Melanie Holland Publications, Abstracts & Talks

Publications (as ME Holland and M Summit):

Shock, EL & ME Holland.  in press.  Geochemical energy sources supporting the subsurface biosphere.  In: The Subsurface Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges, WSD Wilcock, C Cary, E DeLong, DS Kelley, JA Baross, eds.  AGU Press.

Zierenberg, RA & ME Holland.  in press.  Sedimented ridges as a laboratory for exploring the subsurface biosphere.  In: The Subsurface Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges, WSD Wilcock, C Cary, E DeLong, DS Kelley, JA Baross, eds.  AGU Press.

Holland, ME, JA Baross, & JF Holden.  in press.  Illuminating subseafloor ecosystems using microbial tracers.  In: The Subsurface Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges, WSD Wilcock, C Cary, E DeLong, DS Kelley, JA Baross, eds.  AGU Press.

Holland, ME & JA Baross.  2003.  Limits to life in hydrothermal systems.  In: Mass and Energy Transfer in Hydrothermal Systems (Proceedings of the 89th Dahlem Workshop), PE Halbach, V Tunnicliffe, & JR Hein, eds.  Dahlem University Press, Berlin, pp. 235-248.

Tunnicliffe, V, JA Baross, AV Gebruk, O Giere, ME Holland, A Koschinsky,A-L Reysenbach, & TM Shank.  Group report: What are the interactions between biotic processes at vents and physical, chemical, and geological conditions?  In: Mass and Energy Transfer in Hydrothermal Systems (Proceedings of the 89th Dahlem Workshop), PE Halbach, V Tunnicliffe, & JR Hein, eds.  Dahlem University Press, Berlin, pp. 252-270.

Holden, JF, K Takai, M Summit, S Bolton, J Zyskowski, & JA Baross.  2001.  Diversity among three novel groups of hyperthermophilic deep-sea Thermococcus species from three sites in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.  FEMS Microbiol. Ecol.  36:51-60.

Summit, M & JA Baross.  2001.  A novel microbial habitat in the mid-ocean ridge subseafloor.  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA.  98: 2158-2163.  Also available online:
<http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/98/5/2158>

Summit, M.  2000.  Ecology, Physiology, and Phylogeny of Subseafloor Thermophiles from Mid-Ocean Ridge Environments.  University of Washington PhD Thesis, Seattle, WA.

Summit, M, A Peacock, D Ringelberg, DC White, & JA Baross.  2000.  Phospholipid fatty acid-derived microbial biomass and community dynamics in hot, hydrothermally influenced sediments from Middle Valley, Juan De Fuca Ridge. In Zierenberg, RA, Y Fouquet, DJ Miller, and WR Normark (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 169, 1-19 [CD-ROM]. Available from: Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77845-9547, USA.  Also available online:
<http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/169_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/SR169_03.PDF>

Cragg, BA, M Summit, & RJ Parkes.  2000.  Bacterial profiles in a sulfide mound (Site 1035) and an area of active fluid venting (Site 1036) in hot hydrothermal sediments from Middle Valley (northwest Pacific). In Zierenberg, RA, Y Fouquet, DJ Miller, and WR Normark (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 169, 1-18 [CD-ROM]. Available from: Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77845-9547, USA.  Also available online:
<http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/169_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/SR169_02.PDF>

Summit, M & JA Baross.  1998.  Thermophilic subseafloor microorganisms from the 1996 North Gorda Ridge eruption.  Deep-Sea Research, Part II  45:2751-2766.

Summit, M, B Scott, KB Nielson, E Mathur & JA Baross.  1998.  Pressure stabilization of DNA polymerase from three thermophilic organisms.  Extremophiles  2:339-345.

Delaney, JR, DS Kelley, MD Lilley, DA Butterfield, JA Baross, WSD Wilcock, RW Embley, & M Summit.  1998.  The quantum event of oceanic crustal accretion: Impacts of diking at mid-ocean ridges.  Science  281:222-230.

Holden, JF, M Summit & JA Baross.  1998.  Thermophilic and hyperthermophilic microorganisms in 3-30ūC hydrothermal fluids following a deep-sea volcanic eruption.  FEMS Microbiology and Ecology  25(1): 33-41.

Juniper, SK, DF Bird, M Summit, MP Vong, & ET Baker.  1998.  Viral and bacterial dynamics in hydrothermal event plumes over northern Gorda Ridge.  Deep-Sea Research, Part II  45:2739-2749.

 

Recent Abstracts:

Schultheiss, P.J., Holland, M.E., and ODP Leg 204 Shipboard Scientific Party.  2003.  Structure and decomposition of marine gas hydrates recovered at in situ pressures.  European Union of Geophysicists Annual Meeting, Nice, France.

Williams, LB, M Holland & DD Eberl.  2003.  Killer clays! a medicinal application of minerals.  Clay Society of America Annual Meeting, GA.

Holland, ME & EL Shock.  2003.  Calculating the extremes of hydrothermal systems.  American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.

Summit, M & EL Shock.  2002.  Modeling metal speciation in subsurface environments.  Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI.

Summit, M & JA Baross.  2000.  Using microbiology as a tool to explore mid-ocean ridge subseafloor systems.  Geochemical Society Meeting (Goldschmidt), Oxford, UK.

Summit, M & JA Baross.  2000.  Subseafloor microorganisms in mid-ocean ridge environments: evidence & inferences.  RIDGE Subseafloor biosphere RTI, Big Sky, MT.

 

Recent Invited Talks:

"Quantitative Habitability," ASU Departmental Colloquium, 2003.

"Calculating the Extremes of Hydrothermal Systems," American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Annual Meeting, 2003.

"Ocean Floor Hot Springs: Novel Life Beneath the Seabed and Extraterrestrial Implications," Chinese-American Frontiers of Science, 2001.

"Using Culture as a Tool to Investigate Subseafloor Microbial Ecosystems," RIDGE Subseafloor Biosphere RTI, 2000.