Joely Marie Maak

Curriculum Vitae

Research cruises and sampling trips

Publications:

• Maak, JM, Lin, Y-S, Schefuß, E, Aepfler, R F, Liu, L-L, Elvert, M, Bühring, SI (2025) The energy-efficient reductive tricarboxylic acid cycle drives carbon uptake and transfer to higher trophic levels within the Kueishantao shallow-water hydrothermal system, Biogeosciences, 22, 1853–1863, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-1853-2025
• Maak, JM, Birgel, D, Reitner, J, Gischler, E, Dullo, W-C, Foster, W J, Peckmann, J (2024) Molecular fossils in reefal carbonates and sponges of the deep fore reef of Mayotte and Mohéli, Comoro Islands, western Indian Ocean. Facies, 70, 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-023-00678-3
• Schaefer T, Wen L, Estelmann A, Maak J, Herrmann H (2020) pH – and temperature-dependent kinetics of the oxidation reactions of OH with succinic and pimelic acid in aqueous solution. Atmosphere. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11040320
  
  

Conferences:

• Maak, JM, Elvert, M, Grotheer, H, Lin, Y, Mollenhauer, G, Lin, IT, Bühring, S, Schefuß, E: The fate of vent-derived ¹⁴C-dead carbon at shallow-water hydrothermal systems (Plenary Talk); International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2025), Porto, Portugal.
• M Elvert, JM Maak, C Röttgen, E Anagnostou, A Koschinsky, J Liao, P Nomikou, SI Bühring, E Schefuß : Geochemical controls on microbial lipid distributions in hydrothermal sediments off Milos (Greece) (Talk); International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2025), Porto, Portugal.
• Maak, JM, Röttgen, C, Schefuß, E, Anagnostou, E, Buehring, SI, Cudmore, C, Hampel, F, Koschinsky, A, Liao, J, Nomikou, P, Vogt, C, Winkelhues, B, Bach, W, Elvert, M: Sulfur as the link between geochemistry, mineralogy, and microbial life in submarine hydrothermal systems (Talk); Goldschmidt 2025, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Dimou, E, Papoutsa, A, Chi Fru, E, Pletsas, V, Zegkinoglou, N, Kilias, S, Nomikou, P, Polymenakou, P, Maak, JM: Arsenic-sulfide mineralization as a key mechanism for biomass preservation in seafloor massive sulfide hydrothermal diffuser chimneys (Talk); Goldschmidt 2025, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Maak, JM, Elvert, M, Lin, YS, Grotheer, H, Mollenhauer, G, Nomikou, P, Röttgen, C, Anagnostou, E, Bühring, SI, Schefuß, E: Dynamics of aged-carbon injections at shallow-water hydrothermal systems (Talk and Poster); Gordon Research Conference and Seminar on Organic Geochemistry (GRS and GRC 2024), Holderness, USA.
• Papoutsa, A, Pletsas, V, Kilias, S, Dimou, E, Polymenakou, P, Nomikou, P, Papadimitriou, V, Maak, J, Ivarsson, M, Kyrpides, N: Raman spectroscopy evidence for arsenic-sulfide mineralized diatom-like structures in deep-sea hydrothermal vents at Kolumbo: contribution to arsenic biomineralization; GEORAMAN 2024, Rhodes, Greece.
• Maak, JM, Elvert, M, Elling, F, Lin, YS, Bühring, SI, Schefuß, E: Exceptionally opposing trends in carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionations of chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria at shallow hydrothermal vents (Poster); Molecular Origins of Life 2024, Munich, Germany.
  
• Maak JM, Birgel D, Reitner J, Gischler E, Dullo W-C, Foster W, Peckmann J: Molecular fossil inventory in microbial carbonates and sponges of the deep fore reef of Mayotte and Mohéli, Comoro islands (Plenary Talk); International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2023), Montpellier, France. 10.3997/2214-4609.202333101
• Maak JM, Elvert E, Solveig SI, Lin Y-S, Schefuß E: Evaluating the incorporation of aged carbon into the marine carbon cycle at shallow hydrothermal systems (Poster); International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2023), Montpellier, France. 10.3997/2214-4609.202333103
• Maak JM, Birgel D, Reitner J, Gischler E, Dullo W-C, Peckmann J: Molecular fossil inventory in microbial carbonates and sponges of the deep fore reef of Mayotte and Mohéli (Talk);D-A-CH Geobiology Symposium 2022, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

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