(updated 1/2003)
AUTHOR KEY: Undergraduate
student, MS student, PhD
student, Post doc, Faculty
or other senior collaborator
Review / Perspective Articles
Banfield, J.F., Welch, S.A. Edwards, K.J. (1998) Microbes as geochemical agents. Geochemical News, 96, 12-17.
Banfield, J.F. and Marshall, C.R. (2000) Genomics and the Geosciences. Invited perspective, Science, 287, 605-606
Newman D.K and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Geomicrobiology: elucidation of the molecular-scale interactions that underpin biogeochemical systems. Science, 296, 1071- 1077.
Macalady, J. and Banfield J.F. Molecular Geomicrobiology: Genes and Geochemical Cycling. (2002) Frontiers: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in press.
Lower, S.K, Hochella, M.F., and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Nanogeoscience: from the movement of electrons to lithospheric plates. EOS, 83, 53-56.
Banfield, J.F. and Navrotsky A. (2001) Nanocrystals and the environment ? an introduction. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, J.F. Banfield and A. Navrotsky, Eds. Vol. 44, I1-I3.
Banfield, J.F., Moreau,
J.W., Chan, C.S., Welch, S.A., and
Little, B. (2001)
Mineralogical biosignatures and the search for life on Mars. Astrobiology,
1, 447-467.
Taunton, A.E., Welch, S.A., and Banfield, J.F. (2000) Geomicrobiological controls on light rare earth element, Y, and Ba distributions during granite weathering and soil formation. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 303, 30-36.
Banfield, J.F., Welch, S.A., Zhang, H., Ebert, T.T., and Penn, R.L. (2000) The role of aggregation in crystal growth and transformations in nanophase FeOOH biomineralization products. Science, 289, 751-754.
Labrenz, M., Druschel, G.K., Thomsen-Ebert, T., Gilbert, B., Welch, S.A., Kemner, K., Logan, G.A., Summons, R., De Stasio, G., Bond, P.L., Lai, B., Kelley, S.D. and Banfield, J.F. (2000) Formation of sphalerite (ZnS) deposits in natural biofilms of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Science, in press.
Gihring T.M., Druschel G.K., McKlesky, B., Hamers, R.J., and Banfield, J.F. (2001) Rapid arsenite oxidation by Thermus aquaticus and Thermus thermophilus: Field and laboratory implications. Environmental Science and Technology 35; 3857-3862
Gihring, T.M. and Banfield, J.F. (2001) Arsenite oxidation and arsenate respiration by a new Thermus isolate, FEMS Microbiology Letters, 204, 335-340.
Suzuki, Y., Kelly, S. Kemner, K., and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Nanometer-scale UO2 bioremediation products. Nature, 419, 134.
Druschel, G.K., Labrenz, M., Thomsen-Ebert, T., Fowle, D.A. and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Biogenic Precipitation of Monomineralic Nanocrystalline Sulfides: Implications of Observed and Modeled Processes to Ore Deposition. Economic Geology, 97, 1319-1329.
Nesterova, M., Moreau, J., and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Model biomimetic studies of templated growth and assembly of nanocrystalline FeOOH. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, in press.
Y. Suzuki, S.D. Kelly, K.M. Kemner, J.F. Banfield (2003) Microbial Populations Stimulated for U(VI) Reduction in Uranium Mine Sediment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, in press.
Gihring, T.M., Bond, P.L., Peters, S., and Banfield, J.F. (2003) Arsenic resistance in the Archaeon Ferroplasma acidarmanus: new insights into structure and evolution of arsenic genes. Extremophiles, in press.
Acid Mine Drainage
Edwards, K.J., Schrenk, M.O., Hamers, R.J., and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Microbial Oxidation of Pyrite: Experiments using Microorganisms from an Extreme Acidic Environment. American Mineralogist, 83, 1444-1453.
Schrenk, M.O., Edwards, K.J., Goodman, R.M., Hamers, R.J. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Distribution of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans and Leptospirillum ferrooxidans: implications for generation of acid mine drainage. Science, 279, 1519-1522.
Edwards, K.J., Goebel, B., Rodgers, T. M., Schrenk, M.O., Cardona, M.M., Gihring, T.M., Hu, B., McGuire, M., N. R. Pace, Hamers, R.J., and Banfield, J.F. (1999) Environmental conditions, microbial populations, and the role of attachment in oxidative dissolution of pyrite at Iron Mt. Invited Paper, Geomicrobiology Journal, 16,155-179.
Edwards, K.J., Gihring, T.M., and Banfield, J.F. (1999) Interdependence of microbial populations and environmental conditions at an extreme acid mine drainage environment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 65, 3627-3632.
Edwards, K.J., Bond, P.L., Druschel G.K., McGuire, M.M., Hu., B., Hamers, R.J., Banfield, J.F. Geochemical and biological aspects of sulfide mineral dissolution: Lessons from Iron Mountain, California. Chemical Geology, 169, 383-397.
Bond, P.L. and Banfield, J.F. (2000) Design and performance of rRNA targeted oligonucleotide probes for in situ detection and phylogenetic identification of microorganisms inhabiting acid mine drainage environments. Microbial Ecology, in press.
Bond, P.L.., Druschel, G.K., and Banfield J.F. (2000) Comparison of acid mine drainage microbial communities in physically and geochemically distinct ecosystems. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66, in press.
McGuire, M.M., Edwards, K.J., Banfield, J.F., Hamers, R.J. (2001) Kinetics, Surface Chemistry, and Structural Evolution of Microbially Mediated Sulfide Mineral Dissolution. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, 65 57-72.
Edwards, K.J, Bond, P.L., Gihring, T.M., and Banfield, J.F. (2000) An achaeal iron-oxidizing acidophile important in acid mine drainage. Science, 287, 1796-1798.
Edwards, K.J., Bond, P.L. and Banfield, J.F. (2000) Characteristics of attachment and growth of Thiobacillus caldus on sulfide minerals. Environmental Microbiology, 2, 324-332.
Bond, P.L.,Smriga, S.P., Banfield, J.F. (2000) Phylogeny of microorganisms populating a thick, subaerial ,lithotrophic biofilm at an extreme acid mine drainage site. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66, 3842-3849
Bond, P.L. and Banfield, J.F. (2001) Design and performance of rRNA targeted oligonucleotide probes for in situ detection and phylogenetic identification of microorganisms inhabiting acid mine drainage environments. Microbial Ecology, 41: 149-161.
Edwards, K.J., Hu., B., Hamers, R.J., Banfield, J.F. (2001) A new look at microbial leaching patterns on sulfide minerals, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 34, 197-206
Mcguire, M., Banfield, J.F., and Hamers, R.J. (2001) Quantitative determination of elemental sulfur at the arsenopyrite surface after oxidation by ferric iron: mechanistic implications, Geochemical Transactions 4, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1039/b104111h
Baker, B.J. and Banfield, J.F. (2003) Microbial communities associated with acid mine drainage. FEMS Microbiology Rev., in press.
Geomicrobiology and mineral weathering
Barker, W. W. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Zones of chemical and physical interaction at interfaces between microbial communities and minerals. Geomicrobiology Journal, 15, 223-244.
Barker, W.W., Welch, S.A., and Banfield, J.F.(1998) Experimental observations on the effects of microorganisms on silicate weathering. American Mineralogist, 83, 1551-1563.
Banfield, J.F. and Barker, W.W. (1998) Low-temperature alteration in tuffs from Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Clays and Clay Minerals, 46, 27-37.
Janney, D.E. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Cation ordering in oxidized olivine. American Mineralogist, 83, 799-810.
Kogure, T. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Direct identification of the six polytypes of chlorite characterized by semi-random stacking. American Mineralogist, 83, 925-930.
Banfield, J.F. and Murakami, T. (1998) Atomic-resolution transmission electron microscope evidence for the mechanism by which chlorite weathers to 1:1 semi-regular chlorite-vermiculite. American Mineralogist, 83, 348-357
Welch, S.A., Barker, W.W.,and Banfield, J.F. (1999) Microbial extracellular polysaccharides and plagioclase dissolution. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 63, 1405-1420.
Taunton, A.E., Welch, S.A., and Banfield (2000) J.F Microbial controls on phosphate and lanthanide distributions during granite weathering. Chemical Geology, invited paper, 169, 371-382.
Yokoyama, T. and Banfield, J.F. (1999) Dissolution rate and weathering of porous rhyolites from Izu-Kozu Island, Japan. Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface, H. Armannsson Ed, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. 407-410.
Barker, W.W. and Banfield, J.F. (1999) Evaluation of ALH84001 for evidence of physiochemically or biologically mediated pyroxene weathering. NSF Antarctic Research Journal, 7p.
Banfield, J.F., Barker, W.W., Welch, S.A., Taunton, A. (1999) Biological impact on mineral dissolution -- application of the lichen model to understanding mineral weathering in the rhizosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 96: 3404-3411
Banfield, J.F., Welch, S.A., Taunton, A.E., Santelli, C.M. and Barker, W.W. (1999) Exploring microbial controls on mineral weathering. Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface, H. Armannsson Ed, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 353-356.
Banfield, J.F. and Welch, S.A. (2000) Microbial controls on the mineralogy of the environment. In: Environmental Mineralogy (D. Vaughan Ed.) European Mineralogy Association, 173-196.
Santelli, C.M., Welch, S.A., and Banfield, J.F. (2001) The effect of Fe-oxidizing bacteria on Fe-silicate mineral dissolution rates. Chemical Geology, 180, 99-115.
De Stasio, G., Gilbert, B., Frazer, B.H., Nealson, K.H., Conrad, P.G., Livi, V. Labrenz, M. and J. F. Banfield (2001) The Multidisciplinarity of Spectromicroscopy: from Geomicrobiology to Archaeology, Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 114: 997-1003.
Welch, S.A., and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Modification of olivine surface morphology and reactivity by microbial activity during chemical weathering, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66, 213-221.
Welch, S.A., Taunton, A.E., and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Effect of microorganisms and microbial metabolites on apatite dissolution. Geomicrobiology Journal, 19, 343-367.
Yokoyama T. and Banfield, J.F. (2002) Direct determinations of the rates of rhyolite dissolution and clay formation over 52,000 years and comparison with laboratory measurements. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66,15 pp. 2665-2681
Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Phase stability in the nanocrystalline TiO2 system "Phase Transformations and Systems Driven Far From Equilibrium", Eds. E. Ma, P. Bellon, M. Atzmon, R. Trivedi, MRS, 619-624
Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Thermodynamic analysis of phase stability in nanocrystalline titania. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 8, 2073-2076.
Penn, R.L. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Imperfect oriented attachment: a mechanism for dislocation generation in defect-free nanocrystals. Science, 281, 969-971.
Penn, R.L. and Banfield, J.F. (1998) Oriented attachment and growth, twinning, polytypism, and formation of metastable phases: insights from nanocrystalline TiO2. American Mineralogist, 83, 1077-1082.
Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F. (1999) A new kinetic model for the anatase-to-rutile phase transformation in nanocrystalline material revealing a second order dependence on the number of particles. American Mineralogist, 84, 528-535.
Penn, R.L., Banfield, J.F., and Kerrick, D.M. (1999) TEM investigation of Lewiston, Idaho Fibrolite: Implications for grain boundary energetics and Al2SiO5 phase relations. American Mineralogist, 84, 152-159.
Penn, R.L. and Banfield, J.F. (1999) Morphology development and crystal growth in nanocrystalline aggregates under hydrothermal conditions: insights from titania. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 63, 1549-1557.
Zhang, H., Penn, R.L., Hamers, R.J., and Banfield, J.F (1999) Enhanced Adsorption on Surfaces of Nanocrystalline Materials. J. Phys. Chem. B. 103, 4656 -4662.
Penn, R.L. and Banfield, J.F. (1999) Formation of rutile nuclei at anatase {112} twin interfaces and the phase transformation mechanism in nanocrystalline titania, American Mineralogist, 84, 871- 876.
Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F. (2000) Phase transformation of nanocrystalline anatase-to-rutile via combined interface and surface nucleation. Journal of Materials Research, 15(2), 437-448.
Zhang, H. and Banfield, J.F. (2000) Understanding polymorphic phase transformation behavior during growth of nanocrystalline aggregates: insights from TiO2. Journal of Physical Chemistry B., 104, 3481 -3487
Kogure, T. and Banfield J.F.(2000) New insights into chloritization of biotite. American Mineralogist, 85, 1202-1208.
Sitzman, S.D., Banfield, J.F. and Valley, J.W. (2000) Microstructural characterization of two metamorphic magnetites with implications for oxygen isotope distribution. American Mineralogist, 85, 14-21.
Zhang, H., Finnegan, M., and Banfield, J.F. (2001) Preparing single-phase nanocrystalline anatase from amorphous titania with particle sizes tailored by temperature. Nano Letters, 1, 81-86.
Banfield, J.F. and Zhang, H. (2001) Nanocrystals in the Environment. In: Nanocrystals and The Environment. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, J.F. Banfield and A. Navrotsky, Eds. Vol. 44, 1-59.
Ranade, M. R. Navrotsky A., Zhang, H. Banfield, J. F., Elder, S. H., Zaban, A., Borse, P. H., Doran, G. S. and Whitfield, H. J. (2002) Energetics of Nanocrystalline TiO2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 99, 6476-6481.
Zhang, H. and Banfield J.F. (2002) Kinetics of Crystallization and Crystal Growth of Nanocrystalline Anatase in Nanometer-Sized Amorphous Titania. Chemistry of Materials, 14, 4145-4154.
Gilbert, B. , Frazer, B. H. , De Stasio, G., Zhang, H., Huang F., and Banfield J. F. (2003) X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the cubic and hexagonal polytypes of zinc sulfide, Physical Review B, in press.
Crocetti, G. R. Banfield, J. F., Keller, J. Bond, P.L. and Blackall, L.L. (2002) Glycogen Accumulating Organisms in Laboratory-Scale and Full-Scale Activated Sludge Processes. Microbiology, 148, 3353?3364.