemistry (2006-2008)
• 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)