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Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology · Ecology

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h-index71
i10-index182
Publications280
Citations18,127

Grants

22 total · 0 active

NSF #1634239

Biogeochemistry of carbon monoxide cycling in hypersaline and arid soil systems: novel insights from newly discovered extremely halophilic CO-oxidizing Euryarchaeota

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2016-07-01 → 2021-06-30
PIs
1

NSF #1146444

Diversity, distribution and significance of aerobic thermophilic CO-oxidizing bacteria

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2012-01-01 → 2016-12-31
PIs
1

NSF #1240168

Collaborative Research: The role of priming in microbial utilization of terrestrially-derived dissolved organic carbon: a proof of concept

Amount
<$100K
Period
2012-09-15 → 2014-08-31
PIs
1

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All Grants

22 total · 0 active

NSF #1634239

Biogeochemistry of carbon monoxide cycling in hypersaline and arid soil systems: novel insights from newly discovered extremely halophilic CO-oxidizing Euryarchaeota

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2016-07-01 → 2021-06-30
PIs
1

NSF #1146444

Diversity, distribution and significance of aerobic thermophilic CO-oxidizing bacteria

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2012-01-01 → 2016-12-31
PIs
1

NSF #1240168

Collaborative Research: The role of priming in microbial utilization of terrestrially-derived dissolved organic carbon: a proof of concept

Amount
<$100K
Period
2012-09-15 → 2014-08-31
PIs
1

NSF #0742056

Microbial Observatories: Kilauea Volcano Observatory for Carbon Monoxide-Oxidizing Bacteria

Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2007-04-30 → 2011-09-30
PIs
1

NSF #0751584

Workshop to Integrate Microbial Biology and the National Ecological Observatory Network, February 14-17, 2008, Baton Rouge, LA.

Amount
—
Period
2008-02-15 → 2010-01-31
PIs
1

NSF #0742053

An ecophysiological analysis of marine facultatively lithotrophic bacteria

Amount
—
Period
2007-04-30 → 2009-08-31
PIs
1

NSF #0749665

Carbon Monoxide Based Ecological Interactions Between Legumes and Their Rhizobial Symbionts

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2007-02-01 → 2009-05-31
PIs
1

NSF #0748070

U.S.-Korea Cooperative Research: Carbon Monoxide as a Substrate for Microbial Maintenance

Amount
—
Period
2007-12-20 → 2008-05-31
PIs
1

NSF #0342779

U.S.-Korea Cooperative Research: Carbon Monoxide as a Substrate for Microbial Maintenance

Amount
—
Period
2004-08-01 → 2008-02-29
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #0451597

Carbon Monoxide Based Ecological Interactions Between Legumes and Their Rhizobial Symbionts

Amount
—
Period
2005-06-01 → 2007-10-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #0348100

Microbial Observatories: Kilauea Volcano Observatory for Carbon Monoxide-Oxidizing Bacteria

Amount
—
Period
2004-10-01 → 2007-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #0425579

An ecophysiological analysis of marine facultatively lithotrophic bacteria

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2004-09-01 → 2007-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #0089900

Plant Controls of Terrestrial Trace Gas Fluxes: Legumes, Microbes, CO and Hydrogen

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
2001-04-01 → 2005-03-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #0085495

LExEn: Role of Atmospheric Trace Gases in Microbial Colonization and Succession on Recent Lava Flows

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2000-10-15 → 2004-09-30
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #9728363

TECO: Carbon Monoxide Consumption by Forest and Agroecosystem Soils

Amount
$300K–$400K
Period
1997-09-01 → 2001-08-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #9528552

The Dynamics and Significance of Carbon Monoxide Exchanges Between Wetlands and the Atmosphere

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
1996-07-01 → 2000-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #9203342

Ecological and Biogeochemical Consequences of Bromoorganics in the Enteropneust, S. Kowalevskyi

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
1992-06-01 → 1996-11-30
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #9107315

Significance and Controls of Methane Oxidation

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
1991-08-01 → 1996-01-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #9203063

Bacteriolytic Activity in the Guts of Deposit Feeders: Distribution, Environmental Influences, and Mechanisms of Differential Susceptibility in Ingested Microbes

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
1992-06-01 → 1994-11-30
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #8700358

REU: Aspects of Polysaccharide and Protein Biogeochemistry: Controls of Polymer Hydrolysis and Metabolism

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
1987-04-01 → 1990-03-31
PIs
2

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #8318383

REU: Collaborative Research: Effects of Sediment Chemistry on Primary Production in Salt Marshes

Amount
$100K–$200K
Period
1984-02-15 → 1988-01-31
PIs
1

Awarded at University of Maine

NSF #8307009

Analytical Facility For Benthic Oceanography Research at TheDarling Center, University of Maine

Amount
<$100K
Period
1983-06-01 → 1984-11-30
PIs
3

Awarded at University of Maine

Recent Public Signals

  1. New paper: Classification of MAGs associated with trace gas metabolism in volcanic soils named following SeqCode rules (Systematic and Applied Microbiology)2025-05-28

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