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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

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Earth Science

D-Index
66
Citations
16107
World Ranking
1313
National Ranking
82

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Gordon Southam is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with significant contributions in subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Mechanics of Materials.

Southam's work encompasses several main research topics that involve:

  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Metal Extraction and Bioleaching
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Their recent papers include:

  • Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Review on metal extraction technologies suitable for critical metal recovery from mining and processing wastes, 2022, Minerals Engineering
  • Accelerating Mineral Carbonation in Ultramafic Mine Tailings via Direct CO2 Reaction and Heap Leaching with Potential for Base Metal Enrichment and Recovery, 2020, Economic Geology
  • A widely distributed hydrogenase oxidises atmospheric H2 during bacterial growth, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Chemodiversity of Dissolved Organic Matter and Its Molecular Changes Driven by Rhizosphere Activities in Fe Ore Tailings Undergoing Eco-Engineered Pedogenesis, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Southam include:

  • Emma J. Gagen
  • Alan Levett
  • David Paterson
  • Songlin Wu
  • Longbin Huang

Southam has published extensively in a variety of venues, with the most frequent including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Minerals Engineering
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

Best Publications

  • Electrical Transport Along Bacterial Nanowires From Shewanella Oneidensis MR-1

    Mohamed Y. El-Naggar;Greg Wanger;Kar Man Leung;Thomas D. Yuzvinsky

  • Could bacteria have formed the Precambrian banded iron formations

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Tristan Hamade;Rob Raiswell;Richard C. Morris

  • Environmental genomics reveals a single-species ecosystem deep within Earth.

    Dylan Chivian;Eoin L. Brodie;Eric J. Alm;David E. Culley

  • Geomicrobiology of sulfide mineral oxidation

    D. K. Nordstrom;Gordon Southam

  • Mechanisms of Gold Bioaccumulation by Filamentous Cyanobacteria from Gold(III)−Chloride Complex

    Maggy F. Lengke;Bruce Ravel;Michael E. Fleet;Gregory Wanger

  • Morphology of gold nanoparticles synthesized by filamentous cyanobacteria from gold(I)-thiosulfate and gold(III)-chloride complexes

    Maggy F Lengke;Michael E Fleet;Gordon Southam

  • Mechanisms of gold biomineralization in the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans

    Frank Reith;Barbara E Etschmann;Cornelia Grosse;Hugo Moors

  • Carbon Mineralization: From Natural Analogues to Engineered Systems

    Ian M. Power;Anna L. Harrison;Gregory M. Dipple;Siobhan A. Wilson

  • Carbon Dioxide Fixation within Mine Wastes of Ultramafic-Hosted Ore Deposits: Examples from the Clinton Creek and Cassiar Chrysotile Deposits, Canada

    Siobhan Alexandra Wilson;Gregory M Dipple;Ian M Power;James M Thom

  • Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae

    Andy O. Leu;Chen Cai;Simon J. McIlroy;Gordon Southam

  • THE IMPACT OF SEDIMENT FECAL COLIFORM RESERVOIRS ON SEASONAL WATER QUALITY IN OAK CREEK, ARIZONA

    Christine Crabill;Ravin Donald;Julie Snelling;Richard Foust

  • Impact-generated hydrothermal systems on Earth and Mars

    Gordon R. Osinski;Livio L. Tornabene;Neil R. Banerjee;Charles S. Cockell

  • Gold biomineralization by a metallophore from a gold-associated microbe

    Chad W Johnston;Morgan A Wyatt;Xiang Li;Ashraf Ibrahim

  • Bioaccumulation of gold by sulfate-reducing bacteria cultured in the presence of gold(I)-thiosulfate complex

    Maggy Lengke;Gordon Southam

  • The in vitro formation of placer gold by bacteria

    Gordon Southam;Terrance J. Beveridge

  • The Geomicrobiology of Ore Deposits

    G. Southam;James A. Saunders

  • Synthesis of platinum nanoparticles by reaction of filamentous cyanobacteria with platinum(IV)-chloride complex

    Maggy F Lengke;Michael E Fleet;Gordon Southam

  • Desulfotomaculum and Methanobacterium spp. Dominate a 4- to 5-Kilometer-Deep Fault

    Duane P. Moser;Thomas M. Gihring;Fred J. Brockman;James K. Fredrickson

  • Relative contributions of abiotic and biological factors in Fe(II) oxidation in mine drainage

    C.S Kirby;H.M Thomas;G Southam;R Donald

  • A high-resolution chemical and structural study of framboidal pyrite formed within a low-temperature bacterial biofilm

    L. C.W. MacLean;T. Tyliszczak;P. U.P.A. Gilbert;D. Zhou

  • Implications of a 3.472-3.333 Gyr-old subaerial microbial mat from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa for the UV environmental conditions on the early Earth.

    Frances Westall;Cornel E. J. de Ronde;Gordon Southam;Nathalie Grassineau

  • Biologically induced mineralization of dypingite by cyanobacteria from an alkaline wetland near Atlin, British Columbia, Canada.

    Ian M Power;Siobhan A Wilson;James M Thom;Gregory M Dipple

  • LOW TEMPERATURE ANAEROBIC BACTERIAL DIAGENESIS OF FERROUS MONOSULFIDE TO PYRITE

    Ravin Donald;Gordon Southam

  • Enumeration of Thiobacilli within pH-Neutral and Acidic Mine Tailings and Their Role in the Development of Secondary Mineral Soil.

    G. Southam;T. J. Beveridge

Frequent Co-Authors

Siobhan A. Wilson
Siobhan A. Wilson University of Alberta
Frank Reith
Frank Reith University of Adelaide
Gregory M. Dipple
Gregory M. Dipple University of British Columbia
Tullis C. Onstott
Tullis C. Onstott Princeton University
Joël Brugger
Joël Brugger Monash University
Terry J. Beveridge
Terry J. Beveridge University of Guelph
Paulo M. Vasconcelos
Paulo M. Vasconcelos University of Queensland
Lisa M. Pratt
Lisa M. Pratt Indiana University
Dave Craw
Dave Craw University of Otago
Frances Westall
Frances Westall Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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