I am a PhD fellow within the ARCHIE project and study sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) and its use as paleoceanographic proxy in the Late Quaternary Southern Ocean. My research connects geosciences (I am working with marine sediments as archive for the past environment) and biosciences (I use sedaDNA as a tool to identify past-living organisms).
My background is in Marine Geosciences and I hold a MSc in this field from the University of Bremen, Germany. I have experience in micropaleontology, paleoenvironment and molecular biology. In the past, I worked on the diversity of plankton communities in oceans and sediments and investigated the remains of coccolithophore communities in surface sediments in the Drake Passage, Southern Ocean (SO).
Short CV
since 2022 PhD fellow at NORCE Climate and Environment, Bergen, Norway
2020-2021 Researcher at University of Bremen, Germany
2015-2018 Master of Science Marine Geosciences at University of Bremen, Germany
2011-2015 Bachelor of Science Geosciences at University of Bremen, Germany
Recent publications
Baumann, K.-H. and Vollmar, N. M.: Coccolithophore response to changes in surface water conditions south of Iceland (ODP Site 984) between 130 and 56 ka, Marine Micropaleontology, 175, 102149, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2022.102149, 2022.
Vollmar, N. M., Baumann, K.-H., Saavedra-Pellitero, M., and Hernández-Almeida, I.: Distribution of coccoliths in surface sediments across the Drake Passage and calcification of Emiliania huxleyi morphotypes, 19, 585–612, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-585-2022, 2022.
Saavedra-Pellitero, M., Baumann, K.-H., Fuertes, M. Á., Schulz, H., Marcon, Y., Vollmar, N. M., Flores, J.-A., and Lamy, F.: Calcification and latitudinal distribution of extant coccolithophores across the Drake Passage during late austral summer 2016, Biogeosciences, 16, 3679–3702, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3679-2019, 2019.
Morard, R., Vollmar, N. M., Greco, M., and Kucera, M.: Unassigned diversity of planktonic foraminifera from environmental sequencing revealed as known but neglected species, PLOS ONE, 14, e0213936, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213936, 2019.
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