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Helge Niemann is affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant concentration on pollution and environmental chemistry. Related fields of study in their work also include industrial and manufacturing engineering, global and planetary change, and biomaterials.

The main topics covered in their research encompass methane hydrates and related phenomena, microplastics and plastic pollution, recycling and waste management techniques, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties, microbial community ecology and physiology, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Helge Niemann has contributed to several scholarly articles published in notable venues. Recent papers include:

  • The fate of plastic in the ocean environment - a minireview, 2021, Environmental Science Processes & Impacts
  • Methanotrophs: Discoveries, Environmental Relevance, and a Perspective on Current and Future Applications, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Role of fungi in bioremediation of emerging pollutants, 2023, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • The Potential Role of Marine Fungi in Plastic Degradation - A Review, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Microbial Communities on Plastic Polymers in the Mediterranean Sea, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Key coauthors in their network include Annika Vaksmaa, Moritz F. Lehmann, Friederike Gründger, Maaike Goudriaan, and Bénédicte Ferré.

Helge Niemann's work is regularly published in several journals, with repeated contributions to:

  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Biogeosciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Novel microbial communities of the Haakon Mosby mud volcano and their role as a methane sink

    Helge Niemann;Helge Niemann;Tina Lösekann;Dirk de Beer;Marcus Elvert;Marcus Elvert

  • Diversity and Abundance of Aerobic and Anaerobic Methane Oxidizers at the Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano, Barents Sea

    Tina Lösekann;Katrin Knittel;Thierry Nadalig;Bernhard Fuchs

  • Temporal constraints on hydrate-controlled methane seepage off Svalbard.

    Christian Berndt;Tomas Feseker;Tina Treude;Sebastien Krastel

  • The fate of plastic in the ocean environment – a minireview

    Chloe Wayman;Helge Niemann

  • Methanotrophs: Discoveries, Environmental Relevance, and a Perspective on Current and Future Applications

    Simon Guerrero-Cruz;Annika Vaksmaa;Marcus A. Horn;Helge Niemann

  • Microbial methane turnover at mud volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz

    H. Niemann;H. Niemann;J. Duarte;C. Hensen;E. Omoregie;E. Omoregie

  • In situ fluxes and zonation of microbial activity in surface sediments of the Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano

    Dirk de Beer;Eberhard Sauter;Helge Niemann;Norbert Kaul

  • Diagnostic lipid biomarker and stable carbon isotope signatures of microbial communities mediating the anaerobic oxidation of methane with sulphate

    Helge Niemann;Marcus Elvert

  • Assimilation of methane and inorganic carbon by microbial communities mediating the anaerobic oxidation of methane

    Gunter Wegener;Helge Niemann;Marcus Elvert;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

  • Methane emission and consumption at a North Sea gas seep (Tommeliten area)

    H. Niemann;H. Niemann;M. Elvert;M. Hovland;B. Orcutt

  • Effects of climate change on methane emissions from seafloor sediments in the Arctic Ocean: A review

    Rachael H. James;Philippe Bousquet;Ingeborg Bussmann;Matthias Haeckel

  • Redox-dependent niche differentiation provides evidence for multiple bacterial sources of glycerol tetraether lipids in lakes

    Yuki Weber;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Jakob Zopfi;Cindy De Jonge

  • Micro-aerobic bacterial methane oxidation in the chemocline and anoxic water column of deep south-Alpine Lake Lugano (Switzerland)

    Jan Blees;Helge Niemann;Christine B. Wenk;Jakob Zopfi

  • Carbon and sulfur back flux during anaerobic microbial oxidation of methane and coupled sulfate reduction

    Thomas Holler;Gunter Wegener;Helge Niemann;Christian Deusner

  • Identification and carbon isotope composition of a novel branched GDGT isomer in lake sediments: Evidence for lacustrine branched GDGT production

    Yuki Weber;Cindy De Jonge;W. Irene C. Rijpstra;Ellen C. Hopmans

  • Water column methanotrophy controlled by a rapid oceanographic switch

    Lea Steinle;Lea Steinle;Carolyn C.A. Graves;Tina Treude;Tina Treude;Bénédicte Ferré

  • Endosymbioses between bacteria and deep-sea siboglinid tubeworms from an Arctic Cold Seep (Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano, Barents Sea)

    Tina Lösekann;Alberto Robador;Helge Niemann;Helge Niemann;Katrin Knittel

  • Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria and sulfide-dependent denitrifiers coexist in the water column of a meromictic south-alpine lake

    Christine B. Wenk;Jan Blees;Jakob Zopfi;Mauro Veronesi

  • The Potential Role of Marine Fungi in Plastic Degradation – A Review

    Emna Zeghal;Annika Vaksmaa;Hortense Vielfaure;Teun Boekhout

  • Vertical distribution of methane oxidation and methanotrophic response to elevated methane concentrations in stratified waters of the Arctic fjord Storfjorden (Svalbard, Norway)

    S. Mau;J. Blees;E. Helmke;H. Niemann

  • Seafloor geological studies above active gas chimneys off Egypt (Central nile deep sea fan)

    Stéphanie Dupré;John Woodside;Jean-Paul Foucher;Gert de Lange

  • Desulfuromonas svalbardensis sp. nov. and Desulfuromusa ferrireducens sp. nov., psychrophilic, Fe(III)-reducing bacteria isolated from Arctic sediments, Svalbard.

    Verona Vandieken;Marc Mussmann;Helge Niemann;Bo Barker Jørgensen

  • Biogeochemical signatures and microbial activity of different cold-seep habitats along the Gulf of Mexico deep slope

    Samantha B. Joye;Marshall W. Bowles;Vladimir A. Samarkin;Kimberley S. Hunter

Frequent Co-Authors

Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius Max Planck Society
Moritz F. Lehmann
Moritz F. Lehmann University of Basel
Tina Treude
Tina Treude University of California, Los Angeles
Katrin Knittel
Katrin Knittel Max Planck Society
Jakob Zopfi
Jakob Zopfi University of Basel
Christian Berndt
Christian Berndt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Marcus Elvert
Marcus Elvert University of Bremen
Thomas Pape
Thomas Pape University of Copenhagen
Sabine Kasten
Sabine Kasten University of Bremen
Gerhard Bohrmann
Gerhard Bohrmann University of Bremen

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