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Helmuth Thomas is affiliated with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research in Germany. Their research broadly spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work centers on several main topics, including Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, as well as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Helmuth Thomas has contributed extensively to scientific literature with numerous publications. Recent papers include:

  • The microbial carbon pump and climate change (2024, Nature Reviews Microbiology)
  • Correcting a major error in assessing organic carbon pollution in natural waters (2021, Science Advances)
  • Calcification-driven CO 2 emissions exceed "Blue Carbon" sequestration in a carbonate seagrass meadow (2021, Science Advances)
  • Eco-engineering approaches for ocean negative carbon emission (2022, Science Bulletin)
  • Metagenomic evidence for the microbial transformation of carboxyl-rich alicyclic molecules: A long-term macrocosm experiment (2022, Water Research)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. The most common coauthors are:

  • Nianzhi Jiao
  • Jihua Liu
  • Bryce Van Dam
  • Daniel Pröfrock
  • Quanrui Chen

Helmuth Thomas has published in several scientific venues multiple times, including:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Science Advances
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Best Publications

  • Enhanced Open Ocean Storage of CO2 from Shelf Sea Pumping

    Helmuth Thomas;Yann Bozec;Khalid Elkalay;Hein J. W. de Baar

  • A uniform, quality controlled Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

    B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;A. Olsen;D.C.E. Bakker;S. Hankin

  • Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins

    Helmuth Thomas;Janusz Pempkowiak;Fred Wulff;Klaus Nagel

  • The Carbon budget of the North Sea

    H. Thomas;Y. Bozec;H. J. W. de Baar;K. Elkalay

  • The seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide in Baltic Sea surface waters

    Helmuth Thomas;Bernd Schneider

  • Enhanced ocean carbon storage from anaerobic alkalinity generation in coastal sediments

    H. Thomas;L.-S. Schiettecatte;K. Suykens;Y.J.M. Koné

  • Changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation influence CO2 uptake in the North Atlantic over the past 2 decades

    H. Thomas;Friederike Prowe;I.D. Lima;S.C. Doney

  • Biogenic carbon flows through the planktonic food web of the Amundsen Gulf (Arctic Ocean): A synthesis of field measurements and inverse modeling analyses

    Alexandre Forest;Jean-Éric Tremblay;Yves Gratton;Johannie Martin

  • Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) gridded data products

    C.L. Sabine;S. Hankin;H. Koyuk;H. Koyuk;D.C.E. Bakker

  • At-sea intercomparison of two newly designed underway pCO2 systems — encouraging results

    Arne Körtzinger;Helmuth Thomas;Bernd Schneider;Nicole Gronau

  • The carbonate system in the North Sea: sensitivity and model validation

    Yuri Artioli;Jeremy C. Blackford;Momme Butenschön;Jason T. Holt

  • The North Sea — A shelf sea in the Anthropocene

    Kay-Christian Emeis;Justus van Beusekom;Ulrich Callies;Ralf Ebinghaus

  • Preferential recycling of nutrients—the ocean's way to increase new production and to pass nutrient limitation?

    Helmuth Thomas;Venugopalan Ittekkot;Christoph Osterroht;Bernd Schneider

  • The continental shelf pump for CO2 in the North Sea - evidence from summer observation

    Yann Bozec;Helmuth Thomas;Khalid Elkalay;Hein J.W. de Baar

  • Ocean and coastal acidification off New England and Nova Scotia

    Dwight K. Gledhill;Meredith M. White;Joseph E. Salisbury;Helmuth Thomas

  • Controls of the surface water partial pressure of CO2 in the North Sea

    H. Thomas;Y. Bozec;K. Elkalay;de Henricus Baar

  • Rapid decline of the CO2 buffering capacity in the North Sea and implications for the North Atlantic Ocean

    Helmuth Thomas;A. E. Friederike Prowe;Steven van Heuven;Yann Bozec

  • High temporal coverage of carbon dioxide measurements in the Southern Bight of the North Sea

    L. S. Schiettecatte;H. Thomas;Y. Bozec;Alberto Borges

  • Surface Ocean pCO2 Seasonality and Sea-Air CO2 Flux Estimates for the North American East Coast

    Sergio R. Signorini;Antonio Mannino;Raymond G. Najjar;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs

  • Wintertime CO2 fluxes in an Arctic polynya using eddy covariance: Evidence for enhanced air-sea gas transfer during ice formation

    B. G T Else;T. N. Papakyriakou;R. J. Galley;William M Drennan

  • Dynamics of pCO2 and related air-ice CO2 fluxes in the Arctic coastal zone (Amundsen Gulf, Beaufort Sea)

    Nicolas Xavier Geilfus;Nicolas Xavier Geilfus;Nicolas Xavier Geilfus;Gauthier Carnat;Tim Papakyriakou;Jean-Louis Tison

  • At-sea intercomparison of two newly designed underway pCO 2 systems - Encouraging results

    Arne Körtzinger;Helmuth Thomas;Bernd Schneider;Nicole Gronau

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Borges
Alberto Borges University of Liège
Tim Papakyriakou
Tim Papakyriakou University of Manitoba
Alfonso Mucci
Alfonso Mucci McGill University
Lisa A. Miller
Lisa A. Miller Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Hein J W de Baar
Hein J W de Baar University of Groningen
Abdirahman M Omar
Abdirahman M Omar NORCE Research
Michael E. Böttcher
Michael E. Böttcher Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Brent Else
Brent Else University of Calgary
Joe Salisbury
Joe Salisbury University of New Hampshire
Truls Johannessen
Truls Johannessen University of Bergen

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