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Hans-Jürgen Brumsack is affiliated with the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. Their research spans several fields within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with a particular focus on ocean-related and geochemical studies.

The main fields of study associated with their work include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Engineering

Within these areas, Brumsack has contributed notably to subfields such as:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Paleontology
  • Oceanography

Their research topics cover a diverse range of scientific interests, including:

  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Brumsack has published research in various scientific journals and platforms. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Gondwana Research
  • Marine Chemistry

They have collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

  • Thomas R. Janecek
  • Adrian Cramp
  • Itaru Koizumi
  • Bernhard Schnetger
  • Carl Richter

Selected recent publications by Hans-Jürgen Brumsack include:

  • Seasonality of Organic Matter Degradation Regulates Nutrient and Metal Net Fluxes in a High Energy Sandy Beach, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Thallium cycling in pore waters of intertidal beach sediments, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Rare Earth Element Behavior in a Sandy Subterranean Estuary of the Southern North Sea, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Reducing CO2 Emissions of a Coal-Fired Power Plant via Accelerated Weathering of Limestone: Carbon Capture Efficiency and Environmental Safety, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Early Cretaceous subsidence of the Naturaliste Plateau defined by a new record of volcaniclastic-rich sequence at IODP Site U1513, 2020, Gondwana Research

Best Publications

  • The trace metal content of recent organic carbon-rich sediments; implications for Cretaceous black shale formation

    Hans-J. Brumsack

  • Stratigraphy, Geochemistry, and Paleoceanography of Organic Carbon-Rich Cretaceous Sequences

    M. A. Arthur;H.-J. Brumsack;H. C. Jenkyns;S. O. Schlanger

  • Geochemistry of barium in marine sediments: implications for its use as a paleoproxy

    James McManus;William M Berelson;Gary P Klinkhammer;Kenneth S Johnson

  • Barite fronts in continental margin sediments: a new look at barium remobilization in the zone of sulfate reduction and formation of heavy barites in diagenetic fronts

    M.E. Torres;H.J. Brumsack;G. Bohrmann;K.C. Emeis

  • Geochemistry of Peruvian near-surface sediments

    Philipp Böning;Hans-Jürgen Brumsack;Michael E. Böttcher;Bernhard Schnetger

  • Geochemistry of recent TOC-rich sediments from the Gulf of California and the Black Sea

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  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Chemical Methods for Interstitial Water Analysis aboard JOIDES Resolution

    J. Gieskes;T. Gamo;H. Brumsack

  • Anoxic vs dysoxic events reflected in sediment geochemistry during the Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary Event (Cretaceous) in the Umbria-Marche Basin of central Italy

    Steven Turgeon;Hans-Jürgen Brumsack

  • Interstitial water trace-metal chemistry of laminated sediments from the Gulf of California, Mexico

    Hans J. Brumsack;Joris M. Gieskes

  • A new particulate Mn–Fe–P-shuttle at the redoxcline of anoxic basins

    Olaf Dellwig;Thomas Leipe;Christian März;Michael Glockzin

  • The inorganic geochemistry of Cretaceous black shales (DSDP Leg 41) in comparison to modern upwelling sediments from the Gulf of California

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  • The sapropel record of the eastern Mediterranean Sea — results of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 160

    Kay-Christian Emeis;Tatsuhiko Sakamoto;R. Wehausen;Hans-Jürgen Brumsack

  • Geochemistry of Cretaceous black shales from the Atlantic Pcean (DSDP Legs 11, 14, 36 and 41)☆

    H.-J. Brumsack

  • Paleo-redox conditions during OAE 2 reflected in Demerara Rise sediment geochemistry (ODP Leg 207)

    Almut Hetzel;Michael E. Böttcher;Ulrich G. Wortmann;Hans-Jürgen Brumsack

  • Geological constraints on tidal dissipation and dynamical ellipticity of the Earth over the past three million years

    Lucas J. Lourens;Rolf Wehausen;Hans J. Brumsack

  • Arctic late Paleocene-early Eocene paleoenvironments with special emphasis on the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (Lomonosov Ridge, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 302)

    Appy Sluijs;Ursula Röhl;Stefan Schouten;Hans-Jürgen Brumsack

  • Chemical cycles in Pliocene sapropel-bearing and sapropel-barren eastern Mediterranean sediments

    Rolf Wehausen;Hans-Jürgen Brumsack

  • Verbessertes Druckaufschlußsystem für biologische und anorganische Materialien

    H. Heinrichs;H.‐J. Brumsack;N. Loftfield;N. König

  • Black shale deposition on the northwest African Shelf during the Cenomanian/Turonian oceanic anoxic event: Climate coupling and global organic carbon burial

    Sadat Kolonic;Thomas Wagner;Astrid Forster;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Cyclic variations in the chemical composition of eastern Mediterranean Pliocene sediments: a key for understanding sapropel formation

    R Wehausen;H.-J Brumsack

  • Rare earth elements in Japan Sea sediments and diagenetic behavior of Ce/Ce*: Results from ODP Leg 127

    Richard W Murray;Marilyn R Buchholtzten Brink;Hans J Brumsack;David C Gerlach

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Schnetger
Bernhard Schnetger Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Olaf Dellwig
Olaf Dellwig Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Michael E. Böttcher
Michael E. Böttcher Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Katharina Pahnke
Katharina Pahnke Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Jürgen Rullkötter
Jürgen Rullkötter Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Christian März
Christian März University of Bonn
Kay-Christian Emeis
Kay-Christian Emeis Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Peter D. Clift
Peter D. Clift University College London
Richard W. Murray
Richard W. Murray Boston University
Thorsten Dittmar
Thorsten Dittmar Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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