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Dr. Clarissa Karthäuser

Simon's Postdoctoral Fellow in Microbial Ecology
Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Biology

Contact Information:
Work: 508-289-3418
ckarthauser@whoi.edu
Building: Watson 205

Mailing Address:
266 Woods Hole Road, MS #25
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Research Interests

I study the role of microbial communities associated with marine snow particles in carbon export and attenuation.

Selected Publications

RotoBOD─Quantifying Oxygen Consumption by Suspended Particles and Organisms – Karthäuser et al. 2024 -Environmental Science & Technology

Karthäuser, C. and Ahmerkamp, S. et al. Small sinking particles control anammox rates in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone. Nat Commun 12, 3235 (2021). 

Comparative genomics of a vertically transmitted thiotrophic bacterial ectosymbiont and its close free-living relative - Espada-Hinojosa and Karthäuser et al., 2023, Mol. Ecology Resources

Animal life in the shallow subseafloor crust at deep-sea hydrothermal vents - Bright and Gollner et al., 2024, Nature Communications

Grants and Awards

07/2023 - Simon’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Microbial Ecology

02/2023 - BIOS Grant-in-Aid for collaborative research stay at Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science

06/2022 - WHOI interdisciplinary award for development of RotoBOD incubator

12/2021 - WHOI Postdoctoral Scholarship

02/2022 - MARUM Research Award for Marine Science

10/2011 - German National Scholarship Program ’Deutschlandstipendium’

 

Education

Ph.D.: 2021, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

MSc in Biological Oceanography: 2016, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel / GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

BSc in Biology: 2014, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Science communication

Marine Snow Book

COP29 - Ocean Twilight Zone

COP29 - Women leading the wave

German article about oxygen minimum zones

French article about oxygen minimum zones