ALBERT S. COLMAN
University of Chicago
Dept. of the Geophysical Sciences
5734 S. Ellis Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
[email protected]
Phone: 773-834-1278
Fax:
773-702-9505
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
1994
2002
2002-2004
2004-2007
AB
PhD
Postdoc
Postdoc
Harvard College
Yale University
Carnegie Inst. Washington
U. Maryland Biotech. Inst.
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Dept. Geology & Geophysics
Geophysical Laboratory
Center of Marine Biotech.
APPOINTMENTS
2008 - pres.
2004 - 2007
2002 - 2004
1996 - 2002
1996
1994 - 1995
Assistant Professor
Research Associate
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Student; TF
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
U. Chicago
U. Maryland Biotech. Inst.
Carnegie Inst. Washington
Yale University
U. Hawai’i
Harvard University
Dept. Geophysical Sciences
Center of Marine Biotech.
Geophysical Laboratory
Dept. Geology & Geophysics
Dept. Oceanography
Div. Applied Sciences
HONORS AND AWARDS
9/07
3/02-8/04
5/02
5/01
9/00
5/99
9/96-8/99
9/96
6/94
6/94
9/90-6/94
Distinguished Service Award, U. Maryland Biotechnology Inst.
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Geophysical Lab, Carnegie Inst. Washington.
William Ebenezer Ford Prize in mineralogy, Yale University.
Orville Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research, Yale University.
G. Evelyn Hutchinson Graduate Fellow, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies.
Estwing Hammer Award, Yale University.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Yale University.
Bateman Award, Yale University.
Highest Honors on senior thesis, Harvard Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Graduated magna cum laude, Harvard College.
Harvard College National Scholar.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research
Associate
University of Maryland, Center of Marine Biotechnology
Dr. Frank Robb.
Biogeochemistry of hot springs in Kamchatka, Russia.
9/04-2007
Postdoctoral
Fellow
Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory
Dr. Marilyn Fogel.
Stable isotope biogeochemistry and astrobiology.
4/02-9/04
Doctoral
Student
9/96-4/02
Yale University, Dept. of Geology & Geophysics
Dr. Karl Turekian; Dr. Ruth Blake.
Studied transport and biological cycling of phosphate in aquatic environments
using PO4 18O; modeled phosphorus behavior during early diagenesis.
Predoctoral
Fellow
10/99-4/02
Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory
Dr. Marilyn Fogel and Dr. Douglas Rumble.
Developed micro-analysis measurement of PO4 oxygen isotope composition.
FIELD WORK
Oceanographic:
Ocean Flux Program, R/V Atlantic Explorer, AE1409 & AE1421
OFP, Hydro S, BATS; North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre
GEOTRACES Intercalibration Cruise, R/V Knorr Cruise 195-8
Honolulu – San Diego transect; SAFE, SB Basin.
GEOTRACES Intercalibration Cruise, R/V Knorr Cruise 193-6-2
BATS site; transect to Norfolk, VA.
CREST-1, R/V John Dempsey, (Chief Scientist)
Connecticut River Estuary, Long Island Sound.
NATO 2001 Black Sea Expedition, R/V Knorr Cruise 162-17-2.
Black Sea.
BATS 146, R/V Weatherbird II.
BATS site, North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre.
HOT Cruises 70, 71, 72, 73, and 113, R/V Moana Wave &
R/V Ka'Imikai-O-Kanaloa.
Station ALOHA, North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
ALOHA-CLIMAX 1 Transect, R/V Moana Wave.
North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
SANTA CLAS, R/V Polar Duke Cruise 94-12.
Antarctic Peninsula, Drake Passage
4/14, 10/14,
4/16
5/09
6/087/08
9/02
6/01
11/00
3/966/96,
3/00
7/96
12/94
Terrestrial & Cryospheric Field Work:
Kamchatka Microbial Observatory, Uzon Caldera, Russia.
Lassen Volcanic National Park, California.
Connecticut River and Long Island Sound time-series.
Summit, Greenland (GISP2 site). Atmospheric chemistry.
Manitoba, Canada. BOREAS. Atmospheric chemistry.
Harvard Forest (LTER site). Atmospheric chemistry.
8/05-9/05, 8/07, 8/10
7/09
2001-2002
6/94-7/94,
7/95-8/95
2/95
1990-1993
REVIEWER AND COMMITTEES
Journals & Refereed Books:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Geochimica et Cosmochimica
Acta, Science, Chemical Geology, Limnology & Oceanography, Marine Geology,
Frontiers in Microbiology, Environmental Science & Technology, American Journal
of Science, Estuarine Coastal & Shelf Science, Continental Shelf Research, Marine
Chemistry, Applied Geochemistry, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry,
SEPM Special Publications, Scientists on GAIA 2, Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences,
Biogeochemistry of Dissolved Organic Carbon
Funding Agencies:
NSF
NASA
National Environment Research Council (UK)
Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society
Council for Earth and Life Sciences (ALW of the NWO, The Netherlands)
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Review Panels:
NSF Chemical Oceanography
NSF Oceanography Career Awards
NASA Mars Fundamental Research Program
NASA Exobiology
Committees:
Organized and chaired sessions for AGU, GSA, Goldschmidt
NASA Mars Sample Return Science Steering Group II
NASA Microbial Systems Exploration Initiative
Mars Science Lab Mission – Sample Analysis at Mars Calibration Peer Review
Goldschmidt 2016 – Theme Coordinator for Biogeochemistry
Goldschmidt 2016 – Selection Committee for Inaugural Endowed Lecture in
Biogeochemistry
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Society for Limnology and Oceanography
American Society for Microbiology
American Geophysical Union
Geochemical Society
Geological Society of America
PUBLIC OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
Futurefarmers (New Media Studio)
San Francisco, CA
2002-present
Scientific advisor to various artistic collaborations with M. Swaine and A. Franceschini that
involve perception, art, science, and technology. Installations and event venues have included the
Guggenheim Museum (New York), Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (NY), Museum of
Science and Industry (Chicago), Headlands Center for the Arts (Marin, CA), and the Notebaert
Nature Museum (Chicago).
San Francisco Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
2003-2010
(i) Served as scientific lead on development of extremophile research multimedia web exhibit
(http://www.exploratorium.edu/kamchatka/index.html) which was featured in Science (9/29/06)
and is the recipient (5/07) of a national award from the American Association of Museums.
Continuing to collaborate on developing outreach materials related to Kamchatka and Lassen
Volcanic National Park. (ii) Introduced stable isotope analyses of plant carbon and nitrogen as a
tool for tracing the influence of anthropogenic CO2 and regional nitrogen deposition in the S.F.
Bay Area through public outreach division.
2006-2007
ExPERT
Baltimore, MD
Mentor to Earth Science and Biology teachers in the ExPERT (Extended Professional
Experience in Research for Teachers) program at UMBI. Worked with teachers to
develop inquiry based learning curricula on (a) estuarine mixing and thermohaline
circulation, and (b) halophiles and evaporites.
PUBLICATIONS
In press/accepted
Blake, RE, AV Surkov, LM Stout, H Li, SJ Chang, DP Jaisi, AS Colman, Y Liang (2016, in
press). DNA Thermometry: a Universal Biothermometer in the 18O/16O ratio of PO4 in
DNA. American Journal of Science.
Zeichner, SS, AS Colman, PL Koch, C Polo-Silva, F Galvan-Magana, SL Kim (2016, in press)
Discrimination factors and incorporation rates for organic components in shark teeth based
on a captive feeding study. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.
Published
McCoy, SJ, Pfister CA, Olack G, Colman AS (2016) Diurnal and tidal patterns of carbon uptake
and growth in intertidal coralline algae. Marine Ecology, 37, 553-564.
Colman, AS (2015). Sponge symbionts and the marine P cycle. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 112, 41914192.
Mawji, E, R Schlitzer and 133 others, incl. AS Colman (2015) The GEOTRACES Intermediate
Data Product 2014. Marine Chemistry, 171, 1-8.
Voelker, AHL, AS Colman, G Olack, JJ Waniek, D Hodell (2015) Oxygen and hydrogen isotope
signatures of Northeast Atlantic Water Masses. Deep Sea Research II, Topical Studies in
Oceanography, 116, 89-106.
He, B, GA Olack, AS Colman (2012) Pressure baseline correction and high-precision CO2
clumped isotope (Δ47) measurements in bellows and micro-volume modes. Rap. Commun.
Mass Spectrom., 26, 2837-2853.
Techtmann SM, AV Lebedinsky, AS Colman, TG Sokolova, T Woyke, L Goodwin, FT Robb
(2012). Evidence for horizontal gene transfer of anaerobic carbon monoxide dehydrogenases.
Frontiers Microbiol., 3, 132-145.
Pfister, CA, SJ McCoy, JT Wootton, PA Martin, AS Colman, D Archer (2011) Rapid
environmental change over the past decade revealed by isotopic analysis of the California
mussel in the northeast Pacific. PLoS One, 6, e25766, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025766.
Techtmann SM, AS Colman, MB Murphy, W Schackwitz, L Goodwin, FT Robb (2011)
Regulation of multiple carbon monoxide consumption pathways in anaerobic bacteria.
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2, 147 (doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00147).
Wu, D, J Raymond, M Wu, S Chatterji, Q Ren, JE Graham, DA Bryant, AS Colman, FT Robb, LJ
Talon, J Badger, R Madupu, NL Ward, JA Eisen (2009) Complete genome sequence of the
CO-oxidizing extreme thermophile, Thermomicrobium roseum. PLoS One, 4(1):e4207.
Techtmann, SM, AS Colman, FT Robb (2009) The role of carbon monoxide in thermophilic
microbial consortia. Envir. Microbiology, 11, 1027-37.
Terwilliger, VJ, Z Eshetu, AS Colman, T Bekele, A Gezahgne, and ML Fogel (2008)
Reconstructing palaeoclimate and land use from δ13C and δ15N values of soil organic matter:
a calibration using arid and wetter elevation transects in Ethiopia. Geoderma, 147, 197–210.
Mohamed, NM, AS Colman, Y Tal, RT Hill (2008) Diversity and expression of nitrogen fixation
genes in bacterial symbionts of marine sponges. Envir. Microbiology,10, 2910-2921.
Wiedemann-Bidlack, FB, AS Colman, and ML 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, 18071816.
Reid, IN, WB Sparks, S Lubow, M McGrath, M Livio, J Valenti, KR Sowers, HD Shukla, S
MacAuley, T Miller, R Suvanasuthi, R Belas, A Colman, FT Robb, P DasSarma, JA Müller,
JA 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, AS, RE Blake, DM Karl, ML Fogel, and KK Turekian (2005) Marine biogeochemistry
as revealed through the oxygen isotope composition of phosphate. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 102,
13023–13028.
Colman, AS (2002) The oxygen isotope composition of dissolved inorganic phosphate and the
marine phosphorus cycle. PhD Dissertation, Yale University.
Vennemann, TW, HC Fricke, RE Blake, JR 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, AS and HD 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. PrévôtLucas. SEPM Spec. Pub. No. 66, pp. 53-75.
Munger, JW, DJ Jacob, S-M Fan, AS Colman, JE Dibb (1999) Concentrations and snowatmosphere fluxes of reactive nitrogen at Summit, Greenland. J. Geophysical Research,104,
13721-13734.
Munger, JW, S-M Fan, PS Bakwin, ML Goulden, AH Goldstein, AS Colman, and SC 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, AS, FT Mackenzie, and HD Holland; reply by P. Van Cappellen and E.D. Ingall (1997).
Redox stabilization of the atmosphere and oceans and marine productivity. Science, 275, 406408.