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Faculty
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Mark Skidmore
Assistant Professor of Geology
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Contact Information
Office: Traphagen Hall
#222
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
Current Graduate Students
Scott
Montross
Caitlyn
Florentine
Matt Urschel, co-supervised with Professor Gill Geesey, Microbiology
Selected Publications
Skidmore, M., Tranter, M., Tulaczyk, S., and Lanoil, B. (in press)
Hydrochemistry of ice stream beds - evaporitic or microbial effects?
Hydrological Press.
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.
Gaidos, E., Glazer, B., Harris, D., Heshiki, Z., Jeppsson, N., Miller,
M., Thorteinsson, T., Einarsson, B., Kjartansson, V., Stefansson, A.,
de Camargo, L., Johannesson, T., Roberts, M., Skidmore, M.L., and
Lanoil, B. (2007) A simple sampler for subglacial water bodies. Jornal
of Glaciology. 53 (180) 157-158
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.
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.
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.
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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