Research areas
I might consider myself a biogeochemist, a geobiologist, a microbial ecologist, or a variety of other things depending on whom I am talking to. Indeed, my work is multidisciplinary and involves elements of microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, and geology. In the broadest sense, I am interested in understanding the cycling of bioactive elements of the modern earth, and into the distant geological past. I am particularly interested in understanding how the chemistry of the Earth surface has changed through geologic time, and how this changing chemistry might have influenced the nature and structure of ecosystems and the evolution of life. This work takes us to modern environments including marine sediments, anoxic marine basins, and anoxic lakes. Our work also takes us to rocks deposited long ago. In total, we aim to understand how to read the chemical traces preserved in ancient rocks and how these traces can tell us of the nature of ocean and atmospheric chemistry.
We also explore modern microbes to understand how environmental variables like temperature, oxygen content, trace metal availability, or sulfate levels might influence their activity as well as the nature of any metabolic products they might leave behind. In this regard, we have been particularly interested in exploring the factors influencing isotopic fractionation associated with sulfur metabolism. Through this work we have been able to piece together the history of seawater sulfate concentrations and the relationship between sulfate levels and concentrations of atmospheric oxygen.
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The effect of oxygen on process rates and the expression of anammox and denitrification genes in the eastern South Pacific oxygen minimum zone.
/ Dalsgaard, Tage; Stewart, Frank J.
; De Brabandere, Loreto; Thamdrup, Bo
; Revsbech, Niels Peter
; Canfield, Donald Eugene; Bristow, Laura A.
; Ulloa, Osvaldo; Young, Curtis R.; DeLong, Edward F.
2013. Abstract from ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2013, New Orleans, USA.
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Green rust formation controls nutrient availability in a ferruginous water column.
/ Zegeye, Asfaw; Bonneville, Steeve; Benning, Liane G.; Sturm, Arne; Fowle, David A.
; Jones, CarriAyne; Canfield, Donald Eugene
; Ruby, Christian; MacLean, Lachlan C.; Nomosatryo, Sulung
; Crowe, Sean Andrew
; Poulton, Simon W.
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Geology (Boulder)
, Vol. 40, 2013, s. 599-602.
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The Global Oxygen Cycle.
/ Kasting, James F.
; Canfield, Donald Eugene
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Fundamentals of Geobiology. red. / Andrew H. Knoll; Don E. Canfield; Kurt O. Konhauser . Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012. s. 93-104.
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The Global Sulfur Cycle.
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Canfield, Donald Eugene
; Farquhar, James.
Fundamentals of Geobiology. red. / Donald E. Canfield; James Farquhar. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012. s. 49-64.
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Anammox, denitrification and fixed-nitrogen removal in sediments from the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary.
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Crowe, Sean Andrew; Canfield, Donald Eugene
; Mucci, Alfonso; Sundby, Bjorn; Maranger, Roxane.
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Biogeosciences
, Vol. 9, 2012, s. 4309-4321.
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Burgess shale-type biotas were not entirely burrowed away.
/ Gaines, Robert R.; Droser, Mary L.; Orr, Patrick J.; Garson, Daniel
; Hammarlund, Emma
; Qi, Changshi
; Canfield, Donald Eugene
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Geology (Boulder)
, Vol. 40, Nr. 3, 2012, s. 283-286 .
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Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation.
/ Gaines, Robert R.
; Hammarlund, Emma U.
; Hou, Xianguang; Qi, Changshi; Gabbott, Sarah E.; Zhao, Yuanlong; Peng, Jin
; Canfield, Donald Eugene
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National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings
, Vol. 109, 04.2012, s. 5180-5184.
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Reply to Butterfield: Low-sulfate and early cements inhibit decay and promote Burgess Shale-type preservation.
/ Gaines, Robert R.
; Hammarlund, Emma U.
; Hou, Xianguang; Qi, Changshi; Gabbott, Sarah E.; Zhao, Yuanlong; Peng, Jin
; Canfield, Donald Eugene
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National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings
, Vol. 109, Nr. 28, 2012, s. E1902.
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The iron biogeochemical cycle past and present.
/ Raiswell, Robert
; Canfield, Donald Eugene
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Geochemical Perspectives
, Vol. 1, Nr. 1, 2012, s. 1-322.
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Microbial oceanography of anoxic oxygen minimum zones.
/ Ulloa, Osvaldo
; Canfield, Donald E
; DeLong, Edward F; Letelier, Ricardo M; Stewart, Frank J.
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National Academy of Sciences. Proceedings
, Vol. 109, Nr. 40, 2012, s. 15996-6003.
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