Research

Environmental geochemistry of aquatic systems; biogeochemistry; geomicrobiology; modelling of early diagenesis.

Selected Publications

1. Ojeda, J.J, and Dittrich, M. 2011, Application of an Infrared Spectroscopy for Cell-Minerals Interfaces, Chapter in a book, which is a part of the Humana Press series "Methods in Molecular Biology" (Springer), in press

2. Dittrich, M., B. Raoof, A. Chesnyuk, S. Quazi, R. Shen, J. Bollmann, S. Katsev and Fulthorpe, R. 2011, Origin of Iron Layer in Sediment of Lake Superior: abiotic vs. biotic, Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 75 (3), 764

3. Li J, Crowe S, Brown E, Dittrich M, Miklesh D and Katsev S. 2011, Diagenetic Mobility of Mn and Fe Crusts in Organic-Poor Sediments of Lake Superior. Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 75 (3), 1312

4. Matsko, N.B., Znidaršic N., Letofsky-Papst, I., Dittrich, M., Grogger, W., Štrus J., Hofer, F. 2011. Silicon: The key element in early stages of biocalcification, Journal of Structural Biology 174 180-186

5. Dittrich, M., Gabriel, O., Rutzen, C. and R. Koschel, 2011, Lake Restoration by Hypolimnetic Ca(OH)2 Treatment: Impact on Phosphorus Sedimentation and Release from Sediment, Science of the Total Environment, 409, 8, 1504-1515.

6. Dittrich, M. and Sibler, S., 2010. Calcium Carbonate Precipitation by Cyanobacterial Polysaccharides, PEDLEY, H.M. & ROGERSON,M. (eds) Tufas and Speleothems: Unravelling the Microbial and Physical Controls. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 336, 51-63.

7. Branchu P., Bergonzini L., Pons-Branchu E., Violier, E., Dittrich, M. and Ghaleb, B. 2010. Intensification of Lake Malawi stratification since the end of the Little Ice Age: Evidences from pore-water chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, 72, 321-330

8. Dittrich, M., Vasconcelos, C. and P. Dorozhkin, 2010. Microbe-mineral interfaces in biofilms as seen by Atomic Force Microscopy combined with Raman and X-ray Spectroscopy, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 11, Supplement 1, A236-A236

9. Dittrich, M., P. Reichert, and B. Wehrli, 2009. Lake Sediments during the Transient Eutrophication Period: Reactive-Transport Model and Identifiability Study Ecological Modelling, Ecological Modelling, 220, 2751-2769

10. Obst, M., Wehrli, B. and Dittrich, M., 2009. CaCO3 nucleation by cyanobacteria: laboratory evidence for a passive surface-mediated mechanism, Geobiology, 7, 324-347.

11. Dittrich, M, Vasconcelos, C; Mc Kenzie, JA 2009. Nanoscale characterization of organic matter in modern stromatolites, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 13, A294-A294.