Dr. Birgit Gaye

Academic degrees

1987   Master in Geology and Palaeontology (Universität Hamburg)

1990   Dissertation at the Department of Geosciences (University of Hamburg) on the “Biogeochemistry of sinking particles in the Arabian Sea: Implications for the Marine Carbon Cycle”

Current position

Since 1994   Research Scientist at the Institute of Geology, Unversität Hamburg

Find me on Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Birgit-Gaye-2

2022

Ankit, Y., Muneer, W., Gaye, B., Lahajnar, N., Bhattacharya, S., Bulbul, M., Jehangir, A., Anoop, A., and Mishra, P. K.: Apportioning sedimentary organic matter sources and its degradation state: Inferences based on aliphatic hydrocarbons, amino acids and δ15N, Environmental Research, 205, 112409, https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.envres.2021.112409, 2022.

Gaye, B., Lahajnar, N., Harms, N., Paul, S. A. L., Rixen, T., and Emeis, K. C.: What can we learn from amino acids about oceanic organic matter cycling and degradation?, Biogeosciences, 19, 807-830, 10.5194/bg-19-807-2022, 2022.

Maeda, A., Kuroyanagi, A., Iguchi, A., Gaye, B., Rixen, T., Nishi, H., and Kawahata, H.: Seasonal variation of fluxes of planktic foraminiferal tests collected by a time-series sediment trap in the central Bay of Bengal during three different years, Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 183, 103718, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103718, 2022.

Prasad, S., Mishra, P. K., Priya, P., Yousuf, A. R., Andersen, N., Anoop, A., Jehangir, A., Yaseen, T., Gaye, B., and Stebich, M.: Impact of precipitation and temperature changes on limnology and sediment characteristics in NW Himalaya, Appl. Geochem., 137, 105200, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2022.105200, 2022.

Tian, S., Gaye, B., Tang, J., Luo, Y., Li, W., Lahajnar, N., Dähnke, K., Sanders, T., Xiong, T., Zhai, W., and Emeis, K. C.: A nitrate budget of the Bohai Sea based on an isotope mass balance model, Biogeosciences, 19, 2397-2415, 10.5194/bg-19-2397-2022, 2022.

Tian, S., Gaye, B., Tang, J., Luo, Y., Lahajnar, N., Dähnke, K., Sanders, T., Xiong, T., Zhai, W., and Emeis, K.-C.: Nitrate Regeneration and Loss in the Central Yellow Sea Bottom Water Revealed by Nitrogen Isotopes, Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, 10.3389/fmars.2022.834953, 2022.

2021

Ankit, Y., Muneer, W., Lahajnar, N., Gaye, B., Misra, S., Jehangir, A., Anoop, A., and Mishra, P. K.: Long term natural and anthropogenic forcing on aquatic system-evidence based on biogeochemical and pollen proxies from lake sediments in Kashmir Himalaya, India, Appl. Geochem., 131, 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2021.105046, 2021.

Burdanowitz, N., Rixen, T., Gaye, B., and Emeis, K. C.: Signals of Holocene climate transition amplified by anthropogenic land-use changes in the westerly–Indian monsoon realm, Clim. Past, 17, 1735-1749, 10.5194/cp-17-1735-2021, 2021.

Harms, N. C., Lahajnar, N., Gaye, B., Rixen, T., Schwarz-Schampera, U., and Emeis, K.-C.: Sediment trap-derived particulate matter fluxes in the oligotrophic subtropical gyre of the South Indian Ocean, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 183, 104924, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2020.104924, 2021.

Maier, J., Perkuhn, C., Tian, S., Waniek, J.J., Lahanjnar, N., Emeis, K. and Gaye, B.: The nitrogen cycle in the northern South China Sea: Impact of the Pearl River. In: Waniek, J.J., Schulz-Bull, D., Gaye, B., Ebinghaus, R., Kunz, F., Pohlmann, T., Emeis, K.-C., (eds): Megacity’s fingerprint in Chinese marginal seas. Meereswiss. Ber., Warnemünde, 116 (2021), p. 27-29, doi:10.12754/msr-2021-0116.

2020

Hood, R.R., Beckley, L.E., Vialard, J., Gaye, B. (2020) The Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2): Motivating new exploration in a poorly understood ocean basin (volume 3). Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography 179. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2020.104876

Prasad, S., Marwan, N., Eroglu, D., Goswami, B., Mishra, P.K., Gaye, B., Anoop, A., Basavaiah, N., Stebich, M., Jehangir, A. (2020) Holocene climate forcings and lacustrine regime shifts in the Indian summer monsoon realm. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 10.1002/esp.5004

Rixen, T., Cowie, G., Gaye, B., Goes, J., do Rosário Gomes, H., Hood, R. R., Lachkar, Z., Schmidt, H., Segschneider, J., and Singh, A.: Reviews and syntheses: Present, past, and future of the oxygen minimum zone in the northern Indian Ocean, Biogeosciences, 17, 6051-6080, 10.5194/bg-17-6051-2020, 2020.

Shen, J., Jiao, N., Dai, M., Wang, H., Qiu, G., Chen, J., Li, H., Kao, S.-J., Yang, J.-Y.T., Cai, P., Zhou, K., Yang, W., Zhu, Y., Liu, Z., Chen, M., Zuo, Z., Gaye, B., Wiesner, M.G., Zhang, Y. (2020) Laterally Transported Particles From Margins Serve as a Major Carbon and Energy Source for Dark Ocean Ecosystems. Geophysical Research Letters 47, e2020GL088971.

2019

Burdanowitz, N., Gaye, B., Hilbig, L., Lahajnar, N., Lückge, A., Rixen, T., Emeis, K.-C. (2019) Holocene monsoon and sea level-related changes of sedimentation in the northeastern Arabian Sea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 166, 6-18.

Forke, S., Rixen, T., Burdanowitz, N., Luckge, A., Ramaswamy, V., Munz, P., Wilhelms-Dick, D., Vogt, C., Kasten, S., Gaye, B., 2019. Sources of laminated sediments in the northeastern Arabian Sea off Pakistan and implications for sediment transport mechanisms during the late Holocene. Holocene 29, 130-144.

Harms, N.C., Lahajnar, N., Gaye, B., Rixen, T., Dähnke, K., Ankele, M., Schwarz-Schampera, U., Emeis, K.C., 2019. Nutrient distribution and nitrogen and oxygen isotopic composition of nitrate in water masses of the subtropical southern Indian Ocean. Biogeosciences 16, 2715-2732.

Rixen, T., Gaye, B., Emeis, K.C., Ramaswamy, V., 2019. The ballast effect of lithogenic matter and its influences on the carbon fluxes in the Indian Ocean. Biogeosciences 16, 485-503.

Rixen, T., Gaye, B., Emeis, K.-C., 2019. The monsoon, carbon fluxes, and the organic carbon pump in the northern Indian Ocean. Progress in Oceanography 175, 24-39.

2018

Gaye, B., Böll, A., Segschneider, J., Burdanowitz, N., Emeis, K.-C., Ramaswamy, V., Lahajnar, N., Lückge, A., Rixen, T., 2018. Glacial-interglacial changes and Holocene variations in Arabian Sea denitrification. Biogeosciences 15, 507–527. doi:10.5194/bg-15-507-2018

Mishra, P. K., Prasad, S., Marwan, N., Anoop, A., Krishnan, R., Gaye, B., Basavaiah, N., Stebich, M., Menzel, P., and Riedel, N.: Contrasting pattern of hydrological changes during the past two millennia from central and northern India: Regional climate difference or anthropogenic impact?, Global and Planetary Change 161, 97-107, 2018.

Mishra, P. K., Prasad, S., Jehangir, A., Anoop, A., Yousuf, A. R., and Gaye, B.: Investigating the role of meltwater versus precipitation seasonality in abrupt lake-level rise in the high-altitude Tso Moriri Lake (India), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 493, 20-29, 2018.

Paul, S. A. L., Gaye, B., Haeckel, M., Kasten, S., and Koschinsky, A.: Biogeochemical Regeneration of a Nodule Mining Disturbance Site: Trace Metals, DOC and Amino Acids in Deep-Sea Sediments and Pore Waters, Frontiers in Marine Science 5, 2018.

2016

Mbaye, M.L., Gaye, A.T., Spitzy, A., Dähnke, K., Afouda, A., Gaye, B., 2016. Seasonal and spatial variation in suspended matter, organic carbon, nitrogen, and nutrient concentrations of the Senegal River in West Africa. Limnologica - Ecology and Management of Inland Waters 57, 1-13.

Nagel, B., Gaye, B., Lahajnar, N., Struck, U., Emeis, K.-C., 2016. Effects of current regimes and oxygenation on particulate matter preservation on the Namibian shelf: Insights from amino acid biogeochemistry. Marine Chemistry 186, 121-132.

Prasad, S., Mishra, P.K., Menzel, P., Gaye, B., Jehangir, A., Yousuf, A.R., 2016. Testing the validity of productivity proxy indicators in high altitude Tso Moriri Lake, NW Himalaya (India). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 449, 421-430.

2015

Böll, A., Schulz, H., Munz, P., Rixen, T., Gaye, B., Emeis, K.-C., 2015. Contrasting sea surface temperature of summer and winter monsoon variability in the northern Arabian Sea over the last 25 ka. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 426, 10-21.

Menzel, P., Anupama, K., Basavaiah, N., Das, B.K., Gaye, B., Hermann, N., Prasad, S., 2015. The use of amino acid analyses in (palaeo-) limnological investigations: A comparative study of four Indian lakes in different climate regimes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 160, 25-37.

Mishra, P.K., Anoop, A., Schettler, G., Prasad, S., Jehangir, A., Menzel, P., Naumann, R., Yousuf, A.R., Basavaiah, A.R., Deenadayalan, K., Wiesner, M.G., Gaye, B., 2015. Reconstructed late Quaternary hydrological changes from Tso Moriri Lake, NW Himalaya. Quaternary International, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.040.

Mishra, P.K., Prasad, S., Anoop, A., Plessen, B., Jehangir, A., Gaye, B., Menzel, P., Weise, S.M., Yousuf, A.R., 2015. Carbonate isotopes from high altitude Tso Moriri Lake (NW Himalayas) provide clues to late glacial and Holocene moisture source and atmospheric circulation changes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 425, 76-83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.031

2014

Basavaiah, N., Wiesner, M., Anoop, A., Menzel, P., Nowaczyk, N.R., Deenadayalan, K., Brauer, A., Gaye, B., Naumann, R., Riedel, N., Prasad, S., Stebich, M., 2014. Physicochemical analyses of surface sediments from the Lonar Lake, central India – implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 184 (1), 51-68.

Bhatt, M.P., Bhatt, S., Gaye, B., 2014. Controls on Gosaikunda Lake Chemistry within Langtang National Park in High Himalaya, Nepal. International Journal of Geosciences, 5, 1100-1115.

Böll, A., Lückge, A., Munz, P., Forke, S., Schulz, H., Ramaswamy, V., Rixen, T., Gaye, B., Emeis, K.-C., 2014. Late Holocene primary productivity and sea surface temperature variations in the northeastern Arabian Sea: Implications for winter monsoon variability. Paleoceanography 29, doi:10.1002/2013PA002579.

Menzel, P., Gaye, B., Mishra, P.K., Anoop. A., Basavaiah, N., Marwan, N., Plessen, B., Prasad, S., Riedel, N., Stebich, N., Wiesner, M.G., 2014. Linking Holocene drying trends from Lonar Lake in monsoonal central India to North Atlantic cooling events. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 410, 164-178.

Mishra, P.K., Anoop, A., Jehangir, A-, Prasad, S.,  Menzel, P., Schettler, G. Naumann, R. Weise, S., Yousuf, A.R., Gaye, B., 2014. Limnology and modern sedimentation patterns in high altitude Tso Moriri Lake, NW Himalaya – implications for proxy development. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 185, 3-4, 329-348.

Prasad, S., Anoop, A., Riedel, N., Sarkar, S., Menzel, P., Basavaiah, N., Krishnan, R., Fuller, D., Plessen, B., Gaye, B., Röhl, U., Wilkes, H., Sachse, D., Sawant, R., Wiesner, M., Stebich, M., 2014. Prolonged monsoon droughts and links to Indo-Pacific warm pool: A Holocene record from Lonar Lake, central India. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 391, 171-182.

Rixen, T., Baum, A. Gaye, B., Nagel, B., 2014. Seasonal and interannual variations in the nitrogen cycle in the Arabian Sea. Biogeosciences 11, 5733–5747.

2013

Anoop, A., Prasad, S., Plessen, B., Basavaiah, B. Gaye, Naumann, R., Menzel, P., Weise, S., Brauer, A. 2013. Palaeoenvironmental implications of evaporative gaylussite crystals from Lonar lake, Central India. Journal of Quaternary Science 28 (4), 349-359.

Bhatt, M.P., Bhatt, S., Gaye, B., 2013. Controls on pond water chemistry within Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. International Journal of Lakes and Rivers 6 (2), 153-174.

Gaye, B., Nagel, B., Dähnke, K., Rixen, T., Emeis, K., 2013. Evidence of parallel denitrification and nitrite oxidation in the ODZ of the Arabian Sea from paired stable isotopes of nitrate and nitrite. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 27, doi:10.1002/2011GB004115.

Gaye, B., Nagel, B., Dähnke, K., Rixen, T., Lahajnar, N., Emeis, K.-C., 2013. Amino acid composition and 15N of suspended matter in the Arabian Sea: implications for organic matter sources and degradation. Biogeosciences 10, 7689-7702, doi:10.5194/bg-10-1-2013.

Menzel P., B. Gaye, S. Prasad, M. Stebich, B. K. Das, A. Anoop, N. Riedel, N. Basavaiah, 2013. Influence of bottom water anoxia on nitrogen isotopic ratios and amino acid contributions of recent sediments from small eutrophic Lonar Lake, central India. Limnology and Oceanography 58 (3), 1061-1074.