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Member Since 2014
Kurt Konhauser
Professor of Geobiology, University of Alberta
Professional Experience
University of Alberta
Professor of Geobiology
2002 - Present
Education
University of Western Ontario
Doctorate
1993
Honors & Awards
Eunice Newton Foote Medal for Earth-Life Science
Received December 2024
Union Fellow
Received December 2019
Citation
For pioneering research at the intersection of biology and geology, giving us vital new ways to ponder Earth’s past relationships with life.
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Publications
Biogeochemical Behavior of Metals Along Two Permeable Reacti...
November 22, 2019
AGU Abstracts
The Impact of Tidewater Glaciers on Marine Microbial Communities in Canadian Arctic Archipelago Fiords
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
coastal and estuarine biology and biogeochemistry | 19 february 2024
Jenifer Spence, Maya Bhatia, Patrick White, Claire...
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) hosts more than 300 tidewater glaciers (glaciers that terminate in the ocean) which are a significant contributo...
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Secondary metabolites and natural rock substrate alteration as biosignatures in microbe-mineral alterationA Case Study of Lichens-Rock Surfaces interaction in Hasan Beg and Grdmandil mountains, Kurdistan, Iraq
SOILS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: MECHANISMS OF STABILIZATION AND CHANGE III POSTERS
biogeosciences | 15 december 2020
shorish Abdullah, Kamal Kolo, Kurt Konhauser
Lichens can produce significant textural and mineralogical changes in the natural rock substrates they colonize. These alterations are investigated he...
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Photoferrotrophy, deposition of banded iron formations, and methane production in Archean oceans
ASTROBIOGEOCHEMISTRY: MODELLING BIOLOGY AND ITS CO-EVOLUTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT ON EARTH AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EXOPLANETS I (1 HOUR SESSION)
star-planet-planetary system interactions and habitability | 26 june 2019
Katharine Thompson, Raul Martinez, Marc Llirós, Ch...
Primitive photosynthesis could have formed the world's largest iron ore deposits, banded iron formations (BIFs), during the Precambrian eons. BIFs, ho...
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Volunteer Experience
2022 - 2023
Member
College of Fellows International Engagement Committee
2022 - 2022
Member
Biogeosciences Fellows Committee
2020 - 2021
Member
Biogeosciences Fellows Committee
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