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Joachim Reitner is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans a variety of subfields including Paleontology, Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Biotechnology. The scientist's work encompasses multiple key topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

The publication record of Joachim Reitner includes a collection of papers covering diverse areas of geological and biological sciences. Recent papers include:

  • Triple oxygen isotopes of cherts through time, 2020, Chemical Geology
  • Ingredients for microbial life preserved in 3.5 billion-year-old fluid inclusions, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Low-temperature, shallow-water hydrothermal vent mineralization following the recent submarine eruption of Tagoro volcano (El Hierro, Canary Islands), 2020, Marine Geology
  • Carbonates and cherts as archives of seawater chemistry and habitability on a carbonate platform 3.35 Ga ago: Insights from Sm/Nd dating and trace element analysis from the Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia, 2020, Precambrian Research
  • Habitability of the early Earth: liquid water under a faint young Sun facilitated by strong tidal heating due to a closer Moon, 2021, Paläontologische Zeitschrift

Joachim Reitner frequently publishes in several scientific venues. Notable journals and publication counts include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 12 publications
  • Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 8 publications
  • Precambrian Research, 4 publications
  • Lethaia, 4 publications
  • The Depositional Record, 2 publications

The scientist has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jan-Peter Duda (22 joint works)
  • Yu Pei (12 joint works)
  • Cui Luo (11 joint works)
  • Xingliang Zhang (8 joint works)
  • Andreas Pack (7 joint works)

Best Publications

  • Photosynthesis-induced biofilm calcification and calcium concentrations in Phanerozoic oceans.

    Gernot Arp;Andreas Reimer;Joachim Reitner

  • Methane-derived carbonates and authigenic pyrite from the northwestern Black Sea

    J Peckmann;A Reimer;U Luth;C Luth

  • Modern cryptic microbialite/metazoan facies from Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef, Australia) formation and concepts

    Joachim Reitner

  • Membrane lipid patterns typify distinct anaerobic methanotrophic consortia

    Martin Blumenberg;Richard Seifert;Joachim Reitner;Thomas Pape

  • Estimating the Phanerozoic history of the Ascomycota lineages: combining fossil and molecular data.

    Christina Beimforde;Kathrin Feldberg;Stephan Nylinder;Jouko Rikkinen

  • Calcium isotope fractionation in calcite and aragonite

    Nikolaus Gussone;Florian Böhm;Anton Eisenhauer;Martin Dietzel

  • Highly isotopically depleted isoprenoids: molecular markers for ancient methane venting

    Volker Thiel;Jörn Peckmann;Richard Seifert;Patrick Wehrung

  • Microbialite Formation in Seawater of Increased Alkalinity, Satonda Crater Lake, Indonesia

    Gernot Arp;Andreas Reimer;Joachim Reitner

  • Molecular signals for anaerobic methane oxidation in Black Sea seep carbonates and a microbial mat

    Volker Thiel;Jörn Peckmann;Hans Hermann Richnow;Ulf Luth

  • Cold seep deposits of Beauvoisin (Oxfordian; southeastern France) and Marmorito (Miocene; northern Italy): microbially induced authigenic carbonates

    J. Peckmann;V. Thiel;Walter Michaelis;P. Clari

  • Biofilm exopolymers control microbialite formation at thermal springs discharging into the alkaline Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA

    Gernot Arp;Volker Thiel;Volker Thiel;Andreas Reimer;Walter Michaelis

  • A comprehensive approach to the study of methane-seep deposits from the Lincoln Creek Formation, western Washington State, USA

    J. Peckmann;J. L. Goedert;V. Thiel;W. Michaelis

  • Oxygen isotope fractionation in marine aragonite of coralline sponges

    Florian Böhm;Michael M. Joachimski;Wolf-Christian Dullo;Anton Eisenhauer

  • Fossil and recent sponges

    J. Reitner;Helmut Keupp

  • Biosedimentology of Microbial Buildups IGCP Project No. 380 Proceedings of 2nd Meeting, Göttingen/Germany 1996

    Fritz Neuweiler;Joachim Reitner;Claude Monty;Mark Feldmann

  • Concretionary methane-seep carbonates and associated microbial communities in Black Sea sediments

    Joachim Reitner;Jörn Ludwig Peckmann;Martin Blumenberg;Walter Michaelis

  • Phylogenetic analysis of a microbialite-forming microbial mat from a hypersaline lake of the Kiritimati atoll, Central Pacific.

    Dominik Schneider;Gernot Arp;Andreas Reimer;Joachim Reitner

  • Mineralization of the metre-long biosilica structures of glass sponges is templated on hydroxylated collagen

    Hermann Ehrlich;Rainer Deutzmann;Eike Brunner;Enrico Cappellini

  • Methane-derived carbonate build-ups and associated microbial communities at cold seeps on the lower Crimean shelf (Black Sea)

    Joachim Reitner;Jörn Peckmann;Andreas Reimer;Gabriela Schumann

  • Mud mounds: A polygenetic spectrum of fine-grained carbonate buildups

    Gerd Flajs;Manfred Vigener;Helmut Keupp;Dieter Meischner

  • Calcification in cyanobacterial biofilms of alkaline salt lakes

    Gernot Arp;Andreas Reimer;Joachim Reitner

  • Microbial fabric formation in spring mounds ("microbialites") of alkaline salt lakes in the Badain Jaran sand sea, PR China

    Gernot Arp;Juergen Hofmann;Joachim Reitner

Frequent Co-Authors

Gert Wörheide
Gert Wörheide Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jörn Peckmann
Jörn Peckmann Universität Hamburg
Walter Michaelis
Walter Michaelis Universität Hamburg
Martin Blumenberg
Martin Blumenberg University of Göttingen
Anton Eisenhauer
Anton Eisenhauer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Marco Taviani
Marco Taviani Schmidt Ocean Institute
Thomas Pape
Thomas Pape University of Copenhagen
Luis Somoza
Luis Somoza Instituto Geológico y Minero de España
Richard Seifert
Richard Seifert Universität Hamburg
Daniel Birgel
Daniel Birgel Universität Hamburg

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