Dr. Heiko Sahling

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This web page has not been updated since the former colleague left MARUM.

Research Interests

Methane seeps along continental margins

Mapping with video and hydroacoustic methods
Quantification of fluid and gas seepage
Biogeochemical processes
Biology of seep organisms

Working group General Geology / Marine Geology (Prof. G. Bohrmann)

Publications

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Professional experience

Since 2010	Senior Scientist at the Department of Geosciences
2003 - 2010	Post-doctoral researcher at the Research Center Ocean Margins
2001 - 2003	Post-doctoral researcher Sonderforschungsbereich 574 University Kiel
2001	2001 PhD University Kiel Thesis: The influence of hydrogen sulfide on the benthic community structure at cold seeps and interactions between the cold-seep and deep-sea ecosystems
1998 - 2001	Doctoral researcher at GEOMAR - Research Center for marine Geosciences
1997	Diplom Thesis (similar to Master) University Kiel Thesis: Untersuchungen an cold seep assoziierten Organismen im NE - Pazifik (sorry, in German only)
1989 - 1997	Study of biological and physical oceanography as well as zoology at the University Kiel

Research cruises

Year	Cruise	Region	Project
2016	Poseidon 498	Eastern Mediterranean Sea	MARUM
2015	Meteor 114	Southern Gulf of Mexico	DFG
2014	Meteor 112/1	Mediterranean Sea, east of Sicily	MARUM
2014	Heincke 413	North Sea	INGAM
2012	Heincke 387	Norwegian Sea, Fram Strait	MARUM GB
2011	Meteor 84/2	Black Sea	MARUM
2010	MS Merian 15/2	Black Sea	MARUM
2009	MS Merian 13/3	Eastern Mediterranean Sea	MARUM
2008	Meteor 74/2	Makran, offshore Pakistan, Indian Ocean	MARUM
2007	Meteor 72/3	Black Sea	METRO
2006	Meteor 67/2b	Gulf of Mexico	RCOM
2005	Logachev TTR 15	Black Sea, Continental margin off Georgia, Russia and Turkey	METRO
2004	Poseidon 317/4	Black Sea, Continental margin off Georgia and Turkey	METRO
2004	Pelagia 228	Eastern Mediterranean Sea	SAGA
2003	Sonne 173	Continental margin off Costa Rica & Nicaragua	SFB 574
2002	Meteor 56/1b	East Pacific, Congo Fan	CONGO
2002	Meteor 54/3a	Continental margin off Costa Rica & Nicaragua	SFB 574
2002	Sonne 163	Continental margin off Costa Rica	SFB 574
2001	Sonne 155	Antarctica: Bransfield Strait
2001	Alkor 192	Skagerrak
2000	Sonne 148	With ROV ROPOS at the continental margin off Oregon	TECFLUX
1999	Sonne 143	Continental margin off Oregon, Hydrate Ridge	TECFLUX
1999	Atlantis 9906	With ALVIN at Hydrate Ridge, Continental margin off Oregon	TECFLUX
1999	N.B. Palmer 9904	Antarctica: Bransfield Strait
1999	Sonne 139	Indonesia: Sunda Arc	GINCO
1998	Gagarinsky 22	Sea of Okhotsk: Sachalin Shelf	KOMEX II
1998	Lavrentyev 28	Sea of Okhotsk: Sachalin Shelf, Derugin Basin	KOMEX II
1997/98	Polarstern XV-2	Antarctica: South Shetland Trench, South Sandwich Trench, Bransfield Strait
1996	Sonne 110	With ROV ROPOS at the continental margin off Oregon and Alaska
1996	Sonne 109	Continental margin off Oregon, Hydrate Ridge
1994	Sonne 97/2	Continental margin off Alaska, Aleutian Trench