Ingunn Hindenes Thorseth

Professor

Department of Earth Science Centre for Deep Sea Research

E-mailingunn.thorseth@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 34 28+47 415 28 683
Visitor Address
Allégaten 41

Realfagbygget

5007 Bergen

Room
4G13e - 4131a
Postal Address
Postboks 7803

5020 Bergen

Research interests

Water-rock-microbe interactions
Subsurface biosphere
Microbial biomineralisation, fossilization and biosignatures

My principal research interest is geomicrobiology/geochemistry. The most important result from my early work is evidence for microbial life in the ocean crust by various textural, chemical and biomolecular biosignatures. Other early research topics were weathering effects and biomineralisation of lichens, and associated microbial communities.

The last 15 years my research has primarily been related to the discovery and exploration of deep-sea hydrothermal vents and mineral deposits at the slow-spreading Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridges, and to associated deep-sea sediments. Research topics related to these environments are: the role of microbial activity and biomineralisation for the formation and charateristics of low-temperature hydrothermal mineral deposits (iron-hydroxides, barite); microbial activity and biogeochemical cycing during early diagenesis; and identification of biosignatures suitable for documentation of processes in ancient rocks. Other related research topics are input of hydrothermal volatiles and trace elements to the water column; weathering of deep-sea hydrothermal sulphide deposits and submarine mine tailings and associated environmental concequenses; and serpentinization of ultramafic rocks and associated microbial life.

Electron microscopy combined with various (bio)geochemical and biomolecular analyses of solids and fluids are essential methods in the research.

GEOV109: Introduction to geochemistry

GEOV245: Geomicrobiology

Academic article

Show author(s) (2022). Mapping Microbial Abundance and Prevalence to Changing Oxygen Concentration in Deep-Sea Sediments Using Machine Learning and Differential Abundance. Frontiers in Microbiology. 1-14.

Show author(s) (2021). Ammonia-oxidizing archaea have similar power requirements in diverse marine oxic sediments. The ISME Journal.
Show author(s) (2021). A late Paleoproterozoic (1.74 Ga) deep-sea, low-temperature, iron-oxidizing microbial hydrothermal vent community from Arizona, USA. Geobiology. 228-249.

Show author(s) (2020). The Seven Sisters Hydrothermal System: First Record of Shallow Hybrid Mineralization Hosted in Mafic Volcaniclasts on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Minerals. 439.
Show author(s) (2020). Sub-seafloor sulfur cycling in a low-temperature barite field: A multi-proxy study from the Arctic Loki's Castle vent field. Chemical Geology. 1-12.
Show author(s) (2020). Geochemical transition zone powering microbial growth in subsurface sediments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 32617-32626.

Show author(s) (2019). Transport of carbon dioxide and heavy metals from hydrothermal vents to shallow water by hydrate-coated gas bubbles. Chemical Geology. 120-132.
Show author(s) (2019). On the biogenicity of Fe-oxyhydroxide filaments in silicified low-temperature hydrothermal deposits: Implications for the identification of Fe-oxidizing bacteria in the rock record. Geobiology. 31-53.
Show author(s) (2019). 3He along the ultraslow spreading AMOR in the Norwegian-Greenland Seas. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 1-11.

Show author(s) (2018). Water masses and depth structure prokaryotic and T4-like viral communities around hydrothermal systems of the Nordic Seas. Frontiers in Microbiology. 1-17.
Show author(s) (2018). Energy landscapes in hydrothermal chimneys shape distribution of primary producers. Frontiers in Microbiology.
Show author(s) (2018). Distribution patterns of iron-oxidizing Zeta- and Beta-Proteobacteria from different environmental settings of the Jan Mayen vent fields. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Show author(s) (2017). Microbial analysis of Zetaproteobacteria and co-colonizers of iron mats in the Troll Wall Vent Field, Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. PLOS ONE.
Show author(s) (2017). Environmental controls on biomineralization and Fe-mound formation in a low-temperature hydrothermal system at the Jan Mayen Vent Fields. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 101-123.

Show author(s) (2016). Novel barite chimneys at the Loki´s Castle vent field shed light on key factors shaping microbial communities and functions in hydrothermal systems. Frontiers in Microbiology.
Show author(s) (2016). Marinitoga arctica sp. Nov., a thermophilic, anaerobic heterotroph isolated from a Mid-Ocean Ridge vent field. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 5070-5076.
Show author(s) (2016). Fluid composition of the sediment-influenced Loki's Castle vent field at the ultra-slow spreading Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 156-178.
Show author(s) (2016). Constraints on the sedimentary input into the Loki's Castle hydrothermal system (AMOR) from B isotope data. Chemical Geology. 111-120.

Show author(s) (2015). The role of authigenic sulfides in immobilization of potentially toxic metals in the Bagno Bory wetland, southern Poland. Environmental Science and Pollution Research International. 15495-15505.
Show author(s) (2015). The effect of submarine CO2 vents on seawater: Implications for detection of subsea carbon sequestration leakage. Limnology and Oceanography : Methods. 402-410.
Show author(s) (2015). Functional interactions among filamentous Epsilonproteobacteria and Bacteroidetes in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent biofilm. Environmental Microbiology. 4063-4077.
Show author(s) (2015). Energy landscapes shape microbial communities in hydrothermal systems on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. The ISME Journal. 1593-1606.
Show author(s) (2015). Abiotic and candidate biotic micro-alteration textures in subseafloor basaltic glass: A high-resolution in-situ textural and geochemical investigation. Chemical Geology. 124-137.

Show author(s) (2014). Microbial community structure and functioning in marine sediments associated with diffuse hydrothermal venting assessed by integrated meta-omics. Environmental Microbiology. 2699-2710.
Show author(s) (2014). Formation of H2, CH4 and N-species during low-temperature experimental alteration of ultramafic rocks. Chemical Geology. 22-34.
Show author(s) (2014). Comparison of iron isotope variations in modern and Ordovician siliceous Fe oxyhydroxide deposits. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 422-440.
Show author(s) (2014). Barite in hydrothermal environments as a recorder of subseafloor processes: A multiple-isotope study from the Loki's Castle vent field. Geobiology. 308-321.

Show author(s) (2013). The versatile in situ gene expression of an Epsilonproteobacteria-dominated biofilm from a hydrothermal chimney. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 282-290.
Show author(s) (2013). Quantitative and phylogenetic study of the Deep Sea Archaeal Group in sediments of the Arctic mid-ocean spreading ridge. Frontiers in Microbiology. 299.

Show author(s) (2012). Microbially induced iron precipitation associated with a neutrophilic spring at Borra Caves, Vishakhapatnam, India. Astrobiology. 327-346.
Show author(s) (2012). Microbial diversity of Loki's Castle black smokers at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Geobiology. 548-561.
Show author(s) (2012). Low temperature alteration of serpentinized ultramafic rock and implications for microbial life. Chemical Geology. 75-87.
Show author(s) (2012). Correlating microbial community profiles with geochemical data in highly stratified sediments from the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. E2846-E2855.

Show author(s) (2011). Rhabdothermus arcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Thermaceae isolated from a hydrothermal vent chimney in the Soria Mona vent field on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2197-2204.
Show author(s) (2011). Microbial metacommunities in the lichen-rock habitat. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 434-442.
Show author(s) (2011). A combined TEM and NanoSIMS study of Endolithic microfossils in altered seafloor basalt. Chemical Geology. 154-162.

Show author(s) (2010). The fauna of hydrothermal vents on the Mohn Ridge (North Atlantic). Marine Biology Research. 155-171.
Show author(s) (2010). Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Nature Communications.
Show author(s) (2010). Archaeoglobus sulfaticallidus sp nov., a thermophilic and facultatively lithoautotrophic sulfate-reducer isolated from black rust exposed to hot ridge flank crustal fluids. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 2745-2752.

Show author(s) (2008). Seafloor alteration of basaltic glass: Textures, geochemistry, and endolithic microorganisms. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems.
Show author(s) (2008). Enumeration of Archaea and Cacteria in seafloor basalt using real-time quantitative PCR and fluorescence microscopy. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 182-187.

Show author(s) (2004). Microbial community diversity in seafloor basalt from the Arctic spreading ridges. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 213-230.

Show author(s) (2003). Microbial alteration of 0-30-Ma seafloor and subseafloor basaltic glasses from the Australian Antarctic Discordance. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 237-247.

Show author(s) (2002). The occurrence of biomineralization products in four lichen species growing on sandstone in western Norway. The Lichenologist. 429-440.
Show author(s) (2002). Hydrothermal vent microbial communities: A fossil perspective. CBM - Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 317-320.
Show author(s) (2002). Comparative studies of the lichen - rock interface of four lichens in Vingen, western Norway. Chemical Geology. 81-98.

Show author(s) (2001). Microbial fractionation of carbon isotopes in altered basaltic glass from the Atlantic Ocean, Lau Basin and Costa Rica Rift. Chemical Geology. 313-330.
Show author(s) (2001). Diversity of life in ocean floor basalt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 31-37.
Show author(s) (2001). Bioalteration of basaltic glass in the oceanic crust. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. U1-U32.
Show author(s) (2001). Bioalteration of basaltic glass in the oceanic crust. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems.
Show author(s) (2001). Bio-alteration of basaltic glass in the oceanic crust. MANGLER.

Show author(s) (2000). Investigation of microorganisms and DNA from subsurface thermal water and rock from the east flank of Juan de Fuca Ridge. Proc. ODP, Sci. Results. 167-174.

Show author(s) (1999). ROV exploration of the Kolbeinsey Ridge: Preliminary results of the SUBMAR-99 cruise. Inter Ridge News. 32-43.

Show author(s) (1998). Microbial activity at the glass-alteration interface in oceanic basalts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 165-176.
Show author(s) (1998). Evidence for microbial activity at the glass-alteration interface in oceanic basalts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 165-176.

Show author(s) (1997). Evidence of ancient life at 207 m depth in a granitic aquifer. Geology. 827-830.

Show author(s) (1996). Microbial Activity in the Alteration of Glass from Pillow Lavas from Hole 896A. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results. 191-206.

Show author(s) (1992). The importance of microbiological activity in the alteration of natural basaltic glass. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 845-850.
Show author(s) (1992). The importance of microbiological activity in the alteration of natura l basaltic glass. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 445-450.

Lecture

Show author(s) (2014). Towards a framework for analyses of how energy landscapes shape microbial communities in deep-sea hydrothermal systems.
Show author(s) (2014). Metagenomic study of a filamentous microbial mat from the Loki´s Castle Vent Field.
Show author(s) (2014). A FIB-TEM study of alteration textures in altered seafloor pillow basalt.

Show author(s) (2013). A natural analogue for CO2 leakage: The release and fate of CO2 at the Jan Mayen vent fields (AMOR).

Popular scientific lecture

Show author(s) (2010). Fe stable isotope fractionation in modern and ancient hydrothermal Fe-Si deposits.

Show author(s) (1997). Microbial activity at the glass-alteration interface in oceanic basalts.

Academic lecture

Show author(s) (2019). Biogeochemical processes in submarine mine tailings and the impact on benthic fauna.

Show author(s) (2017). Microbial and geochemical variation in sediments along the arctic mid-ocean spreading ridge system.
Show author(s) (2017). Geochemical transition zones are hotspots of nitrogen cycling in Arctic marine sediments.
Show author(s) (2017). Biogenicity of Fe-oxyhydroxide filaments in silicified low-temperature hydrothermal deposits.

Show author(s) (2016). Weathering of sulphides at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.
Show author(s) (2016). Mobilization of heavy metals in submarine mine tailings.
Show author(s) (2016). Local environmental controls on microbial Fe(II)-oxidation in seafloor hydrothermal deposits.

Show author(s) (2015). Weathering of Seafloor Massive Sulphide Deposits: Preliminary results from in-situ experiments at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.
Show author(s) (2015). Input and fate of hydrothermal volatiles and trace elements in deep-sea plumes from Arctic vent fields.
Show author(s) (2015). Carbon release through hydrothermal venting at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridges (AMOR).

Show author(s) (2014). Use of metatranscriptomics, amplicon pyrosequencing and thermodynamics to assess how microbial communities are shaped by energy availability.
Show author(s) (2014). The fate of existing submarine tailings in Norwegian fjords.
Show author(s) (2014). The Hugin Fracture.
Show author(s) (2014). Stability of Heavy Metals in Submarine Mine Tailings.
Show author(s) (2014). Microbial communities associated with low-temperature venting barite chimneys in the Loki´s Castle black smoker field.
Show author(s) (2014). Microbial communities associated with low-temparture venting barite chimneys in the Loki´s Castle black smoker field.
Show author(s) (2014). Linking prokaryotes and geochemical parameters in Deep sea marine sediments.
Show author(s) (2014). Geochemical constraints on alteration textures in the upper oceanic crust.
Show author(s) (2014). Energy landscapes shape microbial communities and the distribution of biosignatures in hydrothermal systems on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.
Show author(s) (2014). Correlating abundances of archaeal lineages and geochemical parameters in deep-sea marine sediments.
Show author(s) (2014). Biotic processes in palagonite formation.

Show author(s) (2013). Thermodynamic constraints on the microbial ecology and biogeochemical cycling in deep-sea hydrothermal systems.
Show author(s) (2013). Formation of barite chimneys at low-temperature hydrothermal venting: evidence for complex geobio-interactions.
Show author(s) (2013). Discovery of a 3 km long seafloor fracture system in the Central North Sea.
Show author(s) (2013). Correlating microbial community structure with geochemical data in sediments from the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.
Show author(s) (2013). An experimental study of the formation of H2, CH4 and N-species during low temperature alteration of ultramafic rocks.

Show author(s) (2012). Unraveling the sulfur cycle in the Loki’s Castle vent field. GV and Sediment Meeting, Hamburg, Germany.
Show author(s) (2012). New knowledge on the Jan Mayen Vent Fields from high-resolution seafloor mapping with interferometric synthetic aperture sonar.
Show author(s) (2012). Correlating geochemical data with microbial community structure in highly stratified sediments from the Arctic mid-ocean ridge.
Show author(s) (2012). Archaea in the atmosphere.

Show author(s) (2011). Microbial processes and biomineralisation associated with low-temperature venting and formation of barite chimneys at Loki's Castle hydrothermal field.
Show author(s) (2011). Loki's Castle: A sediment-influenced hydrothermal vent field at the ultra-slow spreading Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.
Show author(s) (2011). Investigations of a unique fauna from hydrothermal vents along the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR).
Show author(s) (2011). Formation of barite chimneys in hydrothermal systems.
Show author(s) (2011). Fe stable isotope fractionation in modern and ancient hydrothermal Fe-Si deposits.
Show author(s) (2011). Diversity of microbial communities of Loki's castle black smoker field at the ultra-slow spreading arctic mid-ocean Ridge.
Show author(s) (2011). Cu-, Zn- and Fe-isotope systematics of low-T hydrothermal Fe-Si deposits.

Show author(s) (2010). The biosphere of deep subsurface environments: present knowledge and outstanding questions.
Show author(s) (2010). Microbial life associated with low-temperature hydrothermal venting and formation of barite chimneys at Loki’s Castle vent field.
Show author(s) (2010). Low-temperature water rock interactions, microbial ecosystems and biomineralization at oceanic spreading ridges.
Show author(s) (2010). Loki’s Castle: Discovery and geology of a black smoker vent field at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.
Show author(s) (2010). Investigations of a novel fauna from hydrothermal vents along the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR).
Show author(s) (2010). Geobiology of hydrothermal vent fields in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea.
Show author(s) (2010). A variety of microbial mats cover the chimney walls of the Loki's Castle hydrothermal field.

Show author(s) (2009). Transition metal isotope fractionation in hydrothermal deposits.
Show author(s) (2009). Microbial population structure in low temperature iron hydroxide deposits at the 71°N hydrothermal vent field the Arctic-Ocean Ridge.
Show author(s) (2009). Microbial involvement in the precipitation of iron in organic mats associated with a neutrophilic spring of Borra caves, Vishakapatanam, India.
Show author(s) (2009). Microbial interactions with low-temperature geochemical processes at the seafloor.
Show author(s) (2009). Microbial communities in the lichen-sandstone interface.
Show author(s) (2009). Microbial Diversity in Deep-Sea Sediments: Influence of Volcanism and Hydrothermal Activity.
Show author(s) (2009). Low-temperature siliceous Fe-deposits at the Jan Mayen hydrothermal fields: formation and processes deduced from architecture, microtexture and geochemistry.
Show author(s) (2009). Low-temperature alteration of dunite and microbial life.
Show author(s) (2009). Geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids and rift valley sediments of the Loki's Castle vent field at the ultra-slow spreading southern Knipovich Ridge.
Show author(s) (2009). Cultivation of iron oxidizing bacteria from the Jan Mayen hydrothermal vent fields.

Show author(s) (2008). Ultra-slow spreading and hydrogen-based deep biosphere: Objectives and preliminary results of the H2DEEP project.
Show author(s) (2008). The deep biosphere; background, news and implications.
Show author(s) (2008). Microbilal life in basaltic ocean crust.
Show author(s) (2008). Microbial influence on the structural design, microtexture and geochemistry of hydrothermal iron-deposits.
Show author(s) (2008). Microbial diversity in low temperature iron deposits at the71°N hydrothermal vent field the Arctic-Ocean Ridge.
Show author(s) (2008). Microbial communities in the lichen-rock interface.
Show author(s) (2008). IODP Drilling of Conjugate North Atlantic Volcanic Rifted Margins, Causes and Implications of Excess Magmatism.
Show author(s) (2008). Bacteriogenic iron oxide precipitation at deep-sea hydrothermal vents: a 1.7 Gya record.
Show author(s) (2008). BGB-02: Geomicrobiology: Low-temperature alteration, mineralization, and microbial interactions.

Show author(s) (2007). Microbial life associated with weathering of ultramafic rocks.
Show author(s) (2007). Diversity of microorganisms associated with low temperature iron mounds at a hydrothermal vent field along the Arctic ridges.

Show author(s) (2006). Distribution and diversity of microorganisms associated with a newly discovered hydrothermal vent field at the Mohns Ridge.

Show author(s) (2005). Two Vent Fields Discovered at the Ultraslow Spreading Arctic Ridge System.
Show author(s) (2005). Microbial life associated with weathering of ultramafic rocks.
Show author(s) (2005). Fluid flow rate, temperature and heat flux at Mohns Ridge vent fields: evidence from isosampler measurements for phase separated hydrothermal circulation along the arctic ridge system.
Show author(s) (2005). Exploring microbial life in the ocean crust.
Show author(s) (2005). Bio-Mediated Fe-deposits associated with a newly discovered vent field at the Mohns Ridge.

Show author(s) (2004). The deep biosphere of the ocean crust: new knowledge from ODP Leg 187.
Show author(s) (2004). Old Ocean crust sustain subsurface microbial Life.
Show author(s) (2004). Microbial communities in seafloor and subseafloor basalts.
Show author(s) (2004). Microbial communities in cold seafloor and sub-seafloor basalt.
Show author(s) (2004). Genome-based investigations of microbial communities in deep ocean crust.
Show author(s) (2004). Exploring microbial life in the ocean crust.
Show author(s) (2004). Experimental dissolution of basaltic glass; effect of pH, oxalic acid and temperature.

Show author(s) (2003). Microbes in cold oceanic crust.

Show author(s) (2002). The significance of bio-interaction with basaltic glass in in-situ oceanic crust and ophiolites.
Show author(s) (2002). Microbial diversity and functioning in the subsurface of artic spreading ridges.

Show author(s) (2001). The deep biosphere and its interaction with the lithosphere.
Show author(s) (2001). Mikroorganismer i havbunnsskorpen.
Show author(s) (2001). Microbial populations in basalt from the ocean crust.
Show author(s) (2001). Microbial diversity in basalt investigated by 16S rDNA and culturing methods. Scientific results, ODP Leg 187.
Show author(s) (2001). Microbes in ocean floor basalt: their association to alteration textures and influence on the geochemical composition of palagonite.
Show author(s) (2001). Microbes in ocean floor basalt.
Show author(s) (2001). Karakterisering av mikrobielle populasjoner fra basalter i havbunnsskorpen.
Show author(s) (2001). Jan Mayen, related to ridge transform-plume or ridge-transform interactions?
Show author(s) (2001). Identifying bio-interaction with basaltic glass in the oceanic crust and implications for estimating the depth of the oceanic biosphere.
Show author(s) (2001). Bio-interaction with basaltic glass and its importance in mapping the depth of the oceanic biosphere.
Show author(s) (2001). Bio-alteration of basaltic glass in the oceanic crust.

Show author(s) (1999). Oceanic basalt, an important deep biosphere.
Show author(s) (1999). Microbial Basalt Weathering.
Show author(s) (1999). Biodegradation of basat in the upper oceanic crust.

Show author(s) (1998). Microbial degradation of basaltic glass in the oceanic crust.
Show author(s) (1998). Evidence for microbial activity at the glass-alteration interface in oceanic basalt.

Show author(s) (1997). Microbial alteration of basaltic glass in the upper oceanic crust.
Show author(s) (1997). Microbial alteration of basaltic glass in the upper oceanic crust.
Show author(s) (1997). Microbial alteration of basaltic glass in the upper oceanic crust.

Show author(s) (1996). Microbial Alterations of the Oceanic Crust.
Show author(s) (1996). Microbial Alterations of the Oceanic Crust.
Show author(s) (1996). Microbial Alterations of the Oceanic Crust.

Show author(s) (1994). Microbial activity in the alternation of basaltic glass.

Show author(s) (1992). Microbiological activity in the alteration of volcanic glass from Surtsey, Iceland.
Show author(s) (1992). Microbiological activity in the alteration of some Icelandic hyaloclastites. Abstracts.

Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Show author(s) (2015). Shallow Water Venting on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge: the Seven Sisters Hydrothermal System, Mineral Resources in a Sustainable World, Proceedings of the 13th Biennial SGA Meeting. Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, University of Nancy.

Show author(s) (2001). Sikring av Bergkunst - Forvitringsfaktorer og bevaringstiltak. Universitetet i Bergen.

Research groups

Geochemistry & Geobiology