Dr. Oliver Schmale - Curriculum vitae

• chemical oceanography
• pelagic methane cycle with focus on redox-gradients
• methane gas exchange between surface water and atmosphere
• benthopelagic transport mechanisms at methane seeps
• mechanisms controlling subsurface methane anomalies (“ocean methane paradox”)
• gaschemistry of hydrothermal systems and its influence on the surrounding water column
• areal examinations of nitrogen fixation in surface waters

Since 2007         Senior Scientist, Department Marine Chemistry, IOW, Germany

2004 – 2007       Research Assistant, IFM-GEOMAR,Germany

                              DFG-SPP 1144 “From mantle to ocean: energy-, material- and life-cycles at

                              spreading axes”

2003 – 2004       Research Assistant, IFM-GEOMAR,Germany

                              EU-project CRIMEA “Contribution of high-intensity gas seeps in the Black Sea to                               methane emission  to the atmosphere”

1994 – 1996       Industrial Manager, Nordpfeil GmbH, Geesthacht, Germany

2003 – 2006       PhD in Geology at the University of Kiel (IFM-GEOMAR), Germany

                              Title: “Submarine methane seepage in the Paleo Dnepr Area and Sorokin Trough                               and its influence on the Black Sea methane budget”

1996 – 2002       Diploma in Geology at the University of Hamburg, Germany

                              Title: “Lipid biomarkers for anerobic oxidation of methane at active and fossil                               methane seeps”

 

 

 

2016 – 2019       DFG SCHM 2530/7-1

“Bentho-pelagic transport of methanotrophic microorganisms via gas bubbles (Bubble Shuttle II)”

2015 – 2018       DFG SCHM 2530/5-1

                             “Zooplankton associated Methane production (ZooM)”

2011 – 2013       DFG SCHM 2530/3

                              “Transport of methane oxidizing microbes from the sediment into the water column                               through gasbubbles (Bubble Shuttle)”

2011 – 2014       DFG SCHM 2530/2

                              “Aerobic und anaerobic turnover of methane in the water column of the central                               Baltic Sea (Gotland-Deep und Landsort-Deep)”

2008 – 2011       DFG SCHM 2530/1

                              DFG Priority Program 1144 "From mantle to the ocean: energy, material and life                               cycles on spreading axes” – “Release and transport of methane and helium at the                               Mid Atlantic Ridge"