Stephanie Kusch

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 and Oceanography 66(12), 4347-4362.

Dummann W., Steinig S., Hofmann P., Lenz M., Kusch S., Flögel S., Olaf Herrle J., Hallmann C., Rethemeyer J., Uwe Kasper H., Wagner T., 2021. Driving mechanisms of organic carbon burial in the Early Cretaceous South Atlantic Cape Basin (DSDP Site 361). Climate of the Past 17(1), 469-490.

Kusch S., Mollenhauer G., Willmes C., Hefter J., Eglinton T.I., Galy V., 2021. Controls on the age of plant waxes in marine sediments – A global synthesis. Organic Geochemistry 157, 104259.

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(3), e2020JG006008.

Kusch S., Wakeham S.G., Dildar N., Zhu C., Sepúlveda J., 2021. Bacterial and archaeal lipids trace chemo(auto)trophy along the redoxcline in Vancouver Island fjords. Geobiology 19(5), 521-541.

Kusch S., Wakeham S.G., Sepúlveda J., 2021. Diverse origins of “soil marker” bacteriohopanepolyols in marine oxygen deficient zones. Organic Geochemistry 151, 104150.

Scheidt S., Berg S., Hambach U., Klasen N., Pötter S., Stolz A., Veres D., Zeeden C., Brill D., Brückner H., Kusch S., Laag C., Lehmkuhl F., Melles M., Monnens F., Oppermann L., Rethemeyer J., Nett J.J., 2021. Chronological Assessment of the Balta Alba Kurgan Loess-Paleosol Section (Romania) – A Comparative Study on Different Dating Methods for a Robust and Precise Age Model. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 598448.

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.

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(10), e2020PA003890.

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.

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.

Steen A.D., Kusch S., Abdulla H.A., Cakić N., Coffinet S., Dittmar T., Fulton J.M., Galy V., Hinrichs K.-U., Ingalls A.E., Koch B.P., Kujawinski E., Liu Z., Osterholz H., Rush D., Seidel M., Sepúlveda J., Wakeham S.G., 2020. Analytical and Computational Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges in Marine Organic Biogeochemistry in an Era of “Omics”. Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 718.

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.

Elling F.J., Gottschalk J., Doeana K.D., Kusch S., Hurley S.J., Pearson A., 2019. Archaeal lipid biomarker constraints on the Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion. Nature Communications 10(1), 4519.

Jaeschke A., Böhm C., Merklinger F.F., Bernasconi S.M., Reyers M., Kusch S., Rethemeyer J., 2019. Variation in δ15N of fog-dependent Tillandsia ecosystems reflect water availability across climate gradients in the hyperarid Atacama Desert. Global and Planetary Change 183, 103029.

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(2), 273 - 286.

Kusch S., Benthien A., Richter K.-U., Rost B., Mollenhauer G., 2019. Dead in the Water: The Vicious Cycle of Blanks During Natural Level 14 C Manipulation of Marine Algal Cultures. Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 780.

Kusch S., Sepúlveda J., Wakeham S.G., 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.

Kusch S., Sepúlveda J., Wakeham S., 2019. Selective partitioning of BHPs in sedimentary density fractions along a Mississippi River-Gulf of Mexico export transect. 29th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, IMOG 2019.

Kusch S., Winterfeld M., Mollenhauer G., Höfle S.T., 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.

Mollenhauer G., Kusch S., Eglinton T.I., Pearson A., 2019. Compound-specific radiocarbon measurements. Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, 235-244.

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(2), 287-298.

Hemingway J.D., Kusch S., Shah Walter S.R., Polik C.A., Elling F.J., Pearson A., 2018. A novel method to measure the 13C composition of intact bacteriohopanepolyols. Organic Geochemistry 123, 144-147.

Kusch S., Shah Walter S.R., Hemingway J.D., Pearson A., 2018. Improved chromatography reveals multiple new bacteriohopanepolyol isomers in marine sediments. Organic Geochemistry 124, 12-21.

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). Holocene 27(8), 1103 - 1114.

Kusch S., Rethemeyer J., Hopmans E.C., 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

Pearson A., Hurley S.J., Walter S.R.S., Kusch S., Lichtin S., Zhang Y.G., 2016. Stable carbon isotope ratios of intact GDGTs indicate heterogeneous sources to marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 181, 18-35.

Höfle S.T., Kusch S., Talbot H.M., Mollenhauer G., Zubrzycki S., Burghardt S., Rethemeyer J., 2015. Characterisation of bacterial populations in Arctic permafrost soils using bacteriohopanepolyols. Organic Geochemistry 88, 1-16.

Kusch S., Eglinton T.I., Mix A.C., Mollenhauer G., 2010. Timescales of lateral sediment transport in the Panama Basin as revealed by radiocarbon ages of alkenones, total organic carbon and foraminifera. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 290(3-4), 340-350.

Kusch S., Kashiyama Y., Ogawa N.O., 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. Biogeosciences 7(12), 4105-4118.

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(24), 7031-7047.