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Mark Skidmore
Assistant Professor of Geology
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Contact Information
Office: Traphagen Hall #101-A
Office Phone: (406) 994-7251
Lab: Leon Johnson Hall #721
Lab Phone: (406) 994-7225
Email: skidmore(AT)montana.edu
Education
B.A., Cambridge University, UK, 1992
M.S., University of Alberta, Canada, 1995
Ph.D., University of Alberta, Canada, 2001
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Geomicrobiology
Lab
ESCI 112 Website
Research Interests
Biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology
Postdoctoral Researcher
Brent Christner
Current Graduate Students
Monica Bruckner
Logan Hansen
Scott Montross
Selected Publications
Skidmore, M., Anderson, S. P., Sharp, M.J., Foght, J.M. and Lanoil, B.D. (2005) Comparison of microbial community composition in two subglacial environments reveals a possible role for microbes in chemical weathering processes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71, (11) 6986–6997
Tranter, M., Skidmore, M. and Wadham, J. (2005) Hydrological controls on microbial communities in subglacial environments. Hydrological Processes, 19, 995-998.
Skidmore, M., Sharp M.J., and Tranter, M. (2004). Kinetic isotopic fractionation during carbonate dissolution in laboratory experiments: implications for detection of microbial CO2 signatures using d13C–DIC Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Vol. 68, No. 21, 4309–4317.
Skidmore, M., Foght, J.M. and Sharp, M.J. (2000) Microbial life beneath a high Arctic glacier. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66, (8), 3214-3220.
Skidmore, M. and Sharp, M.J. (1999) Drainage system behaviour of a high Arctic polythermal glacier. Annals of Glaciology, 28, 209-215.
Gaidos E., Lanoil, B., Thorsteinsson T., Graham A., Skidmore, M., Han S-K, Rust T. and Popp B. (2004). A viable microbial community in a subglacial volcanic crater lake, Iceland. Astrobiology. Vol. 4, (3), 327-324.
Sharp, M.J., Creaser, R. and Skidmore, M. (2002) Controls on the strontium isotope composition of runoff from a glacierised carbonate terrain. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66, (4), 595-614
Sharp, M.J., Skidmore, M. and Nienow, P. (2002) Seasonal and spatial variations in the chemistry of a High Arctic supraglacial snow cover. Journal of Glaciology 48, (160), 149-158.
Sharp, M.J., Tranter, M., Brown, G.H. and Skidmore, M. (1995) Rates of chemical denudation and CO2 drawdown in a glacier-covered alpine catchment. Geology, 23, 61-64.
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