Bo Barker Jørgensen
Professor, head of center
Department of Bioscience - Center for Geomicrobiology
Ny Munkegade 116
building 1535, 118
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Phone: +4587156563
Department of Bioscience - Arctic Research Centre
Ny Munkegade 114
building 1535, 118
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Phone: +4587156563
Department of Bioscience - Microbiology
Ny Munkegade 116
8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
My current research interests are marine biogeochemistry and marine microbial ecology with a focus on the deep sub-seafloor biosphere. Through collaborations in the Center for Geomicrobiology I study the processes and microbiology of carbon, sulfur and iron cycling in marine sediments. Important questions include, how do the microorganisms thrive at extremely low energy flux in the subsurface and how do the subsurface microorganisms differ physiologically or genetically from those at the sediment surface? What controls the rates of organic matter mineralization and how do these change with depth and age in the seabed? How important are "cryptic cycles" of sulfur and iron and how do they interact with methane? These questions are studied in sediments from different marine environments with the aim to understand the controls and pathways of the biogeochemical processes and to make geographic extrapolations of their quantitative importance in the seabed.
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Methylotrophic methanogenesis fuels cryptic methane cycling in marine surface sediment
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Control on rate and pathway of anaerobic organic carbon degradation in the seabed
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Global diffusive fluxes of methane in marine sediments
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IODP Workshop
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Det Arktiske Initiativ
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ECORD Summer School
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The Jim Tiedje Award 2010
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German Environmental Prize 2009
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Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
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Nyt liv til omdiskuteret Bermuda-teori
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Jagten på havbundens hemmelighed. Auroras jomfrutur i det bornholmske bassin
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Forsvinder der overhovedet flere skibe og fly i Bermuda-trekanten?
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