Associate Professor of Geology
Contact Information
Office: Leon Johnson Hall #705
Office Phone: (406) 994-7251
Lab: Leon Johnson Hall #721
Lab Phone: (406) 994-7225
Email: skidmore@montana.edu
Office Hours: Spring 2012
Education
B.A., Cambridge University, UK, 1992
M.S., University of Alberta, Canada, 1995
Ph.D., University of Alberta, Canada, 2001
Geomicrobiology Lab
Research Interests
Biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology
Current Graduate Students
Russell Griggs
Terra Spotts
Zach Adam ,co-supervised with Professor Dave Mogk, Earth Sciences
Selected Publications
Skidmore, M., Jungblut, A., Urschel, M. and Junge, K. (in press) Cryospheric Environments in Polar regions (Glaciers and Ice Sheets, Sea Ice and Ice Shelves), in Polar Microbiology: Life in a Deep Freeze, (Eds.) Whyte and Miller. American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington D.C.
Achberger, A.M., Brox, T.I., Skidmore, M.L. and Christner B.C. (2011) Expression and partial characterization of an Ice Binding Protein from a Bacterium Isolated at a Depth of 3,519 Meters in the Vostok Ice Core, Antarctica. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2011.00255
Bakermans, C. and Skidmore, M. (2011b). Microbial Respiration in Ice at Subzero Temperatures (-4 to -33oC). Environmental Microbiology Reports, 3(6), 774-782.
Boyd, E.S. Lange, R.K., Mitchell, A., Havig, J.R., Hamilton, T.L., Lafrenière, M.J., Shock, E.L., Peters, J.W. and Skidmore, M. (2011)Diversity, Abundance, and Potential Activity of Nitrifying and Nitrate Reducing Microbial Assemblages in a Subglacial Ecosystem. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77(14),4778-4787.
Skidmore, M. (2011)Microbial communities in Antarctic subglacial aquatic environments. (SAE) in Exploration and Study of Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments, AGU Geophysical Monograph 192, p. 61-81 (Eds.) Siegert, Bindschadler and Kennicutt. ACU Press, Washington DC.
Bakermans, C. and Skidmore, M. (2011). Microbial Metabolism in Ice and Brine at -5°C Environmental Microbiology, 13(8), 2269–2278.
Davila A.F., Skidmore, M., Fairén, A.G., Cockell, C. and Schulze-Makuch, D. (2010) New priorities in the robotic exploration of Mars: The case for in situ search of extant life. Astrobiology, 10(7),705-710.
Wadham, J.L., Tranter, M., Skidmore, M., Hodson, A.J., Priscu, J., Lyons, W.B., Sharp M., Wynn, P. and Jackson M. (2010) Biogeochemical weathering under ice: size matters Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 24, GB3025, doi:10.1029/2009GB003688.
Boyd, E. Skidmore, M., Mitchell, A., Bakermans, B. and Peters, J. (2010) Methanogenesis in subglacial sediments. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2(5), 685-692.
Skidmore, M., Tranter, M., Tulaczyk, S., and Lanoil, B. (2010) Hydrochemistry of ice stream beds - evaporitic or microbial effects? Hydrological Processes, 24, 517-523
Gaidos, E., Marteinsson, V., Thorsteinsson, T., Johannesson, T., Rafnsson, A.R., Stefansson, A., Glazer, B., Lanoil, B., Skidmore, M., Han, S.K., Miller, M., Rusch, A., and Foo, W. (2009) An oligarchic microbial assemblage in the anoxic bottom waters of a volcanic subglacial lake. ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology. 3, 486-497.
Lanoil, B., Skidmore, M., Priscu, J.C., Han, S.K., Foo, W., Vogel, S.W., Tulaczyk, S., and Engelhardt, H. (2009) Bacteria beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Environmental Microbiology. 11 (3), 609-615.
Christner, B.C., Cai, R., Morris, C.E., McCarter, K.S., Foreman, C.M., Skidmore, M.L., Montross, S.N., Sands, D.C. (2009) Geographic location, season, and precipitation chemistry influence on the abundance and activity of biological ice nucleators in rain and snow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (105), 48, 18854-18859.
Statham, P.J., Skidmore, M.L., and Tranter, M. (2008) Inputs of glacially derived dissolved and colloidal iron to the coastal ocean and implications for primary productivity. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 22, GB3013. doi:10.1029/2007GB003106.
Christner, B., Skidmore, M., Priscu, J., Tranter, M. and Foreman, C. (2008). Bacteria in subglacial environments. p51-71 in Psychrophiles: from biodiversity to biotechnology,(Eds.) Margesin, Schinner, Marx and Gerday. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
