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Dr. Clarissa Karthäuser

Postdoctoral Scholar
Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Biology

Contact Information:
Work: 508-289-3418
ckarthauser@whoi.edu
Building: Clark 447B

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

Karthäuser, C. and Ahmerkamp, S. et al. Small sinking particles control anammox rates in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone. Nat Commun 12, 3235 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23340-4

Awards

02/2022 MARUM Research Award for Marine Science

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