Marianne Baas       E-mail: mbaas@nioz.nl   Direct Phone: (+31) (0)222-369525

ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH (NIOZ)   Postal address: P.O. Box 59, NL-1790 AB Den Burg (Texel) The Netherlands   Visiting address: Landsdiep 4 NL-1797 SZ ’t Horntje (Texel) The Netherlands Room: C10-06   Phone (reception): (+31) (0)222-369300 Fax: (+31) (0)222-319674

 

 

General
1993 - present	Royal NIOZ, department BGC
- 1993	Technical University Delft, Faculty STM
Research Interests
Developing new methods
Biomarker analysis
Current  Tasks
Be concerned with the organisation of the lab
Chairman of the NIOZ “inkoopcommissie”
Chemical analysis
Collector and editor of BGC lab manuals
Controller BGC financial administration
Coordinator webpage’s BGC
Maintenance of the ASE and prep-GC
Member of BGC cruises
Pilot studies for proposals
Training of Ph.D students, post-docs and students
Recent publications (2004-2008)
2008
Schouten S., Baas M., Hopmans E.C., Reysenbach A-L and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Tetraether membrane lipids of Candidatus “‘Aciduliprofundum boonei”, a cultivated obligate thermoacidophilic euryarchaeote from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Extremophiles 12, 119-124.   Schouten S., Baas M., Hopmans E.C., and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. An unusual isoprenoid tetraether lipid in marine and lacustrine sediments. Org. Geochem. 39, 1033-1038. Schouten S., Eldrett J.S, Greenwood D., Harding I., Baas M. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Onset of long-term cooling of Greenland near the Eocene-Oligocene boundary as revealed by branched tetraether lipids. Geology 36, 147-150.   Schouten S., Hopmans E.C., Baas M., Boumann H., Standfest S., Könneke M., Stahl D.A. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Intact membrane lipids of Candidatus “Nitrosopumilus maritimus”, a cultivated representative of the cosmopolitan mesophilic Group I Crenarchaeota. Appl. Env. Microbiol. 74, 2433-2440.   Schouten S., Özdirekcan S., Van der Meer M. T.J., Blokker P., Baas M., Hayes J.M. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Evidence for substantial intramolecular heterogeneity in the stable carbon isotopic composition of phytol in photoautotrophic organisms. Org. Geochem. 39, 135-146.   Van der Meer M.T.J., Baas M., Sangiorgni F., Brinkhuis H., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Schouten S. Molecular isotopic and dinoflagellate evidence for Late Holocene freshening of the Black Sea. Earth Plan. Sci. Lett. 267, 426-434.
2007
Stadnitskaia, A., Blinova, V., Baas, M., Hopmans, E.C., Ivanov, M.K. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Lipid biomarkers in sediments of mud volcanoes from the Sorokin Trough, NE Black Sea: Probable source strata for the erupted material. Org. Geochem. 38, 67-83.   Forster, A., Schouten, S., Baas, M. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Mid-Cretaceous (Albian–Santonian) sea surface temperature record of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Geology 35, 919-922.   Van der Meer, M.T.J., Baas, M., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Marino, G., Rohling, E.J., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Schouten, S. Hydrogen isotopic compositions of long – chain alkenones record freshwater flooding of the Eastern Mediterranean at the onset of sapropel deposition. Earth Plan. Sci. Lett. 262, 594 – 600.
2006
Coolen, M.J.L., Boere, A., Abbas, B., Baas, M., Wakeham, S.G., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Ancient DNA derived from alkenone-biosynthesizing haptophytes and other algae in Holocene sediments from the Black Sea. Paleoceanography 21, PA1005, doi:10.1029/2005pa001188.   Herfort, L., Schouten, S., Boon, J.P., Woltering, M., Baas, M., Weiers, J.W.H., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Characterization of transport and deposition of terrestrial organic matter in the southern North Sea using the BIT index. Limnol. Oceanogr. 51, 2196-2205.   Van Breugel Y., Baas M., Schouten S., Mattioli E., and Sinninghe Damsté J. S. Isorenieratane record in black shales from the Paris Basin, France: Constraints on recycling of respired CO2 as a mechanism for negative carbon isotope shifts during the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event. Paleoceanography 21, PA4220-1-PA4220-8.
2005
Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Baas, M., Geenevasen, J.A.J., Kenig, F.  Structural identification of sedimentary C21 and C22 highly branched isoprenoid alkanes. Org. Geochem. 36, 511-517. Smittenberg, R.H., Baas, M., Green, M.J., Hopmans, E.C., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.  Pre- and post-industrial environmental changes as revealed by the biogeochemical sedimentary record of Drammensfjord, Norway. Mar. Geol. 214, 177-200. Smittenberg, R.H., Baas, M., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.  The demise of the alga Botryococcus braunii from a Norwegian fjord was due to early eutrophication. Holocene 15, 133-140.
2004
Schouten, S., Strous, M., Kuypers, M.M.M., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Baas, M., Schubert, C.J., Jetten, M.S.M., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Stable carbon isotopic fractionations associated with inorganic carbon fixation by anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70, 3785-3788. Tsikos, H., Jenkyns, H.C., Walsworth-Bell, B., Petrizzo, M.R., Forster, A., Kolonic, S., Erba, E., Silva, I.P., Baas, M., Wagner, T., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Carbon-isotope stratigraphy recorded by the Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event: correlation and implications based on three key localities. Journal of the Geological Society 161, 711-719.