Prof Mark Trimmer

Mark Trimmer

Professor of Biogeochemistry

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Queen Mary University of London
020 7882 3007
www.qmul.ac.uk/sbbs/staff/marktrimmer.html
Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability
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Research

Biogeochemistry, Anammox, Methane cycling, Nitrogen cycling, Microbial ecology, Climate warming

Interests

I apply cutting-edge tracer techniques and molecular approaches to unravel the biogeochemistry and underpinning microbial ecology of a diverse array of aquatic ecosystems. From headwater streams in the Arctic, to the open-ocean Pacific and carefully controlled experimental systems to link cause to effect through climate warming. I also purse the unorthodox to reveal both new and unexpected biogeochemical cycling occurrences, where previously they would have been dismissed – i.e., anaerobic ammonia and methane oxidation in riverbed sediments would have seemed fanciful only 10-years ago and we now know that some ecosystems use the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide as a nitrogen source, changing our perception of ecosystem functioning.