Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Geobiology of extreme environments including the deep subsurface, hydrothermal systems, ultrabasic/acidic systems, and caves; Compound‐specific isotope organic geochemistry (H,C,S) applied to microbial ecology, biogeochemical cycling in microbe‐rich environments and the sedimentary record of environmental perturbation; Neoproterozoic chemical evolution of the ocean‐atmosphere system during extreme isotope excursions; Carbonate sedimentology, stratigraphy, and geochemistry with an emphasis on microbialite preservation and morphology.
Education/Academic qualification
Geobiology, PhD, California Institute of Technology
… → 2013
Geobiology, MS, California Institute of Technology
… → 2008
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Studies, BA, Washington University St. Louis
… → 2007
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Ediacaran
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Desulfurococcaceae
Medicine & Life Sciences
thermal spring
Earth & Environmental Sciences
sulfate
Earth & Environmental Sciences
lipid
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Sulfur
Medicine & Life Sciences
Chemoautotrophic Growth
Medicine & Life Sciences
fractionation
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Network
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Grants 2015 2022
Biofilms in the Deep Subsurface: Implications for Planetary Habitability
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
9/1/18 → 8/31/20
Project: Research project
biofilm
observatory
mineral
manganese
phylogeny
Biosignature Preservation in Sulfate-Dominated Hypersaline Environments
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
7/1/18 → 6/30/21
Project: Research project
hypersaline environment
sulfate
salt
lake
Mars
Illuminating microbial dark matter with subterranean geomicrobiology
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
11/10/17 → 11/9/22
Project: Research project
Geochemistry
Microbiology
Organism
Isotopes
Metabolism
Biologic and Resource Analog Investigations in Low Light Environments (BRAILLE)
Blue Marble Space, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
8/15/17 → 8/14/20
Project: Research project
cave
resource
lava tube
microbial community
Moon
Lipid Biomarkers of the Deep Subsurface Biosphere
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
6/3/15 → 6/2/20
Project: Research project
biosphere
biomarker
lipid
microbial activity
isotopic composition
Research Output 2006 2019
2
Citations
(Scopus)
The next frontier for planetary and human exploration
Stamenković, V., Beegle, L. W., Zacny, K., Arumugam, D. D., Baglioni, P., Barba, N., Baross, J., Bell, M. S., Bhartia, R., Blank, J. G., Boston, P. J., Breuer, D., Brinckerhoff, W., Burgin, M. S., Cooper, I., Cormarkovic, V., Davila, A., Davis, R. M., Edwards, C., Etiope, G. & 31 others, , Feb 1 2019, In : Nature Astronomy. 3, 2, p. 116-120 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
space exploration
mars
resources
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Dissolved Carbon Dynamics in Meltwaters From the Russell Glacier, Greenland Ice Sheet
Andrews, M. G., Jacobson, A. D., Osburn, M. R. & Flynn, T. M., Sep 1 2018, In : Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 123, 9, p. 2922-2940 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Glaciers
glaciers
Greenland
snowmelt
dissolved inorganic carbon
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Microbial diversity and biomarker analysis of modern freshwater microbialites from Laguna Bacalar, Mexico
Johnson, D. B., Beddows, P. A., Flynn, T. M. & Osburn, M. R., May 1 2018, In : Geobiology. 16, 3, p. 319-337 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
biomarker
Cyanobacteria
cyanobacterium
biomarkers
Mexico
6
Citations
(Scopus)
Pronounced summer warming in northwest Greenland during the Holocene and Last Interglacial
McFarlin, J. M., Axford, Y., Osburn, M. R., Kelly, M. A., Osterberg, E. C. & Farnsworth, L. B., Jun 19 2018, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 25, p. 6357-6362 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Greenland
Ice Cover
Temperature
Ice
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Thioclava electrotropha sp. Nov., a versatile electrode and sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from marine sediments
Chang, R., Bird, L., Barr, C., Osburn, M. R., Wilbanks, E., Nealson, K. & Rowe, A., May 1 2018, In : International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 68, 5, p. 1652-1658 7 p., 002723.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Geologic Sediments
marine sediments
Sulfur
electrodes
marine sediment