CV, Publications

• CV
• Positions
• Publications

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.); University of Bremen, Department of Geosciences

Diplom (Dipl. Geol.); Institut für Geologie und Dynamik der Lithosphäre, IGDL, University of Göttingen

Studies of Geology / Paläontology (Diplom), Institut für Geologie und Dynamik der Lithosphäre, IGDL, University of Göttingen

Projectleader B3; DFG-Research Center Ocean Margins RCOM

Projectleader "Remotely operated vehicles (ROV's)"; Marum, University of Bremen

Scientist, DFG-Research Center Ocean Margins RCOM, Project C5; University of Bremen

Scientific secretary of the DFG Special Research Program "SFB 261: The South Atlantic in the late Quaternary"; Dept. of Geosciences, University of Bremen

PostDoc at the Special Research Program SFB 261; Dept. of Geosciences, University of Bremen

(in chronologic order of publication)

Fischer, G., Ratmeyer, V., Donner, B., Davenport, R., Helmke, P., Schlitzer, R., Neuer, S., Karakas, G. and G. Wefer. Biogeochemical cycling of elements and particle transport in the coastal upwelling system off NW Africa and the South Atlantic. Int., J. Earth Sci., Special Volume, subm.

Fischer, G., S. Neuer, R. Davenport, O. Romero, V. Ratmeyer, B. Donner, T. Freudenthal, H. Meggers and G. Wefer (2006) Control of ballast minerals on organic carbon export in the Eastern Boundary Current system (EBCs) off NW Africa. In: Liu, K K, Atkinson et al. (Eds) CMTT-Springer Volume, in press.

N. Nowald, G. Karakas, V. Ratmeyer, G. Fischer, R. Schlitzer, R. A. Davenport, G. Wefer (2006), Distribution and transport processes of marine particulate matter off Cape Blanc (NW-Africa): results from vertical camera profiles, Ocean Science Discussions, Vol. 3, pp 903-938, 25-7-2006

Stuut, J.B.W., M. Zabel, V. Ratmeyer , P. Helmke, G. Lavik, E. Schefuß, and R.R. Schneider (2005) Provenance of present-day eolian dust collected off NW Africa. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D04202.

Wefer, G., S. Mulitza, and V. Ratmeyer (eds.) 2004: The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary: Reconstruction of Material Budgets and Current Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 722 pp.

Ratmeyer, V. and R. Gross (2003) Scientific applications for the electric QUEST WROV. Sea Technology, 44, 12, 29-31.

Schefuß, E., V. Ratmeyer, J.-B. Stuut, J.H.F. Jansen and J.S. Sinninghe Damsté (2003) Carbon isotope analysis of n-alkanes in dust from the lower atmosphere over the central eastern Atlantic. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 67, 1757-1767.

Ratmeyer, V., G. Meinecke and G.Wefer (2001) Realtime data access to the deep-sea: applications for climate research and ocean science (DOMEST), in: Barthel, K.-G. et al. (Ed.) (2001). Proceedings of the EurOCEAN 2000 conference, 29 August to 2 September 2000 Hamburg, Germany, pp. 223-224.

Meinecke, G., V. Ratmeyer and G. Wefer (2000) DOMEST Project: Data Access to the deep sea. Sea Technology, 41, 7, 25-29.

Fischer, G., V. Ratmeyer and G. Wefer (2000) Organic carbon fluxes in the Atlantic and the Southern Ocean: relationship to primary production compiled from satellite radiometer data. Deep-Sea Research II, 47,1961-1997.

Ratmeyer, V., G. Fischer and G. Wefer (1999) Lithogenic particle fluxes and grain size distributions in the deep ocean of northwest Africa: implications for seasonal changes of aeolian dust input and downward transport. Deep-Sea Research, 46, 1289-1337.

Ratmeyer, V., W. Balzer, G. Bergametti, I. Chiapello, G. Fischer and U. Wyputta (1999) Seasonal impact of mineral dust on deep-ocean particle flux in the eastern subtropical Atlantic Ocean. Mar. Geol., 159,241-252.