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Ingrid Obernosterer

Ingrid Obernosterer

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
7530
World Ranking
5600
National Ranking
245

Overview

Ingrid Obernosterer is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research activity predominantly spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a notable focus on the study of oceanic and environmental systems.

Their scientific work primarily addresses subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Environmental Chemistry, and Atmospheric Science. Main research topics encompass Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Ingrid Obernosterer has contributed to several recent papers, reflecting their engagement with microbial ecology and marine environments. These include:

  • Seasonal dynamics of prokaryotes and their associations with diatoms in the Southern Ocean as revealed by an autonomous sampler (2020), published in Environmental Microbiology
  • Microbial iron and carbon metabolism as revealed by taxonomy-specific functional diversity in the Southern Ocean (2021), published in The ISME Journal
  • Seasonal microbial food web dynamics in contrasting Southern Ocean productivity regimes (2020), published in Limnology and Oceanography
  • Microbial Competition in the Subpolar Southern Ocean: An Fe-C Co-limitation Experiment (2020), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Prokaryotic diversity and activity in contrasting productivity regimes in late summer in the Kerguelen region (Southern Ocean) (2021), published in Journal of Marine Systems

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Obernosterer include Stéphane Blain, Olivier Crispi, Philippe Catala, Pavla Debeljak, and Barbara Marie. Their collaborative work spans investigations into microbial ecology and oceanographic processes.

Their research is disseminated across various publication venues with notable recurrence in Environmental Microbiology, Limnology and Oceanography, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and Biogeosciences.

Best Publications

  • Effect of natural iron fertilization on carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean

    Stéphane Blain;Bernard Quéguiner;Leanne Armand;Sauveur Belviso

  • Competition between biological and photochemical processes in the mineralization of dissolved organic carbon

    Ingrid Obernosterer;Ronald Benner

  • Phytoplankton extracellular release and bacterial growth: dependence on the inorganic N: P ratio

    Ingrid Obernosterer;Gerhard J. Herndl

  • Deciphering ocean carbon in a changing world

    Mary Ann Moran;Elizabeth B. Kujawinski;Aron Stubbins;Rob Fatland

  • Major differences of bacterial diversity and activity inside and outside of a natural iron-fertilized phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean.

    Nyree J. West;Nyree J. West;Ingrid Obernosterer;Ingrid Obernosterer;Olivier Zemb;Olivier Zemb;Philippe Lebaron;Philippe Lebaron

  • Contrasting effects of solar radiation on dissolved organic matter and its bioavailability to marine bacterioplankton

    Ingrid Obernosterer;Bettina Reitner;Gerhard J. Herndl

  • A survey on bacteria inhabiting the sea surface microlayer of coastal ecosystems.

    Hélène Agogué;Emilio O. Casamayor;Emilio O. Casamayor;Muriel Bourrain;Ingrid Obernosterer

  • Resistance of marine bacterioneuston to solar radiation.

    Hélène Agogué;Fabien Joux;Ingrid Obernosterer;Philippe Lebaron

  • The fate of biogenic iron during a phytoplankton bloom induced by natural fertilisation: Impact of copepod grazing

    Géraldine Sarthou;Dorothée Vincent;Urania Christaki;Ingrid Obernosterer;Ingrid Obernosterer

  • Shifts in bacterial community composition associated with increased carbon cycling in a mosaic of phytoplankton blooms.

    Marine Landa;Stéphane Blain;Urania Christaki;Sébastien Monchy

  • Inhibitory effect of solar radiation on thymidine and leucine incorporation by freshwater and marine bacterioplankton.

    Ruben Sommaruga;Ingrid Obernosterer;Gerhard J. Herndl;Roland Psenner

  • Phylogenetic and structural response of heterotrophic bacteria to dissolved organic matter of different chemical composition in a continuous culture study

    M. Landa;M. T. Cottrell;D. L. Kirchman;K. Kaiser

  • Comparison of samplers for the biological characterization of the sea surface microlayer

    Hélène Agogué;Emilio O. Casamayor;Fabien Joux;Ingrid Obernosterer

  • Differences in the optical and biological reactivity of the humic and nonhumic dissolved organic carbon component in two contrasting coastal marine environments

    Ingrid Obernosterer;Gerhard J. Herndl

  • High Abundances of Aerobic Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria in the South Pacific Ocean

    Raphaël Lami;Matthew T. Cottrell;Joséphine Ras;Osvaldo Ulloa

  • Photolysis of dimethylsulfide in the northern Adriatic Sea: Dependence on substrate concentration, irradiance and DOC concentration

    Albert Brugger;Doris Slezak;Ingrid Obernosterer;Gerhard J Herndl

  • Seasonal dynamics of active SAR11 ecotypes in the oligotrophic Northwest Mediterranean Sea.

    Ian Salter;Pierre E Galand;Sonja K Fagervold;Philippe Lebaron

  • Rapid bacterial mineralization of organic carbon produced during a phytoplankton bloom induced by natural iron fertilization in the Southern Ocean

    Ingrid Obernosterer;Urania Christaki;Dominique Lefèvre;Philippe Catala

  • Microbial community structure in the sea surface microlayer at two contrasting coastal sites in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea

    Fabien Joux;Hélène Agogué;Ingrid Obernosterer;Christine Dupuy

  • Spatial and diurnal dynamics of dissolved organic matter (DOM) fluorescence and H2O2 and the photochemical oxygen demand of surface water DOM across the subtropical Atlantic Ocean

    Ingrid Obernosterer;Piet Ruardij;Gerhard J. Herndl

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Blain
Stéphane Blain Université Paris Cité
Philippe Lebaron
Philippe Lebaron Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Microbiennes
Gerhard J. Herndl
Gerhard J. Herndl University of Vienna
Urania Christaki
Urania Christaki University of Lille
Cécile Guieu
Cécile Guieu Université Paris Cité
Thomas W. Trull
Thomas W. Trull Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Andrew R. Bowie
Andrew R. Bowie University of Tasmania
Géraldine Sarthou
Géraldine Sarthou French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Philip W. Boyd
Philip W. Boyd University of Tasmania
Emilio O. Casamayor
Emilio O. Casamayor Spanish National Research Council

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