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Matthias Haeckel is affiliated with GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Oceanography and related interdisciplinary fields.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Environmental Engineering. The main research topics addressed are Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Matthias Haeckel has contributed to a number of recent publications, which include:

  • Assessment of scientific gaps related to the effective environmental management of deep-seabed mining, 2022, Marine Policy
  • Effects of a deep-sea mining experiment on seafloor microbial communities and functions after 26 years, 2020, Science Advances
  • Persistence of plastic debris and its colonization by bacterial communities after two decades on the abyssal seafloor, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Influence of CH4 hydrate exploitation using depressurization and replacement methods on mechanical strength of hydrate-bearing sediment, 2020, Applied Energy
  • Towards improved monitoring of offshore carbon storage: A real-world field experiment detecting a controlled sub-seafloor CO2 release, 2021, International journal of greenhouse gas control

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • International journal of greenhouse gas control
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Marine Policy

Matthias Haeckel has collaborated extensively with several researchers, with frequent coauthors such as Mark Schmidt, Elke Kossel, Christian Deusner, Massimiliano Molari, and Felix Janßen.

Best Publications

  • Resilience of benthic deep-sea fauna to mining activities

    Sabine Gollner;Stefanie Kaiser;Lena Menzel;Daniel O.B. Jones

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

    Klaus Wallmann;Elena Pinero;Ewa Burwicz;Matthias Haeckel

  • Silicate weathering in anoxic marine sediments

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

  • Assessment of scientific gaps related to the effective environmental management of deep-seabed mining

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

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

  • Rising methane gas bubbles form massive hydrate layers at the seafloor

    Matthias Haeckel;Erwin Suess;Klaus Wallmann;Dirk Rickert

  • Estimation of the global inventory of methane hydrates in marine sediments using transfer functions

    Elena Pinero;Mathias Marquardt;Christian Hensen;Matthias Haeckel

  • 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

  • Methane Production from Gas Hydrate Deposits through Injection of Supercritical CO2

    Christian Deusner;Nikolaus Bigalke;Elke Kossel;Matthias Haeckel

  • Evaluation of gas hydrate deposits in an active seep area using marine controlled source electromagnetics: Results from Opouawe Bank, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand

    Katrin Schwalenberg;Matthias Haeckel;Jeffrey Poort;Marion Jegen

  • Bubble-induced porewater mixing: A 3-D model for deep porewater irrigation

    Matthias Haeckel;Matthias Haeckel;Bernard P. Boudreau;Klaus Wallmann

  • Effects of a deep-sea mining experiment on seafloor microbial communities and functions after 26 years

    T. R. Vonnahme;M. Molari;F. Janssen;F. Janssen;F. Wenzhöfer;F. Wenzhöfer

  • Persistence of plastic debris and its colonization by bacterial communities after two decades on the abyssal seafloor

    S. Krause;Massimiliano Molari;E. V. Gorb;S. N. Gorb

  • Quantification of methane emissions at abandoned gas wells in the Central North Sea

    Lisa Vielstädte;Jens Karstens;Matthias Haeckel;Mark Schmidt

  • Influence of CH4 hydrate exploitation using depressurization and replacement methods on mechanical strength of hydrate-bearing sediment

    Yohan Lee;Yohan Lee;Christian Deusner;Elke Kossel;Wonjung Choi

  • Seabed methane emissions and the habitat of frenulate tubeworms on the Captain Arutyunov mud volcano (Gulf of Cadiz)

    Stefan Sommer;Peter Linke;Olaf Pfannkuche;Tina Schleicher

  • Lithium isotope geochemistry of marine pore waters – Insights from cold seep fluids

    Florian Scholz;Christian Hensen;Gert J. De Lange;Matthias Haeckel

  • Relating sulfate and methane dynamics to geology: Accretionary prism offshore SW Taiwan

    Pei Chuan Chuang;Pei Chuan Chuang;Andrew W. Dale;Klaus Wallmann;Matthias Haeckel

  • Assessing plume impacts caused by polymetallic nodule mining vehicles

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  • Isotopic evidence (87Sr/86Sr, δ7Li) for alteration of the oceanic crust at deep-rooted mud volcanoes in the Gulf of Cadiz, NE Atlantic Ocean

    Florian Scholz;Christian Hensen;Anja Reitz;Rolf L. Romer

  • Sources of fluids and gases expelled at cold seeps offshore Georgia, eastern Black Sea

    Anja Reitz;Thomas Pape;Matthias Haeckel;Mark Schmidt

  • On the origin of multiple BSRs in the Danube deep-sea fan, Black Sea

    Timo Zander;Matthias Haeckel;Christian Berndt;Wu-Cheng Chi

  • Pore water profiles and numerical modelling of biogeochemical processes in Peru Basin deep-sea sediments

    Matthias Haeckel;Iris König;Volkher Riech;Michael E. Weber

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Wallmann
Klaus Wallmann GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Christian Hensen
Christian Hensen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Gerhard Bohrmann
Gerhard Bohrmann University of Bremen
Peter Linke
Peter Linke GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Mark Schmidt
Mark Schmidt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius Max Planck Society
Jörg Bialas
Jörg Bialas GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Christian Berndt
Christian Berndt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Giovanni Aloisi
Giovanni Aloisi Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Jens Greinert
Jens Greinert GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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