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Denmark
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
85
Citations
29062
World Ranking
741
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Bo Thamdrup is affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark in Denmark and specializes in Environmental Science with a focus on various subfields including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, Mechanics of Materials, and Oceanography. Their research portfolio comprises 71 publications in Environmental Science, reflecting a broad engagement with environmental systems and processes.

Their work often addresses key topics such as:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Bo Thamdrup has contributed to several recent research papers with notable publications spanning from 2020 to 2022. Some of these include:

  • "Sulfur cycling in oceanic oxygen minimum zones" (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "Hadal trenches are dynamic hotspots for early diagenesis in the deep sea" (2021, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • "Carbon fixation rates in groundwater similar to those in oligotrophic marine systems" (2022, Nature Geoscience)
  • "Microbial community structure in hadal sediments: high similarity along trench axes and strong changes along redox gradients" (2021, The ISME Journal)
  • "Controls of H2S, Fe2 +, and Mn2 + on Microbial NO3--Reducing Processes in Sediments of an Eutrophic Lake" (2020, Frontiers in Microbiology)

The venues where they frequently publish their work include:

  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The ISME Journal

Collaborations form a significant part of Bo Thamdrup's scholarly output. Frequent co-authors associated with their work include:

  • Ronnie N. Glud
  • Laura A. Bristow
  • Clemens Schauberger
  • Frank Wenzhöfer
  • Morten Larsen

Best Publications

  • Production of N 2 through Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation Coupled to Nitrate Reduction in Marine Sediments

    Bo Thamdrup;Tage Dalsgaard

  • The anaerobic degradation of organic matter in Danish coastal sediments - Iron reduction, manganese reduction, and sulfate reduction

    Donald E. Canfield;BO Thamdrup;Jens W. Hansen

  • Pathways of organic carbon oxidation in three continental margin sediments

    Donald Eugene Canfield;Bo Barker Jørgensen;Henrik Fossing;Ronnie N. Glud

  • N2 production by the anammox reaction in the anoxic water column of Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica.

    Tage Dalsgaard;Donald Eugene Canfield;J Petersen;B. Thamdrup

  • Calibration of Sulfate Levels in the Archean Ocean

    Kirsten S. Habicht;Michael Gade;Bo Thamdrup;Peter Berg

  • Manganese, iron and sulfur cycling in a coastal marine sediment, Aarhus bay, Denmark

    Bo Thamdrup;Henrik Fossing;Bo Barker Jørgensen

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in the marine environment

    Tage Dalsgaard;Bo Thamdrup;Donald Eugene Canfield

  • Bacterial Manganese and Iron Reduction in Aquatic Sediments

    Bo Thamdrup

  • The production of 34S-depleted sulfide during bacterial disproportionation of elemental sulfur

    Donald E. Canfield;Bo Thamdrup

  • A Cryptic Sulfur Cycle in Oxygen-Minimum–Zone Waters off the Chilean Coast

    Donald Eugene Canfield;F.J. Stewart;Bo Thamdrup;Loreto De Brabandere

  • Linking crenarchaeal and bacterial nitrification to anammox in the Black Sea

    Phyllis Lam;Marlene Mark Jensen;Gaute Lavik;Daniel F. McGinnis

  • The Archean Sulfur Cycle and the Early History of Atmospheric Oxygen

    Donald E. Canfield;Kirsten S. Habicht;Bo Thamdrup

  • Concentration and transport of nitrate by the mat-forming sulphur bacterium Thioploca

    H. Fossing;V. A. Gallardo;B. B. Jørgensen;M. Hüttel

  • Towards a consistent classification scheme for geochemical environments, or, why we wish the term 'suboxic' would go away.

    Donald Eugene Canfield;Bo Thamdrup

  • Bacterial disproportionation of elemental sulfur coupled to chemical reduction of iron or manganese.

    Bo Thamdrup;Kai Finster;Jens Würgler Hansen;Friedhelm Bak

  • Factors Controlling Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation with Nitrite in Marine Sediments

    Tage Dalsgaard;Bo Thamdrup

  • Anaerobic ammonium‐oxidizing bacteria in marine environments: widespread occurrence but low diversity

    Markus C. Schmid;Nils Risgaard-Petersen;Jack van de Vossenberg;Marcel M.M. Kuypers

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in a tropical freshwater system (Lake Tanganyika).

    Carsten J. Schubert;Edith Durisch-Kaiser;Bernhard Wehrli;Bo Thamdrup

  • Pathways of carbon oxidation in continental margin sediments off central Chile.

    Bo Thamdrup;Donald E. Canfield

  • New Pathways and Processes in the Global Nitrogen Cycle

    Bo Thamdrup

  • Iron-bound phosphorus in marine sediments as measured by bicarbonate-dithionite extraction

    Henning Skovgaard Jensen;Bo Thamdrup

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald E. Canfield
Donald E. Canfield University of Southern Denmark
Ronnie N. Glud
Ronnie N. Glud University of Southern Denmark
Tage Dalsgaard
Tage Dalsgaard Aarhus University
Niels Peter Revsbech
Niels Peter Revsbech Aarhus University
Barth F. Smets
Barth F. Smets Technical University of Denmark
Osvaldo Ulloa
Osvaldo Ulloa University of Concepción
Bo Barker Jørgensen
Bo Barker Jørgensen Aarhus University
Erik Kristensen
Erik Kristensen University of Southern Denmark
Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Marcel M. M. Kuypers Max Planck Society
Gaute Lavik
Gaute Lavik Max Planck Society

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