Geochemical thermodynamics of submarine hydrothermal systems: relevance for chemolithoautotrophic life

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Bach
• Subject Area: Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry
• Term: from 2010 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 157154612

• Final Report Year: 2014

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

Publications

• (2011) Colonization of subsurface microbial observatories deployed in young ocean crust. The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology
  Orcutt BN, Bach, W, Becker K, Fisher AT, Hentscher M, Toner BM, Wheat CG, and Edwards KJ
  
• (2011) Hydrogen is an energy source for hydrothermal vent symbioses. Nature 476: 176-180
  Petersen JM, Zielinski FU, Pape T, Seifert R, Moraru T, Amann R, Hourdez S, Girguis PR, Wankel SD, Barbe V, Pelletier E, Fink D, Borowski C, Bach W, Dubilier N
  
• (2011) Metabolic Energy for Chemolithoautotrophs in Peridotite-Hosted and Basalt-Hosted Hydrothermal Systems. Geochimica et Cosmochima Acta 75: 5736-5748
  Amend JP, McCollom TM, Hentscher M, Bach W
  
• (2011) Ultra-diffuse Hydrothermal Venting Supports Fe-oxidizing Bacteria and Massive Umber Deposition at 5000m off Hawai`i. The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology
  Edwards KJ, Glazer BT, Rouxel OJ, Bach W, Emerson D, Davis RE, Toner BM, Chan CS, Tebo BM, Staudigel H, Moyer CL
  
• (2011): Geochemistry of vent fluid particles formed during initial hydrothermal fluidseawater mixing along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 12 Q0AE05
  Klevenz V, Bach W, Schmidt K, Hentscher M, Koschinsky A, and Petersen S
  
• (2012) Driving forces behind the biotope structures of low-temperature venting areas at 5°S and 9°S MAR, Environmental Microbiology Reports 3: 727-737
  Perner M, Hentscher M, Rychlik N, Seifert R, Strauss H, Bach W
  
• (2012) Geochemically induced shifts in catabolic energy yields explain past ecological changes of diffuse vents in the East Pacific Rise 9°50’N area. Geochemical Transactions 13:2.
  Hentscher M, Bach W
  
• (2013) Energy yields from chemolithotrophic metabolisms in igneous basement of the Juan de Fuca ridge flank system. Chemical Geology 337-338:11-19
  Boettger J, Lin H-T, Cowen JP, Hentscher M, Amend JP