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Professional Preparation:

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Summa Cum Lauda, B.S. Chemistry 1979
Yale University, New Haven, M.Sc., Geochemistry; Dept. Geology and Atmospheric Sciences 1984; with Robert A. Berner
Yale University, New Haven, Ph.D., Geochemistry; Dept. Geology and Atmospheric Sciences 1988; with Robert A. Berner
NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View Ca, NRC Research Associate, Exobiology, 1988-1991; with Dave Des Marais

Appointments:

1996-present Professor, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark
2005-present Director, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE)
1997-2005 Co-director Danish Center for Earth System Science (DCESS)
1993-1996 BAT 1b scientist, Max Planck for Marine Microbiology, Bremen.
1991-1993 Asst. Prof., Earth and Atm. Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology.

10 selected Publications:

Canfield, D.E. (1998) A new model for Proterozoic ocean chemistry Nature 396: 450-453.

Dalsgaard T., Canfield D.E., Petersen J., Thamdrup, B. Acuña-González. (2003) Anammox is a significant pathway of N2 production in the anoxic water column of Gulfo Dulce, Costa Rica, Nature, 422: 606-608.

Canfield, D. E. Models of oxic respiration, denitrification, and denitrification in zones of coastal upwelling (2006). Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 5753-5765.

Canfield, D.E., Poulton, S.W., Narbonne, G.M. (2007) Late Neoproterozoic deep ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life. Science, 315, 92-95.

Crowe, S.A., Jones, C., Kastev, S., Magen, C., O’Neill, A.H., Sturm, A., Canfield, D.E., Haffner, G.D., Mucci, A., Sundby, B., and Fowle, D.A. (2008) Photoferrotrophs thrive in an Archean ocean analogue. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 15938-15943.

Canfield, D.E., Poulton, S.W., Knoll, A.H., Narbonne, G.M., Ross, G., Goldberg, T., Strauss, H. (2008) Ferrugenous conditions dominated later Neoproterozoic deep water chemistry. Science, 321, 949-952.

Stolper, D.A., Revsbech, N.P., Canfield, D.E. (2010) Aerobic growth at nanomolar oxygen concentrations. PNAS, 107, 18755-18760

Canfield, D.E., Glazer, A.N., Falkowski, P.G. (2010) The evolution and future of Earth's nitrogen cycle. Science, 330, 192-196

Canfield, D.E., Stewart, F.J., Thamdrup, B., De Brabandere, L., Dalsgaard, T., Delaond, E.F., Revsbech, N.P., Ulloa, O. A cryptic sulfur cycle in the oxygen-minimum-zone waters off the Chilean coast. Science, in press.

Poulton, S.W., Fralick, P.W., Canfield, D.E. (2010) Spatial variability in oceanic redox structure 1.8 billion years ago, Nature Geoscience, 3, 486-490.

Selected Honors and Recognition:

2002: elected foreign member of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
2005: ISI Highly-cited researcher, Geosciences
2007: elected Fellow of the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemists
2007: elected National Academy of Sciences of the United States
2007: elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2007)
2008: elected Fellow of the American Association of Microbiologists (AAM)
2010: recipient of Vladimer Vernadsky Award, European Geological Union

Trainees:

Total PhD students trained: 5 (3 in progress); Total Masters students trained: 6: total postdocs trained: 10

Tilknytninger

• Nordisk Center for Jordens Udvikling (NordCEE) - Centerleder

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