Dr. Mark Zindorf

Academic positions and work experience:

Jan. 2024:  Researcher, University of Hamburg, Institute for Geology

Past and recent and carbon and nutrient cycling in response to climate change at the Scotian Shelf

Mar. 2021–Dec. 2023: Scientist, Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (Federal Institute for Hydrology), Germany
Contaminant transport modeling in the Elbe-Estuary

2018 – 2020: Associate researcher in ChAOS (Changing Arctic Ocean Seafloor) project (UK)

Nov. 2018– Apr. 2020: Postdoc, Ifremer, France
1D Reaction-transport Modeling on Sediments of the Zambezi Deep Sea Fan

Education:

Sept. 2014 –Nov. 2018: PhD in Geosciences, Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Reconstructing carbon and nutrient cycling in the northeast Pacific Ocean over the past 15 million years

Oct. 2010 –Sept. 2018: Master of Science, University of Trier, Germany
Environmental Assessment and Management
Focus: Environmental Monitoring and Pollution Assessment

Oct. 2007 –Sept. 2010: Bachelor of Science, University of Trier, Germany
Umwelt-Geowissenschaften (Environmental Geosciences)

Awards and grants:

2015: ECORD Research Grant for Outstanding Young Scientists

 

Publications: Peer reviewed journal articles                                                                  

Zindorf, M., Rooze, J., Meile, C., März, C., Jouet, G., Newton, R., Brandily, C., Pastor, L. 2021 “The evolution of early diagenetic processes at the Mozambique margin during the last glacial-interglacial transition” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 300, 79-94 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.02.024

Faust, J., Tessin, A., Fisher, B., Zindorf, M., Hendry, K., Papadaki, S., Doyle, K., März, C. 2021 “Millennial scale persistence of organic carbon bound to iron in Arctic marine sediments”  Nature Communications, 12, 275 (2021) 
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20550-0

Zindorf, M., Rush, D., Jaeger, J. M., Mix, A., Penkrot, M., Schnetger, B., Sidgwick, F.R., Talbot, H.M., v. d. Land, C., Wagner, T., Walczak, M., März, C. 2020 “Reconstructing oxygen deficiency in the glacial Gulf of Alaska: Combining biomarkers and trace metals as paleo-redox proxies” Chemical Geology, 119864 (2020)           
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119864

Zindorf, M., März, C., Schnetger, B. 2020 “Wavelength-dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence-based geochemical data at Site U1418, IODP Expedition 341 to the Gulf of Alaska” IODP Data Report, 341-206 (2020)          
https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.341.206.2020

Ríos, F., Kilian, R., Baeza-Urrea, O., Arz, H., Lange, C.B., Zindorf, M., De Pol-Holz, R., Lamy, F. 2020 “Environmental and coastline changes controlling Holocene carbon accumulation rates in the fjords around the western Strait of Magellan”  Continental Shelf Research, 104101 (2020)         
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2020.104101

Zindorf, M., März, C., Wagner, T., Gulick, S. P. S., Strauss, H., Benowitz, J., Jaeger, J. M., Schnetger, B., Childress, L. B., LeVay, L., v. d. Land, C., La Rosa, M. 2019 “Deep Sulfate-Methane-Transition and sediment diagenesis in the Gulf of Alaska (IODP Site U1417)”  Marine Geology, 417, 105986 (2019)     
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.105986