Susanne Neuer
Biological Oceanography, Biogeochemistry, Astrobiology
My main research interest is in the area of ocean biogeochemistry; especially the dynamics of the biological carbon pump, and the role of ocean biota in the carbon export to the deep sea. Most of my research has been ship based; I have participated in 20+ cruises, five of which as chief scientist. My group is also working on several aspects of marine plankton ecology, such as model systems of trophic interactions in the laboratory and molecular based analyses of plankton diversity. More recently, I have added Astrobiology to my research interests, and have collaborated with planetary geologists at ASU in assessing the astrobiological potential of Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons that might have a vast ocean underneath its icy shell. This research has led me to the Arctic, and we have investigated diversity of sea ice organisms in Arctic and are working with isolated Arctic sea ice organisms in the laboratory.
I teach an Introductory Oceanography class BIO/GLG 325, Marine Biology BIO 494, Ecology BIO 320 and Ocean Biogeochemistry BIO/GLG/CHM 494/598.
Selected Publications
Mouriño, B. and S. Neuer. 2008. Regional differences in the role of eddy pumping in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre: Historical conundrums revisited. Oceanography, 21, 52-60.
Eddie, B. J., C. Krembs, and S. Neuer. 2008. Characterization and growth response to temperature and salinity of psychrophilic, halotolerant Chalmydomonas sp ARC isolated from Chukchi sea ice. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 354, 107-117.
Cianca, A., P. Helmke, B. Mouriño, M. J. Rueda, O. Llinás, and S. Neuer. 2007. Decadal analysis of hydrography and in situ nutrient budgets in the western and eastern North Atlantic subtropical gyre, Journal of Geophysical Research, 112. C07025, doi: 10.1029/2006JC003788.
Neuer, S., A. Cianca, P. Helmke, T. Freudenthal, R. Davenport, M. Knoll, M. Santana-Casiano, M. González-Davila, M. Rueda and O. Llinás. 2007. Biogeochemistry and hydrography in the Eastern Subtropical North Atlantic gyre. Results from European Time-Series Station ESTOC. Progress in Oceanography 72, 1-29.
S. L. Johnson, S. Neuer and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2006. Export of nitrogenous compounds due to incomplete cycling within biological soil crusts of arid lands. Environmental Microbiology. Vol. 9: 680-689.
Neuer, S., M.E. Torres-Padrón, M.D. Gelado-Caballero, J. Hernández-Brito, M.J. Rueda and Gerold Wefer. 2004. Dust deposition pulses to the eastern subtropical North Atlantic gyre: Does ocean's biogeochemistry respond? Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 18, GB4020, doi: 10.1029/2004GB002228.
Fischer, G., S. Neuer, B. Davenport, O. Romero, V. Ratmeyer, B. Donner , T. Freudenthal, H. Meggers and G. Wefer. 2004. Control of ballast minerals on organic carbon export in the Eastern Boundary Current system (EBCs) off NW Africa. In: Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A Global Synthesis. K.-K. Liu et al. (Ed)., Springer Verlag, in press.
Figureido, P. H., R. Greeley, S. Neuer, L. Irwin, D. Schulze-Makuch. 2004. Locating potential biosignatures on Europa from surface geology observations. Astrobiology, 3, 851-861.
Neuer, S. R. Davenport, T. Freudenthal, G. Wefer , O. Llinás, Maria-J. Rueda, D. Rueda, Steinberg, D. Karl .2002. Differences in the biological carbon pump at three subtropical ocean sites. Geophys. Res. Lett. 29, 1885, doi: 10.1029/2002GL015393.
Neuer, S., T. Freudenthal, R. Davenport, O. Llinás, M-J. Rueda. 2002. Seasonality of surface water properties and particle flux along a productivity gradient off NW Africa. Deep-Sea. Res.II, 49, 3561-3576.
Davenport, R. S. Neuer, P. Helmke, J. Perez-Marrero, O. Llinás, and G. Wefer. 2002. Primary production in the northern Canary Islands region as inferred from SeaWiFS imagery. Deep Sea Research. II 49, 3481-3496.
Freudenthal, T., S. Neuer, H. Meggers, R. Davenport and G. Wefer. 2001: Comparison of water column particle fluxes, sedimentary accumulation rates, and the stable nitrogen isotope signature along a productivity gradient in the Canary Islands region. Marine Geology 177, 93-109.
Neuer, S. and T.J. Cowles. 1995. Comparative size-specific grazing rates in field populations of ciliates and dinoflagellates. Mar. Ecol. Prog.Ser. 125: 259-267.