ISMER_Isotope Biogeochemistry

Berg S, Kusch S & Jivcov S (2024) Alkyl lipid distributions and compound-specific ¹⁴C isotope compositions in diverse sedimentary archives in sub-Antarctic South Georgia: Deconvolving (past and present) marine and terrestrial sources and revealing localized export dynamics in response to environmental change. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 129, e2024JG008001. doi: 10.1029/2024JG008001.

Varma D, Hopmans EC, van Kemenade Z, Kusch S, Berg S, Bale NJ, Sangiorgi F, Reichart G-J, Sinninghe Damsté JS, Schouten S (2024) Evaluating isoprenoidal hydroxylated GDGT-based temperature proxies in surface sediments from the global ocean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 370, 113-127. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2023.12.019.

Wei B, Mollenhauer G, Kusch S, Hefter J, Grotheer H, Schefuß E, Geibert W, Ransby D & Jia G (2023) Anthropogenic perturbations change the quality and quantity of terrestrial carbon flux to the coastal ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 128, e2023JG007482. doi: 10.1029/2023JG007482.

McFarlin JM, Axford Y, Kusch S, Masterson AL, Lasher GE & Osburn MR (2023) Aquatic plant wax hydrogen and carbon isotopes in Greenland lakes record shifts in methane cycling during past Holocene warming. Science Advances 9. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adh9704.

Kusch S & Rush D (2022) Revisiting the precursors of the most abundant natural products on Earth: a look back at 30+ years of bacteriohopanepolyol (BHP) research and ahead to new frontiers. Organic Geochemistry 172, 104469. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2022.104469.

Kusch S, Wakeham SG & Sepúlveda J (2022) Bacteriohopanepolyols across the Black Sea redoxcline trace diverse bacterial metabolisms. Organic Geochemistry 172, 104462. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2022.104462.

Francke A, Lacey JH, Marchegiano M, Wagner B, Ariztegui D, Zanchetta G, Kusch S, Ufer K, Baneschi I & Knödgen K (2022) Last Glacial central Mediterranean hydrology inferred from Lake Trasimeno’s (Italy) calcium carbonate geochemistry. Boreas 51, 219-237. doi: 10.1111/bor.12552.

Berg S, Jivcov S, Kusch S, Kuhn G, White D, Bohrmann G, Melles M & Rethemeyer J (2021) Increased petrogenic and biospheric organic carbon burial in sub-Antarctic fjord sediments in response to recent glacier retreat. Limnology & Oceanography 66, 4347-4362. doi: 10.1002/lno.11965.

Kusch S, Mollenhauer G, Willmes C, Hefter J, Eglinton TI & Galy V (2021) Controls on the age of plant waxes in marine sediments – a global synthesis (invited review article). Organic Geochemistry 157, 104259. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2021.104259.

Kusch S, Wakeham SG, Dildar N, Zhu C & Sepúlveda J (2021) Bacterial and archaeal lipids trace chemo(auto)trophy along the redoxcline in Vancouver Island fjords. Geobiology 19, 521-541. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12446.

Wei B, Mollenhauer G, Hefter J, Kusch S, Grotheer H, Schefuß E & Jia G (2021) The nature, timescale and efficiency of riverine export of terrestrial organic carbon in the (sub)tropics: insights at the molecular level from the Pearl River and adjacent coastal sea. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 565, 116934. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116934.

Kusch S, Rethemeyer J, Ransby D & Mollenhauer G (2021) Permafrost organic carbon turnover and export into a high-Arctic fjord: a case study from Svalbard using compound-specific ¹⁴C analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126, e2020JG006008. doi: 10.1029/2020JG006008.

Dummann W, Steinig S, Hofmann P, Lenz M, Kusch S, Flögel S, Herrle JO, Hallmann C, Rethemeyer J, Kasper HU & Wagner T (2021) Driving mechanisms of organic carbon sequestration in the Early Cretaceous South Atlantic Cape Basin (DSDP Site 361). Climate of the Past 17, 469–490. doi: 10.5194/cp-17-469-2021.

Scheidt S, Berg S, Hambach U, Klasen N, Pötter S, Stolz A, Veres D, Zeeden D, Brill D, Brückner H, Kusch S, Laag C, Lehmkuhl F, Melles M, Monnens F, Oppermann L, Rethemeyer J & Nett JJ (2021) Multi-method chronological assessment of the Balta Alba Kurgan loess-paleosol section (Romania) – a comparative study on dating methods for a robust and precise age model. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 568. doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.598448.

Kusch S, Wakeham SG & Sepúlveda J (2021) Diverse origins of “soil marker” bacteriohopanepolyols in marine oxygen deficient zones. Organic Geochemistry 151, 104150. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104150.

Berg S, Jivcov S, Kusch S, Kuhn G, Wacker L & Rethemeyer J (2020) Compound-specific radiocarbon analysis of (Sub-)Antarctic coastal marine sediments – potential and challenges for chronologies. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35, e2020PA003890. doi: 10.1029/2020PA003890.

Steen AD, Kusch S, Abdulla H, Cakić N, Coffinet S, Dittmar T, Fulton J, Galy V, Hinrichs K-U, Ingalls A, Koch B, Kujawinski E, Liu Z, Osterholz H, Rush D, Seidel M, Sepúlveda J & Wakeham SG (2020) Analytical and computational advances, opportunities, and challenges in marine organic biogeochemistry in an era of “omics”. Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 718. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00718.

Steinig S, Dummann W, Park W, Latif M, Kusch S, Hofmann P & Flögel S (2020) Evidence for a regional warm bias in the Early Cretaceous TEX₈₆ record. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 539, 116184. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116184.

Kusch S, Jaeschke A, Mörchen R & Rethemeyer J (2020) Tracing life at the dry limit using phospholipid fatty acids – does sampling matter? Soil Biology and Biochemistry 141, 107661. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107661.

Knief C, Bol R, Amelung W, Kusch S, Frindte K, Eckmeier E, Jaeschke A, Dunai T, Fuentes B, Mörchen R, Schütte T, Lücke A, Klumpp E, Kaiser K & Rethemeyer J (2020) Tracing elevational changes in microbial life and organic carbon sources in soils of the Atacama Desert. Global and Planetary Change 184, 103078. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103078.

Kusch S, Benthien A, Richter KU, Rost B & Mollenhauer G (2019) Dead in the water: the vicious cycle of blanks during natural level ¹⁴C manipulation of marine algal cultures. Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 780. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00780.

Kusch S, Sepúlveda J & Wakeham SG (2019) Origin of sedimentary BHPs along a Mississippi River–Gulf of Mexico export transect: Insights from spatial and density distributions. Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 729. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00729.

Elling FJ, Gottschalk J, Doeana KD, Kusch S, Hurley SJ & Pearson A (2019) Archaeal lipid biomarker constraints on the Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion. Nature Communications 10: 4519. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12553-3.

Mollenhauer G, Kusch S, Eglinton TI & Pearson A (2019) Compound-specific radiocarbon measurements. Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences – Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Third Edition. Eds Cochran JK, Bokuniewicz H & Yager P. Academic Press. Vol 1, 235-244. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11432-0.

Jaeschke A, Böhm C, Merklinger F, Bernasconi S, Reyers M, Kusch S & Rethemeyer J (2019) Variation in foliar δ¹⁵N of fog-dependent Tillandsia ecosystems reflect water availability across climate gradients in the hyperarid Atacama Desert. Global and Planetary Change 183, 103029. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103029.

Kusch S, Winterfeld M, Mollenhauer G, Höfle ST, Schirrmeister L, Schwamborn G & Rethemeyer J (2019) Glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in high latitude Siberian permafrost: Diversity, environmental controls, and implications for proxy applications. Organic Geochemistry 136, 103888. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.06.009.

Kusch S, Bennike O, Wagner B, Lenz M, Steffen I & Rethemeyer J (2019) Holocene environmental history in high-Arctic North Greenland revealed by a combined biomarker and macrofossil approach. Boreas 48, 273-286. doi: 10.1111/bor.12377.

Thienemann M, Kusch S, Vogel H, Ritter B, Schefuß E & Rethemeyer J (2019) Neoglacial transition of atmospheric circulation patterns over Fennoscandia recorded in Holocene Lake Torneträsk sediments. Boreas 48, 287-298. doi: 10.1111/bor.12365.

Kusch S, Shah Walter SR, Hemingway JD & Pearson A (2018) Improved chromatography reveals multiple new bacteriohopanepolyol isomers in marine sediments. Organic Geochemistry 124, 12-21. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.07.010.

Hemingway JD, Kusch S, Shah Walter SR, Polik CA, Elling FJ & Pearson A (2018) A novel method to measure the ¹³C composition of intact bacteriohopanepolyols. Organic Geochemistry 123, 144-147. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.07.002.

Thienemann M, Masi A, Kusch S, Sadori L, John S, Francke A, Wagner B & Rethemeyer J (2017) Organic geochemical and palynological evidence for Holocene natural and anthropogenic environmental change at Lake Dojran (Macedonia/Greece). The Holocene 27 (8), 1103-1114. doi: 10.1177/0959683616683261.

Kusch S, Rethemeyer J, Hopmans EC, Wacker L & Mollenhauer G (2016) Factors influencing ¹⁴C concentrations of algal and archaeal lipids and their associated sea surface temperature proxies in the Black Sea. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 188, 35-57. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.05.025.

Pearson A, Hurley SJ, Shah Walter SR, Kusch S, Lichtin S & Zhang YG (2016) Stable carbon isotope ratios of intact GDGTs indicate heterogeneous sources to marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 181, 18-35 . doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.02.034.

Höfle ST, Kusch S, Talbot HM, Mollenhauer G, Zubrzycki S, Burghardt S & Rethemeyer J (2015) Characterisation of bacterial populations in Arctic permafrost soils using bacteriohopanepolyols. Organic Geochemistry 88, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.08.002.

Kusch S, Kashiyama Y, Ogawa NO, Altabet M, Butzin M, Friedrich J, Ohkouchi N & Mollenhauer G (2010) Implications for chloro- and pheopigment synthesis and preservation from combined compound-specific δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, and Δ¹⁴C analysis. Biogeosciences7, 4105-4118. doi: 10.5194/bg-7-4105-2010.

Kusch S, Rethemeyer J, Schefuß E & Mollenhauer G (2010) Controls on the age of vascular plant biomarkers in Black Sea sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74, 7031-7047. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2010.09.005.

Kusch S, Eglinton TI, Mix AC & Mollenhauer G (2010) Timescales of lateral sediment transport in the Panama Basin as revealed by compound-specific radiocarbon ages of alkenones, total organic carbon and foraminifera. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 290, 340-350. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.030.

Lotem N, Pellerin A, Walter Anthony K, Gafni A, Boyko V & Sivan O (2023) Anaerobic oxidation of methane does not attenuate methane emissions from thermokarst lakes.  Limnology & Oceanography 68, 1316–133. doi: 10.1002/lno.12349.

Riemer S, Turchyn A, Pellerin A & Antler G (2023) Digging deeper: Bioturbation increases the preserved sulfur isotope fractionation. Frontiers in Marine Science 9, 1039193. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1039193.

Liu J, Pellerin A, Wang J, Rickard D, Antler G, Zhao J, Wang Z, Jørgensen BB, & Ono S (2022) Multiple sulfur isotopes discriminate organoclastic and methane-based sulfate reduction by sub-seafloor pyrite formation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 316, 309-330. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.09.026.

Pellerin A, Lotem N, Walter Anthony K, Eliani Russak E, Hasson N, Røy H, Chanton JP & Sivan O (2022) Methane production controls in a young thermokarst lake formed by abrupt permafrost thaw. Global Change Biology 28, 3206-3221. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16151.

Yorshansky O, Liang L, Pellerin A, Wang F, Herut B & Sivan O (2022) Iron oxides impact sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane in diffusion-dominated marine sediments. Frontiers in Marine Science 9, 903918. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.903918. 

Boyko V, Avetisyan K, Findlay A, Guo Q, Yang X, Pellerin A & Kamyshny A (2021) Biogeochemical cycling of sulfur, manganese and iron in ferruginous limnic analog of Archean ocean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 296, 56-74. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.12.020.

Liu J, Antler G, Pellerin A, Izon G, Dohrmann I, Findlay AJ, Røy H, Ono S, Turchyn AV, Kasten S & Jørgensen BB (2021) Isotopically “heavy” pyrite in marine sediments due to high sedimentation rates and non-steady-state deposition. Geology 49, 816-821. doi: 10.1130/g48415.1.

Liu J, Pellerin A, Antler G, Izon G, Findlay AJ, Røy H, Ono S, Kasten S, Turchyn AV & Jørgensen BB (2021) Early diagenesis of sulfur in Bornholm Basin sediments: The role of upward diffusion of isotopically “heavy” sulfide. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 313, 359-377. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.08.018.  

Cremiere A, Pellerin A, Wing BA & Lepland A (2020) Multiple sulfur isotopes in methane seep carbonates track unsteady sulfur cycling during anaerobic methane oxidation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 531, 115994. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115994. 

Findlay AJ, Pellerin A, Laufer K & Jorgensen BB (2020) Quantification of sulphide oxidation rates in marine sediment. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 280, 441-452. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.04.007.

Liu J, Pellerin A, Izon G, Wang J, Antler G, Liang J, Su P, Jørgensen BB & Ono S (2020) The multiple sulphur isotope fingerprint of a sub-seafloor oxidative sulphur cycle driven by iron. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 536, 116165. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116165.

Liu J, Pellerin A, Antler G, Kasten S, Findlay AJ, Dohrmann I, Røy H, Turchyn AV & Jørgensen BB (2020) Early diagenesis of iron and sulfur in Bornholm Basin sediments: The role of near-surface pyrite formation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 284, 43-60. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.06.003.

Magnuson E, Mykytczuk NCS, Pellerin A, Goordial J, Twine SM, Wing B, Foote SJ, Fulton K & Whyte L G (2020) Thiomicrorhabdus streamers and sulfur cycling in perennial hypersaline cold springs in the Canadian high Arctic. Environmental Microbiology, 23, 3384-3400. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14916.

Michaud AB, Laufer K, Findlay A, Pellerin A, Antler G, Turchyn AV, Røy H, Wehrmann LM & Jørgensen BB (2020) Glacial influence on the iron and sulfur cycles in Arctic fjord sediments (Svalbard). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 280, 423-440. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.12.033.

Paiste K, Pellerin A, Zerkle AL, Kirsimae K, Prave AR, Romashkin AE & Lepland A (2020) The pyrite multiple sulfur isotope record of the 1.98 Ga Zaonega Formation: Evidence for biogeochemical sulfur cycling in a semi-restricted basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 534, 116092. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116092.

Pellerin A, Antler G, Marietou A, Turchyn AV & Jørgensen BB (2020) The effect of temperature on sulfur and oxygen isotope fractionation by sulfate reducing bacteria (Desulfococcus multivorans). FEMS Microbiology Letters 367, fnaa061. doi: 10.1093/femsle/fnaa061.

Findlay AJ, Boyko V, Pellerin A, Ayetisyan K, Guo QJ, Yang X & Kamyshny A (2019) Sulfide oxidation affects the preservation of sulfur isotope signals. Geology 47, 739-743. doi: 10.1130/G46153.1.

Hutchings AM, Antler G, Wilkening JV, Basu A, Bradbury HJ, Clegg JA, Gorka M, Lin CY, Mills JV, Pellerin A, Redeker KR, Sun X & Turchyn A V (2019) Creek Dynamics Determine Pond Subsurface Geochemical Heterogeneity in East Anglian (UK) Salt Marshes. Frontiers in Earth Science 7, 00041. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00041.

Jørgensen BB, Findlay AJ & Pellerin A (2019) The Biogeochemical Sulfur Cycle of Marine Sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 00849. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00849.

Lacelle D, Fontaine M, Pellerin A, Kokelj SV & Clark ID (2019) Legacy of Holocene landscape changes on soil biogeochemistry: A perspective from paleo-active layers in Northwestern Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124, 2662-2679. doi: 10.1029/2018jg004916.

Pellerin A, Antler G, Holm SA, Findlay AJ, Crockford PW, Turchyn AV, Jørgensen BB & Finster K (2019) Large sulfur isotope fractionation by bacterial sulfide oxidation. Science Advances 5, eaaw1480. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw1480.

Antler G & Pellerin A (2018) A critical look at the combined use of sulfur and oxygen isotopes to study microbial metabolisms in methane-rich environments. Frontiers in Microbiology 9, 00519. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00519. 

Bertran E, Leavitt WD, Pellerin A, Zane GM, Wall JD, Halevy I, Wing BA & Johnston DT (2018) Deconstructing the dissimilatory sulfate reduction pathway: Isotope fractionation of a mutant unable of growth on sulfate. Frontiers in Microbiology 9, 03110. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03110.

Pellerin A, Wenk CB, Halevy I & Wing BA (2018) Sulfur isotope fractionation by sulfate-reducing microbes can reflect past physiology. Environmental Science and Technology 52, 4013-4022. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05119.

Pellerin A, Antler G, Røy H, Findlay A, Beulig F, Scholze C, Turchyn AV & Jørgensen BB (2018) The sulfur cycle below the sulfate-methane transition of marine sediments. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 239, 74-89. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2018.07.027.

Crockford PW, Cowie BR, Johnston DT, Hoffman PF, Sugiyama I, Pellerin A, Bui TH, Hayles J, Halverson GP, Macdonald FA & Wing BA (2016) Triple oxygen and multiple sulfur isotope constraints on the evolution of the post-Marinoan sulfur cycle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 435, 74-83. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.12.017.

Herod MN, Li TJ, Pellerin A, Kieser W & Clark ID (2016) The seasonal fluctuations and accumulation of iodine-129 in relation to the hydrogeochemistry of the Wolf Creek Research Basin, a discontinuous permafrost watershed. Science of the Total Environment 569, 1212-1223. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.06.196.

Pellerin A, Anderson-Trocme L, Whyte LG, Zane GM, Wall JD & Wing BA (2015) Sulfur isotope fractionation during the evolutionary adaptation of a sulfate-reducing bacterium. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 81, 2676-2689. doi: 10.1128/Aem.03476-14.

Pellerin A, Bui TH, Rough M, Mucci A, Canfield DE & Wing BA (2015) Mass-dependent sulfur isotope fractionation during reoxidative sulfur cycling: A case study from Mangrove Lake, Bermuda. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 149, 152-164. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2014.11.007.

Lacelle D, Pellerin A, Clark ID, Lauriol B & Fortin D (2009) (Micro)morphological, inorganic-organic isotope geochemisty and microbial populations in endostromatolites (cf. fissure calcretes), Haughton impact structure, Devon Island, Canada: The influence of geochemical pathways on the preservation of isotope biomarkers. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 281, 202-214. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.022.

Pellerin A, Lacelle D, Fortin D, Clark ID & Lauriol B (2009) Microbial diversity in endostromatolites (cf. fissure calcretes) and in the surrounding permafrost landscape, Haughton impact structure region, Devon Island, Canada. Astrobiology 9, 807-822. doi: 10.1089/ast.2008.0302.

Lacelle D, Juneau V, Pellerin A, Lauriol B & Clark ID (2008) Weathering regime and geochemical conditions in a polar desert environment, Haughton impact structure region, Devon Island, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45, 1139-1157. doi: 10.1139/E08-063.