News from our Biogeochemistry & Climate Change lab: https://www.gomez-saez-lab.com/
Group leader (DFG Emmy-Noether) investigating
#deoxygenation, #warming, #DOM, #sulfur, #microbes @ LMU Munich
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Gonzalo Gomez Saez
🌊 Over the past 50 years, the global oxygen content of the #oceans has declined by two percent – mainly due to climate change. #LMU biogeochemist Dr. Gonzalo Gomez Saez is investigating how microorganisms respond to oxygen depletion. 🔬 #LMUMunich #ClimateChange
Hypoxia increases microbial carbon assimilation of taurine in a seasonally anoxic fjord academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs 🌊
Read about our cruise last year to Mariager Fjord with @ggomezsaez.bsky.social at www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
Link to the article (open-access) published in #TheISMEjournal:
academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
The world’s oceans are losing oxygen—one of the most serious consequences of climate change. 🌊 But what impact does this have on microorganisms and organic matter cycles?🚢
To find out, biogeochemist @ggomezsaez.bsky.social and his team are traveling to Jutland:
Many ocean microbes have the genetic potential of consuming taurine, a key organosulfur compound, but it is unclear how this activity is linked to the worldwide decline in oxygen levels. Here, we found by 13C-DOS qSIP that taurine was only used as a C source in hypoxic waters of the Mariager Fjord.
Link to the @lmu.de press release:
www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
#Climatechange: when the ocean runs out of oxygen
Press article on our last expedition aboard #RV_Aurora, sampling the water column and sediments of the seasonally anoxic #MariagerFjord.
Thank you #LMUpress and Dr. Dominic Anders!
Link: www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
@lmugeoumwelt.bsky.social
Great work of Ömer Coskun, former postdoc of my #DFGEmmyNoether group, in collaboration with colleagues in Munich, Bremen, Oldenburg and Aarhus @ianpgm.bsky.social
If you work on interdisciplinary approaches connecting biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology, you are welcome to our session at #Goldschmidt2026 in Montreal.
Abstracts submission deadline: February 26th.
