Prof. ZHUANG Guangchao
Email: zgc@ouc.edu.cn
Research Foci:
Marine Chemistry, Marine Biogeochemistry, Organic Geochemistry, Geomicrobiology, Biological Oceanography
I am broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and the element cycle (e.g., C, N, S)in different water columns and marine sedimentary settings. My research mainly focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of methane and other low molecular weight compounds in a wide variety of marine environments, including open ocean, coastal waters, estuarine sediments, deep subseafloor biosphere, cold seeps, gas hydrate, hypersaline and hydrothermal ecosystems.
Education
2014. 12 Ph.D. in Organic Geochemistry, University of Bremen, Germany
2010. 07 M.Sc. candidate in Marine Chemistry, with direct admission into Ph.D. program, Ocean University of China
2007. 07 B.S. in Applied Chemistry, Qingdao University of Science and Technology
08. 2019-present Professor, Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry and Technology, MOE, Ocean University of China
01. 2015-08. 2019 Postdoctoral Research Associateat Department of Marine Sciences,University of Georgia
Selected Publications
1.Zhuang, G.-C., Xu, L., Liang, Q., Fan, X., Xia, Z., Joye, S.B., Wang, F., 2019. Biogeochemistry, microbial activity and diversity in surface and subsurface deep-sea sediments of South China Sea, Limnology and Oceanography,64(5),2252-2270.
2.Zhuang, G.-C., Peña-Montenegro, T., Montgomery, A., Montoya, J.P., Joye, S.B., 2019. Significance of acetate as a microbial carbon and energy source in the water column of Gulf of Mexico: implication for marine carbon cycling. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 33(2), 223-235.
3.Zhuang, G.-C., Montgomery, A., Samarkin, V.A., Song, M., Liu, J., Schubotz, F., Teske, A., Hinrichs, K.-U., Joye, S.B., 2019. Generation and utilization of volatile fatty acids and alcohols in hydrothermally altered sediments in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California. Geophysical Research Letters,46(5), 2637-2646.
4.Zhuang, G.-C., Montgomery, A., Joye, S.B., 2019. Heterotrophic metabolism of C1 and C2 low molecular weight compounds in northern Gulf of Mexico sediments: controlling factors and implications for organic carbon degradation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,247, 243-260.
5.Zhuang, G.-C., Peña-Montenegro, T., Nigro, L., Montgomery, A., Joye, S.B., 2018. Microbial metabolism of methanol and methylamine in the northern Gulf of Mexico: insights into marine carbon and nitrogen cycling. Environmental Microbiology, 20(12), 4543-4554.
6.Zhuang, G.-C., Montgomery, A., Sibert, R., Rogener, M.-K., Samarkin, V.A., Joye, S.B., 2018. Effects of pressure, methane concentration, sulfate reduction activity and temperature on methane productionin surface sediments of the Gulf of Mexico.Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5), 2080-2092.
7.Zhuang, G.-C., Heuer, V.B., Lazar, C.S., Goldhammer, T., Samarkin, V.A., Wendt, J., Elvert, M., Joye, S.B., Teske, A.P., Hinrichs, K.-U., 2018. Relative importance of methylotrophic methanogenesis in sediments of the Western Mediterranean Sea.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 224, 171-186.
8.Zhuang, G.-C., Lin, Y.-S., Bowles, M., Heuer, V.B.,Lever, M., Elvert, M., Hinrichs, K.-U., 2017. Distribution and isotopic composition of trimethylamine, dimethylsulfide anddimethylsulfoniopropionate in marine sediments. Marine Chemistry, 196, 35-46.
9.Zhuang, G.-C., Elling,F.J., Nigro, L.M., Samarkin, V.A., Joye, S.B., Teske, A.P., Hinrichs, K.-U., 2016.Multiple evidences for methylotrophic methanogenesis as the dominant methanogenic pathway in hypersaline sediments in hypersaline sediments from the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 187, 1-20.
10.Zhuang, G.-C., Lin, Y.-S., Elvert, M., Heuer, V.B., Hinrichs, K.-U., 2014. Gas chromatographic analysis of methanol and ethanol in marine sediment pore waters: Validation and implementation of three pretreatment techniques.Marine Chemistry, 160, 82-90.
11.Zhuang, G.-C., Yang,G.-P., Yu J.,Gao, Y., 2011. Production of DMS and DMSP in different physiological stages and salinity conditions in two marine algae.Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology, 29(2), 369-377.
12.Yang, G.-P., Zhuang, G.-C., Zhang, H.-H., Dong, Y., Yang, J., 2012. Distribution of DMS and DMSP in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea during spring: spatio-temporal variability and controlling factors. Marine Chemistry, 138, 21-31.
