Prof. Dr. Harald Strauss

• Stabile Isotopengeochemie, Sedimentgeochemie
• Entwicklung des Ozean-Atmosphäre-Systems
• Entwicklung geochemischer Kreisläufe

Academic Education

1994

Habilitation, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

1983 – 1985

Doctoral studies, Georg-August Universität Göttingen

1985

Dr. rer. nat. (Geochemistry), Georg-August Universität Göttingen

1978 – 1983

Studies in Geology, Technische Universität Clausthal

1983

University degree (Diplom) in Geology, Clausthal University of Technology

Positions

since 04.1999

Professor (C4) for Geology, WWU Münster

1994 – 1999

Associate Professor (Hochschuldozent C2), Institut für Geologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

1992 – 1994

Assistant Professor (Wiss. Assistent C1), Institute of Geology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

1988 – 1991

Research Associate (Wiss. Mitarbeiter), Institute of Geology, Ruhr- Universität Bochum

1985 – 1988

Member “Precambrian Paleobiology Research Group – Proterozoic (P.P.R.G.-P.)”

1987 – 1988

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1985 – 1987

Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

Honors

2012

Appointment as Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts – North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts (NRW-AdW)

External Functions

since 01.1994

Gutachter für diverse Fachzeitschriften (Nature, Science, Geology, Geochimica et Cosmochimca Acta, Chemical Geology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Precambrian Geology, Earth Science Reviews, Geological Magazine, International Journal of Earth Sciences)

since 01.1994

Gutachter für DFG, NERC, NSF, NRC

since 01.1986

Geological Society of America

since 01.1986

Geochemical Society

since 01.1983

Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft

Summer Term 2026

• Lecture: V Erd- und Lebensgeschichte [144004]
  (in cooperation with Benjamin Bomfleur and Ralph Becker)
  • [13^th Apr – 20^th Jul 2026 | Mon, 8.00 a. m. – 10.00 a. m. | weekly | Fl 119]
  • [16^th Apr – 23^rd Jul 2026 | Thu, 8.00 a. m. – 10.00 a. m. | weekly | GEO1 Hörsaal]
• V/Ü: Biogeochemie mariner Sedimente [144018]
  • [Tue, 26^th – Sat, 30^th May 2026Block Course]

Winter Term 2025/26

• Lecture: V Umweltisotope [142071]
• Lecture: Lagerstättenkunde [142197]
  (in cooperation with Arno Rohrbach and Stephan Klemme)
• Lecture: Regionale Geologie Europas [142016]
• Lecture: V Geochemie sedimentärer Systeme [142017]
• Seminar: (Labor)Projektarbeit [142070]
  (in cooperation with Patricia Göbel and Christine Achten)
• Seminar: S Umweltisotope [142072]
• Seminar: S Geochemie Sedimentärer Systeme [142018]
• Alle: Exkursion Lagerstättenkunde Harz (MSc) [142075]
  (in cooperation with Arno Rohrbach)

Summer Term 2025

• Lecture: Angewandte Isotopengeochemie [140006]
• Lecture: V Erd- und Lebensgeschichte [140001]
  (in cooperation with Benjamin Bomfleur and Ralph Becker)
• V/Ü: Biogeochemie mariner Sedimente [140055]
• Seminar: (Labor)Projektarbeit [140069]
  (in cooperation with Patricia Göbel and Christine Achten)
• Practical: Umweltanalytisches Praktikum [140068]
  (in cooperation with Christine Achten)
• Excursion: Exkursion Regionale Geologie Deutschlands - Harzvorland [140018]
• Alle: Biogeochemisches Seminar [140086]
• Alle: Biogeochemische Projektarbeit [140087]

• Schwefelumsatzprozesse in Grubenwässern (2023 – 2024)
  Individual Granted Project: Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola
• Förderung der Vorgriffsprofessur im Fach "Remote Sensing and Spatial Modelling" (2019 – 2023)
  Participation in Federally Funded Joint Project: BMFTR - Professorinnenprogramm | Project Number: 01FP19036K
• SPP 1833 - Subproject: Was the Great Oxidation Event a sharp or an oscillating build-up of free atmospheric oxygen? A combined S-Mo-Se isotope study of continuous drill core records through the Duitschland/ Rooihoogte and Timeball Hill Formations, Transvaal Basin, South Africa (2019 – 2022)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: STR 281/52-1
• Wassersäulenprofile im Großen Heiligen Meer (2021)
  Individual Granted Project: LWL-Museum für Naturkunde in Münster
• SPP 1833 - Subproject: Elucidating Eoarchean geodynamic processes by multiple sulfur isotopes (2019 – 2021)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: STR 281/51-1
• Isotopenanalysen von Sulfatgesteinen und Karbonaten (2018 – 2021)
  Participation in Federally Funded Joint Project: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe | Project Number: 207-4500111286; 207-4500121472; 205-4500127064
• Auftragsmessung/Isotopenanalysen BGR (2020)
  Participation in Federally Funded Joint Project: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe | Project Number: 207-4500126115
• FOR 1644 TP 5 - Sulfat- und Dolomitbildung - Rahmenbedingungen für Bildung und Alteration – CHARON (2016 – 2019)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Forschungsgruppe | Project Number: STR 281/49-1
• Verbundprojekt: Geochemische und ökologische Auswirkungen hydrothermaler Prozesse in intraozeanischen Vulkanbögen am Beispiel des Kermadec-Bogens (SW-Pazifik) - Teilvorhaben: Analysen stabiler Isotopen (H, O,C, S) des Hydrothermalsystems mit dem Fokus auf stabile Schwefelisotope – SO 253 - HYDROTHERMADEC (2016 – 2019)
  Participation in Federally Funded Joint Project: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt | Project Number: 03G0253F
• Münster Graduate School of Evolution - Unterstützung des Evolution Think Tank – MGSE (2013 – 2018)
  Individual Granted Project: Santander Consumer Bank AG
• Multiple Schwefel-, Sauerstoff-, Strontium-Isotope und chalcophile Elemente: Ein geochemisches Profil durch die tiefe langsam-spreizende ozeanische Kruste (IODP Expedition 360, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge) (2016 – 2018)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: STR 281/50-1
• Geochemical and Multiple Isotope Investigation to assess the Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Surface and Subsurface Environments of the Huainan Coalfield, China (2015 – 2018)
  Individual Granted Project: Chinesisch-Deutsches Zentrum für Wissenschaftsförderung | Project Number: GZ 1055
• SPP 1006 - Teilprojekt: Tiefbohrung im Wadi Gideah, Oman Ophiolith: Ein Schlüssel zum Verständnis des Mechanismus von Akkretion, magmatischer Entwicklung und Abkühlung der plutonischen, schnell-spreizenden ozeanischen Kruste (2015 – 2017)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: STR 281/46-1
• From a modern highly mineralized spring to the Paleoproterozoic ocean: geomicrobiology and isotopic biogeochemistry of the Arvadi spring, Switzerland (2014 – 2017)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: STR 281/41-1
• Isotopenanalysn von Sulfatgesteinen und Sulfat-führenden Lösungen sowie von Karbonaten (2016)
  Individual Granted Project: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe | Project Number: 212-4500103451
• Analysen der Kohlenstoff- und Sauerstoff-Isotopenzusammensetzung sowie der Schwefelisotopenzusammensetzung an Pyrolyseprodukten (2015 – 2016)
  Individual Granted Project: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe | Project Number: 212-4500095429
• FOR 1644 Subproject - Unraveling the sulfur cycle with carbonates: mechanism of incorporation and diagenesis of structurally-substituted-sulfate – CHARON (2013 – 2016)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Forschungsgruppe | Project Number: STR 281/39-1
• Formation of mega-glendonites in the aftermath of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (2013 – 2016)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: TE 642/3-1
• Analyseprojekte zur Schwefel- und Sauerstoffisotopenmessung (2014 – 2015)
  Individual Granted Project: Sonstige öffentliche Mittelgeber
• Integrierte, maßstabsübergreifende Bewertung von Stressoren in Grundwasser-Ökosystemen (2014 – 2015)
  Own Resources Project
• Establishing the Core facility Münster Isotope research center – MIRC (2012 – 2015)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: STR 853/3-1
• Isotopenanalysen der Sulfatgesteine sowie der Meerwaser- und Lösungsproben und der Karbonate aus Salinargesteinen (2014 – 2015)
  Individual Granted Project: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe | Project Number: 201-4500088486
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: Peering into the Cradle of Life: multiple sulphur isotopes reveal insigths into environmental conditions and early sulphur metabolism some 3.5 Ga ago (2013 – 2014)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: STR 281/36-3, 601443
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: Resolving sedimentary sulphur cycling during the Shunga Event (early Paleoproterozoic) with sulphur isotopes (2012 – 2013)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: STR 281/35-2
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: Peering into the Cradle of Life: multiple sulphur isotopes reveal insights into environmental conditions and early sulphur metabolism some 3.5 Ga ago (2nd funding period) (2012 – 2013)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: STR 281/36-2
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: Establishing a reference profile for fast-spreading oceanic crust: Petrology and geochemistry of the "Wadi Gideah" cross section in the Oman ophiolite (2012 – 2013)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: STR 281/38-1
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: Molecular and organic carbon isotopic evidence for the evolution of key metabolic pathways (2011 – 2012)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: 584346
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: Resolving sedimentary sulphur cycling during the Shunga Event (early Paleoproterozoic) with sulphur isotopes (2010 – 2012)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: 575123
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: Peering into the Cradle of Life: multiple sulphur isotopes reveal insights into environmental conditions and early sulphur metabolism some 3.5 Ga ago (2010 – 2012)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: STR 281/36-1
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: The emergence of an aerobic world: isotopic evidence for biogeochemical changes at the Archean-Proterozoic transition (2010 – 2011)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: 575121
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: The emergence of an aerobic world: isotopic evidence for biogeochemical changes at the Archean-Proterozoic transition (2nd funding period) (2009 – 2011)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: 564322
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: Molecular and organic carbon isotopic evidence for the evolution of key metabolic pathways during the Archean-Proterozoic transition (2009 – 2011)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: 564280
• Multiple sulphur isotopes reflecting atmospheric and oceanic evolution in the Archean and Paleoproterozoic (2008 – 2010)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: 554843
• Chemostratigraphy of a Paleoproterozoic BIF-MnF succession – the Voëlwater Subgroup, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa (2006 – 2010)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: 534401
• SPP 1144 - Subproject: Sulphur isotopic investigation of dissolved and solid sulphur phases in fluids, mineral precipitates, sediments and rock samples from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (2007 – 2010)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: 547705
• An Integrated Sedimentological and Multi-proxy Geochemical Investigation of the Neoproterozoic Climatic Paradox (2006 – 2009)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: STR 281/25-1
• Biospheric oxygenation and atmospheric evolution across Earth’s earliest glacial episodes (2008 – 2009)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: STR 281/31-1; 553619
• SPP 1006 - Subproject: The emergence of an aerobic world: isotopic evidence for biogeochemical changes at the Archean-Proterozoic transition (2007 – 2009)
  Subproject in DFG-Joint Project Hosted outside the University of Münster: DFG - Schwerpunktprogramm | Project Number: 537231
• Quantification and geochemical characterization of total mass fluxes in river catchments of the Rhenish Massif and the Black Forest, Germany (2006 – 2008)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: HE 1704/5-1
• Biogeochemie des Schwefels in neoproterozoischen und kambrischen Sedimenten Indiens (2004 – 2006)
  Individual Granted Project: DFG - Sachbeihilfe/Einzelförderung | Project Number: STR 281/22-1

• Pieterek, B., Matusiak-Małek, M., Tribuzio, R., Lazarov, M., Pańczyk, M., Strauss, H., Kuhn, T., Czupyt, Z., Ciazela, J., and Weyer, S. 2025. “Metallogeny of subcontinental lithospheric mantle driven by sulfide-saturated pyroxenite-forming melts: evidence from the Balmuccia peridotite massif.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 395: 248–266. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2025.03.007.
• Zhang, Q., Lin, Z, Strauss, H., Chen, T., Lu, Y., Goedert, J.L., and Peckmann, J. 2025. “Characterizing ancient seep environments by in-situ sulfur isotope composition of authigenic pyrite.” Chemical Geology 638 122767. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.122767.
• phototrophic, Fe(II) oxidation, photoferrotrophs, Fe(III), reduction, and dimictic, lake. 2025. “Cryptic iron cycling influenced by organic carbon in a seasonally stratified lake.” FEMS Microbiology Ecology 101. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiaf029.
• Grosche, A., Keith, M., Klemd, R., Strauss, H., Rosca, C., and König, S. 2024. “Temperature-controlled Se-S isotope fractionation during seawater mixing and sulfide precipitation in black smoker chimneys.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 372: 13–27.
• Falkenberg, J.J., Keith, M., Haase, K.M., Klemd, R., Kutzschbach, M., Grosche, A., Scicchitano, M.R., Strauss, H., and Kim, J. 2024. “Pyrite trace element proxies for magmatic volatile influx in submarine subduction-related hydrothermal systems.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 373: 52–67.
• Falkenberg, J.J., Keith, M., Melfos, V., Hohl, M., Haase, K.M., Voudouris, P., Höss, A., Wenske, J., Klemd, R., Beier, C., Kutzschbach, M., and Strauss, H. 2024. “Insights into fluid evolution and Re enrichment by mineral microanalysis and fluid inclusion constraints: Evidence from the Maronia Cu-Mo ± Re ± Au porphyry system in NE Greece.” Mineralium Deposita 59. doi: 10.1007/s00126-024-01273-4.
• Lin, Z., Lin, H., Strauss, H., Roberts, A.P., Niu, M., Fang, Y., Yang, T., Sun, X., Birgel, D., and Peckmann, J. 2024. “Methanogenic archaea as catalysts for magnetite formation in iron-rich marine sediments.” Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth 129 e2023JB028312.
• Zhang, K., Shields, G.A., Zhou, Y., Strauss, H., Struck, U., and Jensen, S. 2024. “The basal Cambrian carbon isotope excursion revealed in the Central Iberian Zone, Spain.” Precambrian Research 411 107526. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2024.107526.
• Höss, A., Haase, K.M., Keith, M., Klemd, R., Melfos, V., Gerlach, L., Pelloth, F., Falkenberg, J.J., Voudouris, P., Strauss, H., Baker, T., and Tarantola, A. 2024. “Magmatic and hydrothermal evolution of the Skouries Au-Cu porphyry deposit, northern Greece.” Ore Geology Reviews 173 106233.
• Borisov, A., Siidra, O., Vlasenko, N., Platonova, N., Schuldt, T., Neuman, M., Strauss, H., and Holzheid, A. 2024. “The Yadovitaya fumarole, Tolbachik volcano: a comprehensive mineralogical and geochemical study and driving factors of mineral diversity.” Geochemistry 84 126179.
• Fichtner, V., Kirchner, F., Kutzschbach, M., Strauss, H., Tillberg, M., Whitehouse, M., and Drake, H. 2024. “Microscale δ34S and δ18O heterogeneities in igneous rock hosted barite reveal variations between sulfur reducing and oxidizing microbes.” Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies .. doi: 10.1080/10256016.2024.2410293.
• Lin, Z., Strauss, H., Zhao, M., and Halevy, I. 2023. “The effects of early diagenesis in various marine environments on the stable isotope records of environmental conditions and biogeochemical processes.” Frontiers in Marine Science 10 1161577.
• Göhring, A., Hölzl, S., Mayr, C., and Strauss, H. 2023. “Multi-isotope fingerprints of recent environmental samples from the Baltic coast and their implications for bioarchaeological studies.” Science of the Total Environment 874 162513.
• Lin, Z., Strauss, H., Peckmann, J., Roberts, A.P., Lu, Y., Sun, X., Chen, T., and Harzhauser, M. 2023. “Seawater sulphate heritage governed early Late Miocene methane consumption in the long-lived Lake Pannon.” Communications Earth & Environment 4: 207.
• Lewis, J.A., Hoffmann, J.E., Schwarzenbach, E.M., Strauss, H., Li, C., Münker, C., and Rosing., M.T. 2023. “Sulfur isotope evidence from peridotite enclaves in southern West Greenland for recycling of surface material into Eoarchean depleted mantle domains.” Chemical Geology 633 121568.
• Kürzinger, V., Hansen, C.T., Strauss, H., Wu, S., and Bach, W. 2023. “Experimental evidence for the hydrothermal formation of native sulfur by synproportionation.” Frontiers in Earth Sciences 11 1132794.
• Fichtner, V., Schurr, S.L., Strauss, H., Vasconcelos, C., Goetschl, K.E., Areias, C., Barbosa, C.F., and Immenhauser, A. 2023. “The relationship between bacterial sulfur cycling and Ca/Mg carbonate precipitation – Old tales and new insights from Lagoa Vermelha and Brejo do Espinho, Brazil.” Geosciences 13: 229.
• Alqaragholi, S.A., Kanoua, W., Strauss, H., and Göbel, P. 2023. “Does Microbial and Faunal Pattern Correspond to Dynamics in Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry? Comparative Study of Two Isolated Groundwater Ecosystems in Münsterland, Germany.” Geosciences 13: 140.
• Ge, Y., Pederson, C.L., Lokier, S., Strauss, H., and Immenhauser, A. 2023. “Radiaxial fibrous calcite forms via early marine-diagenetic alteration of micritic Mg calcite.” Sedimentology 70: 434–450.
• Göbel, P, Römer, M, Weckwert, N, Abdulghani, Alqaragholi S, Hahn, HJ, Meyer, EI, Knöller, K, and Strauss, H. 2022. “Die Baumberge als isolierte Grundwasser-Ökosysteme und bedeutende Quellenregion im zentralen Münsterland.” Grundwasser 2022 (27): 277–293. doi: 10.1007/s00767-022-00525-2.
• Pieterek, B., Ciazela, J., Boulanger, M., France, L., Lazarov, M., Wegorzewski, A.V., Pańczyk, M., Strauss, H., Dick, H.J.B., Muszynski, A., Koepke, J., Kuhn, T., Czupyt, Z., and France, L. 2022. “Sulfide enrichment along igneous layer boundaries in the lower oceanic crust: IODP Hole U1473A, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 320: 179–206. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.01.004.
• Roerdink, D., Ronen, Y., Strauss, H., and Mason, P. 2022. “Emergence of felsic crust and subaerial weathering recorded in Paleoarchean barite.” Nature Geoscience 15: 227–232. doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-00902-9..
• Falkenberg, J., Keith, M., Hasse, K.M., Sporer, C., Bach, W., Klemd, R., Strauss, H., Storch, B., Peters, C., Rubin, K., and Anderson, M. 2022. “Spatial variations in magmatic volatile influx and fluid boiling in submarine hydrothermal systems: Insights from sulfide chemistry at Niuatahi caldera, Tonga rear-arc.” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23 e2021GC010259. doi: 10.1029/2021GC010259.
• Chen, T., Strauss, H., Fang, Y., Lin, Z., Sun, X., Liu, J., Lu, Y., Lin, H., Wu, Z., and Lin, X. 2022. “Sulfur and oxygen isotope records of sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane in diffusion-dominated marine sediments.” Frontiers in Earth Sciences 10 862333. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.862333.
• Pereira, S.I., Diehl, A., McDermott, J.M., Pape, T., Klose, L., Strauss, H., Bohrmann, G., and Bach, W. 2022. “Geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids from the E2-segment of the East Scotia Ridge: Magmatic water input, reaction zone processes, fluid mixing regimes and bioenergetic landscapes.” Frontiers in Marine Science 9 765648. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.765648.
• Kürzinger, V., Bach, W., Diehl, A., Pereira, S.I., Strauss, H., and Bohrmann, G. 2022. “Sulfur formation associated with coexisting sulfide minerals in the Kemp Caldera hydrothermal system, Scotia Sea.” Chemical Geology 606 120927. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.120927.
• Swanner, E.D., Wüstner, M., Leung, T., Pust, J., Fatka, M., Lambrecht, N., Chmiel, H.E., Strauss, and H.. 2022. “Seasonal phytoplankton and geochemical shifts in the subsurface chlorophyll maximum layer of a dimictic ferruginous lake.” Microbiology Open 11 e1287. doi: 10.1002/mbo3.1287.
• Qiao, J., Littke, R., Grohmann, S., Zhang, C., Jiang, Z., Strauss, H., and Zieger, L. 2022. “Climatic and environmental conditions during the Pleistocene in the Central Quaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from GDGTs, stable isotopes and major and trace elements in the Qigequan Formation.” International Journal of Coal Geology 254 103958. doi: 10.1016/j.coal.2022.103958.
• Doyle, C., Corella, J.P., Schröder, S., Strauss, H., Bishop, T., Yarwood, J., and Valero-Garcés, B. 2022. “Spatio-Temporal Variations in the Geochemistry of Laguna Salada de Chiprana, NE Spain.” Geosciences 12: 381.
• Göhring, A., Hölzl, S., Mayr, C., and Strauss, H. 2022. “Identification and quantification of the sea spray effect on isotopic systems in α-cellulose (δ13C, δ18O), total sulfur (δ34S), and 87Sr/86Sr of European beach grass (Ammophila arenaria, L.) in a greenhouse experiment.” Science of the Total Environment 856 158840.
• Lin, Z., Sun, X., Chen, K., Strauss, H., Klemd, R., Smrzka, D., Chen, T., Lu, Y., and Peckmann, J. 2022. “Effects of sulfate reduction processes on the trace element geochemistry of sedimentary pyrite in modern seep environments.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 333: 75–94.
• Wiedenhaus, H, Ehrnsperger, L, Klemm, O, and Strauss, H. 2021. “Stable 15N isotopes in fine and coarse urban particulate matter.” Aerosol Science and Technology 2021. doi: 10.1080/02786826.2021.1905150.
• Nestmeyer, M., Keith, M., Haase, K.M., Klemd, R., Voudouris, P., Schwarz-Schampera, U., Strauss, H., Kati, M., and Magganas, A. 2021. “Trace element signatures in pyrite and marcasite from shallow marine island arc-related hydrothermal vents, Calypso Vents, New Zealand, and Paleochori Bay, Greece.” Frontiers in Earth Sciences .. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.641654.
• Chen, T., Sun, X., Lin, Z., Lu, Y., Fang, Y., Wu, Z., Xiao, Y., Lin, H., Lin, X., Ning, Y., and Strauss, H. 2021. “Deciphering the geochemical link between seep carbonates and enclosed pyrite: A case study from the northern South China Sea.” Marine and Petroleum Geology 128. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105020.
• Froidl, F., Baniasad, A., Zheng, T., Röth, J., Böcker, J., Strauss, H., Hartkopf-Fröder, C., Littke, and R.. 2021. “Peculiar Berriasian ‘Wealden’ Shales of the western Lower Saxony Basin, Germany: Organic facies, depositional environment, thermal maturity and kinetics of petroleum generation.” Marine and Petroleum Geology 124. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2020.104819.
• Lin, Z., Sun, X., Roberts, A.P., Strauss, H., Lu, Y., Yang, X., Gong, J., Li, G., Brunner, B., and Peckmann, J. 2021. “A novel authigenic magnetite source for sedimentary magnetizations.” Geology 49: 360–365. doi: 10.1130/G48069.1.
• Peters, C., Strauss, H., Haase, K., Bach, W., de Ronde, C.E.J., Kleint, C., Stucker, V., and Diehl, A. 2021. “SO2 disproportionation impacting hydrothermal sulfur cycling: Insights from multiple sulfur isotopes for hydrothermal fluids from the Tonga-Kermadec intraoceanic arc and the NE Lau Basin.” Chemical Geology 586: 120586..
• Klose, L., Keith, M., Hafermaas, D., Kleint, C., Bach, W., Diehl, A., Wilckens, F., Peters, C., Strauss, H., Klemd, R., van Geldern, R., Haase, K.M., and Koschinsky, A. 2021. “Trace element and isotope systematics in vent fluids and sulphides from Maka volcano, North Eastern Lau Spreading Centre: Insights into three-component fluid mixing.” Frontiers in Earth Sciences 9: 776925.. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.776925.
• Pederson, C.L., Ge, Y., Lokier, S.W., Swart, P.K., Vonhof, H., Strauss, H., Schurr, S., Fiorini, F., Riechelmann, S., Licha, T., and Immenhauser, A. 2021. “Coastal seawater geochemistry of a modern arid 'epeiric´ sea: spatial variability and effects of organic decomposition.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 314: 159–177.
• Lewis, J.A., Hoffmann, J.E., Schwarzenbach, E.M., Strauss, H., Liesegang, M., and Rosing, M.T. 2021. “Sulfur isotope evidence for surface-derived sulfur in Eoarchean TTGs.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 576: 117218..
• Fichtner, V., Lange, S.M., Krause, S., Huthwelker, T., Borca, C.N., Schurr, S.L., Immenhauser, A., Pederson, C.L., Treude, T., Erhardt, A.M., and Strauss, H. 2021. “Microbial activity affects sulphur in biogenic aragonite.” The Depositional Record 7: 500–519. doi: 10.1002/dep2.133.
• Mueller, M, Jacquemyn, C., Walter, B.F., Pederson, C.L., Schurr, S.L., Igbokwe, O.A., Jöns, N., Riechelmann, S., Dietzel, M., Strauss, H., and Immenhauser, A. 2021. “Constraints on the preservation of proxy data in carbonate archives – lessons from a marine limestone-to-marble transect, Latemar, Italy.” Sedimentology 2021. doi: 10.1111/sed.12939.
• Schurr, S.L., Strauss, H., Mueller, M., and Immenhauser, A. 2021. “Assessing the robustness of carbonate-associated sulfate during hydrothermal dolomitization of the Latemar platform, Italy.” Terra Nova 33: 621–629.
• Schaarschmidt, A., Haase, K.M., Klemd, R., Keith, M., Voudouris, P.C., Alfieris, D., Strauss, H., and Wiedenbeck, M. 2021. “Boiling effects on trace element and sulfur isotope compositions of sulfides in shallow-marine hydrothermal systems: Evidence from Milos Island, Greece.” Chemical Geology 583: 120457..
• Decraene, M.-N., Marin-Carbonne, J., Thomazo, C., Olivier, N., Philippot, P., Strauss, H., and Deloule, E. 2021. “Intense biogeochemical iron cycling revealed in Neoarchean micropyrites from stromatolites.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 312: 299–320. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.07.020.
• Falkenberg, J.J., Keith, M., Haase, K.M., Bach, W., Klemd, R., Strauss, H., Yeo, I.A., Rubin, K.H., and Anderson, M.O. 2021. “Effect of fluid boiling on volatile element and Au enrichment in submarine hydrothermal sulphides, Niua South, Tonga arc.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 307: 105–132.
• Keith, M., Haase, K.M., Häckel, F., Schwarz-Schampera, U., Klemd, R., Hannington, M., Strauss, H., McConachy, T., and Anderson, M. 2021. “Trace element fractionation and precipitation in submarine back-arc hydrothermal systems, Nifonea caldera, New Hebrides subduction zone.” Ore Geology Reviews 135: 104211..
• Lin, Z., Sun, X., Strauss, H., Eroglu, S., Böttcher, M.E., Lu, Y., Liang, J., Li, J., and Peckmann, J. 2021. “Molybdenum isotope composition of seep carbonates – Constraints on sediment biogeochemistry in seepage environments.” Geochimica et Cosmochimca Acta 307: 56–71.
• Kneuker, T., Blumenberg, M., Strauss, H., Dohrmann, R., Hammer, J., and Zulauf, G. 2020. “Structure, kinematics and composition of fluid-controlled brittle faults and veins in Lower Cretaceous claystones (Lower Saxony Basin, Northern Germany): Constraints from petrographic studies, microfabrics, stable isotopes and biomarker analyses.” Chemical Geology 540. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119501.
• Eickmann, B., Baumberger, T., Thorseth, I.H., Strauss, H., Früh-Green, G.L., Pedersen, R.B., and Jaeschke, A. 2020. “Sub-seafloor sulfur cycling in a low-temperature barite field: A multi-proxy study from the Arctic Loki’s Castle vent field.” Chemical Geology 539. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119495.
• Martin, A.J., Keith, M., Parvaz, D.B., McDonald, I., Boyce, A.J., McFall, K.A., Jenkin, G.R.T., Strauss, H., and MacLeod, C.J. 2020. “Effects of magmatic volatile influx in mafic VMS hydrothermal systems: evidence from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus.” Chemical Geology 531. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119325.
• Tappe, S., Stracke, A., van Acken, D., Strauss, H., and Luguet, A. 2020. “Origins of kimberlites and associated carbonatites during continental collision – perspectives from the Kaapvaal craton.” Earth Science Reviews 208: 103287..
• Peters, M., Guo, Q.-J., Strauss, H., Wei, R., Li, S., and Yue, F. 2020. “Contamination characteristic and multiple stable isotope fractionation in hydrology: a case of tap water from rural Beijing.” Journal of Hydrology 588: 125037.. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125037.
• Warke, M., Strauss, H., and Schröder, S. 2020. “Positive cerium anomalies imply pre-GOE redox stratification and manganese oxidation in Paleoproterozoic shallow marine environments.” Precambrian Research 344: 105767.. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105767.
• Kang, J., Wille, M., Hofmann, B.A., Strauss, H., and Villa, I.M. 2020. “Heterogeneous lead isotopic compositions of sulfide minerals from a hydrothermal replacement deposit (Janggun mine, South Korea).” Ore Geology Reviews 122: 103527.. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103527.
• Fichtner, V., Lange, S.M., Krause, S., Huthwelker, T., Borca, C.N., Schurr, S.L., Immenhauser, A., Pederson, C.L., Treude, T., Erhardt, A.M., and Strauss, H. 2020. “Microbial activity affects sulphur in biogenic aragonite.” The Depositional Record .. doi: 10.1002/dep2.133.
• Kümmel, S., Horst, A., Gelman, F., Strauss, H., Richnow, H., and Gehre, M. 2020. “Simultaneous compound-specific analysis of δ33S and δ34S in organic compounds by GC-MC-ICPMS using medium and low mass resolution mode.” Analytical Chemistry 92: 14685–14692. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c03253.
• Schmidt, C., Hensen, C., Wallmann, K., Liebetrau, V., Tatzel, M., Schurr, S.L., Kutterolf, S., Haffert, L., Geilert, S., Hübscher, C., Lebas, E., Heuser, A., Schmidt, M., Strauss, H., Vogl, J., and Hansteen, T. 2019. “Origin of High Mg and SO4 Fluids in Sediments of the Terceira Rift, Azores‐Indications for Caminite Dissolution in a Waning Hydrothermal System.” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20: 6078–6094. doi: 10.1029/2019GC008525.
• Kleint, C., Bach, W., Diehl, A., Fröhberg, N., Garbe-Schönberg, N., Hartmann, J.F., de Ronde, C.E.J., Sander, S.G., Strauss, H., Stucker, V.K., Thal, J., Zitoun, R., and Koschinsky, A. 2019. “Geochemical characterization of highly diverse hydrothermal fluids from volcanic vent systems of the Kermadec intraoceanic arc.” Chemical Geology 528. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119289Get.
• Zindorf, M., März C. Wagner T. Gulick S.P.S. Strauss H. Benowitz J.A. Jaeger J.M. Schnetger B. Childress L. van der Land C. La Rosa M., and LeVay, L.J. 2019. “Deep Sulfate-Methane-Transition and sediment diagenesis in the Gulf of Alaska (IODP Site U1417).” Marine Geology 417. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2019.105986.
• Illing, C.J., Hallmann, C., Scott, A.C., Collinson, M., Briggs, D.E.G., Strauss, H., and Summons, R.E. 2019. “Heterogeneity of free and occluded bitumen in a natural maturity sequence from Oligocene Lake Enspel.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 245: 240–265.
• Stouraiti, C., Soukis, K., Voudouris, P., Lozios, S., Lekkas, S., Beard, A., Strauss, H., Palles, D., Baziotis, I., and Soulamidis, G. 2019. “Silver-rich sulfide mineralization in the northwestern termination of the Western Cycladic Detachment System, at Mt. Hymittos (Attica, Greece): a mineralogical, geochemical and stable isotope study.” Ore Geology Reviews 111.
• Anderson, M.O., Hannington, M.D., McConachy, T.F., Jamieson, J.W., Anders, M., Wienkenjohann, H., Strauss, H., Hansteen, T., and Petersen, S. 2019. “Mineralization and alteration of a modern bimodal-mafic volcaniclastic-hosted massive sulfide deposit.” Economic Geology 114: 857–896.
• Lepetit, P., Aehnelt, M., Viereck, L., Strauss, H., Abratis, M., Fritsch, S., Malz, A., Kukowski, N., Totsche, and K.U.. 2019. “Intra-formational fluid flow in the Thuringian Syncline (Germany) - evidence from stable isotope data in vein mineralization of Late Permian and Mesozoic sediments.” Chemical Geology 523: 133–153.
• Peters, M., Guo, Q.-J., Strauss, H., Wei, R., Li, S., and Yue, F. 2019. “Contamination patterns in river water from rural Beijing: a hydrochemical and multiple stable isotope study.” Science of the Total Environment 654: 226–236.
• Santo, A., Santangelo, N., Balassone, G., and Strauss, H. 2019. “Deep-seated fault-related volcanogenic H2S as the key agent of high sinkhole concentration areas.” Earth Surface Processes and Landforms ..
• Junge, M., Oberthür, T., Kraemer, D., Melcher, F., Piña, R., Derrey, I.T., Manyeruke, T., and Strauss, H. 2019. “Distribution of platinum-group elements in pristine and near-surface oxidized Platreef ore and the variation along strike, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa.” Mineralium Deposita ..
• Kong, J., Guo, Q., Wei, R., Strauss, H., Zhu, G., Li, S., Song, Z., Chen, T., Song, B., Zhou, T., and Zheng, G. 2018. “Contamination of heavy metals and isotopic tracing of Pb in surface and profile soils in a polluted farmland from a typical karst area in southern China.” Science of the Total Environment 637-638: 1035-1045.
• Ruffine, L., Ondreas, H., Blanc-Valleron, M., Teichert, B.M.A., Scalabrin, C., Rinnert, E., Birot, D., Croguennec, C., Ponzevera, E., Pierre, C., Donval, J.-P., Alix, A.-S., Germain, Y., Bignon, L., Etoubleau, J., Caprais, J.-C., Knoery, J., Lesongeur, F., Thomas, B., Roubi, A., Legoixa, L.N., Burnard, P., Chevalier, N., Lu, H., Dupré, S., Fontaniera, C., Dissard, D., Olgun, N., Yang, H., Strauss, H., Özaksoy, v., Perchoc, J., Podeur, C., Tarditi, C., Özbeki, E., Guyader, V., Marty, B., Madre, D., Pitel-Roudaut, M., Gral, C., Embriaco, D., Polonia, A., Gasperini, L., Çağatay, M.N., Henry, P., and Géli, L. 2018. “Multidisciplinary investigation on cold seeps with vigorous gas emissions in the Sea of Marmara (MarsiteCruise): Strategy for site detection and sampling and first scientific outcome.” Deep Sea-Research Part II 153: 36–47. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.03.006.
• Lin, Z., Sun, X., Strauss, H., Lu, Y., Böttcher, M.E., Teichert, B.M.A., Gong, J., Xu, L., Liang, J., Lu, H., and Peckmann, J. 2018. “Multiple sulfur isotopic evidence for the origin of elemental sulfur in an iron-dominated gas hydrate-bearing sedimentary environment.” Marine Geology 403: 271–284.
• Warke, M., Schröder, S., and Strauss, H. 2018. “Testing models of pre-GOE environmental oxidation: a Paleoproterozoic marine signal in platform dolomites of the Tongwane Formation (South Africa).” Precambrian Research 313: 205–220.
• Teichert, B.M.A., Chevalier, N., Gussone, N., and Strauss, H. 2018. “Sulfate-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane at a highly dynamic bubbling site in the Eastern Sea of Marmara (Çinarcik Basin).” Deep-Sea Research Part II 153: 79–91. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2017.11.014.
• Diekrup, D., Hannington, M., Strauss, H., and Ginley, S.J. 2018. “Decoupling of Neoarchean sulfur sources recorded in Algoma-type banded iron formation.” Earth and Planetry Science Letters 489: 1–7.
• Fichtner, V., Strauss, H., Mavromatis, V., Dietzel, M., Huthwelker, T., Borca, C.N., Guagliardo, P., Kilburn, M.R., Göttlicher, J., Pederson, C.L., Griesshaber, E., Schmahl, W.W., and Immenhauser, A. 2018. “Incorporation and subsequent diagenetic alteration of sulfur in Arctica islandica.” Chemical Geology 482: 72–90.
• Lange, S.M., Krause, S., Ritter, A.-C., Fichtner, V., Immenhauser, A., Strauss, H., and Treude, T. 2018. “Anaerobic microbial activity affects earliest diagenetic pathways of bivalve shells.” Sedimentology 65: 1390–1411.
• Liebmann, J., Schwarzenbach, E.M., Früh-Green, G.L., Boschi, C., Rouméjon, S., Strauss, H., Wiechert, U., and John, T. 2018. “Tracking water-rock interaction at the Atlantis Massif (MAR, 30°N) using sulfur geochemistry.” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 19: 5461–5483.
• Lin, Z., Sun, X., Lu, Y., Strauss, H., Xu, L., Chen, T., Lu, H., and Peckmann, J. 2018. “Iron isotope constraints on diagenetic iron cycling in the Taixinan seepage area, South China Sea.” Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 168: 112–124.
• Siedenberg, K., Strauss, H., Podlaha, O.G., and van den Born, S. 2018. “Multiple sulfur isotopes (δ34S, D33S) of organic sulfur and pyrite from Late Cretaceous to Early Eocene oil shales in Jordan.” Organic Geochemistry 125: 29–40.
• Lin, Z., Sun, X., Peckmann, J., Lu, Y., Strauss, H., Xu, L., Lu, H., and Teichert, B.M.A. 2017. “Preparation of authigenic pyrite from methane-bearing sediments for in-situ sulfur isotope analysis using SIMS.” Journal of Visualized Experiments 126: e55970..
• Ryland, Pedersen L.-E., Staudigel, H., McLoughlin, N., Whitehouse, M., and Strauss, H. 2017. “A multiple sulfur isotope study through the volcanic section of the Troodos ophiolite.” Chemical Geology 468: 49–62.
• Fichtner, V., Strauss, H., Immenhauser, A., Buhl, D., Neuser, R., and Niedermayr, A. 2017. “Diagenesis of carbonate associated sulfate.” Chemical Geology 463: 61–75.
• Hinsken, T, Bröcker, M, Strauss, H, and Bulle, F. 2017. “Geochemical, isotopic and geochronological characterization of listvenite from the Upper Unit on Tinos, Cyclades, Greece.” Lithos 282-283: 281-297. doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.02.019.
• Schobben, M., Stebbins, A., Algeo, T.J., Strauss, H., Leda, L., Haas, J., Struck, U., Korn, D., and Korte, C. 2017. “Volatile Early Triassic sulfur cycle: A consequence of persistent low seawater sulfate concentrations and a high sulfur cycle turnover rate?” Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 486: 74–85. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.02.025.
• Crémière, A., Strauss, H., Sebilo, M., Hong, W.-L., Gros, O., Schmidt, S., Tocny, J., Henry, F., Gontharet, S., and Laverman, A.M. 2017. “Sulfur diagenesis under rapid accumulation of organic-rich sediments in a marine mangrove from Guadeloupe (French West Indies).” Chemical Geology 454: 67–79. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.02.017.
• Tappe, S., Brand, N., Stracke, A., van Acken, D., Liu, C.-Z., Strauss, H., Wu, F.-Y., Luguet, A., and Mitchell, R.H. 2017. “Plates or plumes in the origin of kimberlites: insights from U/Pb age and Sr-Nd-Hf-Os isotopes analyses, Renard and Wemindji clusters, Superior Craton, Canada.” Chemical Geology 2017 (455): 57–83. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.08.019.
• Lin, Z., Lu, Y., Strauss, H., Xu, X., Gong, J., Teichert, B.M.A., Lu, R., Lu, H., Sun, W., and Peckmann, J. 2017. “The enrichment of heavy iron isotopes in authigenic pyrite as a possible indicator of sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane: Insights from the South China Sea.” Chemical Geology 449: 15–29.
• Lin, Z., Sun, X., Strauss, H., Lu, Y., Ging, J., Xu, L., Lu, H., Teichert, B.M.A., and Peckmann, J. 2017. “Multiple sulfur isotope constraints on sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane: Evidence from authigenic pyrite in seepage areas of the South China Sea.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 211: 153–173.
• Siedenberg, K., Strauss, H., and Littke, R. 2016. “Multiple sulfur isotopes (δ34S, Δ33S), carbon isotopes (δ13Corg) and trace elements (Mo, U, V) reveal changing palaeoenvironments in the Chokier Formation, Belgium, Upper Carboniferous.” Chemical Geology 441: 47–62.
• Siedenberg, K., Strauss, H., and Hoffmann, E. 2016. “Multiple sulfur isotope signature of early Archean oceanic crust, Isua (SW-Greenland).” Precambrian Research 283: 1–12.
• Lin, Z., Sun, X., Peckmann, J., Lu, Y., Xu, L., Strauss, H., Zhou, H., Gong, J., Lu, H., and Teichert, B.M.A. 2016. “How sulfate-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane affects the sulfur isotopic composition of pyrite: A SIMS study from the South China Sea.” Chemical Geology 440: 26–41.
• Han, X., Guo, Q.J., Liu, C., Strauss, H., Yang, J., Hu, J., Wei, R., Tian, L., Kong, J., and Peters, M. 2016. “Effect of the pollution control measures on PM2.5 during the 2015 China Victory Day Parade: Implication from water-soluble ions and sulfur isotope.” Environmental Pollution 218: 230–241. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.06.038.
• Han, X., Guo, Q.J., Liu, C., Fu, P., Strauss, H., Yang, J., Hu, J., Wie, L., Ren, H., Peters, M., Wie, R., and Tian, L. 2016. “Using stable isotopes to trace sources and formation processes of sulfate aerosols from Beijing, China.” Scientific Reports 6.
• Montinaro, A., and Strauss, H. 2016. “Sulphur Tales from the Early Archean World.” International Journal of Astrobiology 15. doi: 10.1017/S1473550415000531.
• Keith, M., Haase, K.M., Klemd, R., Krumm, S., and Strauss, H. 2016. “Systematic variations of trace element and sulfur isotope compositions in pyrite with stratigraphic depth in the Skouriotissa volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits, Troodos ophilolite, Cyprus.” Chemical Geology 423: 7–18.
• Schobben, M., Stebbins, A., Ghaderi, A., Strauss, H., Korn, D., and Korte, C. 2016. “Eutrophication, microbial-sulfate reduction and mass extinctions.” Communicative & Integrative Biology 9: 1–9.
• Duda, J.-P., Van Kranendonk, M.J., Thiel, V., Ionescu, D., Strauss, H., Schäfer, N., and Reitner, J. 2016. “A rare glimpse of Paleoarchean life: Geobiology of an exceptionally preserved microbial mat facies (3.4 Ga Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia).” PlosOne 2016. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147629.
• Piochi, M., Mormone, A., Balassone, G., Strauss, H., Troise, C., and De Natale, G. 2015. “Native sulfur, sulfates and sulfides from the active Campi Flegrei volcano (southern Italy): genetic environments and degassing dynamics revealed by mineralogy and isotope geochemistry.” Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 304: 180–193.
• Peters, M., Guo, Q., Strauss, H., and Zhu, G. 2015. “Geochemical and multiple stable isotope (N, O, S) investigation on tap and bottled water from Beijing, China.” Journal of Geochemical Exploration 157: 36–51. doi: 10.1016/j.gexplo.2015.05.013.
• Schobben, M., Stebbins, A., Ghaderi, A., Strauss, H., Korn, D., and Korte, C. 2015. “Flourishing ocean drives the end-Permian marine mass-extinction.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112: 10298–10303. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1503755112.
• Baldermann, A., Deditius, A.P., Dietzel, M., Fichtner, V., Fischer, C., Hippler, D., Leis, A., Baldermann, C., Mavromatis, V., Stickler, C.P., and Strauss, H. 2015. “The role of bacterial sulfate reduction during dolomite precipitation: implications from Upper Jurassic platform carbonates.” Chemical Geology 412: 1–14.
• Montinaro, A., Strauss, H., Mason, P.R.D., Roerdink, D., Münker, C., Schwarz-Schampera, U., Arndt, N., Farquhar, J., Beukes, N.J., Gutzmer, J., and Peters, M. 2015. “Paleoarchean sulfur cycling: multiple sulfur isotope constraints from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa.” Precambrian Research 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2015.06.008.
• Wotte, T., and Strauss, H. 2015. “Questioning a widespread euxinia for the Furongian ( 1 Late Cambrian) SPICE event: Indications from δ13C, δ18O, δ34S, and from biostratigraphic constraints.” Geological Magazine 2015. doi: 10.1017/S0016756815000187.
• Strauss, H., Chmiel, H., Christ, A., Fugmann, A., Hanselmann, K., Kappler, A., Koeniger, P., Lutter, A., Siedenberg, K., and Teichert, B.M.A. 2015. “Multiple sulfur and oxygen isotopes reveal microbial sulfur cycling in spring waters in the Lower Engadin, Switzerland.” Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 2015: 1–19. doi: 10.1080/10256016.2015.1032961.
• Wu, N., Farquhar, J., and Strauss, H. 2015. “δ34S and Δ33S records of Paleozoic seawater sulfate based on the analysis of carbonate associated sulfate.” Earth & Planetary Science Letters 399: 44–51.
• Petersen, S., Monecke, T., Westhues, A., Hannington, M.D., Gemell, J.B., Sharpe, R., Peters, M., Strauss, H., Lackschewitz, K., Augustin, N., Gibson, H., and Kleeberg, R. 2014. “Drilling shallow-water massive sulfides at the Palinuro Volcanic Complex, Aeolian Island Arc, Italy.” Economic Geology 109: 2129–2157.
• Illing, C., Hallmann, C., Miller, K.E., Summons, R.E., and Strauss, H. 2014. “Airborne hydrocarbon contamination from laboratory atmospheres.” Organic Geochemistry 76: 26–38.
• Eickmann, B., Thorseth, M., Peters, M., Strauss, H., Bröcker, M., Pedersen, and R.B.. 2014. “Barite in hydrothermal environments as a recorder of subseafloor processes: a multiple-isotope study from the Loki’s Castle vent field.” Geobiology 12: 308–321.
• Jaeschke, A., Eickmann, B., Lang, S.Q., Bernasconi, S.M., Strauss, H., and Früh-Green, G.L. 2014. “Biosignatures in chimney structures and sediment from the Loki’s Castle low-temperature hydrothermal vent field at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.” Extremophiles 18: 545–560.
• Guo, QJ, Strauss, H., Zhao, Y., Yang, X., Peng, J., Yang, Y., and Deng, Y. 2014. “Reconstructing marine redox conditions for the transition between Cambrian Series 2 and Cambrian Series 3, Kaili area, Yangtze Platform: Evidence from biogenic sulfur and degree of pyritization.” Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 398: 144–153.
• Daher, S.B., Nader, F.H., Strauss, H., and Littke, R. 2014. “Depositional environment and source-rock characterization of organic-matter rich Upper Santonian-Upper Campanian carbonates, northern Lebanon.” Journal of Petroleum Geology 37: 5–24.
• Guo, QJ., Strauss, H., Zhu, M., Zhang, J., Yang, X., Luc, M., and Zhao, F. 2013. “High resolution organic carbon isotope stratigraphy from a slope to basinal setting on the Yangtze Platform, South China: Implications for the Ediacaran – Cambrian transition.” Precambrian Research 225: 209–217.
• Guo, QJ, Strauss, H., Chen, T.-B., Zhu, G., Yang, J., Yang, J., Lei, M., Zhou, X., Peters, M., Xie, Y., Zhang, H., Wei, R., and Wang, C. 2013. “Tracing the source of Beijing soil organic carbon: A carbon isotope approach.” Environmental Pollution 176: 208–214.
• Cabral, A.R., Koglin, N., Strauss, H., Brätz, H., Kwitko-Ribeiro, and R.. 2013. “Regional sulfate–hematite–sulfide zoning in the auriferous Mariana anticline, Quadrilátero Ferrífero of Minas Gerais, Brazil.” Mineralium Deposita 48: 805–816.
• Thomazo, C., Nisbet, E., Grassineau, N., Peters, M., and Strauss, H. 2013. “Multiple sulfur and carbon isotope composition of sediments from the Belingwe Greenstone Belt (Zimbabwe): a biogenic methane regulation on mass independent fractionation of sulfur during the early Neoarchean?” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 121: 120–138.
• Kurzweil, F., Claire, M., Thomazo, C., Peters, M., Hannington, M.D., and Strauss, H. 2013. “Atmospheric sulfur rearrangement 2.7 billion years ago: evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis.” Earth & Planetary Science Letters 366: 17–26.
• Perner, M., Hansen, M., Seifert, R., Strauss, H., Koschinsky, A., and Petersen, S. 2013. “Linking geology, fluid chemistry and microbial activity of basalt- and ultramafic-hosted deep-sea hydrothermal vent environments.” Geobiology 11: 340–355.
• Summons, R.E., Illing, C.J., van Zuilen, M., and Strauss, H. 2013. “Biomarkers and Isotopic Tracers.” in Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation. Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. , edited by V.A. Melezhik, A.R. Prave, A.E. Fallick, L.R. Kump, H. Strauss, A. Lepland and E.J. Hanski.
• Strauss, H., Melezhik, V.A., Lepland, A., Fallick, A.E., Hanski, E.J., Filippov, M.M., Deines, Y.E., Illing, C.J., Črne, A., and Brasier, A. 2013. “Enhanced Accumulation of Organic Matter – The Shunga Event.” in Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation. Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. , edited by V.A. Melezhik, A.R. Prave, A.E. Fallick, L.R. Kump, H. Strauss, A. Lepland and E.J. Hanski.
• Strauss, H., Melezhik, V.A., Reuschel, M., Fallick, A.E., Lepland, A., and Rychanchik, D.V. 2013. “Abundant Marine Calcium Sulphates – Radical Change of Seawater Sulphate Reservoir and Sulphur Cycle.” in Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation. Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. , edited by V.A. Melezhik, A.R. Prave, A.E. Fallick, L.R. Kump, H. Strauss, A. Lepland and E.J. Hanski.
• Reuschel, M., Strauss, H., Lepland, A., and Prave, A. 2013. “The End of Mass-Independent Fractionation of Sulphur Isotopes.” in Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation. Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. , edited by V.A. Melezhik, A.R. Prave, A.E. Fallick, L.R. Kump, H. Strauss, A. Lepland and E.J. Hanski.
• Thiel, V., Hügler, M., Blümel, M., Baumann, H.I., Gärtner, A., Schmaljohann, R., Strauss, H., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Petersen, S., Cowart, D.A., Fisher, C.R., and Imhoff, J.F. 2012. “Widespread occurrence of two carbon fixation pathways in tubeworm endosymbionts: lessons from hydrothermal vent associated tubeworms from the Mediterranean Sea.” Frontiers in Microbiology 3.
• Wotte, T., Shields-Zhou, G.A., and Strauss, H. 2012. “Carbonate-associated sulfate: Experimental comparisons of common extraction methods and recommendations toward a standard analytical protocol.” Chemical Geology 326-327: 132–144.
• Oeser, M., Strauss, H., Wolff, P.E., Koepke, J., Peters, M., Garbe-Schönberg, D., and Dietrich, M. 2012. “A Profile of Multiple Sulfur Isotopes through the Oman Ophiolite.” Chemical Geology 312-313: 27–46.
• Strauss, H., Bast, R., Cording, A., Diekrup, D., Fugmann, A., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Lutter, A., Oeser, M., Rabe, K., Reinke, D., Teichert, B.M.A., and Westernströer, U. 2012. “Sulphur diagenesis in the sediments of the Kiel Bight, SW Baltic Sea, as reflected by multiple sulfur isotopes.” Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 48: 166–179.
• Reuschel, M., Melezhik, V.A., Whitehouse, M.J., Lepland, A., Fallick, A.E., and Strauss, H. 2012. “Isotopic evidence for a sizeable seawater sulfate reservoir at 2.1 Ga.” Precambrian Research 192-195: 78–88.
• Wotte, T., Strauss, H., Fugmann, A., and Garbe-Schönberg, D. 2012. “Paired δ34S data from carbonate-associated sulfate and chromium-reducible sulfur across the traditional Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary of W-Gondwana.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 85: 228–253.
• Reuschel, M., Melezhik, V.A., Whitehouse, M.J., Lepland, A., Fallick, A.E., and Strauss, H. 2012. “Isotopic evidence for a sizeable seawater sulfate reservoir at 2.1 Ga.” Precambrian Research 192: 78–88.
• Strauss, H. 2011. “Sulfur isotopes and stromatolites.” in STROMATOLITES: Interaction of Microbes with Sediments, edited by V. Tewari and J. Seckbach.
• Thomazo, C., and Strauss, H. 2011. “Isotopic Biomarkers.” in Encyclopedia for Astrobiology, edited by M. Gargaud, R. Amils, J. Chernicharo Quintanilla, H.J. Cleaves, W.M. Irvine, D. Pinti and M. Viso.
• Perner, M., Hentscher, M., Rychlik, N., Seifert, R., Strauss, H., and Bach, W. 2011. “Driving forces behind the biotope structures in the diffuse venting low-temperature hydrothermal sites at 5°S and 9°S MAR.” Environmental Microbiology Reports 3: 727–737.
• Fabre, S., Nédélec, A., Poitrasson, F., Strauss, H., Thomazo, C., and Nogueira, A. 2011. “Iron and sulphur isotopes from the Carajás mining province (Pará, Brazil): Implications for the oxidation of the ocean and the atmosphere across the Archaean–Proterozoic transition.” Chemical Geology 289: 124–139.
• Gärtner, C., Bröcker, M., Strauss, H., and Farber, K. 2011. “Strontium, carbon and oxygen isotope geochemistry of marbles from the Cycladic blueschist belt, Greece.” Geological Magazine 148: 511–528.
• Peters, M., Strauss, H., Petersen, S., Kummer, N., and Thomazo, C. 2011. “Hydrothermalism in the Tyrrhenian Sea: inorganic and microbial sulfur cycling as revealed by geochemical and multiple sulfur isotope data.” Chemical Geology 280: 217–231.
• Schmidt, K., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Koschinsky, A., Strauss, H., Jost, C.L., Klevenz, V., and Königer, P. 2011. “Fluid elemental and stable isotope composition of the Nibelungen hydrothermal field (8°18'S, Mid-Atlantic Ridge): Constraints on fluid-rock interaction in heterogeneous lithosphere.” Chemical Geology 280: 1–18.
• Guo, Q, Strauss, H, Liu, C, Zhao, Y, Yang, X, Peng, J, and Yang, H. 2010. “Corrigendum to "A negative carbon isotope excursion defines the boundary from Cambrian Series 2 to Cambrian Series 3 on the Yangtze Platform, South China" [Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 285 (2010) 143-151] (DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.11.005).” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 288 (1-4): 118. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.01.022.
• Meyer, H, Hetzel, R, Fügenschuh, B, and Strauss, H. 2010. “Determining the growth rate of topographic relief using in situ-produced 10Be: A case study in the Black Forest, Germany.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 290 (3-4): 391–402. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.12.034.
• Bailie, R, Gutzmer, J, Strauss, H, Stueken, E, and McClung, C. 2010. “Sulfur isotope characteristics of metamorphosed Zn-Cu volcanogenic massive sulfides in the Areachap Group, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.” Mineralium Deposita 45 (5): 481–496. doi: 10.1007/s00126-010-0285-8.
• Wu, NP, Farquhar, J, Strauss, H, Kim, ST, and Canfield, DE. 2010. “Evaluating the S-isotope fractionation associated with Phanerozoic pyrite burial.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74 (7): 2053–2071. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.12.012.
• Peters, M, Strauss, H, Farquhar, J, Ockert, C, Eickmann, B, and Jost, CL. 2010. “Sulfur cycling at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: A multiple sulfur isotope approach.” Chemical Geology 269 (3-4): 180–196. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.09.016.
• Guo, QJ, Strauss, H, Liu, CQ, Zhao, YL, Yang, XL, Peng, J, and Yang, H. 2010. “A negative carbon isotope excursion defines the boundary from Cambrian Series 2 to Cambrian Series 3 on the Yangtze Platform, South China.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 285 (3-4): 143–151. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.11.005.
• Gärtner, C., Bröcker, M., Strauss, H., and Farber, K. 2010. “Strontium, carbon and oxygen isotope geochemistry of marbles from the Cycladic blueschist belt, Greece.” Geological Magazine 148: 511–528.
• Fischer, WW, Schroeder, S, Lacassie, JP, Beukes, NJ, Goldberg, T, Strauss, H, Horstmann, UE, Schrag, DP, and Knoll, AH. 2009. “Isotopic constraints on the Late Archean carbon cycle from the Transvaal Supergroup along the western margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa.” Precambrian Research 169 (1-4): 15–27. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2008.10.010.
• Perner, M, Bach, W, Hentscher, M, Koschinsky, A, Garbe-Schönberg, D, Streit, WR, and Strauss, H. 2009. “Short-term microbial and physico-chemical variability in low-temperature hydrothermal fluids near 5°S on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.” Environmental Microbiology 11 (10): 2526–2541. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01978.x.
• Perner, M, Bach, W, Hentscher, M, Koschinsky, A, Garbe-Schönberg, D, Streit, WR, and Strauss, H. 2009. “Short-term microbial and physico-chemical variability in low-temperature hydrothermal fluids near 5 degrees S on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.” Environmental Microbiology 11 (10): 2526–41. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.01978.x.
• Guo, QJ, Strauss, H, Kaufman, AJ, Schroder, S, Gutzmer, J, Wing, B, Baker, MA, Bekker, A, Jin, QS, Kim, ST, and Farquhar, J. 2009. “Reconstructing Earth's surface oxidation across the Archean-Proterozoic transition.” Geology 37 (5): 399–402. doi: 10.1130/G25423A.1.
• Melezhik, VA, Fallick, AE, Filippov, MM, Lepland, A, Rychanchik, DV, Deines, YE, Medvedev, PV, Romashkin, AE, and Strauss, H. 2009. “Petroleum surface oil seeps from a Palaeoproterozoic petrified giant oilfield.” Terra Nova 21 (2): 119–126. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2009.00864.x.
• Fischer, WW, Schroeder, S, Lacassie, JP, Beukes, NJ, Goldberg, T, Strauss, H, Horstmann, UE, Schrag, DP, and Knoll, AH. 2009. Isotopic constraints on the Late Archean carbon cycle from the Transvaal Supergroup along the western margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2008.10.010.
• Strauss, H., and Veizer, J. 2009. “Sulfur Isotopes.” in Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments, edited by V. Gornitz.
• Mazumdar, A, Goldberg, T, and Strauss, H. 2008. “Abiotic oxidation of pyrite by Fe(III) in acidic media and its implications for sulfur isotope measurements of lattice-bound sulfate in sediments.” Chemical Geology 253 (1-2): 30–37. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.03.014.
• Meyer, H, Hetzel, R, and Strauss, H. 2008. “Erosion rates on different timescales derived from cosmogenic 10Be and river loads: implications for landscape evolution in the Rhenish Massif, Germany.” International Journal of Earth Sciences: 1–18.
• Schröder, S, Bekker, A, Beukes, NJ, Strauss, H, and van, Niekerk HS. 2008. “Erratum: Rise in seawater sulphate concentration associated with the Paleoproterozoic positive carbon isotope excursion: Evidence from sulphate evaporites in the ∼2.2-2.1 Gyr shallow-marine Lucknow Formation, South Africa (Terra Nova (115-117)).” Terra Nova 20 (3): 252.
• Schwientek, M, Einsiedl, F, Stichler, W, Stögbauer, A, Strauss, H, and Maloszewski, P. 2008. “Evidence for denitrification regulated by pyrite oxidation in a heterogeneous porous groundwater system.” Chemical Geology 255 (1-2): 60–67. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.06.005.
• Koschinsky, A, Garbe-Schönberg, D, Sander, S, Schmidt, K, Gennerich, H-H, and Strauss, H. 2008. “Hydrothermal venting at pressure-temperature conditions above the critical point of seawater, 5°S on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.” Geology 36 (8): 615–618. doi: 10.1130/G24726A.1.
• Schröder, S, Bekker, A, Beukes, NJ, Strauss, H, and van, Niekerk HS. 2008. “Rise in seawater sulphate concentration associated with the Paleoproterozoic positive carbon isotope excursion: Evidence from sulphate evaporites in the ∼2.2-2.1 Gyr shallow-marine Lucknow Formation, South Africa.” Terra Nova 20 (2): 108–117. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00795.x.
• Stögbauer, A, Strauss, H, Arndt, J, Marek, V, Einsiedl, F, and Geldern, Rv. 2008. “Rivers of North-Rhine Westphalia revisited: Tracing changes in river chemistry.” Applied Geochemistry 23 (12): 3290–3304. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.06.030.
• Canfield, DE, Poulton, SW, Knoll, AH, Narbonne, GM, Ross, G, Goldberg, T, and Strauss, H. 2008. “Ferruginous conditions dominated later neoproterozoic deep-water chemistry.” Science 321 (5891): 949–952. doi: 10.1126/science.1154499.
• Shields, GA, Deynoux, M, Strauss, H, Paquet, H, and Nahon, D. 2007. “Barite-bearing cap dolostones of the Taoudéni Basin, northwest Africa: Sedimentary and isotopic evidence for methane seepage after a Neoproterozoic glaciation.” Precambrian Research 153 (3-4): 209–235. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.11.011.
• Guo, Q, Strauss, H, Liu, C, Goldberg, T, Zhu, M, Pi, D, Heubeck, C, Vernhet, E, Yang, X, and Fu, P. 2007. “Carbon isotopic evolution of the terminal Neoproterozoic and early Cambrian: Evidence from the Yangtze Platform, South China.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 254 (1-2): 140–157. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.014.
• Gómez, Peral LE, Poiré, DG, Strauss, H, and Zimmermann, U. 2007. “Chemostratigraphy and diagenetic constraints on Neoproterozoic carbonate successions from the Sierras Bayas Group, Tandilia System, Argentina.” Chemical Geology 237 (1-2): 127–146.
• Zhu, M, Strauss, H, and Shields, GA. 2007. “From snowball earth to the Cambrian bioradiation: Calibration of Ediacaran-Cambrian earth history in South China.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 254 (1-2): 1–6. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.026.
• McClung, CR, Gutzmer, J, Beukes, NJ, Mezger, K, Strauss, H, and Gertloff, E. 2007. “Geochemistry of bedded barite of the Mesoproterozoic Aggeneys-Gamsberg Broken Hill-type district, South Africa.” Mineralium Deposita 42 (5): 537–549. doi: 10.1007/s00126-007-0128-4.
• Perner, M, Seifert, R, Weber, S, Koschinsky, A, Schmidt, K, Strauss, H, Peters, M, Haase, K, and Imhoff, JF. 2007. “Microbial CO2 fixation and sulfur cycling associated with low-temperature emissions at the Lilliput hydrothermal field, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (9°S).” Environmental Microbiology 9 (5): 1186–1201. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01241.x.
• Simon, L, Goddéris, Y, Strauss, H, and Joachimski, MM. 2007. “Modeling the carbon and sulfur isotope compositions of marine sediments: Climate evolution during the Devonian.” Chemical Geology 246 (1-2): 19–38. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.08.014.
• Goldberg, T, Strauss, H, Guo, Q, and Liu, C. 2007. “Reconstructing marine redox conditions for the Early Cambrian Yangtze Platform: Evidence from biogenic sulphur and organic carbon isotopes.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 254 (1-2): 175–193. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.015.
• Perner, M, Kuever, J, Seifert, R, Pape, T, Koschinsky, A, Schmidt, K, Strauss, H, and Imhoff, JF. 2007. “The influence of ultramafic rocks on microbial communities at the Logatchev hydrothermal field, located 15°N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.” FEMS Microbiology Ecology 61 (1): 97–109. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00325.x.
• Guo, Q, Shields, GA, Liu, C, Strauss, H, Zhu, M, Pi, D, Goldberg, T, and Yang, X. 2007. “Trace element chemostratigraphy of two Ediacaran-Cambrian successions in South China: Implications for organosedimentary metal enrichment and silicification in the Early Cambrian.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 254 (1-2): 194–216. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.016.
• Haase, KM, Petersen, S, Koschinsky, A, Seifert, R, Devey, CW, Keir, R, Lackschewitz, KS, Melchert, B, Perner, M, Schmale, O, Süling, J, Dubilier, N, Zielinski, F, Fretzdorff, S, Garbe-Schönberg, D, Westernströer, U, German, CR, Shank, TM, Yoerger, D, Giere, O, Kuever, J, Marbler, H, Mawick, J, Mertens, C, Stöber, U, Walter, M, Paulick, H, Peters, M, Strauss, H, Sander, S, Stecher, J, Warmuth, M, Weber, S, and Ostertag-Henning, C. 2007. “Young volcanism and related hydrothermal activity at 5°S on the slow-spreading southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge.” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 8 (11). doi: 10.1029/2006GC001509.
• Farquhar, J, Peters, M, Johnston, DT, Strauss, H, Masterson, A, Wiechert, U, and Kaufman, AJ. 2007. “Isotopic evidence for Mesoarchaean anoxia and changing atmospheric sulphur chemistry.” Nature 449 (7163): 706–709. doi: 10.1038/nature06202.
• Peters, M, Ockert, C, Farquhar, J, Masterson, A, and Strauss, H. 2007. Quantification of sulphur cycling at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• Perner, M, Kuever, J, Seifert, R, Pape, T, Koschinsky, A, Schmidt, K, Strauss, H, and Imhoff, JF. 2007. “The influence of ultramafic rocks on microbial communities at the Logatchev hydrothermal field, located 15 degrees N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.” FEMS Microbiology Ecology 61 (1): 97–109. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00325.x.
• Perner, M, Seifert, R, Weber, S, Koschinsky, A, Schmidt, K, Strauss, H, Peters, M, Haase, K, and Imhoff, JF. 2007. “Microbial CO(2) fixation and sulfur cycling associated with low-temperature emissions at the Lilliput hydrothermal field, southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (9 degrees S).” Environmental Microbiology 9 (5): 1186–201. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01241.x.
• Hough, ML, Shields, GA, Evins, LZ, Strauss, H, Henderson, RA, and Mackenzie, S. 2006. “A major sulphur isotope event at c. 510 Ma: A possible anoxia-extinction-volcanism connection during the Early-Middle Cambrian transition?” Terra Nova 18 (4): 257–263.
• Goldberg, T, Mazumdar, A, Strauss, H, and Shields, G. 2006. “Insights from stable S and O isotopes into biogeochemical processes and genesis of Lower Cambrian barite-pyrite concretions of South China.” Organic Geochemistry 37 (10): 1278–1288. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2006.04.013.
• Müller, AB, Strauss, H, Hartkopf-Fröder, C, and Littke, R. 2006. “Reconstructing the evolution of the latest Pennsylvanian-earliest Permian Lake Odernheim based on stable isotope geochemistry and palynofacies: A case study from the Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 240 (1-2): 204–224. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.03.049.
• Mazumdar, A, and Strauss, H. 2006. “Sulfur and strontium isotopic compositions of carbonate and evaporite rocks from the late Neoproterozoic-early Cambrian Bilara Group (Nagaur-Ganganagar Basin, India): Constraints on intrabasinal correlation and global sulfur cycle.” Precambrian Research 149 (3-4): 217–230. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2006.06.008.
• Schneiderhan, EA, Gutzmer, J, Strauss, H, Mezger, K, and Beukes, NJ. 2006. “The chemostratigraphy of a Paleoproterozoic MnF-BIF succession - The Voëlwater Subgroup of the Transvaal Supergroup in Griqualand West, South Africa.” South African Journal of Geology 109 (1-2): 63–80. doi: 10.2113/gssajg.109.1-2.63.
• Peters-Kottig, W, Strauss, H, and Kerp, H. 2006. “The land plant delta C-13 record and plant evolution in the Late Palaeozoic.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 240 (1-2): 237–252. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.03.051.
• Guo, Q-J, Strauss, H, Liu, C-Q, Zhao, Y-L, Pi, D-H, Fu, P-Q, Zhu, L-J, and Yang, R-D. 2005. “Carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of Lower to Middle Cambrian sediments at Taijiang, Guizhou Province, China.” Geological Magazine 142 (6): 723–733. doi: 10.1017/S0016756805001202.
• Guo, Q-J, Liu, C-Q, Strauss, H, Goldberg, T, and Yang, W-D. 2005. “Carbon isotopic bio-geochemical study on the section of Doushantuo Formation in Weng'an, Guizhou Province.” Kuangwu Yanshi 25 (2): 75–80.
• Melezhik, VA, Fallick, AE, Hanski, EJ, Kump, LR, Lepland, A, Prave, AR, and Strauss, H. 2005. “Emergence of the aerobic biosphere during the Archean-Proterozoic transition: Challenges of future research.” GSA Today 15 (11): 4–11. doi: 10.1130/1052-5173(2005)015[4:EOAABD]2.0.CO;2.
• Shen, Y, and Strauss, H. 2005. “Stable isotopes, life, and early earth history: A special issue of Precambrian Research in honor of Manfred Schidlowski.” Precambrian Research 137 (3-4): 115–117. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2005.03.001.
• Goldberg, T, Poulton, SW, and Strauss, H. 2005. “Sulphur and oxygen isotope signatures of late Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian sulphate, Yangtze Platform, China: Diagenetic constraints and seawater evolution.” Precambrian Research 137 (3-4): 223–241. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2005.03.003.
• Johnston, DT, Wing, BA, Farquhar, J, Kaufman, AJ, Strauss, H, Lyons, TW, Kah, LC, and Canfield, DE. 2005. “Active microbial sulfur disproportionation in the Mesoproterozoic.” Science 310 (5753): 1477–1479. doi: 10.1126/science.1117824.
• Korte, C, Kozur, HW, Joachimski, MM, Strauss, H, Veizer, J, and Schwark, L. 2004. “Carbon, sulfur, oxygen and strontium isotope records, organic geochemistry and biostratigraphy across the Permian/Triassic boundary in Abadeh, Iran.” International Journal of Earth Sciences 93 (4): 565–581.
• Detmers, J, Strauss, H, Schulte, U, Bergmann, A, Knittel, K, and Kuever, J. 2004. “FISH shows that Desulfotomaculum spp. are the dominating sulfate-reducing bacteria in a pristine aquifer.” Microbial Ecology 47 (3): 236–42. doi: 10.1007/s00248-004-9952-6.
• Kampschulte, A, and Strauss, H. 2004. “The sulfur isotopic evolution of Phanerozoic seawater based on the analysis of structurally substituted sulfate in carbonates.” Chemical Geology 204 (3-4): 255–286. doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2003.11.013.
• Strauss, H. 2004. “4 Ga of seawater evolution: evidence from the sulfur isotopic composition of sulfate.” in Sulfur Biogeochemistry: past and present, Vol. 379 of Spec Pap 379, edited by JP Amend, KJ Edwards and TW Lyons. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America.
• Strauss, H. 2003. “Sulphur isotopes and the early Archaean sulphur cycle.” Precambrian Research 126 (3-4): 349–361. doi: 10.1016/S0301-9268(03)00104-9.
• Strauss, H, and Peters-Kottig, W. 2003. “The Paleozoic to Mesozoic carbon cycle revisited: The carbon isotopic composition of terrestrial organic matter.” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 4 (10). doi: 10.1029/2003GC000555.
• Gutzmer, J, Schneiderhan, E, Beukes, NJ, Strauss, H, and Mezger, K. 2003. “Unravelling chemostratigraphic signatures of sedimentation and diagenesis in Palaeoproterozoic iron and manganese formations.” Applied Earth Science 112 (2 AUG): B159–B161..
• Strauss, H, Banerjee, DM, and Kumar, V. 2001. “The sulfur isotopic composition of Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian seawater - Evidence from the cyclic Hanseran evaporites, NW India.” Chemical Geology 175 (1-2): 17–28. doi: 10.1016/S0009-2541(00)00361-2.
• Kampschulte, A, Bruckschen, P, and Strauss, H. 2001. “The sulphur isotopic composition of trace sulphates in Carboniferous brachiopods: Implications for coeval seawater, correlation with other geochemical cyles and isotope stratigraphy.” Chemical Geology 175 (1-2): 149–173. doi: 10.1016/S0009-2541(00)00367-3.
• Joachimski, MM, Ostertag-Henning, C, Pancost, RD, Strauss, H, Freeman, KH, Littke, R, Sinninghe, Damsté JS, and Racki, G. 2001. “Water column anoxia, enhanced productivity and concomitant changes in δ13C and δ34S across the Frasnian-Famennian boundary (Kowala - Holy Cross Mountains/Poland).” Chemical Geology 175 (1-2): 109–131. doi: 10.1016/S0009-2541(00)00365-X.
• Detmers, J, Schulte, U, Strauss, H, and Kuever, J. 2001. “Sulfate Reduction at a Lignite Seam: Microbial Abundance and Activity.” Microbial Ecology 42 (3): 238–247. doi: 10.1007/s00248-001-1014-8.
• Peters-Kottig, W, Strauss, H, and Kerp, H. 2001. “The carbon isotopic composition of terrestrial organic matter from the Late Paleozoic.” Terra Nostra 4: 52–56.
• Veizer, J, Ala, D, Azmy, K, Bruckschen, P, Buhl, D, Bruhn, F, Garden, GAF, Diener, A, Ebneth, S, Godderis, Y, Jasper, T, Korte, C, Pawellek, F, Podlaha, OG, and Strauss, H. 1999. “87Sr/86Sr, δ13C and δ18O evolution of Phanerozoic seawater.” Chemical Geology 161 (1-3): 59–88. doi: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00081-9.
• Lückge, A, Ercegovac, M, Strauss, H, and Littke, R. 1999. “Early diagenetic alteration of organic matter by sulfate reduction in Quaternary sediments from the northeastern Arabian Sea.” Marine Geology 158 (1-4): 1–13. doi: 10.1016/S0025-3227(98)00191-1.
• Strauss, H. 1999. “Geological evolution from isotope proxy signals - Sulfur.” Chemical Geology 161 (1): 89–101. doi: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00082-0.
• Samuelsson, J, and Strauss, H. 1999. “Stable carbon and oxygen isotope geochemistry of the upper Visingsö Group (early Neoproterozoic), southern Sweden.” Geological Magazine 136 (1): 63–73. doi: 10.1017/S0016756899002253.
• Shields, GA, Strauss, H, Howe, SS, and Siegmund, H. 1999. “Sulphur isotope compositions of sedimentary phosphorites from the basal Cambrian of China: Implications for Neoproterozoic-Cambrian biogeochemical cycling.” Journal of the Geological Society 156 (5): 943–955. doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.156.5.0943.
• Hayes, JM, Strauss, H, and Kaufman, AJ. 1999. “The abundance of 13C in marine organic matter and isotopic fractionation in the global biogeochemical cycle of carbon during the past 800 Ma.” Chemical Geology 161 (1-3): 103–125. doi: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00083-2.
• Kampschulte, A, Buhl, D, and Strauss, H. 1998. “The sulfur and strontium isotopic compositions of Permian evaporites from the Zechstein Basin, northern Germany.” Geologische Rundschau 87 (2): 192–199. doi: 10.1007/s005310050201.
• Strauss, H, Vidal, G, Moczydłowska, M, and Pacześna, J. 1997. “Carbon isotope geochemistry and palaeontology of Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian siliciclastic successions in the East European Platform, Poland.” Geological Magazine 134 (1): 1–16. doi: 10.1017/S0016756897006602.
• Schulte, U, Strauss, H, Bergmann, A, and Obermann, P. 1997. “Isotope ratios of sulphur and carbon species from sediments and deep groundwaters of the Lower Rhine Inlet | Isotopenverhaltnisse der Schwefel- und Kohlenstoffspezies aus Sedimenten und tiefen Grundwassern der Niederrheinischen Bucht.” Grundwasser 2 (3): 103–110. doi: 10.1007/s767-1997-8531-4.
• Veizer, J, Bruckschen, P, Pawellek, F, Diener, A, Podlaha, OG, Carden, GAF, Jasper, T, Korte, C, Strauss, H, Azmy, K, and Ala, D. 1997. “Oxygen isotope evolution of Phanerozoic seawater.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 132 (1-4): 159–172. doi: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00052-7.
• Strauss, H. 1997. “The isotopic composition of sedimentary sulfur through time.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 132 (1-4): 97–118. doi: 10.1016/S0031-0182(97)00067-9.
• Strauss, H, and Beukes, NJ. 1996. “Carbon and sulfur isotopic compositions of organic carbon and pyrite in sediments from the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa.” Precambrian Research 79 (1-2): 57–71. doi: 10.1016/0301-9268(95)00088-7.
• Schwanke, U, Strauss, H, Arnold, G, and Schipke, JD. 1996. “Analysis of respiratory water--a new method for evaluation of myocardial energy metabolism.” Journal of Applied Physiology 81 (5): 2115–22.
• Schidlowski, M, Des, Marais DJ, Strauss, H, Summons, RE, and Hayes, JM. 1993. “Proterozoic carbon cycle [3].” Nature 362 (6416): 117–118. doi: 10.1038/362117b0.
• Des, Marals DJ, Strauss, H, Summons, RE, and Hayes, JM. 1993. “Proterozoic carbon cycle [5].” Nature 362 (6416): 118.
• Strauss, H. 1993. “The sulfur isotopic record of Precambrian sulfates: new data and a critical evaluation of the existing record.” Precambrian Research 63 (3-4): 225–246. doi: 10.1016/0301-9268(93)90035-Z.
• Farmer, J, Vidal, G, Moczydlowska, M, Strauss, H, Ahlberg, P, and Siedlecka, A. 1992. “Ediacaran fossils from the Innerelv Member (late Proterozoic) of the Tanafjorden area, northeastern Finnmark.” Geological Magazine 129 (2): 181–195. doi: 10.1017/S001675680000827X.
• Strauss, H, Bengtson, S, Myrow, PM, and Vidal, G. 1992. “Stable isotope geochemistry and palynology of the late Precambrian to early Cambrian sequence in Newfoundland.” Canadian journal of earth sciences 29 (8): 1662–1673. doi: 10.1139/e92-131.
• Des, Marais DJ, Strauss, H, Summons, RE, and Hayes, JM. 1992. “Carbon isotope evidence for the stepwise oxidation of the Proterozoic environment.” Nature 359 (6396): 605–9. doi: 10.1038/359605a0.
• Buhl, D, Neuser, RD, Richter, DK, Riedel, D, Roberts, B, Strauss, H, and Veizer, J. 1991. “Nature and nurture: Environmental isotope story of the river Rhine.” Naturwissenschaften 78 (8): 337–346. doi: 10.1007/BF01131605.
• Strauss, H, and Schieber, J. 1990. “A sulfur isotope study of pyrite genesis: The mid-proterozoic Newland formation, belt supergroup, Montana.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 54 (1): 197–204. doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(90)90207-2.
• Strauss, H. 1989. “Carbon and sulfur isotope data for carbonaceous metasediments from the Kidd Creek massive sulfide deposit and vicinity, Timmins, Ontario.” Economic geology and the bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists 84 (4): 959–962. doi: 10.2113/gsecongeo.84.4.959.
• Strauss, H. 1986. “Carbon and sulfur isotopes in Precambrian sediments from the Canadian Shield.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 50 (12): 2653–2662. doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(86)90216-4.