Prof. Dr. J.W. de Leeuw

Department of Earth Sciences - Geochemistry
Faculty of Geosciences
Utrecht University
P.O. Box 80.021
3508 TA Utrecht
The Netherlands

e-mail:deleeuw@nioz.nl

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Position: Chair Organic Geochemistry (parttime - 0.1 fte)

(emeritus from January 2009) 

 

 

Key Publications

De Leeuw J.W., Van Bergen P.F., Van Aarssen B.G.K., Gatellier J-P.L.A., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Collinson M.E. Resistant biomacromolecules as major contributors to kerogen. (1991) Phil. Trans. R. Soc. (Lond.), B. 333, 329-337.

Kohnen M.E.L., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and De Leeuw J.W. Biases from natural sulphurization in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction based on hydrocarbon biomarker distributions. (1991) Nature 349, 775-778.

Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Wakeham S.G., Kohnen M.E.L., Hayes J.M. and De Leeuw J.W. A 6,000-year sedimentary molecular record of chemocline excursions in the Black Sea. (1993) Nature 362, 827-829.

Hartgers W.A., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., Requejo A.G., Allan J., Hayes J.M. and De Leeuw J.W. Evidence for a small bacterial contribution to sedimentary organic carbon. (1994) Nature 369, 224-227.

Schoell M., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., De Leeuw J.W. and Summons R.E. A molecular organic carbon isotope record of Miocene climate changes. (1994) Science 263, 1122-1125.

Megens L., Van der Plicht J. and De Leeuw J.W. Molecular, radioactive and stable isotope characterization of estuarine particulate organic matter. (1998) Radiocarbon 40, 985-990.

Passier H.F., Bosch H-.J., Nijenhuis I.A., Lourens L.J., Bottcher M.E., Leenders A., Sinninghe Damsté J.S., De Lange G.J. and De Leeuw, J.W. Sulphidic Mediterranean surface waters during Pliocene sapropel formation. (1999) Nature 397, 146-149.

Blokker P., Schouten S., De Leeuw J.W., Sinninghe Damsté J.S. and Van den Ende H. A comparative study of fossil- and extant algaenans using ruthenium tetroxide degradation. (2000) Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64, 2055-2065.

Ward D.M., Bateson M.M. and De Leeuw J.W. Use of 16SrRNA, lipid and naturally preserved components of hotspring mats and microorganisms tohelp interpret the record of microbial evolution. (2001) In: Thermophiles: Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution (Reysenbach et al. eds., Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York) pp. 167-181.

Grutters M., Van Raaphorst W., Epping E., Helder W. and De Leeuw J.W. Preservation of amino acids from in situ-produced bacterial cell wall peptidoglycans in northeastern Atlantic continental margin sediments. (2002) Limnol. Oceanogr. 47, 1521-1524.