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  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Pieter T. Visscher is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research primarily spans across Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, contributing extensively to these fields through numerous scientific publications. The subfields they focus on include Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography.

Their work encompasses key topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, and Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Pieter T. Visscher include the following:

  • Modern arsenotrophic microbial mats provide an analogue for life in the anoxic Archean, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Microbial dark matter filling the niche in hypersaline microbial mats, 2020, Microbiome
  • Between a Rock and a Soft Place: The Role of Viruses in Lithification of Modern Microbial Mats, 2020, Trends in Microbiology
  • The role of microbial extracellular polymeric substances on formation of sulfate minerals and fibrous Mg-clays, 2021, Chemical Geology
  • Experimental formation of clay-coated sand grains using diatom biofilm exopolymers, 2020, Geology

Pieter T. Visscher frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Richard White
  • Emmanuelle Vennin
  • Raphaël Bourillot
  • Brendan P. Burns
  • Anthony Bouton

Key publication venues where Pieter T. Visscher has published multiple works are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Chemical Geology
  • Minerals

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats

    Christophe Dupraz;R. Pamela Reid;Olivier Braissant;Alan W. Decho

  • The role of microbes in accretion, lamination and early lithification of modern marine stromatolites

    R. P. Reid;P. T. Visscher;A. W. Decho;J. F. Stolz

  • Microbial lithification in marine stromatolites and hypersaline mats

    Christophe Dupraz;Pieter T. Visscher

  • Anaerobic Metabolism: Linkages to Trace Gases and Aerobic Processes

    J.P. Megonigal;M.E. Hines;P.T. Visscher

  • Exopolymeric substances of sulfate‐reducing bacteria: Interactions with calcium at alkaline pH and implication for formation of carbonate minerals

    Olivier Braissant;Alan W. Decho;Christophe Dupraz;Christina Glunk

  • Microbe–mineral interactions: early carbonate precipitation in a hypersaline lake (Eleuthera Island, Bahamas)

    C. Dupraz;P. T. Visscher;L. K. Baumgartner;R. P. Reid

  • Sulfate reducing bacteria in microbial mats: Changing paradigms, new discoveries

    L. K. Baumgartner;R. P. Reid;C. Dupraz;A. W. Decho

  • Microscale observations of sulfate reduction: Correlation of microbial activity with lithified micritic laminae in modern marine stromatolites

    Pieter T. Visscher;R. Pamela Reid;Brad M. Bebout

  • Microbial mats as bioreactors: populations, processes, and products

    Pieter T. Visscher;John F. Stolz

  • Biological and environmental chemistry of DMSP and related sulfonium compounds

    Ronald P. Kiene;Pieter T. Visscher;Maureen D. Keller;Gunter O. Kirst

  • Production and cycling of natural microbial exopolymers (EPS) within a marine stromatolite

    Alan W. Decho;Pieter T. Visscher;R. Pamela Reid

  • Exopolymeric substances (EPS) from Bacillus subtilis : polymers and genes encoding their synthesis

    Massimiliano Marvasi;Pieter T. Visscher;Lilliam Casillas Martinez

  • Formation of lithified micritic laminae in modern marine stromatolites (Bahamas); the role of sulfur cycling

    Pieter T. Visscher;R. Pamela Reid;Brad M. Bebout;Shelley E. Hoeft

  • Isolation, Growth, and Metabolism of an Obligately Anaerobic, Selenate-Respiring Bacterium, Strain SES-3

    Ronald S. Oremland;Jodi Switzer Blum;Charles W. Culbertson;Pieter T. Visscher

  • Lithifying microbial mats in Lagoa Vermelha, Brazil: Modern Precambrian relics?

    Crisógono Vasconcelos;Rolf Warthmann;Judith A. McKenzie;Pieter T. Visscher

  • Biogeochemistry of methylmercury in sediments of Long Island Sound

    Chad R. Hammerschmidt;William F. Fitzgerald;Carl H. Lamborg;Prentiss H. Balcom

  • Quorum sensing in natural environments: emerging views from microbial mats

    Alan W. Decho;R. Sean Norman;Pieter T. Visscher

  • Production and Fate of Methylated Sulfur Compounds from Methionine and Dimethylsulfoniopropionate in Anoxic Salt Marsh Sediments

    Ronald P. Kiene;Pieter T. Visscher

  • Characteristics and turnover of exopolymeric substances in a hypersaline microbial mat

    Olivier Braissant;Alan W. Decho;Kristen M. Przekop;Kimberley L. Gallagher

  • Inside the alkalinity engine: the role of electron donors in the organomineralization potential of sulfate‐reducing bacteria

    K. L. Gallagher;T. J. Kading;O. Braissant;O. Braissant;C. Dupraz

  • The effects of infaunal biodiversity on biogeochemistry of coastal marine sediments

    George G. Waldbusser;Roberta L. Marinelli;Robert B. Whitlatch;Pieter T. Visscher

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmanuelle Vennin
Emmanuelle Vennin University of Burgundy
R. Pamela Reid
R. Pamela Reid University of Miami
Alan W. Decho
Alan W. Decho University of South Carolina
Joan M. Bernhard
Joan M. Bernhard Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Brad M. Bebout
Brad M. Bebout Ames Research Center
William F. Fitzgerald
William F. Fitzgerald University of Connecticut
Eric C. Gaucher
Eric C. Gaucher Total (France)
Ronald S. Oremland
Ronald S. Oremland United States Geological Survey
Hans G. Dam
Hans G. Dam University of Connecticut
Chad R. Hammerschmidt
Chad R. Hammerschmidt Wright State University

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