Michalis Charilaou Publishes Paper on Detecting Biogenic Nanomagnetism in Lake Sediments

The authors used spectroscopic methods and modeling to detect nanomagnetic biogenic signals in the sediments of Lake Constance, Germany. These signals stem from fossils of magnetotactic bacteria, and there is a strong correlation between the presence of bio-magnetism and redox conditions. This study sheds light on past microbiological activity in response to redox-changes in a depositional environment, and magnetofossils have great potential to constrain time-resolved microbiological response to redox-changes in geological systems.  The article can be found here.