Phone: (805) 893-2973
E-mail: valentine@geol.ucsb.edu
Office: 2116 Webb Hall
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
General research
interests include the geomicrobiology, geochemistry, and anaerobic microbial
ecology of anoxic marine sediments. Specific research interests include
methane hydrates (biomarkers, psychrophilic methanogenesis, anaerobic methane
oxidation, water column methanotrophy), organic carbon cycling in anoxic
sediments (improved analytical analyses, methane production/consumption, amino
acid oxidation, decomposition of aromatics), hydrogen biogeochemistry
(interspecies hydrogen transfer, global hydrogen cycle), anaerobic microbial
ecology (relation of community structure to metabolic function, metabolic
biomarkers, syntrophy, bioenergetics), and hydrocarbon seep environments
(sulfate reduction, methanogenesis, ethane and propane biogeochemistry,
microbial activity).
EDUCATION:
2000
Ph.D. in Earth System Science, UC Irvine
1998 M.S. in Earth System Science, U.C. Irvine
1996 M.S. in Chemistry, U.C. San Diego
1995 B.S. in Chemistry/Biochemistry, Revelle College, U.C. San
Diego