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Overview

Klaus Wallmann is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research contributions span several interconnected areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on oceanographic and geochemical processes.

Their research covers key subfields including Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Mechanics of Materials. The primary topics addressed in their work concentrate on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Klaus Wallmann has a record of publications in various peer-reviewed journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Frontiers in Climate
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Notable recent papers include:

  • Kinetics of Olivine Weathering in Seawater: An Experimental Study, 2022, Frontiers in Climate
  • Permian-Triassic mass extinction pulses driven by major marine carbon cycle perturbations, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • A 35-million-year record of seawater stable Sr isotopes reveals a fluctuating global carbon cycle, 2021, Science
  • Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events prolonged by phosphorus cycle feedbacks, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Recycling and Burial of Biogenic Silica in an Open Margin Oxygen Minimum Zone, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Their frequent coauthors reflect interdisciplinary collaboration and include Andrew W. Dale, Mark Schmidt, Florian Scholz, Michael Fuhr, and Sonja Geilert.

Klaus Wallmann has also contributed to book publications, notably with Maribus eBooks, including the work titled World ocean review: Mit den Meeren leben 7. Lebensgarant Ozean - nachhaltig nutzen, wirksam schützen published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Fluid flow, methane fluxes, carbonate precipitation and biogeochemical turnover in gas hydrate-bearing sediments at Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia Margin: numerical modeling and mass balances

    Roger Luff;Klaus J. G. Wallmann

  • Anaerobic oxidation of methane above gas hydrates at Hydrate Ridge, NE Pacific Ocean

    Tina Treude;Antje Boetius;Katrin Knittel;Klaus Wallmann

  • The oxygen isotope evolution of seawater: A critical review of a long-standing controversy and an improved geological water cycle model for the past 3.4 billion years

    Jasmine B.D. Jaffrés;Graham A. Shields;Klaus Wallmann

  • Gas hydrate growth, methane transport, and chloride enrichment at the southern summit of Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia margin off Oregon

    Marta E Torres;Klaus Wallmann;Anne M Tréhu;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Rising Arctic Ocean temperatures cause gas hydrate destabilization and ocean acidification

    Arne Biastoch;Tina Treude;Lars H. Rüpke;Ulf Riebesell

  • Controls on the cretaceous and cenozoic evolution of seawater composition, atmospheric CO2 and climate

    Klaus Wallmann

  • The Global Inventory of Methane Hydrate in Marine Sediments: A Theoretical Approach

    Klaus Wallmann;Elena Pinero;Ewa Burwicz;Matthias Haeckel

  • Fluid expulsion related to mud extrusion off Costa Rica¿A window to the subducting slab

    Christian Hensen;Klaus Wallmann;Mark Schmidt;César R. Ranero

  • Silicate weathering in anoxic marine sediments

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

  • Calculation of the stability and solubility of methane hydrate in seawater

    Pavel Tishchenko;Christian Hensen;Klaus Wallmann;Chi Shing Wong

  • Early diagenesis of redox-sensitive trace metals in the Peru upwelling area – response to ENSO-related oxygen fluctuations in the water column

    Florian Scholz;Christian Hensen;Anna Noffke;Anne Rohde

  • Calcium isotope record of Phanerozoic oceans: Implications for chemical evolution of seawater and its causative mechanisms

    Juraj Farkaš;Florian Böhm;Klaus Wallmann;John Blenkinsop

  • The geological water cycle and the evolution of marine δ 18 O values

    Klaus Wallmann

  • Paleoclimates, ocean depth, and the oxygen isotopic composition of seawater

    James F. Kasting;M. Tazewell Howard;Klaus Wallmann;Ján Veizer

  • Kinetics of organic matter degradation, microbial methane generation, and gas hydrate formation in anoxic marine sediments

    Klaus Wallmann;Giovanni Aloisi;Matthias Haeckel;A. Obzhirov

  • Early diagenetic processes, fluxes, and reaction rates in sediments of the South Atlantic

    Horst D Schulz;Andreas Dahmke;Uwe Schinzel;Klaus Wallmann

  • Dissolution kinetics of biogenic silica from the water column to the sediments

    Dirk Rickert;Michael Schlüter;Michael Schlüter;Klaus J. G. Wallmann

  • Hydrogeological system of erosional convergent margins and its influence on tectonics and interplate seismogenesis

    C. R. Ranero;I. Grevemeyer;H. Sahling;U. Barckhausen

  • Numerical modeling of carbonate crust formation at cold vent sites: significance for fluid and methane budgets and chemosynthetic biological communities

    Roger Luff;Klaus Wallmann;Giovanni Aloisi

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Hensen
Christian Hensen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Andrew W. Dale
Andrew W. Dale GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Gerhard Bohrmann
Gerhard Bohrmann University of Bremen
Matthias Haeckel
Matthias Haeckel GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Mark Schmidt
Mark Schmidt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Giovanni Aloisi
Giovanni Aloisi Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Florian Scholz
Florian Scholz Universität Hamburg
Peter Linke
Peter Linke GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Thomas Pape
Thomas Pape University of Copenhagen
Volker Liebetrau
Volker Liebetrau GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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