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Gernot Nehrke is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research spans several domains within Earth and Environmental Sciences, contributing extensively to understanding geological and ecological processes.

Their primary fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular focus on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The main topics of their work cover:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Nehrke has published in frequent venues such as:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Sedimentology
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Minerals
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth, 2020, Nature
  • Effects of Temperature and Light on Methane Production of Widespread Marine Phytoplankton, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Variation in the diagenetic response of aragonite archives to hydrothermal alteration, 2020, Sedimentary Geology
  • Pleistocene organic matter modified by the Hiawatha impact, northwest Greenland, 2020, Geology
  • Controlling CaCO₃ Particle Size with Ca²⁺:CO₃²⁻ Ratios in Aqueous Environments, 2021, Crystal Growth & Design

Frequent coauthors in their work include Gerald Langer, Adrian Immenhauser, Johann Philipp Klages, Ulrich Salzmann, and Torsten Bickert, with several collaborative publications contributing to their shared fields of research.

Best Publications

  • Strain-specific responses of Emiliania huxleyi to changing seawater carbonate chemistry

    Gerald Langer;Gerald Langer;G. Nehrke;I. Probert;J. Ly;J. Ly

  • Calcium carbonate as ikaite crystals in Antarctic sea ice

    Gerhard S. Dieckmann;Gernot Nehrke;Gernot Nehrke;Stathys Papadimitriou;Jörg Göttlicher

  • Dependence of calcite growth rate and Sr partitioning on solution stoichiometry: Non-Kossel crystal growth

    Gernot Nehrke;Gert-Jan Reichart;P. Van Cappellen;C. Meile

  • Impact of seawater pCO2 on calcification and Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios in benthic foraminifera calcite: results from culturing experiments with Ammonia tepida

    Delphine Dissard;Gernot Nehrke;Gert-Jan Reichart;Gert-Jan Reichart;Jelle Bijma

  • Calcite growth kinetics: Modeling the effect of solution stoichiometry

    Mariëtte Wolthers;Mariëtte Wolthers;Gernot Nehrke;Jon Petter Gustafsson;Philippe Van Cappellen

  • Evidence for methane production by the marine algae Emiliania huxleyi

    Katharina Lenhart;Katharina Lenhart;Thomas Klintzsch;Gerald Langer;Gernot Nehrke

  • A new model for biomineralization and trace-element signatures of Foraminifera tests

    G. Nehrke;N. Keul;G. Langer;L. J. de Nooijer

  • The impact of salinity on the Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratio in the benthic foraminifera Ammonia tepida: Results from culture experiments

    Delphine Dissard;Gernot Nehrke;Gert Jan Reichart;Gert Jan Reichart;Jelle Bijma

  • Brief Communication: Ikaite (CaCO 3 ·6H 2 O) discovered in Arctic sea ice

    Gerhard Dieckmann;Gernot Nehrke;Christiane Uhlig;J. Göttlicher

  • The winter pack-ice zone provides a sheltered but food-poor habitat for larval Antarctic krill.

    Bettina Meyer;Bettina Meyer;Ulrich Freier;Volker Grimm;Jürgen Groeneveld

  • Cellular calcium pathways and isotope fractionation in Emiliania huxleyi

    Nikolaus Gussone;Gerald Langer;Silke Thoms;Gernot Nehrke

  • Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth

    Johann P Klages;Ulrich Salzmann;Torsten Bickert;Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand

  • Coexistence of three calcium carbonate polymorphs in the shell of the Antarctic clam Laternula elliptica

    Gernot Nehrke;Harald Poigner;Dorothee Wilhelms-Dick;Thomas Brey

  • Coccolith strontium to calcium ratios in Emiliania huxleyi: The dependence on seawater strontium and calcium concentrations

    Gerald Langer;Nikolaus Gussone;Gernot Nehrke;Ulf Riebesell

  • Framboidal vaterite aggregates and their transformation into calcite: A morphological study

    G. Nehrke;P. Van Cappellen

  • Heavy metal incorporation in foraminiferal calcite: results from multi-element enrichment culture experiments with Ammonia tepida

    D. Munsel;U. Kramar;D. Dissard;G. Nehrke

  • A laboratory study of ikaite (CaCO3·6H2O) precipitation as a function of pH, salinity, temperature and phosphate concentration

    Yu-Bin Hu;Dieter A. Wolf-Gladrow;Gerhard S. Dieckmann;Christoph Völker

  • Quantification of mercury in soils and sediments - acid digestion versus pyrolysis

    H. Biester;Gernot Nehrke

  • Methane production by three widespread marine phytoplankton species: release rates, precursor compounds, and potential relevance for the environment

    Thomas Klintzsch;Gerald Langer;Gernot Nehrke;Anna Wieland

  • Effect of glacial drainage water on the CO2 system and ocean acidification state in an Arctic tidewater-glacier fjord during two contrasting years

    Agneta Fransson;Melissa Chierici;Daiki Nomura;Daiki Nomura;Mats A. Granskog

  • Physiological controls on seawater uptake and calcification in the benthic foraminifer Ammonia tepida

    L. J. de Nooijer;G. Langer;G. Langer;G. Nehrke;J. Bijma

  • Coexistence of three calcium carbonate polymorphs in the shell of the Antarctic clam Laternula elliptica: Consequences for trace metal incorporation

    Harald Poigner;Gernot Nehrke;Thomas Brey;Doris Abele

Frequent Co-Authors

Jelle Bijma
Jelle Bijma Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gerhard Dieckmann
Gerhard Dieckmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gert-Jan Reichart
Gert-Jan Reichart Utrecht University
Gerald Langer
Gerald Langer Autonomous University of Barcelona
Gerhard Kuhn
Gerhard Kuhn University of Bremen
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Ulrich Salzmann
Ulrich Salzmann Northumbria University
Werner Ehrmann
Werner Ehrmann Leipzig University
Jane E. Francis
Jane E. Francis Charles Darwin University
Heiko Pälike
Heiko Pälike University of Bremen

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