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Jens Greinert is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a pronounced emphasis on subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's scholarly output includes a variety of recent papers covering diverse themes related to marine and environmental sciences. Some notable publications are:

  • Exploration of the munition dumpsite Kolberger Heide in Kiel Bay, Germany: Example for a standardised hydroacoustic and optic monitoring approach (2020), published in Continental Shelf Research
  • Explosives compounds from sea-dumped relic munitions accumulate in marine biota (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Numerical Simulation of Deep-Sea Sediment Transport Induced by a Dredge Experiment in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean (2021), published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Megafauna community assessment of polymetallic-nodule fields with cameras: platform and methodology comparison (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • MOSES: A Novel Observation System to Monitor Dynamic Events across Earth Compartments (2021), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Jens Greinert's frequent co-authors include Mareike Kampmeier, Aaron J. Beck, Iason-Zois Gazis, Timm Schoening, and Kevin Köser. These collaborations appear extensively across several works.

The scientist has published multiple works in prominent journals and venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Limnology and Oceanography Methods

Book contributions include works published by Springer Nature (Netherlands) and Maribus eBooks. Notable titles are Integrating Data Science and Earth Science (2022) and World ocean review: Mit den Meeren leben 7. Lebensgarant Ozean - nachhaltig nutzen, wirksam schützen (2021).

The main topics of Jens Greinert's work cover:

  • Underwater Acoustics Research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

This range of topics and their publication record illustrate a focus on both the technical and ecological aspects of oceanographic and earth system sciences, including the monitoring of marine environments, sediment transport, and the impact of anthropogenic factors such as sea-dumped munitions on ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Fate of rising methane bubbles in stratified waters: How much methane reaches the atmosphere?

    Daniel Frank Mcginnis;J. Greinert;Y. Artemov;S. E. Beaubien

  • Authigenic carbonates from the Cascadia subduction zone and their relation to gas hydrate stability

    Gerhard Bohrmann;Jens Greinert;Erwin Suess;Marta Torres

  • Gas hydrate destabilization: enhanced dewatering, benthic material turnover and large methane plumes at the Cascadia convergent margin

    Erwin Suess;M. Torres;Gerhard Bohrmann;R. W. Collier

  • Gas Hydrate‐Associated Carbonates and Methane‐Venting at Hydrate Ridge: Classification, Distribution, and Origin of Authigenic Lithologies

    Jens Greinert;Gerhard Bohrmann;Erwin Suess

  • Tectonic and geological framework for gas hydrates and cold seeps on the Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand

    Philip M. Barnes;Geoffroy Lamarche;Joerg Bialas;Stuart Henrys

  • 1300-m-high rising bubbles from mud volcanoes at 2080m in the Black Sea: Hydroacoustic characteristics and temporal variability

    Jens Greinert;Yuriy Artemov;Viktor Egorov;Marc De Batist

  • Biological responses to disturbance from simulated deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining

    Daniel O.B. Jones;Stefanie Kaiser;Andrew K. Sweetman;Craig R. Smith

  • Silicate weathering in anoxic marine sediments

    Klaus Wallmann;Giovanni Aloisi;Matthias Haeckel;P. Tishchenko

  • Sea Floor Methane Hydrates at Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Margin

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

  • Geological and morphological setting of 2778 methane seeps in the Dnepr paleo-delta, northwestern Black Sea

    Lieven Naudts;Jens Greinert;Yuriy Artemov;Peter Staelens

  • Archaea mediating anaerobic methane oxidation in deep-sea sediments at cold seeps of the eastern Aleutian subduction zone

    Marcus Elvert;Erwin Suess;Jens Greinert;Michael J Whiticar

  • Massive barite deposits and carbonate mineralization in the Derugin Basin, Sea of Okhotsk: precipitation processes at cold seep sites

    Jens Greinert;Sandra M. Bollwerk;Alexander Derkachev;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • 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

  • Arctic methane sources: Isotopic evidence for atmospheric inputs

    R. E. Fisher;S. Sriskantharajah;D. Lowry;M. Lanoisellé

  • 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

  • Mud volcanoes and gas hydrates in the Black Sea: new data from Dvurechenskii and Odessa mud volcanoes

    G. Bohrmann;M. Ivanov;J.-P. Foucher;V. Spiess

  • Ocean currents shape the microbiome of Arctic marine sediments.

    Leila J Hamdan;Richard B Coffin;Masoumeh Sikaroodi;Jens Greinert

  • 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

  • A study of the chemistry of pore fluids and authigenic carbonates in methane seep environments: Kodiak Trench, Hydrate Ridge, Monterey Bay, and Eel River Basin

    Joris Gieskes;Chris Mahn;Shelley Day;Jonathan B. Martin

  • Methane seepage along the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand: Overview of studies in 2006 and 2007 and new evidence from visual, bathymetric and hydroacoustic investigations

    J Greinert;J Greinert;K B Lewis;J Bialas;Ingo Andreas Pecher

  • Methane emission from high‐intensity marine gas seeps in the Black Sea into the atmosphere

    Oliver Schmale;Jens Greinert;Gregor Rehder

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Linke
Peter Linke GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Gerhard Bohrmann
Gerhard Bohrmann University of Bremen
Jürgen Mienert
Jürgen Mienert University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Ingo Pecher
Ingo Pecher GNS Science
Klaus Wallmann
Klaus Wallmann GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Jörg Bialas
Jörg Bialas GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Erwin Suess
Erwin Suess GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Stuart Henrys
Stuart Henrys University of Auckland
Tina Treude
Tina Treude University of California, Los Angeles
Olaf Pfannkuche
Olaf Pfannkuche GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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