Staff

Carsten Schubert

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About Me

Projects
See projects on the webpage of the group Biogeochemistry


Research interests
•    Genesis, aerobic and anaerobic oxidation of methane in freshwater systems
•    Understanding food chains using stable isotopes
•    Isotopic (C,N,O,H) and organic geochemical investigations in respect to the cycling of nutrients (C,N) and the preservation/degradation of organic matter
•    Investigation of the nitrogen cycle (amino-sugars and amino acids as the main nitrogen compounds in organisms, stable isotopes on bulk and single compounds to understand food webs)
•    Determination and use of biomarkers in organic materials (sediments, plankton, and bacteria), especially alkenones, n-alkanes, fatty-acids, alcohols, sterols, ether-lipids and lignin for identifying key processes taking place today or in the past (palaeo-reconstructions)

 

Teaching

  • Lecture: Isotopes and Biomarkers in Biogeochemistry at ETH Zürich
  • Laboratory: Isotopes and Biomarkers in Biogeochemistry at ETH Zürich


PhD students

  • 2021-    Bastiaan Drost, Blue Green Biodiversity Project
  • 2020-    Grégoire Saboret, Isotopes and food chains

Postdocs in research group

  • 2021-            Maja Illic, Blue Green Biodiversity
  • 2021-2022    Sigrid vanGrinsven, Methanogenesis and dependence of organic material

Field experience

8 Oceanographic cruises (2 times as chief scientist) to the Arctic, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Black Sea and numerous lake sampling campaigns


Reviewer for Journals, Funding agencies

Nature, Science, Nature Communications, Nature Climate Change, Nature Geosciences, Scientific Reports, Geology, Marine Chemistry, Palaeoceanography, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Journal of Geophysical Research, Marine Geology, Limnology & Oceanography, Environmental Science & Technology, Organic Geochemistry, Gcubed, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, FEMS Microbial Ecology, Chemical Geology, Journal of Earth System Science, Journal of Great Lakes Research, Archives of Microbiology, Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Aquatic Geochemistry, Continental Shelf Research, Journal of Chromatography A, Environmental Microbiology, Ecological Monographs

Reviewer for Funding agencies

ERC Grants, European Science Foundation
DFG, German research foundation
NSF, National Science Foundation, USA
NWO Earth and Life Science, Dutch research council
SNF, Swiss National Science Foundation
Academy of Finland
Fondecyt, Chilean national research funding
U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
NERC, National Science Foundation, UK
Darwin Center for Biogeosciences (Netherlands)
American Chemical Society Petroleum Fund
French National Research Agency

Publications
Eawag Publications

Curriculum Vitae

2021- Member of the directorate
2012-2021 Head of the department Surface Waters-Research and Management, Eawag, Kastanienbaum
2001-present Research Scientist, Group leader, Eawag, Kastanienbaum
1997-2001 Research Scientist, Group leader, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen
1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
1995-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow, Oceanography, U.B.C., Vancouver, (NATO fellowship)
1992-1995 PhD-Thesis, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
March 1992 Diploma, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
1990-1991 Industrial based geological field work, "Geonorm" company, Giessen (part-time)
Jan 1990 Prediploma, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
1987-1992 Geology and Paleontology, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany
1986-1987 Physics, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany

Publications

Philippi, M.; Kitzinger, K.; Berg, J. S.; Tschitschko, B.; Kidane, A. T.; Littmann, S.; Marchant, H. K.; Storelli, N.; Winkel, L. H. E.; Schubert, C. J.; Mohr, W.; Kuypers, M. M. M. (2021) Purple sulfur bacteria fix N2 via molybdenum-nitrogenase in a low molybdenum Proterozoic ocean analogue, Nature Communications, 12, 4774 (12 pp.), doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25000-z, Institutional Repository
Stücheli, P. E.; Larsen, T.; Wehrli, B.; Schubert, C. J. (2021) Amino acid and chlorin based degradation indicators in freshwater water systems, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 304, 216-233, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2021.04.006, Institutional Repository
Callbeck, C. M.; Ehrenfels, B.; Baumann, K. B. L.; Wehrli, B.; Schubert, C. J. (2021) Anoxic chlorophyll maximum enhances local organic matter remineralization and nitrogen loss in Lake Tanganyika, Nature Communications, 12, 830 (11 pp.), doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21115-5, Institutional Repository

Address

E-Mail: carsten.schubert@eawag.ch
Phone: +41 58 765 2195
Fax: +41 58 765 2168
Address: Eawag
Seestrasse 79
6047 Kastanienbaum
Office: SL C18

Expert on

isotopes, surface water