Daniel Birgel, Dr.

daniel.birgel@univie.ac.at

Room Number: 2B479
Tel.: +43-1-4277-53464
Fax: +43-1-4277-9534

Research Interests:

• Genesis of authigenic rocks (carbonates, phosphorites)

• Lipid Biomarkers in authigenic minerals sediments

• Anaerobic oxidation of methane

• Hydrocarbon degradation
  

Current Projects:

• Varying redox processes at recent and ancient methane-seeps

• Microbialite formation in recent to subrecent tropical reefs
  

• Phosphorite formation in the past

• Carbonate precipitation and enclosed lipid biomarker signatures in hypersaline environments

Publications:

SB Ziegenbalg, D Birgel, L Hofmann-Sell, C Pierre, JM Rouchy, J Peckmann (in press) Anaerobic oxidation of methane in hypersaline Messinian environments revealed by  ¹³C-depletd molecular fossils. Chemical Geology

MY Kellermann, F Schubotz, M Elvert, JS Lipp, D Birgel, X Prieto Mollar, N Dubilier, K-U Hinrichs (in press) Symbiont-host relationships in chemosynthetic mussels: A comprehensive lipid biomarker study. Organic Geochemistry, doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.10.005

RR Kuechler, D Birgel, S Kiel, A Freiwald, JL Goedert, V Thiel, J Peckmann (in press) Miocene methane-derived carbonates from southwestern Washington, USA and a model for silicification at seeps. Lethaia, doi: 10.111/j.1502-3931.2011.00280.x

N Chevalier, I Bouloubassi, D Birgel, A Cremiere, M-H Taphanel, C Pierre (2011) Authigenic carbonates at cold seeps in the Marmara Sea (Turkey): A lipid biomarker and stable carbon and oxygen isotope investigation. Marine Geology 288, 112-121

L Hoffmann-Sell, D Birgel, ET Arning, KB Föllmi, J Peckmann (2011) Archaeal lipids in Neogene dolomites (Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, California)-Planktic versus benthic archaeal sources. Organic Geochemistry 42, 593-604

D Birgel, D Feng, HH Roberts, J Peckmann (2011) Changing redox conditions at cold seeps as revealed by authigenic carbonates from Alaminos Canyon, northern Gulf of Mexico. Chemical Geology 285, 82-96

MS Cook, LD Keigwin, D Birgel, KU Hinrichs (2011) Repeated pulses of vertical methane flux recorded in glacial sediments from the southeast Bering Sea. Paleoceanography 26, doi:10.1029/2010PA001993, 2011

E de Boever, D Birgel, P Muchez, J Peckmann, L Dimitrov, R Swennen (2011) Fabric and formation of grapestone concretions within an unusual ancient methane seep ecosystem (Eocene, Bulgaria). Terra Nova 23, 56-61

K Heindel, D Birgel, J Peckmann, H Kuhnert, H Westphal (2010) Formation of deglacial microbialites in coral reefs off Tahiti (IODP 310) involving sulfate-reducing bacteria. Palaios  25, 618-635

SB Ziegenbalg, B Brunner, JM Rouchy, D Birgel, C Pierre, ME Böttcher, A Caruso, A Immenhauser, J Peckmann (2010) Formation of secondary carbonates and native sulphur in sulphate-rich Messinian strata, Sicily. Sedimentary Geology 227, 37-50

FS Kinnaman, JB Kimball, L Busso, D Birgel, H Ding, KU Hinrichs, DL Valentine (2010) Gas flux and carbonate occurrence at a shallow seep of thermogenic natural gas. Geo-Marine Letters 30, 355-365

J Peckmann, D Birgel, S Kiel (2009) Molecular fossils reveal fluid composition and flow intensity at a Cretaceous seep. Geology 37, 847-850

TH Naehr, D Birgel, G Bohrmann, IR MacDonald, S Kasten (2009) Biogeochemical controls on authigenic carbonate formation at the Chapopote “asphalt volcano“, Bay of Campeche. Chemical Geology 266, 390-402

E de Boever, D Birgel, V Thiel, P Muchez, J Peckmann, L Dimitrov, R Swennen (2009) The formation of giant tubular concretions triggered by anaerobic oxidation of methane as revealed by archaeal molecular fossils. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 280, 23-36

ET Arning, D Birgel, B Brunner, J Peckmann (2009) Bacterial formation of phosphatic laminites off Peru. Geobiology 7, 295-307

ET Arning, A Lückge, C Breuer, N Gussone, D Birgel, J Peckmann (2009) Genesis of phosphorite crusts off Peru. Marine Geology 262, 68-81

TF Ertefai, MC Fisher, HF Fredricks, JS Lipp, A Pearson, D Birgel, KM Udert, CM Cavanaugh, PM Gschwend, KU Hinrichs (2008) Vertical distribution of microbial lipids and functional genes in chemically distinct layers of a highly polluted meromictic lake. Organic Geochemistry 39, 1572-1588

D Birgel, J Peckmann (2008) Aerobic methanotrophy at ancient marine methane-seeps: A synthesis. Organic Geochemistry 39, 1659-1667

AN Meckler, CJ Schubert, PA Hochuli, B Plessen, D Birgel, BP Flower, KU Hinrichs, GH Haug (2008) Glacial to Holocene terrigenous organic matter input to sediments from Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico-a combined optical and biomarker approach. Earth and Planetary Science Letters  272, 251-263

D Birgel, T Himmler, A Freiwald, J Peckmann (2008) A new constraint on the antiquity of anaerobic oxidation of methane: Late Pennsylvanian seep limestones from southern Namibia. Geology 36, 543-546

ET Arning, D Birgel, HN Schulz-Vogt, L Holmkvist, BB Jørgensen, A Larsson, J Peckmann (2008) Lipid biomarker patterns of phosphogenic sediments from upwelling regions. Geomicrobiology Journal 25, 69-82

D Birgel, M Elvert, X Han, J Peckmann (2008) 13C-depleted biphytanic diacids as tracers of past anaerobic oxidation of methane. Organic Geochemistry 39, 152-156

J Peckmann, B Senowbari-Daryan, D Birgel, JL Goedert (2007) The crustacean ichnofossil Palaxius associated with callianassid body fossils in an Eocene methane-seep limestone, Humptulips Formation, Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Lethaia  40, 273-280

D Birgel, J Peckmann, S Klautzsch, V Thiel, J Reitner (2006) Anaerobic and aerobic oxidation of methane at late Cretaceous seeps in the Western Interior Seaway, USA. Geomicrobiology Journal 23, 565-577

D Birgel, V Thiel, KU Hinrichs, KA Campbell, J Reitner, M Elvert, JD Farmer, J Peckmann (2006) Lipid biomarker patterns of methane-seep microbialites from the mesozoic convergent margin of California. Organic Geochemistry 37, 1289-1302

K Bice, D Birgel, PA Meyers, KA Dahl, KU Hinrichs, RD Norris (2006) A multiple proxy and modeling study of Cretaceous upper ocean temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations from tropical Atlantic foraminifera and organic matter. Paleoceanography 21, PA 2002

D Birgel, R Stein, J Hefter (2004) Aliphatic lipids in recent sediments of the Fram Strait/Yermak Plateau (Arctic Ocean): Composition, sources and transport processes. Marine Chemistry 88, 127-160

D Birgel, H. C. Hass (2004) Oceanic and atmospheric variations during the last deglaciation in the Fram Strait (Arctic Ocean): a coupled high-resolution organic-geochemical and sedimentological study. Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 29-47

D Birgel, R Stein (2003) Northern Fram Strait and Yermak Plateau: Late Quaternary variability and burial of organic carbon and paleoceanographic implications. In R Stein and RW Macdonald (Editors), The organic carbon cycle in the Arctic Ocean. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 279-294