Gerdhard L. Jessen

Phone: +56 (63) 2293839
E-mail: gerdhard.jessen@uach.cl

Dr. rer. nat. MPI for Marine Microbiology (Bremen Universität, Germany) 2015
M.Sc. Oceanography, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, 2010
Marine Biologist, UCSC, Concepción, Chile, 2006

                                                              Profesor  Auxiliar

ICML214 Oceanografía Química (Responsable)

ICML211 Geología Marina (Responsable)

CITI255 Geología Marina (Colaborador)

CITI192 Recursos Energéticos (Colaborador)

 

  • Aquatic microbial ecology and organic geochemistry
  • Geomicrobiology
  • Environmental hypoxia and eutrophication
  • Environmental and reclamation management for the resource sector

- Whaley-Martin K, Jessen GL, Nelson TC, Mori JF, Apte S, Jarolimek C and Warren LA (2019) The Potential Role of Halothiobacillus spp. in Sulfur Oxidation and Acid Generation in Circum-Neutral Mine Tailings Reservoirs. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10:297. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00297/full
-  Jessen GL, Lichtschlag A, Alban Ramette, Pantoja S, Pamela E. Rossel, Carsten J. Schubert, Struck U and Boetius A. (2017) Hypoxia causes preservation of labile organic matter and changes seafloor microbial community composition (Black Sea). Science Advances, 3 (2). http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/2/e1601897
-  Jessen GL, Lichtschlag A, Pantoja S, Struck U and Boetius A. (2016) Distribution and composition of thiotrophic mats in the hypoxic zone of the Black Sea (150-170m water depth, Crimea margin). Frontiers in Microbiology, 7 (1011). http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01011/full
-  Lichtschlag A, Donis D, Janssen F, Jessen GL, Holtappels M, Wenzhöfer F, Mazlumyan S, Sergeeva N, Waldmann C, Boetius A. (2015) Effects of fluctuating hypoxia on benthic oxygen consumption in the Black Sea (Crimean shelf). Biogeosciences, 12 (16). http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-5075-2015
-  Salman V, Amann R, Girnth A-C, Polerecky L, Bailey J, Høgslund S, Jessen GL, Pantoja S, Schulz-Vogt HN. (2011) A single-cell sequencing approach to the classification of large, vacuolated sulfur bacteria. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 34, 243-259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2011.02.001
-  Sellanes, J, Zapata-Hernández, G, Pantoja, S, Jessen, GL (2011). Chemosynthetic trophic support for the benthic community at an intertidal cold seep site at Mocha Island off central Chile. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 95(4), 431-439. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2011.10.016
-  Jessen GL, Pantoja S, Gutiérrez MA, Quiñones RA, González RR, Sellanes J, Kellermann MY, K-U Hinrichs (2011). Methane in shallow cold seeps at Mocha Island off central Chile. Continental Shelf Research. 31(6), 574-581. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2010.12.012
-  Jessen GL, Quiñones RA, González RR (2009). Aerobic and anaerobic enzymatic activity and allometric scaling of the deep benthic polychaete Hyalinoecia artifex (Polychaeta: Onuphidae) Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89, 1171-1175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315409000538
-  Quiroga E, Quiñones RA, González RR, Gallardo VA, Jessen GL (2007). Aerobic and anaerobic metabolism of Paraprionospio pinnata (Polychaeta: Spionidae) in central Chile. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87, 459-463. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315407048710

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