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2023

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Overview

Thorsten Dittmar is affiliated with the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics covered in their work include Marine and coastal ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Thorsten Dittmar's recent notable publications include:

  • Enigmatic persistence of dissolved organic matter in the ocean, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • An international laboratory comparison of dissolved organic matter composition by high resolution mass spectrometry: Are we getting the same answer?, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography Methods
  • The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Plastic pollution fosters more microbial growth in lakes than natural organic matter, 2022, Nature Communications
  • ICBM-OCEAN: Processing Ultrahigh-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Data of Complex Molecular Mixtures, 2020, Analytical Chemistry

The venues where Thorsten Dittmar frequently publishes include Environmental Science & Technology, Frontiers in Marine Science, Limnology and Oceanography, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature Communications.

Frequent collaborators with whom they have coauthored multiple papers are:

  • Jutta Niggemann
  • Michael Seidel
  • Helena Osterholz
  • Gabriel Singer
  • Aron Stubbins

Best Publications

  • Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

    Michael W. I. Schmidt;Margaret S. Torn;Margaret S. Torn;Samuel Abiven;Thorsten Dittmar;Thorsten Dittmar

  • A simple and efficient method for the solid‐phase extraction of dissolved organic matter (SPE‐DOM) from seawater

    Thorsten Dittmar;Boris Koch;Norbert Hertkorn;Gerhard Kattner

  • From mass to structure: an aromaticity index for high‐resolution mass data of natural organic matter

    Boris Koch;T. Dittmar

  • Organic carbon dynamics in mangrove ecosystems : a review

    Erik Kristensen;Steven Bouillon;Thorsten Dittmar;Cyril Marchand

  • Mangrove Production and Carbon sinks: A revision of global budget estimates

    Steven Bouillon;Alberto V. Borges;Edward Castaneda-Moya;Karen Diele

  • Chemodiversity of dissolved organic matter in lakes driven by climate and hydrology

    Anne M. Kellerman;Thorsten Dittmar;Dolly N. Kothawala;Lars J. Tranvik

  • Persistence of dissolved organic matter in lakes related to its molecular characteristics

    Anne M. Kellerman;Dolly N. Kothawala;Dolly N. Kothawala;Thorsten Dittmar;Lars J. Tranvik

  • Mangroves, a major source of dissolved organic carbon to the oceans

    Thorsten Dittmar;Norbert Hertkorn;Gerhard Kattner;Rubén J. Lara

  • The biogeochemistry of the river and shelf ecosystem of the Arctic Ocean: a review

    Thorsten Dittmar;Gerhard Kattner

  • Global charcoal mobilization from soils via dissolution and riverine transport to the oceans

    Rudolf Jaffé;Yan Ding;Jutta Niggemann;Anssi V. Vähätalo;Anssi V. Vähätalo

  • Molecular formulae of marine and terrigenous dissolved organic matter detected by electrospray ionization Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry

    Boris P. Koch;Matthias Witt;Ralph Engbrodt;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Iron traps terrestrially derived dissolved organic matter at redox interfaces

    Thomas Riedel;Dominik Zak;Harald Biester;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Fundamentals of molecular formula assignment to ultrahigh resolution mass data of natural organic matter.

    Boris P. Koch;Thorsten Dittmar;Matthias Witt;Gerhard Kattner

  • Persistence of dissolved organic matter explained by molecular changes during its passage through soil

    Vanessa-Nina Roth;Markus Lange;Carsten Simon;Norbert Hertkorn

  • What’s in an EEM? Molecular Signatures Associated with Dissolved Organic Fluorescence in Boreal Canada

    A. Stubbins;J.-F. Lapierre;M. Berggren;M. Berggren;Y. T. Prairie

  • Detecting the signature of permafrost thaw in Arctic rivers

    Robert G. M. Spencer;Paul J. Mann;Thorsten Dittmar;Timothy I. Eglinton

  • Universal molecular structures in natural dissolved organic matter.

    Maren Zark;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Towards a global assessment of pyrogenic carbon from vegetation fires

    Cristina Santín;Stefan H. Doerr;Evan S. Kane;Caroline A. Masiello

  • Degradation of terrestrially derived macromolecules in the Amazon River

    Nicholas D. Ward;Richard G. Keil;Patricia M. Medeiros;Daimio C. Brito

  • Biogeochemically diverse organic matter in Alpine glaciers and its downstream fate

    Gabriel A. Singer;Christina Fasching;Linda Wilhelm;Jutta Niggemann

  • Tidal pumping drives nutrient and dissolved organic matter dynamics in a Gulf of Mexico subterranean estuary

    Isaac R. Santos;William C. Burnett;Thorsten Dittmar;I G.N.A. Suryaputra

Frequent Co-Authors

Aron Stubbins
Aron Stubbins Northeastern University
Matthias Witt
Matthias Witt Laboratorien Dr. Döring GmbH
Meinhard Simon
Meinhard Simon Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Robert G. M. Spencer
Robert G. M. Spencer Florida State University
Gabriel Singer
Gabriel Singer University of Innsbruck
Ulf Riebesell
Ulf Riebesell GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius Max Planck Society
Gerd Gleixner
Gerd Gleixner Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Patricia M. Medeiros
Patricia M. Medeiros University of Georgia
Gerhard Kattner
Gerhard Kattner Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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