Dr. Cathleen Schlundt (née Zindler)
Research Division 2: Marine Biogeochemistry
Research Unit Chemical Oceanography
Office:
room: 5-3.403
tel.: 0431 600 4208
e-mail: cschlundt(at)geomar.de
Address:
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wischhofstr. 1-3
D-24148 Kiel
Research interests
- Biofilm development and structures in marine environments
- Distribution and impact of plastic particles in the world oceans
- Phylogeny and interaction of marine microbial communities on plastic debris
- Aggregation behavior of plastic particles under abiotic and biotic conditions
- Distribution of microbes due to plastic debris in the world oceans and their impact
- CLASI-FISH and confocal laser scanning microscopy
Experience
- Scince 2019 Postdoctoral Investigator at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
- 2018 - 2019 Guest Investigator at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA
- 2016 - 2018 Postdoctoral Investigator at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA
- 2013 - 2016 Postdoctoral Investigator at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
Education
- 2008 - 2013 Dr. rer. nat. in Marine Biogeochemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany
- 2006 - 2008 M.Sc. in Biological Oceanography, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
- 2003 - 2006 B.Sc. in Bio-Sciences, Westfälische Wilhelms University, Münster, Germany
Scholarships
- 2018 - 2019 DFG Return Fellowship
- 2016 - 2018 DFG Research Fellowship
- 2016 DAAD - PRIME (German Academic Exchange Service - Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience)
- 2010 - 2012 PhD Scholarship of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes"
Awards
- Briese Award for Marine Research 2014
- Kompass Award 2014
Publications
Galgani, L., Goßmann, I., Scholz-Böttcher, B., Jiang, X., Liu, Z., Scheidemann, L., Schlundt, C. und Engel, A., Hitchhiking into the Deep: How Microplastic Particles are Exported through the Biological Carbon Pump in the North Atlantic Ocean. 2022, Environmental Science & Technology, 56 . pp. 15638-15649. DOI 10.1021/acs.est.2c04712.
Ramírez-Puebla, S. T., Weigel, B. L., Jack, L., Schlundt, C. , Pfister, C. A. und Mark Welch, J. L., Spatial organization of the kelp microbiome at micron scales. 2022, Microbiome, 10 (1). Art.Nr. 52. DOI 10.1186/s40168-022-01235-w.
Zhao, Y. , Booge, D., Marandino, C. A., Schlundt, C. , Bracher, A., Atlas, E. L., Williams, J. und Bange, H. W., Dimethylated sulfur compounds in the Peruvian upwelling system. 2022, Biogeosciences (BG), 19 . pp. 701-714. DOI 10.5194/bg-19-701-2022.
Pattiaratchi, C. , van der Mheen, M. , Schlundt, C. , Narayanaswamy, B. E. , Sura, A. , Hajbane, S. , White, R., Kumar, N. , Fernandes, M. und Wijeratne, S., Plastics in the Indian Ocean – sources, transport, distribution, and impacts. 2022, Ocean Science, 18 (1). pp. 1-28. DOI 10.5194/os-18-1-2022.
Zhao, Y. , Schlundt, C. , Booge, D. und Bange, H. W., A decade of dimethyl sulfide (DMS), dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) measurements in the southwestern Baltic Sea. 2021, Biogeosciences (BG), 18 (6). pp. 2161-2179. DOI 10.5194/bg-18-2161-2021.
de Vogel, F.A., Schlundt, C., Stote, R.E., Ratto, J.A., Amaral-Zettler, L.A. Comparative Genomics of Marine Bacteria from a Historically Defined Plastic Biodegradation Consortium with the Capacity to Biodegrade Polyhydroxyalkanoates. 2021, Microorganisms, 9, 186. doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9010186
Schlundt, C., Mark Welch, J. L., Zettler, E. R., Amaral-Zettler, L. A., Spatial structure in the “Plastisphere”: Molecular resources for imaging microscopic communities on plastic marine debris, 2020, Molecular Ecology Resources. doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13119
Lutz, Holly L., Ramírez-Puebla, S.T., Abbo, L., Durand, A., Schlundt, C., Gottel, N. R., Sjaarda, A. K., Hanlon, R. T., Gilbert, J. A., Mark Welch, J. L., A Simple Microbiome in the European Common Cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, 2019, mSystems, American Society for Microbiology. doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00177-19
Schlundt, C., Tegtmeier, S., Lennartz, S. T., Bracher , A., Cheah, W., Krüger, K., Quack, B., Marandino, C. A., Oxygenated volatile organic carbon in the western Pacific convective center: ocean cycling, air-sea gas exchange and atmospheric transport, 2017, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10837-2017
De Tender, C., Schlundt, C., Devriese, L. I., Mincer, T. J., Zettler, E. R., Amaral-Zettler, L. A., A review of microscopy and comparative molecular-based methods to characterize “Plastisphere” communities, 2017, Analytical Methods. doi.org/10.1039/C7AY00260B
Booge, D., Schlundt, C., Bracher A., Endres, S., Zäncker, B., Marandino, C. A., Marine isoprene production and consumption in the mixed layer surface ocean – A field study over 2 oceanic regions, 2017, Biogeosciences. doi.org/10.5194/bg-2017-257
Booge, D., Marandino, C. A., Schlundt, C., Palmer, P. I., Schlundt, M., Atlas, E. L., Bracher, A., Saltzman, E. S., Wallace, D. R., Can simple models predict large-scale surface ocean isoprene concentrations?, 2016, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-11807-2016
Zindler-Schlundt, C., Lutterbeck, H. E., Endres, S., Bange, H.W., Environmental control of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) cycling under ocean acidification, 2015, Environmental Chemistry. dx.doi.org/10.1071/EN14270
Zindler, C., Marandino, C. A., Bange, H.W., Schütte, F., Saltzman, E.S., Nutrient availability determines dimethyl sulfide and isoprene distribution in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, 2014, Geophysical Research Letters, 3181-3188. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GL059547/full
Mesarchaki, E., Yassaa, N., Hein, D., Lutterbeck, H. E., Zindler, C., Williams, J., A novel method for the measurement of VOCs in seawater using needle trap devices and GC–MS, 2014, Marine Chemistry 159 (0), 1-8. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2013.12.001
Zindler, C., Bracher, A., Marandino, C.A., Taylor, B., Torrecilla, E., Kock, A., Bange, H.W., Sulphur compounds, methane, and phytoplankton: Interactions along a north–south transit in the Western Pacific Ocean, 2013, Biogeosciences 10 (5), 3297-3311. doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-3297-2013
Marandino, C.A., Tegtmeier, S., Krüger, K., Zindler, C., Atlas, E.L., Moore, F., Bange, H.W., Dimethylsulphide (DMS) emissions from the western Pacific Ocean: A potential marine source for stratospheric sulphur?, 2013, Atmosheric Chemistry and Physics 13 (16), 8427-8437. doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-8427-2013
Zindler, C., Peeken, I., Marandino, C.A., Bange, H.W., Environmental control on the variability of DMS and DMSP in the mauritanian upwelling region, 2012, Biogeosciences 9 (3), 1041-1051. doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-1041-2012