Stefan Schouten

 

Dr.  Stefan Schouten         E-mail: stefan.schouten@nioz.nl   Direct Phone: (+31) (0)222-369565

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: C10-17   Phone (reception): (+31) (0)222-369300 Fax: (+31) (0)222-319674

 

 

General

 

1999 – present :	Research Scientist, Royal NIOZ.
1998 – 1999 :	Visiting Research fellow at the Centre on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies, University of California at Davis (USA) and Stanford University (USA).
1990 – 1994 :	PhD-student, Delft University of Technology and NIOZ.
Research Interests
The organic biogeochemistry of marine sediments, i.e. the reconstruction of present and past microbial communities, biosynthetic pathways, biogeochemical cycles, environments and climates by structural and stable isotopic analysis of organic compounds in micro-organisms, marine waters and sediments.  Detailed research subjects include: ·         Biosynthetic pathways, structures and 13C-contents of lipids in algae, bacteria and archaea. ·         Combination of lipid and genetic information for analysing past and present biodiversity ·         Assessing the functioning of microbial communities by labelling experiments ·         Development of new organic proxies for paleoenvironmental reconstructions ·         Natural sulphurization processes in water columns and sediments. ·         Determination and interpretations of 13C and 2H in sedimentary and cellular compounds. ·         Identification, isolation and synthesis of (novel) sedimentary organic compounds. ·         Chemical and thermal degradation of insoluble, macromolecular organic matter in sediments.
Current  Projects
From hothouse to icehouse: Evolution of Mesozoic and Cenozoic sea water temperatures (NWO - Vernieuwingsimpuls, Vici grant). People involved: V. Wilmott (post-doc), R. Lopes dos Santos (Ph.D student), J. Ossebaar, S. Schouten.   How salty was the sea? A crucial question to predict future climate change. People involved: Dr. M.T.J. van der Meer (post-doc), Dr. S. Schouten, Prof. Dr. J.S. Sinninghe Damsté (PI).
Impact of CO2 concentrations and pH on marine microbial membrane lipids People involved: P. Schoon (Ph.D student), Dr. S. Schouten (PI), Prof. Dr. J.S. Sinninghe Damsté (promotor).   Ladderane and other lipids of anammox bacteria as tracers for present-day and past oceanic nitrogen cycling People involved: D. Rush (Ph.D student), Dr. S. Schouten, Dr. E. Hopmans, Prof. Dr. M. Jetten (RUN), Prof. Dr. J.S. Sinninghe Damsté (promotor).   Validation and paleotemperature proxies in marine and lacustrine systems (DARWIN 2006-2009) People involved: C. Blaga (Ph.D student), Dr. S. Schouten, Prof. Dr. J.S. Sinninghe Damsté (promotor).   Role of cyanobacteria in past biogeochemical cycling (2006-2009) People involved: T. Bauersachs (Ph.D student), Prof. Dr. J.S. Sinninghe Damsté (promotor), Dr. S. Schouten, Dr. G.J. Brummer (GEO), Dr. E.C. Hopmans.   Impact of benthic processes on biogeochemical organic carbon cycling and organic proxy records in marine sediments People involved: S. Lengger (Ph.D student), Dr. S. Schouten (PI), Prof. Dr. J.S. Sinninghe Damsté (promotor).
Intact polar lipids (IPLs) derived from microbial communities in extreme environments (DARWIN, 2009-2011) People involved: R. Gibson (post-doc),  Prof. Dr. J.S. Sinninghe Damsté, Dr. S. Schouten, Dr. M.T.J. van der Meer, Dr. E.C. Hopmans.
Publications (updated February 2010)
2010
Jaeschke A., Abbas B., Zabel M., Hopmans E.C., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Molecular evidence for anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria in continental shelf and slope sediments off northwest Africa. Limnol. Oceanogr. 55, 365–376.   Kim J.-H., Zarzycka B., Buscail R., Peterse F., Bonnin J., Ludwig W., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Contribution of river-borne soil organic carbon to the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean). Limnol. Oceanogr. 55, 507–518.   Rampen S.W., Abbas B., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. A comprehensive study of sterols in marine diatoms (Bacillariophyta): Implications for their use as tracers for diatom productivity. Limnol. Oceanogr. 55, 91-105.   Willmott V., Rampen S.W., Domack E., Canals M., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Schouten S. Holocene changes in Proboscia diatom productivity in shelf waters of the North Western Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Science 22, 3–10.
2009
Bauersachs T., Compaoré J., Hopmans E.C., Stal L.J., Schouten, S. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Distribution of heterocyst glycolipids in cyanobacteria. Phytochem. 70, 2034–2039.   Bauersachs T., Hopmans E.C., Compaoré J., Stal L.J., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Rapid analysis of long-chain glycolipids in heterocystous cyanobacteria using high-performance liquid chromatography coupled to electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrometry 23, 1387-1394.   Bauersachs T., Kremer B., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. A biomarker and d15N study of thermally altered Silurian cyanobacterial mats. Org. Geochem.40, 149-157.   Bauersachs T., Schouten S., Compaoré J., Wollenzien U., Stal L.J. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Nitrogen isotopic fractionation associated with growth on dinitrogen gas and nitrate by cyanobacteria. Limnol. Oceanogr. 54, 1403-1411.   Bijl P.K, Schouten S., Sluijs A., Reichart G.J., Zachos J.C. and Brinkhuis, H. Early Palaeogene temperature evolution of the Southwest Pacific Ocean. Nature 461, 776-779.   Boumann H.A., Longo M.L., Stroeve P., Poolman B., Hopmans E.C., Stuart M.C.A. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Schouten, S. Biophysical properties of membrane lipids of anammox bacteria: I. Ladderane phospholipids form highly organized fluid membranes. Biochim. Biophys. Acta-Biomembranes 1788, 1444-1451.   Boumann H.A., Stroeve P., Longo M.L., Poolman B., Kuiper J.M., Hopmans E.C., Jetten M.S.M., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Schouten S. Biophysical properties of membrane lipids of anammox bacteria: II. Impact of temperature and bacteriohopanoids. Biochim. Biophys. Acta-Biomembranes 1788, 1452-1457.   Castańeda I.S., Mulitza S., Schefuß E., Lopes dos Santos R.A., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Schouten, S. Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa. Proc. Nat. Ac. Sci. USA, doi:10.1073/pnas.0905771106.   Castańeda I.S., Schefuss E., Patzold J., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Weldeab S. and Schouten S. Millennial-scale sea surface temperature changes in the Eastern Mediterranean (Nile River Delta Region) over the last 27,000 years. Paleoceanogr., doi:10.1029/2009PA001740.   Donders T.H., Weijers J.W.H., Munsterman D.K., Hoeve M.L.K.V., Buckles L.K., Pancost R.D., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Brinkhuis H. Strong climate coupling of terrestrial and marine environments in the Miocene of northwest Europe. Earth Plan. Science Lett. 281, 215-225.   Ellen A.F., Albers S.-V., Huibers W., Pitcher A., Hobel C.F.V., Schwarz H., Folea M., Schouten S., Boekema E.J., Poolman B. and Driessen, A.J.M. Proteomic analysis of secreted membrane vesicles of archaeal Sulfolobus species reveals the presence of endosome sorting complex components. Extremophiles 13, 67-79.   Herfort L., Kim J.H., Coolen M.J.L., Abbas B., Schouten S., Herndl G.J. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Diversity of Archaea and detection of crenarchaeotal amoA genes in the rivers Rhine and Tet. Aquatic Microbial Ecol. 55, 189-201.   Hollis C.J., Handley L., Crouch E.M., Morgans H.E.G., Baker J.A., Creech J., Collins K.S., Gibbs S.J., Huber M., Schouten S., Zachos J.C. and Pancost, R.D. Tropical sea temperatures in the high-latitude South Pacific during the Eocene. Geology 37, 99-102.   Huguet C., Kim J.-H., de Lange G.J., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Schouten S. Effects of long-term oxic degradation on the Uk'37, TEX86 and BIT organic proxies. Org. Geochem. 40, 1188-1194.   Jaeschke A., Op den Camp H.J.M., Harhangi H., Klimiuk A., Hopmans E.C., Jetten M.S.M., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. 16S rRNA gene and lipid biomarker evidence for anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (anammox) in California and Nevada hot springs. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 67, 343-350.   Jaeschke A., Rooks C., Trimmer M., Nicholls J.C., Hopmans E.C., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Comparison of ladderane phospholipid and core lipids as indicators for anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in marine sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 2077-2088.   Jaeschke A., Ziegler M., Hopmans E.C., Reichart G.J., Lourens L.J, Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Molecular fossil evidence for anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the Arabian Sea over the last glacial cycle. Paleoceanography 24, PA2202, doi:10.1029/2008PA001712.   Jagersma G.C., Meulpas R.J.W., Heikamp-de Jong I., Gieteling J., Klimiuk A., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Lens P.N.L. and Stams A.J.M. Microbial diversity and community structure of a highly active anaerobic methane-oxidizing sulfate-reducing enrichment. Env. Microbiol. 11, 3223–3232.   Kim J.H., Buscail R., Bourrin F., Palanques A., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Bonnin J. and Schouten S. Transport and depositional process of soil organic matter during wet and dry storms on the Tęt inner shelf (NW Mediterranean). Pal. Pal. Pal. 273, 228-238.   Kim J.H., Crosta X., Michel E., Schouten S., Duprat J. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Impact of lateral transport on organic proxies in the Southern Ocean. Quaternary Res. 71, 246-250.   Kim J.H., Huguet C., Zonneveld K.A.F., Versteegh G.J.M., Roeder W., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Schouten S. An experimental field study to test the stability of lipids used for the TEX86 and U37K' palaeothermometers. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 2888-2898.   Op den Camp H.J.M., Islam T., Stott M.B., Harhangi H.R., Hynes A., Schouten S., Jetten M.S.M., Birkeland N.K., Pol A. and Dunfield P.F. Environmental, genomic, and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia. Env. Microbiol. Rep. 1, 293-306.   Peterse F., Kim J.H., Schouten S., Kristensen D.K., Koc N. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Constraints on the application of the MBT/CBT palaeothermometer at high latitude environments (Svalbard, Norway). Org. Geochem. 40, 692-699.   Peterse F., Schouten S., van der Meer J., van der Meer M.T.J. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Distribution of branched tetraether lipids in geothermally heated soils: Implications for the MBT/CBT temperature proxy. Org. Geochem. 40, 201-205.   Peterse F., van der Meer M.T.J., Schouten S., Jia G., Ossebaar J., Blokker J. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Assessment of soil n-alkane δD and branched tetraether membrane lipid distributions as tools for paleoelevation reconstruction. Biogeosciences Discussion 6, 8609-8631.   Pitcher A., Hopmans E.C., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Separation of core and intact polar archaeal tetraether lipids using silica columns: Insights into living and fossil biomass contributions. Org. Geochem. 40, 12-19.   Pitcher A., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. In situ production of cren-archaeol in two California hot springs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 75, 4443-4451.   Rampen S.W., Schouten S., Schefuß E. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Impact of temperature on the long-chain diol and mid-chain hydroxy methyl alkanoate composition in Proboscia diatoms: Results from culture and field studies. Org. Geochem. 40, 1124–1131.   Rampen S.W., Schouten S., Hopmans E.C., Abbas B., Noordeloos A.A.M., Geenevasen J.A.J., Moldowan J.M., Denisevich P. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Occurrence and biomarker potential of 23-methyl steroids in diatoms and sediments. Org. Geochem. 40, 219-228.   Rampen S.W., Schouten S., Hopmans E.C., Abbas B., Noordeloos A.A.M., van Bleijswijk J.D.L., Geenevasen J.A.J. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Diatoms as a source for 4-desmethyl-23,24-dimethyl steroids in sediments and petroleum. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 377-387.   Rampen S.W., Schouten S., Panoto F.E., Brink M., Andersen R.A., Muyzer G., Abbas B. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Phylogenetic position of Attheya Longicornis and Attheya Septentrionalis (Bacillariophyta). J. Phycol. 45, 444-453.   Rampen S.W., Volkman J.K., Hur S.B., Abbas B.A., Schouten S., Jameson I.D., Holdsworth D.G., Bae J.H. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Occurrence of gorgosterol in diatoms of the genus Delphineis. Org. Geochem. 40, 144-147.   Rattray J.E., Geenevasen J.A.J., van Niftrik L., Rijpstra W.I.C., Hopmans E.C., Strous M., Schouten S., Jetten M.S.M. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Carbon isotope-labelling experiments indicate that ladderane lipids of anammox bacteria are synthesized by a previously undescribed, novel pathway. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 292, 115-122.   Rattray J.E., Strous M., Op den Camp H.J.M., Schouten S., Jetten M.S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. A comparative genomics study of genetic products potentially encoding ladderane lipid biosynthesis. Biology Direct 4:8 doi:10.1186/1745-6150-4-8.   Schouten S., Hopmans E.C., van der Meer J., Mets A., Bard E., Bianchi T.S., Diefendorf A., Escala M., Freeman K.H., Furukawa Y., Huguet C., Ingalls A., Menot-Combes G., Nederbragt A.J., Oba M., Pearson A., Pearson E.J., Rosell-Mele A., Schaeffer P., Shah S.R., Shanahan T.M., Smith R.W., Smittenberg R., Talbot H.M., Uchida M., Van Mooy B.A.S., Yamamoto M., Zhang Z.H. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis using high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. G-Cubed 10, Q03012, doi:10.1029/2008GC002221.   Schouten S., Klimiuk A.M., van der Meer M.T.J. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Occurrence and carbon metabolism of green nonsulfur-like bacteria in Californian and Nevada hot spring microbial mats as revealed by wax ester lipid analysis. Geomicrobiology J. 26, 179-188.   Seki O., Sakamoto T., Sakai S., Schouten S., Hopmans E.C., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Pancost R.D. Large changes in seasonal sea ice distribution and productivity in the Sea of Okhotsk during the deglaciations. G-Cubed 10, Q10007, doi:10.1029/2009GC002613.   Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Ossebaar J., Abbas B., Schouten S. and Verschuren D. Fluxes and distribution of tetraether lipids in an equatorial African lake: Constraints on the application of the TEX86 palaeothermometer and BIT index in lacustrine settings. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 4232-4249.   Sluijs A., Schouten S., Donders T.H., Schoon P.L., Röhl U., Reichart G.J., Sangiorgi, F. Kim J.-H., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Brinkhuis H. Warm and wet conditions in the Arctic region during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2. Nature Geosciences 2, 777-780.   Trommer G., Siccha M., van der Meer M.T.J., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Schulz H., Hemleben C. and Kucera, M. Distribution of Crenarchaeota tetraether membrane lipids in surface sediments from the Red Sea. Org. Geochem. 40, 724-731.   Weijers J.W.H., Panoto E., van Bleijswijk J., Schouten S., Rijpstra W.I.C., Balk M., Stams A.J.M. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Constraints on the biological source(s) of the orphan branched tetraether membrane lipids. Geomicrobiology J. 26, 402-414.   Weijers J.W.H., Schouten S., Schefuss E., Schneider R.R. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Disentangling marine, soil and plant organic carbon contributions to continental margin sediments: A multi-proxy approach in a 20,000 year sediment record from the Congo deep-sea fan. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 119-132.   Willmott V., Rampen S.W., Domack E., Canals M., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Schouten S. Holocene changes in Proboscia diatom productivity in shelf waters of the North Western Antarctic Peninsula. Ant. Sc., doi:10.1017/ 095410200999037X.
2008
Beckmann B., Hofmann P., Marz C., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Wagner T. Coniacian-Santonian deep ocean anoxia/euxinia inferred from molecular and inorganic markers: Results from the Demerara Rise (ODP Leg 207). Org. Geochem. 39, 1092-1096. Bornemann A., Norris R.D., Friedrich O., Beckmann B., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Vogel J., Hofmann P. and Wagner T.  Isotopic evidence for glaciation during the Cretaceous supergreenhouse. Science 319, 189-192. Burgess C.E., Pearson P.N., Lear C.H., Morgans H.E.G., Handley L., Pancost R.D. and Schouten S. Middle Eocene climate cyclicity in the southern Pacific: Implications for global ice volume. Geology 36, 651-654. Coolen M.J.L., Talbot H.M., Abbas B.A., Ward C., Schouten S., Volkman J.K. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Sources for sedimentary bacteriohopanepolyols as revealed by 16S rDNA stratigraphy. Environ. Microbiol. 10, 1783-1803. Handley L., Hollis C., Crouch E., Schouten S., Huber M., Morgans H., Pearson P., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Burgess C. and Pancost R.D. Integrated biomarker records reveal complex and dramatic changes in high latitude climate during the Paleogene. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, A349. Hofmann P., Stüsser I., Wagner T., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Climate-Ocean coupling off North-West Africa during the Lower Albian: The Oceanic Anoxic Event 1b. Palaeogeograph. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 262, 157-165.   Huguet C., de Lange G.J., Middelburg J.J., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Schouten, S. Selective preservation of soil organic matter in oxidized marine sediments (Madeira Abyssal Plain). Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, 6061-6068. Jaeschke A., Lewan M.D., Hopmans E.C., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Thermal stability of ladderane lipids as determined by hydrous pyrolysis. Org. Geochem. 39, 1735-1741. Kim J.H., Buscail R., Bzarzycka B., Kerherve P., Peterse F., Schouten S., Ludwig W. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Tracking soil organic matter export across the continent-ocean interface: A case study of the NW Mediterranean using the BIT index.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, A472. Kim J.-H., Schouten S., Hopmans E.C., Donner B. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S.  Global sediment core-top calibration of the TEX86 paleothermometer in the ocean. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, 1154-1173. Palmer M.R., Brummer G.J., Cooper M.J., Elderfield H., Greaves M.J., Reichart G.J., Schouten S. and Yu J.M. Multi-proxy reconstruction of surface water pCO2 in the northern Arabian Sea since 29 ka. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, A720. Rattray J.E., van de Vossenberg J., Hopmans E.C., Kartal B., van Niftrik L., Rijpstra W.I.C., Strous M., Jetten M.S.M., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Ladderane lipid distribution in four genera of anammox bacteria. Arch. Microbiol. 190, 51-66. Sangiorgi F., Brumsack H.J., Willard D.A., Schouten S., Stickley C.E., O'Regan M., Reichart G.J., Sinninghe Damste J.S. and Brinkhuis H. A 26 million year gap in the central Arctic record at the greenhouse-icehouse transition: Looking for clues. Paleoceanography 23 PA1S04. doi:10.1029/2007PA001477. Sangiorgi F., van Soelen E.E., Spofforth D.J.A., Palike H., Stickley C.E., John K.S., Koc N., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damste J.S. and Brinkhuis H. Cyclicity in the middle Eocene central Arctic Ocean sediment record: Orbital forcing and environmental response. Paleoceanography 23 PA1S08. doi:10.1029/2007PA001487. Schouten S., Baas M., Hopmans E.C. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. An unusual iso-prenoid tetraether lipid in marine and lacustrine sediments. Org. Geochem. 39, 1033-1038. 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., 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., 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., 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.   Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Kuypers M.M.M., Pancost R.D. and Schouten, S. The carbon isotopic response of algae, (cyano)bacteria, archaea and higher plants on the late Cenomanian perturbation of the global carbon cycle: Insights from biomarkers in black shales from the Cape Verde Basin (DSDP Site 367). Org. Geochem. 39, 1703-1718. Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Ossebaar J., Schouten S. and Verschuren D. Altitudinal shifts in the branched tetraether lipid distribution in soil from Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania): Implications for the MBT/CBT continental palaeothermometer. Org. Geochem. 39, 1072-1076. Sluijs A., Rohl U., Schouten S., Brumsack H.J., Sangiorgi F., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Brinkhuis H.  Arctic late Paleocene-early Eocene paleoenvironments with special emphasis on the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (Lomonosov Ridge, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 302). Paleoceanography 23. PA1S11, doi:10.1029/2007PA001495.   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.   Van der Meer M.T.J., Lammerts L., Skirnisdottir S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Schouten S. Distribution and isotopic composition of bacterial lipid biomarkers in microbial mats from a sulfidic Icelandic hot spring. Org. Geochem. 39, 1015-1019. Van Dongen B.E., Roberts A.P., Schouten S., Jiang W.T., Florindo F. and Pancost R.D. Formation of iron sulfide nodules during anaerobic oxidation of methane (vol 71, pg 5155, 2007). Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, 1256. Wagner T., Herrle J.O., Sinninghe Damste J.S., Schouten S., Stusser I. and Hofmann P. Rapid warming and salinity changes of Cretaceous surface waters in the subtropical North Atlantic. Geology 36, 203-206.   Werne J.P., Lyons T.W., Hollander D.J., Schouten S., Hopmans E.C. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Investigating pathways of diagenetic organic matter sulfurization using compound-specific sulfur isotope analysis. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 72, 3489-3502.
2007
Coolen M.J.L., Volkman J.K., Abbas B., Rijpstra W.I.C, Muyzer G., Schouten S. and  Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Identification of organic matter sources in sulfidic Late Holocene Antarctic fjord sediments from fossil rDNA sequence analysis. Paleoceanography 22, PA2211, doi:10.1029/2006PA001309.   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.   Forster A., Schouten S., Moriya K., Wilson P.A. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Tropical warming and intermittent cooling during the Cenomanian/Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE 2): Sea surface temperature records from the equatorial Atlantic. Paleoceanography 22, PA1219, doi:10.1029/2006PA001349.   Huguet C., Schimmelmann A., Thunell R., Lourens L.J., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Schouten S. A study of the TEX86 paleothermometer in the water column and sediments of the Santa Barbara Basin, California. Paleoceanography 22, PA3203, 10.1029/2006PA001310.   Jaeschke A., Hopmans E.C., Wakeham S.G., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. The presence of ladderane lipids in the oxygen minimum zone of the Arabian Sea indicates nitrogen loss through anammox. Limnol. Oceanogr. 82, 780-786.   Kartal B., Rattray J., van Niftrik L., van de Vossenberg J.L.C.M, Schmid M.C., Webb R.I., Schouten S., Fuerst J.A., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Jetten M.S.M. and Strous M. Candidatus "Anammoxoglobus propionicus" gen. nov., sp. Nov., a new propionate species of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 30, 39-49.   Kim J.-H., Ludwig W., Schouten S., Kerhervé P., Herfort L., Bonnin J. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Impact of flood events on the transport of terrestrial organic matter to the ocean: A study of the Tęt River (SW France) using the BIT index. Org. Geochem. 38, 1593 – 1606.   Kulichevskaya, I.S., Ivanova, A.O., Belova, S.E., Baulina, O.I., Bodelier, P.L.E., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Zavarzin, G.A., Dedysh, S.N. Schlesneria paludicola gen. nov., sp. nov., the first acidophilic member of the Order Planctomycetales from Sphagnum – dominated boreal wetlands. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 57, 2680-2687; doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65157-0.   Marino G.M., Rohling E., Rijpstra W.I.C., Sangiorgi F., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Response of Aegean Sea deep-water formation to changes in hydrological forcing. Geology 35, 675-678.   Mollenhauer G., Inthorn M., Vogt T., Zabel M., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Eglinton T.I. Aging of marine organic matter during cross – shelf lateral transport in the Benguela upwelling system revealed by compound – specific radiocarbon dating. G cubed 8, Q09004, doi:10.1029/2007GC001603.   Pearson P.N., van Dongen B.E., Nicholas C.J., Pancost R.D., Schouten S., Singano J.M. and Wade B.S. Stable warm tropical climate through the Eocene epoch. Geology 35, 211-214.   Rampen S.W., Schouten S., Abbas B., Panoto F.E., Muyzer G., Campbell C.N., Fehling J. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. On the origin of 24-norcholestanes and their use as age-diagnostic biomarkers. Geology 35, 419-422.   Rampen S.W., Schouten S., Wakeham S.G. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Seasonal and spatial variation in the sources and fluxes of long-chain diols and mid-chain hydroxy methyl alkanoates in the Arabian Sea. Org. Geochem. 38, 165-179.   Schouten S., Forster A., Panoto F.E. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Towards the calibration of the TEX86 palaeothermometer for tropical sea surface temperatures in ancient greenhouse worlds. Org. Geochem. 38, 1537-1546.   Schouten S, Huguet C., Hopmans E.C. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Improved analytical methodology of the TEX86 paleothermometry by high performance liquid  chromatography /atmospheric pressure chemical ionization-mass spectrometry. Anal. Chem. 79, 2940-2944.   Schouten, S., Van der Meer, M.T.J., Hopmans, E.C., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Reysenbach, A-L., Ward, D.M. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Archaeal and bacterial glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids in hot springs of Yellowstone National Park (USA). Appl. Env. Microbiol. 73, 6181 – 6191.   Schouten S., Woltering M., Rijpstra W.I.C., Sluijs A., Brinkhuis H. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. The Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion in higher plant organic matter: Differential stable carbon isotopic fractionation of angiosperms and conifers on the Arctic continent. Earth Plan. Sci. Lett. 258, 581-592.   Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Rijpstra W.I.C., Coolen M.J.L., Schouten S. and Volkman J.K. Rapid sulfurisation of highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) alkenes in sulfidic Holocene sediments from Ellis Fjord, Antarctica. Org. Geochem. 38, 128-139.   Van Breugel Y., Schouten S., Tsikos H., Erba E., Price G.D. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Synchronous negative carbon isotope shifts in marine and terrestrial biomarkers at the onset of the Aptian oceanic anoxic event-1a: Evidence for the release of methane into the atmosphere. Paleoceanography 22, PA1210, doi:10.1029/2006PA001341.   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.   Van der Meer M.T.J., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Ward D.M. Impact of carbon metabolisms on 13C signatures of cyanobacteria and green nonsulfur-like bacteria inhabiting a microbial mat from an alkaline siliceous hot spring in Yellowstone National Park (USA). Env. Microbiol. 9, 482-491.   Van Dongen B, Roberts A.P., Schouten S., Jiang W.T., Florindo F. and Pancost R.D. Formation of iron sulfide nodules during anaerobic oxidation of methane. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 21, 5155-5167.   Weijers J.W.H., Schefuss, E., Schouten S. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Coupled thermal and hydrological evolution of tropical Africa over the last deglaciation. Science 315, 1701-1704.   Weijers J.W.H., Schouten S., Sluijs A., Brinkhuis H. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Warm Arctic continents during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 261, 230-238.   Weijers J.W.H., Schouten S., Van den Donker J.C., Hopmans E.C. and Sinninghe Damsté J.S. Environmental controls on bacterial tetraether membrane lipid distribution in soils. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 71, 703-713.
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Boumann, H.A., Hopmans, E.C., Op den Camp, H., Strous, M., Jetten, M.S.M., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. and Schouten, S. Ladderane phospolipids in anammox bacteria comprise phosphocholine and phosphoethanolamine headgroups. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 258, 297-304.   Brinkhuis, H., Schouten, S., Collinson, M.E., Sluijs, A., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Dickens, G.R., Huber, M., Cronin, T.M., Onodera, J., Takahashi, K., Bujak, J.P., Stein, R., Van der Burgh, J., Eldrett, J.S., Harding, I.C., Lotter, A.F., Sangiorgi, F., Van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, H., De Leeuw, J.W., Matthiessen, J., Backman, J., Moran, K. and the Expedition 302 Scientists. Episodic fresh surface waters in the Eocene Arctic Ocean. Nature 441, 606-609.   Coolen, M.J.L., Muyzer, G., Schouten, S., Volkman, J.K., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Sulfur and methane cycling during the Holocene in Ace Lake (Antarctica) revealed by lipid and DNA stratigraphy. In: Past and Present Water Column Anoxia (L.N. Neretin, ed.), NATO Science Series IV. Earth and Environmental Sciences 64, pp. 41-65, Springer, Dordrecht.   Dumitrescu, M., Brassell, S.C., Schouten, S., Hopmans, E.C. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Instability in tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures during the Early Aptian. Geology 34, 833-836.   Fang, J., Shizuka, A., Kato, C. and Schouten, S. Microbial diversity of cold-seep sediments in Sagami Bay, Japan, as determined by 16S rRNA gene and lipid analyses. FEMS Microbial Ecology 57, 429-444.   Huguet, C., Hopmans, E.C., Febo-Ayala, W., Thompson, D.H., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. and Schouten, S. An improved method to determine the absolute abundance of glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids. Org. Geochem. 37, 1036-1041.   Huguet, C., Kim, J.-H., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S and Schouten, S. Reconstruction of sea surface temperature variations in the Arabian Sea over the last 23 kyr using organic proxies (TEX86 and UK37'). Paleoceanography 21, PA3003, 10.1029/2005PA001215.   Herfort, L., Schouten, S., Boon, J.P., Woltering, M., Baas, M., Weijers, J. and 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.   Huguet, C., Cartes, J.E., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. and Schouten, S.  Marine cren-archaeotal membrane lipids in decapods: Implications for the TEX86 paleothermometer. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 7, Q11010, doi:10.1029/ 2006GC001305.   Hopmans, E.C., Kienhuis, M.V.M., Rattray, J.E., Jaeschke, A., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Improved analysis of ladderane lipids in biomass and sediments using high performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization tandem mass spectrometry. Rap. Comm. Mass. Spectr. 20, 2099-2103.   Ménot, G., Bard, E., Rostek, F., Weijers, J.W.H., Hopmans, E.C., Schouten, S. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Early reactivation of European rivers during the last deglaciation. Science 313, 1623-1625.   Menzel, D., Hopmans, E.C., Schouten, S. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Membrane tetraether lipids of planktonic Crenarchaeota in Pliocene sapropels of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 239, 1-15.   Pagani, M., N. Pedentchouk, N., Huber, M., Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Dickens, G.R. and the Expedition 302 Scientists. Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum. Nature 442, 671-675.   Pancost, R.D., Pressley, S., Coleman, J.M., Talbot, H.M., Kelly, S.P., Farrimond, P., Schouten, S., Benning, L. and Mountain, B.W. Composition and implications of diverse lipids in New Zealand Geothermal sinters. Geobiology 4, 71-92.   Raghoebarsing, A.A., Pol, A., Van de Pas-Schoonen, K.T., Smolders, A.J.P., Ettwig, K.F., Rijpstra, W.I.C., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Op den Camp, H.J.M., Jetten, M.S.M., Strous, M. A microbial consortium couples anaerobic methane oxidation to denitrification. Nature 440, 918-921.   Reysenbach, A-L., Liu, Y., Banta, A.B., Beveridge, T.J., Kirshtein, J.D., Schouten, S., Tivey, M.K., Von Damm, K., Voytek, M.A. A ubiquitous thermoacidophilic archaeon from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Nature 442, 444-447.   Schouten, S., Ossebaar, J., Schreiber, K., Kienhuis, M.V.M., Langer, G., Benthien, A., Bijma, J. The effect of temperature, salinity and growth rate on the stable hydrogen isotopic composition of long chain alkenones produced by Emiliania huxleyi and Gephyrocapsa oceanica. Biogeosciences 3, 113-119.   Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Pagani, M., Woltering, M., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Dickens,  G.R., Huber, M., Reichart, G.-J., Stein, R., Matthiessen,  J., Lourens, L.J., Pedentchouk, N., Backman, J., Moran, K. and the Expedition 302 Scientists. Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum. Nature 441, 610-613.   Smittenberg, R.H., Eglinton, T.I., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Ongoing buildup of refractory organic carbon in boreal soils during the Holocene. Science 314, 1283-1286.   Van Breugel, Y., Schouten, S., Paetzel, M. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Seasonal variation in the stable carbon isotopic composition of algal lipids in a shallow anoxic fjord: evaluation of the effect of recycling of respired CO2 on the d13C of organic matter. Am. J. Sci. 306, 367-387.   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, doi:10.1029/ 2006PA001305.   Van Dongen, B.E., Talbot, H.M., Schouten, S., Pearson, P. and Pancost, R.D. Well preserved Palaeogene and Cretaceous biomarkers from the Kilwa area, Tanzania. Org. Geochem. 37, 539-557.   Van Dongen, B.E., Schouten, S. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Preservation of carbohydrates through sulfurization in a Jurassic euxinic shelf sea: Examination of the Blackstone Band TOC-cycle in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation, UK. Org. Geochem. 37, 1052-1073.   Weijers, J.W.H, Schouten, S., Hopmans, E.C., Geenevasen, J.A.J., David, O.R.P., Coleman, J., Pancost, R.D. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Membrane lipids of mesophilic anaerobic bacteria thriving in peats have typical archaeal traits. Environ. Microbiol. 8, 648-657.   Weijers, J.W.H., Schouten, S., Spaargaren, O. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Occurrence and distribution of tetraether membrane lipids in soils: Implications for the use of the TEX86 proxy and the BIT index. Org. Geochem. 3, 1680-1693, doi:10.1016/j. orggeochem.2006.07.018.   Wuchter, C., Abbas, B., Coolen, M.J.L., Herfort, L., Van Bleijswijk, J., Timmers, P., Strous, M., Teira, E., Herndl, G.J., Middelburg, J.J., Schouten, S. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. Archaeal nitrification in the ocean.  Proc. Nat. Ac. Sci. USA 103, 12317-12322.   Zachos, J.C., Schouten, S., Bohaty, S., Quattlebaum, T., Sluijs, A., Brinkhuis, H., Gibbs, S. and Bralower, T. Extreme warming of mid-latitude coastal ocean during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Inferences from TEX86 and isotope data. Geology 34, 737-740.