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Recent and Selected Publications

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Biogeochemistry Group

Dr. Tim Ferdelman

MPI for Marine Microbiology
Celsiusstr. 1
D-28359 Bremen
Germany

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Dr. Tim Ferdelman

Recent and Selected Publications

 

For complete list of Scientific Publications, see pdf below.

 2024

Methane leakage through the sulfate–methane transition zone of the Baltic seabed 
Lapham, L.L., K.G. Lloyd, H. Fossing, S. Flury, J.B. Jensen, M.J. Alperin, G. Rehder, W. Holzhueter, T.Ferdelman, and B. B.Jørgensen.
Nature Geoscience 17: 1277–83. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01594-z

 2023

Simultaneous sulfate reduction and nitrate reduction in coastal sediments
Bourceau, Olivia. M., Timothy Ferdelman, Gaute Lavik, Marc Mussmann, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, and Hannah K. Marchant
ISME Communications 3 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-00222-y.

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 2021

Niche partitioning by photosynthetic plankton as a driver of CO2-fixation across the oligotrophic South Pacific Subtropical Ocean 
Duerschlag, Julia, Wiebke Mohr, Timothy G. Ferdelman*, Julie LaRoche, Dhwani Desai, Peter L. Croot, Daniela Voß, Oliver Zielinski, Gaute Lavik, Sten Littmann, Clara Martinez-Perez, Bernhard Tschitschko, Nina Bartlau, Helena Osterholz, Thorsten Dittmar and Marcel MM Kuypers
The ISME Journal, August 19, 2021, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-01072-z.

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2020

Kelp Deposition Changes Mineralization Pathways and Microbial Communities in a Sandy Beach
van Erk, Marit, Dmitri V. Meier, Timothy Ferdelman, Jens Harder, Dirk deBeer.
Limnology and Oceanography, 65,  3066-3084 .https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11574.

 2019 Arcobacter peruensis sp. nov., a Chemolithoheterotroph Isolated from Sulfide- and Organic-Rich Coastal Waters off Peru
Cameron M. Callbeck, Chris Pelzer, Gaute Lavik, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Jon S. Graf, Bram Vekeman, Harald Schunck, Sten Littmann, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Philipp F. Hach, Tim Kalvelage, Ruth A. Schmitz, Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, vol. 85, no. 24.
 2018 Oxygen minimum zone cryptic sulfur cycling sustained by offshore transport of key sulfur oxidizing bacteria
Cameron M. Callbeck, Gaute Lavik, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Bernhard Fuchs, Harald R. Gruber-Vodicka, Philipp F. Hach, Sten Littmann, Niels J. Schoffelen, Tim Kalvelage, Sören Thomsen, Harald Schunck, Carolin R. Löscher, Ruth A. Schmitz, Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1729.
  Single-cell imaging of phosphorus uptake shows that key harmful algae rely on different phosphorus sources for growth
Niels J. Schoffelen, Wiebke Mohr, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Sten Littmann, Julia Duerschlag, Mikhail V. Zubkov, Helle Ploug, Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 17182.
 2017 Intense biological phosphate uptake onto particles in subeuphotic continental margin waters
S. Sokoll, T. G. Ferdelman, M. Holtappels, T. Goldhammer, S. Littmann, M. H. Iversen, M. M. M. Kuypers
Geophysical Research Letters, pp. 2016GL072183.
 2015 Presence of oxygen and aerobic communities from sea floor to basement in deep-sea sediments
Steven D'Hondt, Fumio Inagaki, Carlos Alvarez Zarikian, Lewis J. Abrams, Nathalie Dubois, Tim Engelhardt, Helen Evans, Timothy Ferdelman, Britta Gribsholt, Robert N. Harris, Bryce W. Hoppie, Jung-Ho Hyun, Jens Kallmeyer, Jinwook Kim, Jill E. Lynch, Claire C. McKinley, Satoshi Mitsunobu, Yuki Morono, Richard W. Murray, Robert Pockalny, Justine Sauvage, Takaya Shimono, Fumito Shiraishi, David C. Smith, Christopher E. Smith-Duque, Arthur J. Spivack, Bjorn Olav Steinsbu, Yohey Suzuki, Michal Szpak, Laurent Toffin, Goichiro Uramoto, Yasuhiko T. Yamaguchi, Guo-liang Zhang, Xiao-Hua Zhang, Wiebke Ziebis
Nature Geoscience, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 299–304.
  Linking sedimentary sulfur and iron biogeochemistry to growth patterns of a cold-water coral mound in the Porcupine Basin, S.W. Ireland (IODP Expedition 307)
L. M. Wehrmann, J. Titschack, M. E. Böttcher, T. G. Ferdelman
Geobiology, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 424–442.
  Cryptic Cross-Linkages Among Biogeochemical Cycles: Novel Insights from Reactive Intermediates
Colleen M. Hansel, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Bradley M. Tebo
Elements, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 409–414.
 2014 Sulfidization of lacustrine glacial clay upon Holocene marine transgression (Arkona Basin, Baltic Sea)
Lars Holmkvist, Kamyshny Jr., Alexey, Volker Brüchert, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Bo Barker Jørgensen
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 142, pp. 75–94.
  Chapter 2.7 - Biogeochemical Consequences of the Sedimentary Subseafloor Biosphere
Laura M. Wehrmann, Timothy G. Ferdelman
Developments in Marine Geology, vol. 7, pp. 217–252.
  The Impact of Sediment and Carbon Fluxes on the Biogeochemistry of Methane and Sulfur in Littoral Baltic Sea Sediments (Himmerfjärden, Sweden)
Nguyen Manh Thang, Volker Brüchert, Michael Formolo, Gunter Wegener, Livija Ginters, Bo Barker Jørgensen, Timothy G. Ferdelman
Estuaries and Coasts, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 98–115.
 2013 The pH and pCO2 dependence of sulfate reduction in shallow-sea hydrothermal CO2 – venting sediments (Milos Island, Greece)
Elisa Bayraktarov, Roy E. Price, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Kai Finster
Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 4.
  Cyclic 100-ka (glacial-interglacial) migration of subseafloor redox zonation on the Peruvian shelf
Sergio Contreras, Patrick Meister, Bo Liu, Xavier Prieto-Mollar, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Arzhang Khalili, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Bo Barker Jørgensen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 110, no. 45, pp. 18098–18103.
 2012 Substrate-specific pressure-dependence of microbial sulfate reduction in deep-sea cold seep sediments of the Japan Trench
Antje Vossmeyer, Christian Deusner, Fumio Inagaki, Timothy G. Ferdelman
Frontiers in Extreme Microbiology, vol. 3, pp. 253.
  Zero-valent sulphur is a key intermediate in marine methane oxidation
Jana Milucka, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Lubos Polerecky, Daniela Franzke, Gunter Wegener, Markus Schmid, Ingo Lieberwirth, Michael Wagner, Friedrich Widdel, Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Nature, vol. 491, no. 7425, pp. 541–546.
 2012 Interstitial fluid chemistry of sediments underlying the North Atlantic gyre and the influence of subsurface fluid flow
Wiebke Ziebis, James McManus, Timothy Ferdelman, Friederike Schmidt-Schierhorn, Wolfgang Bach, Jesse Muratli, Katrina J. Edwards, Heinrich Villinger
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 323-324, pp. 79–91.
  Heterotrophic organisms dominate nitrogen fixation in the South Pacific Gyre
Hannah Halm, Phyllis Lam, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Gaute Lavik, Thorsten Dittmar, Julie LaRoche, Steven D'Hondt, Marcel MM Kuypers
The ISME Journal, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 1238–1249.
  Mechanisms of damage to corals exposed to sedimentation
Miriam Weber, Dirk de Beer, Christian Lott, Lubos Polerecky, Katharina Kohls, Raeid M. M. Abed, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Katharina E. Fabricius
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 109, no. 24, pp. E1558–E1567.
 2011 A cryptic sulfur cycle driven by iron in the methane zone of marine sediment (Aarhus Bay, Denmark)
Lars Holmkvist, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Bo Barker Jørgensen
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 75, no. 12, pp. 3581–3599.
link to paper  (00054) 
  Carbon and sulfur back flux during anaerobic microbial oxidation of methane and coupled sulfate reduction
Thomas Holler, Gunter Wegener, Helge Niemann, Christian Deusner, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Antje Boetius, Benjamin Brunner, Friedrich Widdel
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 108, no. 52, pp. E1484–E1490.
 2010 Oxidative sulfur cycling in the deep biosphere of the Nankai Trough, Japan
N. Riedinger, B. Brunner, M. J. Formolo, E. Solomon, S. Kasten, M. Strasser, T. G. Ferdelman
Geology, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 851–854.
  Methane at the sediment-water transition in Black Sea sediments
N. Riedinger, B. Brunner, Y. -S. Lin, A. Vossmeyer, T. G. Ferdelman, B. B. Jørgensen
Chemical Geology, vol. 274, no. 1–2, pp. 29–37.
  Effect of nitrate on sulfur transformations in sulfidogenic sludge of a marine aquaculture biofilter
Carsten Ulrich Schwermer, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Peter Stief, Armin Gieseke, Nastaran Rezakhani, Van Rijn, Jaap, De Beer, Dirk, Andreas Schramm
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 476–484.
  Microbial sequestration of phosphorus in anoxic upwelling sediments
Tobias Goldhammer, Volker Brüchert, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Matthias Zabel
Nature Geoscience, vol. 3, no. 8, pp. 557–561.
  Dynamics of zero-valent sulfur species including polysulfides at seep sites on intertidal sand flats (Wadden Sea, North Sea)
Alexey, Kamyshny, Timothy G. Ferdelman
Marine Chemistry, vol. 121, no. 1, pp. 17–26.
 2009 Carbon mineralization and carbonate preservation in modern cold-water coral reef sediments on the Norwegian shelf
L. M. Wehrmann, N. J. Knab, H. Pirlet, V. Unnithan, C. Wild, T. G. Ferdelman
Biogeosciences, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 663–680.
  Oxygen penetration deep into the sediment of the South Pacific gyre
J. P. Fischer, T. G. Ferdelman, S. D'Hondt, H. Røy, F. Wenzhöfer
Biogeosciences, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 1467–1478.
  Subseafloor sedimentary life in the South Pacific Gyre
Steven D'Hondt, Arthur J. Spivack, Robert Pockalny, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Jan P. Fischer, Jens Kallmeyer, Lewis J. Abrams, David C. Smith, Dennis Graham, Franciszek Hasiuk, Heather Schrum, Andrea M. Stancin
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 106, no. 28, pp. 11651–11656.
 2006 Biogeochemical controls on the oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur distributions in the water column of Golfo Dulce: an anoxic basin on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica revisited
Timothy G. Ferdelman, Bo Thamdrup, Donald E. Canfield, Ronnie Nohr Glud, Jan Kuever, Rolf Lillebaek, Niels Birger Ramsing, Cathrin Wawer
REVISTA DE BIOLOGIA TROPICAL, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 171–191.
 2005 Prokaryotic cells of the deep sub-seafloor biosphere identified as living bacteria
A. Schippers, L. N. Neretin, J. Kallmeyer, T. G. Ferdelman, B. A. Cragg, R. J. Parkes, B. B. Jørgensen
Nature, vol. 433, no. 7028, pp. 861–864.
  Deep sub-seafloor prokaryotes stimulated at interfaces over geological time
R. John Parkes, Gordon Webster, Barry A. Cragg, Andrew J. Weightman, Carole J. Newberry, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Jens Kallmeyer, Bo B. Jørgensen, Ivano W. Aiello, John C. Fry
Nature, vol. 436, no. 7049, pp. 390–394.
  Transport and mineralization rates in North Sea sandy intertidal sediments, Sylt-Romo Basin, Wadden Sea
Dirk de Beer, Frank Wenzhöfer, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Susan E. Boehme, Markus Huettel, Justus E. E. van Beusekom, Michael E. Böttcher, Niculina Musat, Nicole Dubilier
Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 113–127.
 2004 Distributions of Microbial Activities in Deep Subseafloor Sediments
Steven D'Hondt, Bo Barker Jørgensen, D. Jay Miller, Anja Batzke, Ruth Blake, Barry A. Cragg, Heribert Cypionka, Gerald R. Dickens, Timothy Ferdelman, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Nils G. Holm, Richard Mitterer, Arthur Spivack, Guizhi Wang, Barbara Bekins, Bert Engelen, Kathryn Ford, Glen Gettemy, Scott D. Rutherford, Henrik Sass, C. Gregory Skilbeck, Ivano W. Aiello, Gilles Guarin, Christopher H. House, Fumio Inagaki, Patrick Meister, Thomas Naehr, Sachiko Niitsuma, R. John Parkes, Axel Schippers, David C. Smith, Andreas Teske, Juergen Wiegel, Christian Naranjo Padilla, Juana Luz Solis Acosta
Science, vol. 306, no. 5705, pp. 2216–2221.
 2001 Influence of water column dynamics on sulfide oxidation and other major biogeochemical processes in the chemocline of Mariager Fjord (Denmark)
Jakob Zopfi, Timothy G Ferdelman, Bo Barker Jørgensen, Andreas Teske, Bo Thamdrup
Marine Chemistry, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 29–51.
  Endosymbiotic sulphate-reducing and sulphide-oxidizing bacteria in an oligochaete worm
Nicole Dubilier, Caroline Mülders, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Dirk de Beer, Annelie Pernthaler, Michael Klein, Michael Wagner, Christer Ersaus, Frank Thiermann, Jens Krieger, Olav Giere, Rudolf Amann
Nature, vol. 411, no. 6835, pp. 298–302.
 2000 Sulfate reduction and methane oxidation in continental margin sediments influenced by irrigation (South-East Atlantic off Namibia)
Henrik Fossing, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Peter Berg
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 897–910.
 1999 Sulfate reduction in surface sediments of the southeast Atlantic continental margin between 15°38'S and 27°57'S (Angola and Namibia)
Timothy G. Ferdelman, Henrik Fossing, Kirsten Neumann, Horst D. Schulz
Limnology and Oceanography, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 650–661.
  Dense Populations of a Giant Sulfur Bacterium in Namibian Shelf Sediments
H. N. Schulz, T. Brinkhoff, T. G. Ferdelman, Marina Hern¡ndez, A. Teske, B. B. Jørgensen
Science, vol. 284, no. 5413, pp. 493–495.
 1997 Sulfate reduction and methanogenesis in a Thioploca-dominated sediment off the coast of Chile
Timothy G. Ferdelman, Cindy Lee, Silvio Pantoja, Jens Harder, Brad M. Bebout, Henrik Fossing
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 61, no. 15, pp. 3065–3079.
 1995 Biovolatilization of polonium: resulfts from laboartory analysis
TN Hussain, TG Ferdelman, TM Church and GW Luther
Aquatic Geochemistry, vol.  1, 175-188
 1993 Voltammetric characterization of iron (II) sulfide complexes in laboratory solutions and marine waters and porewaters
George W. Luther, III, and Timothy G. Ferdelman
Environmental Science & Technology, vol. 27, 1554-1563
 1992 Large-scale penetration of Gulf Stream water onto the Continental Shelf north of Cape Hatteras
Glen Gawarkiewicz, Thomas M. Church, George W. Luther, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Michael Caruso
Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 373–376.
 1991 Sulfur enrichment of humic substances in a Delaware salt marsh sediment core
Timothy G. Ferdelman, Thomas M. Church, George W. Luther
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 979–988.
 1990 Temporal and spatial variability of reduced sulfur species (FeS2, S2O32-) and porewater parameters in salt marsh sediments
George W. Luther, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Joel E. Kostka, Elizabeth J. Tsamakis, Thomas M. Church
Biogeochemistry, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 57–88.
  Iodine chemistry in the water column of the Chesapeake Bay: Evidence for organic iodine forms
George W. Luther, Timothy Ferdelman, Charles H. Culberson, Joel Kostka, Jingfeng Wu
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 267–279.
 1989 Geochemical processes in the Lake Fryxell Basin (Victoria Land, Antarctica)
William J. Green, Thomas J. Gardner, Timothy G. Ferdelman, Michael P. Angle, Lawrence C. Varner, Philip Nixon
Hydrobiologia, vol. 172, no. 1, pp. 129–148.
 1988 Evidence suggesting anaerobic oxidation of the bisulfide ion in Chesapeake Bay
George W. Luther, Timothy Ferdelman, Elizabeth Tsamakis
Estuaries, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 281–285.
 1984 Elemental Residence Times in Acton Lake, Ohio
Donald E. Canfield, William J. Green, Thomas J. Gardner Timothy G. Ferdelman
Arch. Hydrobiologia, vol. 100, pp. 501-519.

 

Timothy G Ferdelman Complete List of Scientific Publications

1984-2024

 
 
 
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