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Daniel Birgel is affiliated with Universität Hamburg in Germany and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Oceanography, and Paleontology.

The main topics of Birgel's work cover Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Birgel has published extensively in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Geobiology, Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research), Geological Magazine, and Chemical Geology.

Frequent co-authors in Birgel's work are Jörn Peckmann, Francesco Dela Pierre, Marcello Natalicchio, Mathia Sabino, and Eberhard Gischler.

Selected recent publications by Daniel Birgel reflect the diversity and focus of their research:

  • The response of water column and sedimentary environments to the advent of the Messinian salinity crisis: insights from an onshore deep-water section (Govone, NW Italy), 2020, Geological Magazine
  • Climatic and hydrologic variability in the northern Mediterranean across the onset of the Messinian salinity crisis, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • De novo phytosterol synthesis in animals, 2023, Science
  • Lipid Biomarker Patterns Reflect Nutritional Strategies of Seep-Dwelling Bivalves From the South China Sea, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Molecular and isotopic signatures of oil-driven bacterial sulfate reduction at seeps in the southern Gulf of Mexico, 2022, Chemical Geology

Best Publications

  • A multiple proxy and model study of Cretaceous upper ocean temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations

    Karen L. Bice;Daniel Birgel;Philip A. Meyers;Kristina A. Dahl;Kristina A. Dahl

  • Changing redox conditions at cold seeps as revealed by authigenic carbonates from Alaminos Canyon, northern Gulf of Mexico

    Daniel Birgel;Dong Feng;Dong Feng;Harry H. Roberts;Jörn Peckmann

  • Molecular fossils reveal fluid composition and flow intensity at a Cretaceous seep

    Jörn Ludwig Peckmann;Daniel Birgel;Steffen Kiel;Steffen Kiel

  • Lipid biomarker patterns of methane-seep microbialites from the Mesozoic convergent margin of California

    Daniel Birgel;Volker Thiel;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs;Marcus Elvert

  • Bacterial formation of phosphatic laminites off Peru

    Esther T Arning;Daniel Birgel;B Brunner;Jörn Ludwig Peckmann

  • Genesis of phosphorite crusts off Peru

    Esther T Arning;Andreas Lückge;C Breuer;Nikolaus Gussone

  • Aerobic methanotrophy at ancient marine methane seeps: A synthesis

    Daniel Birgel;Jörn Ludwig Peckmann

  • A new constraint on the antiquity of anaerobic oxidation of methane: Late Pennsylvanian seep limestones from southern Namibia

    Daniel Birgel;Tobias Himmler;André Freiwald;Jörn Ludwig Peckmann

  • Formation of seep carbonates along the Makran convergent margin, northern Arabian Sea and a molecular and isotopic approach to constrain the carbon isotopic composition of parent methane

    Tobias Himmler;Tobias Himmler;Daniel Birgel;Germain Bayon;Thomas Pape

  • Methanogenesis produces strong 13C enrichment in stromatolites of Lagoa Salgada, Brazil: a modern analogue for Palaeo‐/Neoproterozoic stromatolites?

    D. Birgel;P. Meister;P. Meister;R. Lundberg;T. D. Horath

  • 13C-depleted biphytanic diacids as tracers of past anaerobic oxidation of methane

    Daniel Birgel;Marcus Elvert;X Han;Jörn Ludwig Peckmann

  • Lipid biomarker patterns of phosphogenic sediments from upwelling regions

    Esther T Arning;Daniel Birgel;Heide N Schulz-Vogt;Lars Holmkvist

  • Formation of secondary carbonates and native sulphur in sulphate-rich Messinian strata, Sicily

    Simone B Ziegenbalg;B Brunner;Jean Marie Rouchy;Daniel Birgel

  • Post-glacial microbialite formation in coral reefs of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans

    Katrin Heindel;Katrin Heindel;Daniel Birgel;Benjamin Brunner;Volker Thiel

  • FORMATION OF DEGLACIAL MICROBIALITES IN CORAL REEFS OFF TAHITI (IODP 310) INVOLVING SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA

    Katrin Heindel;Daniel Birgel;Jörn Ludwig Peckmann;Henning Kuhnert

  • Biogeochemical controls on authigenic carbonate formation at the Chapopote ``asphalt volcano'', Bay of Campeche

    Thomas H. Naehr;Daniel Birgel;Gerhard Bohrmann;Ian R. MacDonald

  • Time integrated variation of sources of fluids and seepage dynamics archived in authigenic carbonates from Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrate Seafloor Observatory

    Dong Feng;Daniel Birgel;Jörn Peckmann;Harry H. Roberts

  • The crustacean ichnofossil Palaxius associated with callianassid body fossils in an Eocene methane-seep limestone, Humptulips Formation, Olympic Peninsula, Washington

    Jörn Ludwig Peckmann;Baba Senowbari-Daryan;Daniel Birgel;James L Goedert

  • Aliphatic lipids in recent sediments of the Fram Strait/Yermak Plateau (Arctic Ocean): composition, sources and transport processes

    Daniel Birgel;Ruediger Stein;Jens Hefter

  • Pendant bioconstructions cemented by microbial carbonate in submerged marine caves (Holocene, SE Sicily)

    A. Guido;K. Heindel;D. Birgel;A. Rosso

  • Cretaceous methane-seep deposits from New Zealand and their fauna

    Steffen Kiel;Daniel Birgel;Kathleen A. Campbell;James S. Crampton

  • Post-glacial variability of sea ice cover, river run-off and biological production in the western Laptev Sea (Arctic Ocean) – A high-resolution biomarker study

    Tanja Hörner;Rüdiger Stein;Kirsten Fahl;Daniel Birgel

  • Methanogenesis produces strong 13C-enrichment in stromatolites of Lagoa Salgada, Brazil: A modern analogue for Palaeo-/Neoproterozoic stromatolites?

    Patrick Meister;Daniel Birgel;Rebecca Lundberg;Thomas Horat

Frequent Co-Authors

Jörn Peckmann
Jörn Peckmann Universität Hamburg
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs University of Bremen
Kirsten Fahl
Kirsten Fahl Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Benjamin Brunner
Benjamin Brunner The University of Texas at El Paso
Hildegard Westphal
Hildegard Westphal Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
Steffen Kiel
Steffen Kiel Swedish Museum of Natural History
Gerhard Bohrmann
Gerhard Bohrmann University of Bremen
Lloyd D Keigwin
Lloyd D Keigwin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Germain Bayon
Germain Bayon French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Thomas Pape
Thomas Pape University of Copenhagen

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