Current Collaborations
Dr. Clara Chan
Principal Investigator, University of Delaware
Dr. Chan and members of her group are collaborators on sulfur cycling research, including an NSF funded project to study elemental sulfur dynamics in biofilms in the Frasassi Cave System, Italy.
Dr. Jan Amend
Principal Investigator, University of Southern California
Dr. Amend and members of his group are collaborators on missing metabolisms and sulfur cycling microbiology research. Heidi Aronson is a co-advised Ph.D. student.
Dr. William Burgos
Principal Investigator, Penn State University
Dr. Burgos and members of his group are collaborators on acid mine drainage research in Appalachia and the Iberian Pyrite Belt. Co-advised students include Lance Larson and Diana Ayala-Muñoz.
Ian Cheney
Film Director, Wicked Delicate
Ian Cheney is an Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker. His full-length feature documentaries include King Corn (2007), The Greening of Southie (2008), The City Dark (2011), The Search for General Tso (2014), Bluespace (2015), The Most Unknown (2018), The Emoji Story (2019), Thirteen Ways (2019), Picture a Scientist (2020) and The Long Coast (2020).
Dr. Julie Cosmidis
Principal Investigator, Oxford University
Dr. Cosmidis and members of her group are collaborators on sulfur cycling and microbe-mineral interactions research. Claire Webster is a co-advised Ph.D. student.
Dr. Javier Sánchez-España
Senior Scientist, Spanish Geological Survey
Dr. Sánchez España is a geochemist at the Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), where he serves as the Scientific Coordinator of the Department of Ecological Transition Resources. He is an expert on acid mine drainage waters in the Iberian Pyrite Belt.
Carbonate Critical Zone RCN
NSF Research Coordination Network
Collaborative science to understand carbonate-rich Critical Zones https://carbonatecriticalzone.research.ufl.edu
Dr. Alessandro Montanari
Director, Osservatorio Geologico di Coldigioco
Dr. Montanari is a frequent collaborator on projects related to geomicrobiology and karst in the Mediterranean.
Dr. Max Lloyd
Principal Investigator, Penn State University
Dr. Lloyd and his students investigate coal biodegradation using position-specific isotope analyses informed by experiments with pure cultures grown in our lab.
Dr. Diana Ayala-Muñoz
Dr. Ayala-Muñoz is a collaborator studying microbial metabolic networks in extreme acid mine drainage.
