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Olaf Dellwig is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Germany. Their research centers on earth and planetary sciences as well as environmental science, contributing extensively in related subfields including geochemistry and petrology, ecology, atmospheric science, oceanography, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

They have published works in areas closely linked with geochemistry, elemental analysis, geology, paleoclimatology, environmental toxicology, isotope analysis in ecology, microbial community ecology, as well as marine and environmental studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Olaf Dellwig include:

  • Helge W. Arz
  • Jérôme Kaiser
  • Inna M. Sokolova
  • Martin Wille
  • Florian Kurzweil

The scientist has published multiple papers, with some recent examples including:

  • Interactive effects of salinity variation and exposure to ZnO nanoparticles on the innate immune system of a sentinel marine bivalve, Mytilus edulis (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Season-dependent effects of ZnO nanoparticles and elevated temperature on bioenergetics of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis (2020), published in Chemosphere
  • 70-Year Anthropogenic Uranium Imprints of Nuclear Activities in Baltic Sea Sediments (2021), published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Geochemical focusing and sequestration of manganese during eutrophication of Lake Stechlin (NE Germany) (2020), published in Biogeochemistry
  • The East Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series (2022), published in The Anthropocene Review

They have published in venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts

Best Publications

  • A new particulate Mn–Fe–P-shuttle at the redoxcline of anoxic basins

    Olaf Dellwig;Thomas Leipe;Christian März;Michael Glockzin

  • Molybdenum isotope fractionation in pelagic euxinia: Evidence from the modern Black and Baltic Seas

    T.F. Nägler;N. Neubert;M.E. Böttcher;O. Dellwig

  • Cycling of trace metals (Mn, Fe, Mo, U, V, Cr) in deep pore waters of intertidal flat sediments

    Melanie Beck;Olaf Dellwig;Bernhard Schnetger;Hans-Jürgen Brumsack

  • Uranium and molybdenum isotope systematics in modern euxinic basins: Case studies from the central Baltic Sea and the Kyllaren fjord (Norway)

    J. Noordmann;J. Noordmann;S. Weyer;C. Montoya-Pino;O. Dellwig

  • Tube-dwelling invertebrates: tiny ecosystem engineers have large effects in lake ecosystems

    Franz Hölker;Michael J. Vanni;Jan J. Kuiper;Christof Meile

  • Changing sedimentation in tidal flat sediments of the southern North Sea from the Holocene to the present: a geochemical approach

    O Dellwig;J Hinrichs;A Hild;H.-J Brumsack

  • Radium-based pore water fluxes of silica, alkalinity, manganese, DOC, and uranium: A decade of studies in the German Wadden Sea

    W. S. Moore;M. Beck;T. Riedel;M. Rutgers van der Loeff

  • Non-conservative behaviour of molybdenum in coastal waters: Coupling geochemical, biological, and sedimentological processes

    Olaf Dellwig;Olaf Dellwig;Melanie Beck;Andreas Lemke;Mirko Lunau

  • Trace metals in Holocene coastal peats and their relation to pyrite formation (NW Germany)

    Olaf Dellwig;Michael E Böttcher;Marcus Lipinski;Hans-Jürgen Brumsack

  • Spatial and seasonal variations of sulphate, dissolved organic carbon, and nutrients in deep pore waters of intertidal flat sediments

    Melanie Beck;Olaf Dellwig;Gerd Liebezeit;Bernhard Schnetger

  • Lead in sediments and suspended particulate matter of the German Bight: natural versus anthropogenic origin

    J Hinrichs;O Dellwig;H.-J Brumsack

  • Correlated molybdenum and uranium isotope signatures in modern anoxic sediments: implications for their use as paleo-redox proxy

    A. Brüske;S. Weyer;M.-Y. Zhao;N.J. Planavsky

  • Physical and biogeochemical controls of microaggregate dynamics in a tidally affected coastal ecosystem

    Mirko Lunau;Andreas Lemke;Olaf Dellwig;Meinhard Simon

  • Methane in the southern North Sea: Sources, spatial distribution and budgets

    Maik Grunwald;Olaf Dellwig;Olaf Dellwig;Melanie Beck;Joachim W. Dippner

  • Sulphur and iron geochemistry of Holocene coastal peats (NW Germany): a tool for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

    O Dellwig;F Watermann;H.-J Brumsack;G Gerdes

  • Submarine groundwater discharge to the Baltic coastal zone: Impacts on the meiofaunal community

    L. Kotwicki;K. Grzelak;M. Czub;O. Dellwig

  • A bacterial isolate from the Black Sea oxidizes sulfide with manganese(IV) oxide.

    Jan V Henkel;Olaf Dellwig;Falk Pollehne;Daniel P R Herlemann;Daniel P R Herlemann

  • Intense pyrite formation under low-sulfate conditions in the Achterwasser lagoon, SW Baltic Sea

    Thomas Neumann;Nicole Rausch;Thomas Leipe;Olaf Dellwig

  • Dissimilar behaviors of the geochemical twins W and Mo in hypoxic-euxinic marine basins

    Olaf Dellwig;Antje Wegwerth;Bernhard Schnetger;Hartmut Schulz

  • Sulphate, dissolved organic carbon, nutrients and terminal metabolic products in deep pore waters of an intertidal flat

    Melanie Beck;Olaf Dellwig;Jan M. Holstein;Maik Grunwald

  • Effect of large magnetotactic bacteria with polyphosphate inclusions on the phosphate profile of the suboxic zone in the Black Sea

    Heide N Schulz-Vogt;Falk Pollehne;Klaus Jürgens;Helge W Arz

  • Dissolved reactive manganese at pelagic redoxclines (part II): Hydrodynamic conditions for accumulation

    Olaf Dellwig;Bernhard Schnetger;Hans-Jürgen Brumsack;Hans-Peter Grossart

  • In situ pore water sampling in deep intertidal flat sediments

    Melanie Beck;Olaf Dellwig;Kerstin Kolditz;Holger Freund

  • A 1500-year multiproxy record of coastal hypoxia from the northern Baltic Sea indicates unprecedented deoxygenation over the 20th century

    Sami A. Jokinen;Joonas J. Virtasalo;Tom Jilbert;Jérôme Kaiser

Frequent Co-Authors

Helge W Arz
Helge W Arz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Michael E. Böttcher
Michael E. Böttcher Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Bernhard Schnetger
Bernhard Schnetger Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Hans-Jürgen Brumsack
Hans-Jürgen Brumsack Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Thomas Leipe
Thomas Leipe Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Frank Lamy
Frank Lamy Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ronny Schoenberg
Ronny Schoenberg University of Tübingen
Edouard Bard
Edouard Bard Aix-Marseille University
Christian März
Christian März University of Bonn
Andrey Ganopolski
Andrey Ganopolski Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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