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The Department of The Geophysical Sciences

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The University of Chicago Stable Isotope Ratio facility

***no longer taking in outside runs***

Citations--needs to be updated

Geophysical Sciences



Geophysical Sciences (faculty)
Albert S. Colman--now at Rice
He, B., Olack, G. A., & Colman, A. S. (2012). Pressure baseline correction and high‐precision CO2 clumped‐isotope (∆ 47) measurements in bellows and micro‐volume modes. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 26(24), 2837-2853.
Techtmann, S. M., Lebedinsky, A. V., Colman, A. S., Sokolova, T. G., Woyke, T., Goodwin, L., & Robb, F. T. (2012). Evidence for horizontal gene transfer of anaerobic carbon monoxide dehydrogenases. Frontiers in microbiology, 3.
Voelker, A. H., & Colman, A. (2012). Oxygen and deuterium stable isotope signals in Northeast Atlantic waters. Goldschmidt Abstract
Pfister, C. A., McCoy, S. J., Wootton, J. T., Martin, P. A., Colman, A. S., & Archer, D. (2011). Rapid environmental change over the past decade revealed by isotopic analysis of the California mussel in the Northeast Pacific. PloS one, 6(10), e25766.
Techtmann, S. M., Colman, A. S., Murphy, M. B., Schackwitz, W. S., Goodwin, L. A., & Robb, F. T. (2011). Regulation of multiple carbon monoxide consumption pathways in anaerobic bacteria. Frontiers in microbiology, 2.
Techtmann, S. M., Colman, A. S., & Robb, F. T. (2009). ‘That which does not kill us only makes us stronger’: the role of carbon monoxide in thermophilic microbial consortia. Environmental microbiology, 11(5), 1027-1037.
Mohamed, NM, AS Colman, Y Tal, RT Hill  (2008).  Diversity and expression of nitrogen fixation genes in bacterial symbionts of marine sponges.  Envir. Microbiology, in press.
Colman, AS, SM Techtmann, FT Robb (2008).  Carbon monoxide and the chemolithoautotrophic potential of Early Earth and Mars.  For submission to Geophysical Research Letters, in preparation.
Terwilliger, V.J.,  Z. Eshetu, A.S. Colman,  T. Bekele,  A. Gezahgne, and M.L. Fogel (2008)  Reconstructing palaeoclimate and land use from δ13C and δ15N values of soil organic matter: a test using arid and wetter elevation transects in Ethiopia. In review, Geoderma.. 
Colman, A.S., R.E. Blake, D.M. Karl, R.W. Wildman, B.P. Colman, and M.L. Fogel (2008)  Method for measuring the oxygen isotope composition of phosphate in seawater, fresh water, and waste water treatment plant effluent.  For submission to Analytical Chemistry, in preparation.
Wiedemann-Bidlack, F.B., A.S. Colman, and M.L. Fogel (2008).  Stable isotope analyses of phosphate oxygen from biological apatite: a new technique for microsampling, microprecipitation of Ag3PO4, and removal of organic contamination.  Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom., 22, 1807-1816.
Reid, I.N., W.B. Sparks, S. Lubow, M. McGrath, M. Livio, J. Valenti, K.R. Sowers, H.D. Shukla, S. MacAuley, T. Miller, R. Suvanasuthi, R. Belas, A. Colman , F.T. Robb, P. DasSarma, J.A. Müller, J.A. Coker, R. Cavicchioli, F. Chen & S. DasSarma. (2006) Terrestrial models for extraterrestrial life: methanogens and halophiles at Martian temperatures, Int. Jour. Astrobiology, 5, 10.1017/S1473550406002916.
Colman, A.S., R.E. Blake, D.M. Karl, M.L. Fogel, and K.K. Turekian (2005).  Marine biogeochemistry as revealed through the oxygen isotope composition of phosphate.  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 102, 13023-13028.
Colman, A.S. (2002).  The oxygen isotope composition of dissolved inorganic phosphate and the marine phosphorus cycle.  PhD Dissertation, Yale University.
Vennemann, T.W., H.C. Fricke, R.E. Blake, J.R. O'Neil, and A. Colman (2002).  Oxygen isotope analysis of phosphates: a comparison of techniques for analysis of Ag3PO4. Chem. Geol., 185, 321-336.
Colman, A.S. and H.D. Holland  (2000).  The global diagenetic flux of phosphorus from marine sediments to the oceans: redox sensitivity and the control of atmospheric oxygen levels.  in Marine Authigenesis: from Global to Microbial, Eds. C.R. Glenn, J. Lucas, and L. Prévôt-Lucas.  SEPM Spec. Pub. No. 66, pp. 53-75.
Munger, J.W., D.J. Jacob, S.-M. Fan, A.S. Colman, J.E. Dibb  (1999).  Concentrations and snow-atmosphere fluxes of reactive nitrogen at Summit, Greenland.  J. Geophysical Research,104, 13721-13734.
Munger, J.W., S.-M. Fan, P.S. Bakwin, M.L. Goulden, A.H. Goldstein, A.S. Colman, and S.C. Wofsy (1998).  Regional budgets for nitrogen oxides from continental sources: variations of rates for oxidation and deposition with season and distance from source regions.  J. Geophysical Research, 103, 8355-8368.
Colman, A.S., F.T. Mackenzie, and H.D. Holland; reply by P. Van Cappellen and E.D. Ingall  (1997). Redox stabilization of the atmosphere and oceans and marine productivity. Science, 275, 406-408.
Munger, J.W., S.-M. Fan, A.S. Colman, I.R. Mendelson, and D.J. Jacob  (1995).  Eddy correlation measurements of snow-atmosphere exchange of NOy and H2O at Summit, Greenland.  Arctic Research of the U.S.