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Marco J. L. Coolen

Marco J. L. Coolen

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
49
Citations
8698
World Ranking
5255
National Ranking
183

Overview

Marco J. L. Coolen is affiliated with Curtin University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans across various subfields including Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics of their work focus on:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Astro and Planetary Science

Marco J. L. Coolen has published in several frequent venues including:

  • Geobiology
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • 30th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2021)
  • Quaternary

The scientist has collaborated frequently with co-authors such as:

  • Kliti Grice
  • Charles S. Cockell
  • D. A. Kring
  • S. P. S. Gulick
  • Joanna Morgan

Recent notable papers include:

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations (2021, Quaternary)
  • Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater (2020, Science Advances)
  • A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Microbial life in the nascent Chicxulub crater (2020, Geology)
  • Black Sea paleosalinity evolution since the last deglaciation reconstructed from alkenone-inferred Isochrysidales diversity (2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)

Best Publications

  • Archaeal nitrification in the ocean

    Cornelia Wuchter;Ben Abbas;Marco J. L. Coolen;Lydie Herfort

  • Temperature-dependent variation in the distribution of tetraether membrane lipids of marine Crenarchaeota: Implications for TEX86 paleothermometry

    Cornelia Wuchter;Stefan Schouten;Marco J. L. Coolen;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Putative ammonia-oxidizing Crenarchaeota in suboxic waters of the Black Sea: a basin-wide ecological study using 16S ribosomal and functional genes and membrane lipids.

    Marco J. L. Coolen;Ben Abbas;Judith Van Bleijswijk;Ellen C. Hopmans

  • Combined DNA and lipid analyses of sediments reveal changes in Holocene haptophyte and diatom populations in an Antarctic lake

    Marco J.L Coolen;Gerard Muyzer;W.Irene C Rijpstra;Stefan Schouten

  • The formation of peak rings in large impact craters

    Joanna V. Morgan;Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy Bralower;Elise Chenot

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity : Overview and Recommendations

    Eric Capo;Charline Giguet-Covex;Alexandra Rouillard;Kevin Nota

  • Evolution of the methane cycle in Ace Lake (Antarctica) during the Holocene: response of methanogens and methanotrophs to environmental change

    Marco J.L. Coolen;Ellen C. Hopmans;W. Irene C. Rijpstra;Gerard Muyzer

  • Microbial Communities in the Chemocline of a Hypersaline Deep-Sea Basin (Urania Basin, Mediterranean Sea)

    Andrea M. Sass;Henrik Sass;Marco J. L. Coolen;Heribert Cypionka

  • Variations in spatial and temporal distribution of Archaea in the North Sea in relation to environmental variables

    Lydie Herfort;Stefan Schouten;Ben Abbas;Marcel J. W. Veldhuis

  • Ongoing modification of Mediterranean Pleistocene sapropels mediated by prokaryotes.

    Marco J. L. Coolen;Heribert Cypionka;Andrea M. Sass;Henrik Sass

  • Analysis of Subfossil Molecular Remains of Purple Sulfur Bacteria in a Lake Sediment

    Marco J. L. Coolen;Jörg Overmann

  • Evolution of the plankton paleome in the Black Sea from the Deglacial to Anthropocene

    Marco J. L. Coolen;William D. Orsi;Cherel Balkema;Christopher Quince

  • Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

    Christopher M. Lowery;Timothy J. Bralower;Jeremy D. Owens;Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar

  • Coccolithovirus facilitation of carbon export in the North Atlantic

    Christien P. Laber;Jonathan E. Hunter;Filipa Carvalho;Filipa Carvalho;James R. Collins

  • Biomarker and 16S rDNA evidence for anaerobic oxidation of methane and related carbonate precipitation in deep-sea mud volcanoes of the Sorokin Trough, Black Sea

    A. Stadnitskaia;G. Muyzer;B. Abbas;M.J.L. Coolen

  • The First Day of the Cenozoic

    Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy J. Bralower;Jens Ormö;Brendon Hall

  • Aerobic and anaerobic methanotrophs in the Black Sea water column

    Carsten J. Schubert;Marco J. L. Coolen;Lev N. Neretin;Lev N. Neretin;Axel Schippers

  • Early Anthropogenic Transformation of the Danube-Black Sea System

    Liviu Giosan;Marco J. L. Coolen;Jed O. Kaplan;Stefan Constantinescu

  • Decoupling Physical from Biological Processes to Assess the Impact of Viruses on a Mesoscale Algal Bloom

    Yoav Lehahn;Ilan Koren;Daniella Schatz;Miguel Frada

  • The transcriptional response of microbial communities in thawing Alaskan permafrost soils.

    Marco J. L. Coolen;Marco J. L. Coolen;William D. Orsi

  • Ancient DNA derived from alkenone‐biosynthesizing haptophytes and other algae in Holocene sediments from the Black Sea

    Marco J. L. Coolen;Arjan C. Boere;Ben Abbas;Marianne Baas

  • Sources for sedimentary bacteriohopanepolyols as revealed by 16S rDNA stratigraphy

    Marco J. L. Coolen;Helen M. Talbot;Ben A. Abbas;Christopher Ward

Frequent Co-Authors

Kliti Grice
Kliti Grice Curtin University
Charles S. Cockell
Charles S. Cockell University of Edinburgh
Joanna Morgan
Joanna Morgan Imperial College London
Liviu Giosan
Liviu Giosan Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Sean P.S. Gulick
Sean P.S. Gulick The University of Texas at Austin
David A. Kring
David A. Kring Lunar and Planetary Institute
Timothy J. Bralower
Timothy J. Bralower Pennsylvania State University
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Ulrich Riller
Ulrich Riller Universität Hamburg
Kazuhisa Goto
Kazuhisa Goto University of Tokyo

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