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Earthquakes as a motor for carbon supply sustaining life in the deep sea?

Jan 9, 2018
Michael Strasser (right), then assistant professor at ETH Zurich, and expedition leader Gerold Wefer, professor at MARUM, discuss the core of the drill on board the research vessel Sonne. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University
Michael Strasser (right), then assistant professor at ETH Zurich, and expedition leader Gerold Wefer, professor at MARUM, discuss the core of the drill on board the research vessel Sonne. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

An international team led by geologist Michael Strasser has used novel methods to analyse sediment deposits in the Japanese trench in order to gain new insights into the carbon cycle. In a recent publication published in Nature Communications, geologist Michael Strasser presents the first findings of a one-month research expedition to Japan, which was organized by MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen in March 2012.

Press release (in German)

Original publication: 

Rui Bao, Michael Strasser, Ann P. McNichol, Negar Haghipour, Cameron McIntyre, Gerold Wefer, Timothy I. Eglinton: Rolling in the Deep: Tectonically-triggered sediment and carbon export to the Hadal zone. Nature Communications 9, 2018. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02504-1