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• 1993 - 1996 Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
  • Studium der Geologie-Paläontologie
• 1996 - 1999 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Oktober 1999: Diplom in Geologie-Paläontologie:
  • Massenspektrometrische Radium-Isotopenanalyse an geowissenschaftlichen Proben - Methodenentwicklung und Anwendung
• 2000 - 2003 Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel / GEOMAR
• Mai 2003 Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.) Mai 2003
  • Calcium Isotope Fractionation in Calcium Carbonates: Calibration and Application
• 2003 GEOMAR Forschungszentrum für marine Geowissenschaften
Post-Doc
• 2004 -2006 Universität Bremen / Forschungszentrum Ozeanränder
Post-Doc
• seit 2006 Universität Münster

• 07.-09.1999: R/V Polarstern, Ark XV/2
• 07.-08.2001: R/V Sonne, SO 158 (MEGAPRINT)
• 05.-06.2002: R/V Sonne, SO 164 (RASTA)
• 06.2005: R/V Meteor, M 65/1
• 03.-05.2009: IODP Forschungsexpedition 320 „Pacific Equatorial Age Transect“

• Global geochemical cycles and paleoclimate
• Biomineralisation and proxy development
• Fluid-rock-interaction
• Fractionation of heavy stable isotopes
• Radiometric dating

• Übungen zur Vorlesung "Die Erde"
• Field Camp
• Biomineralisation
• Interdisziplinäres Seminar
• Übungen zu Baumaterial der Erde (Berndt-Gerdes, J.,Gussone, N., Mezger, K.)
• Chemische Mineral- und Gesteinsanalyse I (Scherer, E., Bröcker, M., Gussone, N.)
• Geochemisches Praktikum (Scherer, E., Bröcker, M., Gussone, N.)

• Ockert, C., Gussone, N., Kaufhold, S., Teichert, B.M.A (in press) Isotope fractionation during Ca exchange on clay minerals in a marine environment, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
• Pälike, H., Lyle, M. W., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Ridgwell, A., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., Acton, G., Anderson, L., Backman, J., Baldauf, J., Beltran, C., Bohaty, S. M., Bown, P., Busch, W., Channell, J.E.T., Chun, C.O.J., Delaney, M., Dewangan, P., Dunkley Jones, T., Edgar, K.M., Evans, H., Fitch, P., Foster, G.L., Gussone, N., Hasegawa, H., Hathorne, E.C., Hayashi, H., Herrle, J.O., Holbourn, A., Hovan, S., Hyeong, K., Iijima, K., Ito, T., Kamikuri, S., Kimoto, K., Kuroda, J. Leon-Rodriguez, L., Malinverno, A., Moore, T.C. Jr, Murphy, B.H., Murphy, D.P., Nakamura, H., Ogane, K., Ohneiser, C., Richter, C., Robinson, R., Rohling, E.J., Romero, O., Sawada, K., Scher, H., Schneider, L., Sluijs, A., Takata, H., Tian, J., Tsujimoto, A., Wade, B.S., Westerhold, T., Wilkens, R., Williams, T., Wilson, P.A., Yamamoto, Y., Yamamoto, S., Yamazaki, T. & Zeebe, R.E. (2012) A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth. Nature 488, 506-515.
• John, T., Gussone, N., Podladchikov, Y.Y., Bebout, G., Dohmen, R., Halama, R., Klemd, R., Magna, T., Seitz, M. (2012) Volcanic arcs fed by rapid pulsed fluid flow through subducting slabs. Nature Geoscience 5, 489-492.
• Wang, S., Yan, W., Magalhães H.V., Chen, Z., Pinheiro, M. L., Gussone, N. (2012) Calcium isotope fractionation and its controlling factors over authigenic carbonates in the cold seeps of the northern South China Sea. Chinese Science Bulletin 57, 1325-1332.
• Westerhold, T., Röhl, U., Wilkens, R., Pälike, H., Lyle, M., Dunkley Jones, T., Bown, P., Moore, T., Kamikuri, S., Acton, G., Ohneiser, C., Yamamoto, Y., Richter, C., Fitch, P., Scher, H., Liebrand, D., and Expeditions 320/321 scientists (2012) Syntheses: Revised composite depth scales and integration of IODP Sites U1331, U1332, U1333, U1334 and ODP Sites 1218, 1219, 1220. Proc. IODP, 320/321: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.)
• Wombacher, F., Eisenhauer, A., Böhm, F., Gussone, N., Regenberg, M.,Dullo, W.-Chr., Rüggeberg, A. (2011) Magnesium stable isotope fractionation in marine biogenic calcite and aragonite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 5797-5818.
• Pälike, H., Nishi, H, Lyle, M., Raffi, I., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., and the Expedition 320/321 Scientists, 2010. Proc. IODP, 320/321: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.). doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.320321.2010
• Gussone, N., Nehrke, G. and Teichert, B.M.A. (2011) Calcium isotope fractionation in ikaite and vaterite. Chemical Geology 285, 194-202.
• Kasioptas, A., Geisler, T., Perdikouri, C., Trepmann, C., Gussone, N., and Putnis, A. (2011) Polycrystalline apatite pseudomorphs of calcium carbonate minerals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 3486-3500.
• Heuser, A., Tütken, T.,Gussone, N., Galer, S.J.G. (2011) Calcium isotopes in fossil bones and teeth – diagenetic versus biogenic origin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 3419-3433.
• Gussone, N. and Filipsson, H.L. (2010) Calcium isotope ratios in calcitic tests of benthic Foraminifers, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 290, 108-117
• Lyle, M., Pälike, H., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Gamage, K., Klaus, A., and the IODP Expeditions 320/321 Scientific Party (2010) The Pacific Equatorial Age Transect, IODP Expeditions 320 and 321: Building a 50-Million-Year-Long Environmental Record of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Scientific Drilling 9, 4-15.
• Gussone, N., Zonnefeld, K. and Kuhnert, H. (2010) Minor element and Ca isotope composition of calcareous dinoflagellate cysts of Thoracosphaera heimii, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 289, 180-188.
• Gussone, N., Hönisch, B., Heuser, A., Eisenhauer, A., Spindler, M., Hemleben, C. (2009) A critical evaluation of calcium isotope ratios in tests of planktonic foraminifers, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 7241-7255.
• Arning, E.T., Lückge, A., Breuer, C., Gussone, N., Birgel, D., Peckmann, J. (2009) Genesis of phosphorite crusts off Peru. Marine Geology, 262, 68-81.
• Teichert, B.M.A., Gussone, N. and Torres, M.E. (2009) Controls on Calcium Isotope Fractionation in Sedimentary Porewaters. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 279, 373-382.
• Gussone, N., Langer, G., Geisen, M., Steel, B. A. and Riebesell, U. (2007) Calcium isotope fractionation in coccoliths of cultured Calcidiscus leptoporus, Helicosphaera carteri, Syracosphaera pulchra and Umbilicosphaera foliosa, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 260, 505-515.
• Langer, G., N. Gussone, G. Nehrke, U. Riebesell, A. Eisenhauer, and S. Thoms (2007), Calcium isotope fractionation during coccolith formation in Emiliania huxleyi: Independence of growth and calcification rate, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 8 , Q05007, doi:10.1029/2006GC001422.
• Böhm, F., Gussone, N., Eisenhauer, A., Dullo, W.-C., Reynaud, S., Paytan, A. (2006) Calcium Isotope Fractionation in Modern Scleractinian Corals, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70 (17), 4452-4462.
• Gussone, N., Langer, G., Thoms, S., Nehrke, G., Eisenhauer, A., Riebesell, U. and Wefer, G. (2006) Cellular calcium pathways and isotope fractionation in Emiliania huxleyi, Geology 34 (8), 625-628.
• Langer, G., Gussone, N., Nehrke, G., Riebesell, U., Eisenhauer, A., Kuhnert, H., Rost, B., Trimborn, S. and Thoms, S., (2006) Coccolith strontium to calcium ratios in Emiliania huxleyi: The dependence on seawater strontium and calcium concentrations, Limnology and Oceanography 51 (1), 310-320.
• Gussone, N., Böhm, F., Eisenhauer, A., Dietzel, M., Heuser, A., Teichert, B.M.A., Reitner, J., Wörheide, G., Dullo, W.-C. (2005) Calcium Isotope Fractionation in Calcite and Aragonite, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 69 (18), 4485-4494.
• Heuser, A., Eisenhauer, A., Böhm, F., Wallmann, K., Gussone, N., Pearson, P.N., Nägler T.F. and Dullo, W.-C. (2005) Calcium Isotope (δ44/40Ca) Variations of Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera, Paleoceanography 20, PA2013, doi:10.1029/2004PA001048.
• Teichert, B.M.A., Gussone, N. Eisenhauer, A., Bohrmann, G. (2005) Clathrites - Archives of near-seafloor pore fluid evolution (δ44/40Ca, δ13C, δ18O) in seep environments, Geology 33 (3), 213-216.
• Gussone, N., Eisenhauer, A., Tiedemann, R., Haug, G.H., Heuser, A., Bock, B., Nägler, Th.F. and Müller, A. (2004) δ44Ca, δ18O and Mg/Ca Reveal Caribbean Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity Fluctuations During the Pliocene Closure of the Central-American Gateway. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 227, 201-214.
• Eisenhauer, A., Nägler, Th.F., Stille, P., Kramers, J., Gussone, N., Bock, B., Fietzke, J., Hippler, D., Schmitt, A.-D. (2004) Proposal for an International Agreement on Ca Notation as Result of the Discussions from the workshops on Stable Isotope Measurements in Davos (Goldschmidt 2002) and Nice (EGS-AGU-EUG 2003). Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research 28 (1), 149-151.
• Fietzke, J., Eisenhauer, A., Gussone, N., Bock, B., Liebetrau, V., Nägler, Th.F., Spero, H.J., Bijma, J. and Dullo C. (2004) Direct Measurement of 44Ca/40Ca Ratios by MC-ICPMS using the Cool-Plasma-Technique. Chemical Geology 206 (1), 11-20.
• Dietzel, M., Gussone, N., and Eisenhauer, A.(2004) Precipitation of Aragonite by Membrane Diffusion of Gaseous CO2 and the Coprecipitation of Sr2+ and Ba2+ (10° to 50°C). Chemical Geology 203, 139-151. Reprinted in: Experimental Earth, 2, (1), February 2004.
• Hippler, D., Schmitt, A.-D., Gussone, N., Heuser, A., Stille, P., Eisenhauer, A., and Nägler, Th.F. (2003) Ca isotopic composition of various standards and seawater, Geostandards Newsletter The Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis, 27 (1), 13-19
• Gussone, N., Eisenhauer, A., Heuser, A., Dietzel, M., Bock, B., Böhm, F., Spero, H. J., Lea, D.W., Bijma, J., and Nägler, Th.F. (2003) Model for Kinetic Effects on Calcium Isotope Fractionation (δ44Ca) in Inorganic Aragonite and Cultured Planktonic Foraminifera. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 67(7) 1375-1382. Reprinted in: Virtual Journal of Geobiology 2 (4) 1C. April 2003
• Heuser, A., Eisenhauer, A., Gussone, N., Bock, B., Hansen, B.T., and Nägler, Th.F. (2002) Measurement of Calcium Isotopes (δ44Ca) Using a Multicollector TIMS Technique. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 220, 387-399.
• Liebetrau, V., Eisenhauer, A., Gussone, N., Wörner, G., Hansen, B.T., and Leipe, T. (2002) 226Ra/Ba-growth rates and U-Th-Ra-Ba systematic of Baltic Mn/Fe-concretions. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 66(1) 63-73.

• Gussone, N., John, T., Beinlich, A., Bebout, G. (2010) Calcium isotopes as tracers of high-pressure subduction-zone fluid-rock interaction, Goldschmidt Conference 2010, Knoxville. (invited).
• Gussone, N. and Filipsson, H.L. (2009) Fractionation of Ca isotopes in benthic foraminifers. GV-Tagung, Göttingen.
• Gussone, N. (2008) Fractionation mechanisms and applications of calcium isotope ratios. Joint European Stable Isotope User Meeting, Presqu’île de Giens, (invited).
• Gussone N. (2006) Controls of calcium isotope fractionation in biogenic and inorganic calciumcarbonate, Ber. Inst. Erdwiss. K.-F.-Univ. Graz 11, 19-22, Invited keynote lecture.
• Gussone, N., G. Langer, S. Thoms, A. Eisenhauer, U. Riebesell and G. Wefer (2005) Coccolith biomineralisation and Ca isotope fractionation in Emiliania huxleyi, 4th Ca-Workshop, Amsterdam.
• Gussone, N., G. Langer, S. Thoms, A. Eisenhauer, U. Riebesell and G. Wefer (2005) Cellular calcium pathways: a key to understand Ca isotope fractionation in Emiliania huxleyi, Biogeochemical Controls on Palaeoceanographic Proxies, Geological society London.
• Gussone, N., G. Langer, M. Geisen, A. Eisenhauer, U. Riebesell, G. Wefer and S. Thoms (2005) Fractionation of Calcium Isotopes in Marine Coccolithophores, GEO 2005, Erlangen.
• Gussone, N., Böhm, F., Eisenhauer, A. (2004) Calcium Isotopes in Polymorphic Calcium Carbonates: I. Influence of Mineral Structure on Fractionation in Aragonite and Calcite, 3rd Ca-Workshop, Kiel.
• Gussone, N., Eisenhauer, A., Haug, G., Tiedemann, R., Heuser, A., Bock, B., Müller, A., and Nägler, Th.F. (2003) Caribbean Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity Fluctuations during the Pliocene Closure of the Central American Gateway: a Comparison of Ca isotope and Mg/Ca-Thermometry, Geophys. Research Abstracts 5 EAE03-A-09491
• Gussone, N., Langer, G., Eisenhauer, A., Heuser, A., Riebesell, U., and Böhm, F., (2002) Temperature-Dependent Ca Isotope Fractionation in Calcitic Phyto- and Zooplankton (Emiliania huxleyi and Orbulina universa), AGU fall-meeting.
• Eisenhauer, A., Gussone, N., Dietzel, M., Heuser, A., Bock, B., Böhm, F., Spero, H. J., Lea, D.W., Bijma, J., Zeebe R., and Nägler Th.F. (2002) Kinetic Effects on Calcium Isotope (δ44Ca) Fractionation in Calcium carbonate, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 66(S1), A 211.
• Gussone, N., Eisenhauer, A., Dietzel, M., Heuser, A., Spero, H., Bijma, J., Böhm, F., and Nägler, Th.F. (2002) Model for Kinetic Effects on Ca Isotope Fractionation in Inorganic Aragonite and Cultured Foraminifera (Orbulina universa and Globigerinoides sacculifer) Geophys. Research Abstracts 5, EGS02-A-02944.
• Gussone, N., Haug, G., Tiedemann, R., Heuser, A., Eisenhauer, A., Bock, B., and Nägler, T. (2001) Using δ44Ca and δ18O-Isotopes as Proxies for SST and Salinity Changes During the Closure of the Central American Gateway. J. Conf. Abs. 6, (2001),110.

• Gussone, N., Nehrke, G., Teichert, B.M.A. (2010) Controls on calcium isotope fractionation in natural and synthetic ikaite and vaterite, DMG-Tagung, Münster.
• Gussone, N. and Filipsson, H.L. and Kuhnert, H. (2010) Ca-isotopes in benthic foraminifers: environmental controls and influences of test-mineralogy, Forams 2010, Bonn.
• Gussone, N., Teichert, B.M.A., Rabe K. and IODP Expeditions 320/321 Shipboard Party (2010) Fluctiations of the oceanic Ca-isotopic budget and environmental changes during highly dynamic transitions of the Cenozoic, IODP/ICDP Statusseminar, Frankfurt.
• Gussone, N. (2008) Controls of calcium isotope fractionation during biomineralisation. Fifth Japanese-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (Jagfos), Mainz.
• Gussone, N., Zonneveld, K., Langer, G. (2007) Influence of Biomineralisation on Calcium Isotope Fractionation in Different Marine Phyto- and Zooplankton Species of Coccolithophores, Dinoflagellates and Foraminifera, GV-Tagung, Bremen.
• Gussone, N., Zonneveld, K., Kuhnert, H. (2007) Trace element and Ca isotope ratios in calcareous dinoflagellate cysts of Thoracosphaera heimii, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 71 (S1), A364.
• Gussone, N., Langer, G., Geisen, M., Eisenhauer, A., Riebesell, U., Wefer, G., Thoms, S. (2006) Fractionation processes of Calcium Isotopes in Marine Coccolithophores, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 8, 04773.
• Gussone, N., F. Böhm, A. Eisenhauer, M. Dietzel, A. Heuser, B.M.A.Teichert, J. Reitner, G. Wörheide and W.-Chr. Dullo (2005) Calcium isotope fractionation in the calcium carbonate polymorphs calcite and aragonite, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 7, 06415.
• Gussone, N., Eisenhauer, A., Hönisch, B., Dietzel, M., Bijma, J., Heuser, A., Bock, B., Böhm, F., Spero, H. J., Lea, D.W., Nägler, T. F.(2003) Temperature control on Ca isotope fractionation in carbonates and its application in marine geochemistry. Geo2003.
• Gussone, N., Eisenhauer, A., Haug, G., Tiedemann, R., Müller, A., Heuser, A., Bock, B., and Nägler, Th.F. (2002) δ44Ca, δ18O and Mg/Ca ratios Reveal Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) Variations during the Emergence of the Central American Isthmus, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 66(S1), A 299.