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Sabine Kasten is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Within these fields, their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientific topics addressed in Kasten's publications cover diverse aspects of geosciences and environmental research. Major themes include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Frequent publication venues for Kasten's work are:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Scientific Reports

Kasten has coauthored extensively with several researchers including Susann Henkel, Tilmann Schwenk, Michèle Baqués, V. Spieß, and Elda Miramontes.

Key representative publications by Sabine Kasten include:

  • Rates and Microbial Players of Iron-Driven Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane in Methanic Marine Sediments, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Iron and sulfate reduction structure microbial communities in (sub-)Antarctic sediments, 2021, The ISME Journal
  • Early diagenesis of iron and sulfur in Bornholm Basin sediments: The role of near-surface pyrite formation, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Crystalline iron oxides stimulate methanogenic benzoate degradation in marine sediment-derived enrichment cultures, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Isotopically "heavy" pyrite in marine sediments due to high sedimentation rates and non-steady-state deposition, 2021, Geology

Best Publications

  • Sulfur Cycling and Methane Oxidation

    Bo Barker Jørgensen;Sabine Kasten

  • Selective preservation of organic matter in marine environments; processes and impact on the sedimentary record

    K. A. F. Zonneveld;G. J. M. Versteegh;Sabine Kasten;T. I. Eglinton

  • Deep sulfate reduction completely mediated by anaerobic methane oxidation in sediments of the upwelling area off Namibia

    C. Niewöhner;C. Hensen;Sabine Kasten;M. Zabel

  • Global rates of marine sulfate reduction and implications for sub-sea-floor metabolic activities.

    Marshall W. Bowles;José M. Mogollón;José M. Mogollón;José M. Mogollón;Sabine Kasten;Sabine Kasten;Matthias Zabel

  • Redox sensitivity of P cycling during marine black shale formation: Dynamics of sulfidic and anoxic, non-sulfidic bottom waters

    Christian März;Simon W Poulton;Britta Beckmann;K Küster

  • Control of sulfate pore-water profiles by sedimentary events and the significance of anaerobic oxidation of methane for the burial of sulfur in marine sediments

    Christian Hensen;Matthias Zabel;Kerstin Pfeifer;Tilmann Schwenk

  • An inorganic geochemical argument for coupled anaerobic oxidation of methane and iron reduction in marine sediments.

    Natascha Riedinger;Michael J. Formolo;Timothy W. Lyons;Susann Henkel

  • The Impacts of the Oceans on Climate Change

    E. Lewis-Brown;P.C. Reid;A. Andersson;R. Arthurton

  • Diagenetic Alteration of Magnetic Signals by Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane Related to a Change in Sedimentation Rate

    Natascha Riedinger;Kerstin Pfeifer;Sabine Kasten;Johanna Fredrika Lukina Garming

  • North Atlantic Deep Water export to the Southern Ocean over the past 14 Myr: Evidence from Nd and Pb isotopes in ferromanganese crusts

    Martin Frank;Nicholas Whiteley;Sabine Kasten;James R. Hein

  • Active and buried authigenic barite fronts in sediments from the eastern Cape Basin

    Natascha Riedinger;Sabine Kasten;Jens Gröger;Christine Franke;Christine Franke

  • Sulfate Reduction in Marine Sediments

    Sabine Kasten;Bo Barker Jørgensen

  • Diagenetic changes of magnetic and geochemical signals by anaerobic methane oxidation in sediments of the Zambezi deep-sea fan (SW Indian Ocean)

    C. März;C. März;Janosch Hoffmann;U. Bleil;G. J. de Lange

  • Microbial Communities and Organic Matter Composition in Surface and Subsurface Sediments of the Helgoland Mud Area, North Sea.

    Oluwatobi E. Oni;Frauke Schmidt;Tetsuro Miyatake;Sabine Kasten;Sabine Kasten

  • Reconstructing changes in seep activity by means of pore water and solid phase Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios in pockmark sediments of the Northern Congo Fan

    Kerstin Nöthen;Sabine Kasten

  • Simultaneous formation of iron-rich layers at different redox boundaries in sediments of the Amazon Deep-Sea Fan

    Sabine Kasten;Tim Freudenthal;Franz X. Gingele;Horst D. Schulz

  • Timing and structure of Mega-SACZ events during Heinrich Stadial 1

    Nicolás M Stríkis;Cristiano Mazur Chiessi;Francisco W Cruz;Mathias Vuille

  • Impact of depositional and biogeochemical processes on small scale variations in nodule abundance in the Clarion‐Clipperton Fracture Zone

    Konstantin Mewes;José M. Mogollón;José M. Mogollón;Aude Picard;Aude Picard;Carsten Rühlemann

  • Iron oxide reduction in methane-rich deep Baltic Sea sediments

    Matthias Egger;Mathilde Hagens;Celia-Julia Sapart;Celia-Julia Sapart;Nikki Dijkstra

  • Subduction zone earthquake as potential trigger of submarine hydrocarbon seepage

    David Fischer;José M. Mogollón;Michael Strasser;Thomas Pape

  • Pockmarks in the Northern Congo Fan area, SW Africa: Complex seafloor features shaped by fluid flow

    Heiko Sahling;Gerhard Bohrmann;Volkhard Spiess;Jörg Bialas

  • Redox sensitivity of P cycling during marine black shale formation

    C März;SW Poulton;B Beckmann;K Küster

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Bohrmann
Gerhard Bohrmann University of Bremen
Thomas Pape
Thomas Pape University of Copenhagen
Christian Hensen
Christian Hensen GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Carsten Rühlemann
Carsten Rühlemann Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
Matthias Zabel
Matthias Zabel University of Bremen
Gerhard Kuhn
Gerhard Kuhn University of Bremen
Marta E Torres
Marta E Torres Oregon State University
Michael Staubwasser
Michael Staubwasser University of Cologne
Sebastian Krastel
Sebastian Krastel Kiel University
Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius Max Planck Society

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