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Overview

Heiko Sahling was affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their research spanned multiple areas within environmental and earth sciences, focusing on topics relevant to marine and geological studies.

Their main fields of study included:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, the scientist contributed to subfields such as:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Ecology

The central themes of Heiko Sahling's work involved:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Their published papers included:

  • Oil and gas seepage offshore Georgia (Black Sea) - Geochemical evidences for a paleogene-neogene hydrocarbon source rock, 2021, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • A new genus Turneroconcha (Bivalvia: Vesicomyidae: Pliocardiinae) for the giant hydrothermal vent clam 'Calyptogena' magnifica, 2020, Zootaxa

Frequent co-authors in their research were:

  • Thomas Pape
  • Martin Blumenberg
  • Anja Reitz
  • Georg Scheeder
  • Mark Schmidt

Heiko Sahling's work was published primarily in the journals Marine and Petroleum Geology and Zootaxa.

Best Publications

  • Macrofaunal community structure and sulfide flux at gas hydrate deposits from the Cascadia convergent margin, NE Pacific

    Heiko Sahling;Dirk Rickert;Raymond W. Lee;Peter Linke

  • Sea Floor Methane Hydrates at Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Margin

    E. Suess;M.E. Torres;G. Bohrmann;R.W. Collier

  • Hydrogeological system of erosional convergent margins and its influence on tectonics and interplate seismogenesis

    C. R. Ranero;I. Grevemeyer;H. Sahling;U. Barckhausen

  • Fluid venting in the eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone

    Erwin Suess;Gerhard Bohrmann;Roland von Huene;Peter Linke

  • Depth-related structure and ecological significance of cold-seep communities—a case study from the Sea of Okhotsk

    Heiko Sahling;Sergey V Galkin;Anatoly Salyuk;Jens Greinert

  • Quantifying fluid flow, solute mixing and biogeochemical turnover at cold vents of the eastern Aleutian subduction zone

    Klaus Wallmann;Peter Linke;Erwin Suess;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Fluid venting activity on the Costa Rica margin: new results from authigenic carbonates

    Xiqiu Han;Erwin Suess;Heiko Sahling;Klaus Wallmann

  • Hydroacoustic methodology for detection, localization, and quantification of gas bubbles rising from the seafloor at gas seeps from the eastern Black Sea

    Aneta Nikolovska;Heiko Sahling;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Fluid seepage at the continental margin offshore Costa Rica and southern Nicaragua

    Heiko Sahling;Heiko Sahling;Douglas G Masson;César Ranero;César Ranero;Veit Hühnerbach

  • Quantification of gas bubble emissions from submarine hydrocarbon seeps at the Makran continental margin (offshore Pakistan)

    Miriam Römer;Heiko Sahling;Thomas Pape;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Patterns of carbonate authigenesis at the Kouilou pockmarks on the Congo deep-sea fan

    Antonie Haas;Jörn Ludwig Peckmann;Marcus Elvert;Heiko Sahling

  • Estimates of methane output from mud extrusions at the erosive convergent margin off Costa Rica

    S. Mau;H. Sahling;G. Rehder;G. Rehder;E. Suess;E. Suess

  • Pockmarks in the Northern Congo Fan area, SW Africa: Complex seafloor features shaped by fluid flow

    Heiko Sahling;Gerhard Bohrmann;Volkhard Spiess;Jörg Bialas

  • Molecular and isotopic partitioning of low-molecular-weight hydrocarbons during migration and gas hydrate precipitation in deposits of a high-flux seepage site

    Thomas Pape;André Bahr;André Bahr;Janet Rethemeyer;John D. Kessler

  • Vodyanitskii mud volcano, Sorokin trough, Black Sea: Geological characterization and quantification of gas bubble streams

    Heiko Sahling;Gerhard Bohrmann;Yuriy G. Artemov;André Bahr

  • Acoustic investigation of cold seeps offshore Georgia, eastern Black Sea

    Ingo Klaucke;Heiko Sahling;Wilhelm Reiber Weinrebe;Valentina N Blinova

  • Geological control and magnitude of methane ebullition from a high-flux seep area in the Black Sea—the Kerch seep area

    Miriam Römer;Heiko Sahling;Thomas Pape;André Bahr

  • Interaction between hydrocarbon seepage, chemosynthetic communities, and bottom water redox at cold seeps of the Makran accretionary prism: insights from habitat-specific pore water sampling and modeling

    David Fischer;Heiko Sahling;Kerstin Nöthen;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Gas emissions at the continental margin west of Svalbard: mapping, sampling, and quantification

    H. Sahling;M. Römer;T. Pape;B. Bergès

  • Discovery of new hydrothermal vent sites in Bransfield Strait, Antarctica

    G. P. Klinkhammer;C. Chin;R.A. Keller;A. Dählmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Bohrmann
Gerhard Bohrmann University of Bremen
Thomas Pape
Thomas Pape University of Copenhagen
Ingo Klaucke
Ingo Klaucke GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Klaus Wallmann
Klaus Wallmann GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Marta E Torres
Marta E Torres Oregon State University
Ian R. MacDonald
Ian R. MacDonald Florida State University
Peter Linke
Peter Linke GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Sabine Kasten
Sabine Kasten University of Bremen
Erwin Suess
Erwin Suess GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Gunter Wegener
Gunter Wegener Max Planck Society

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