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Mark E. Conrad is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research contributions span primarily the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their main research topics cover Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Mark E. Conrad has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Water
  • Journal of Vascular Surgery

Their recent peer-reviewed papers illustrate a range of environmental and geochemical investigations:

  • "Bedrock weathering contributes to subsurface reactive nitrogen and nitrous oxide emissions," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Experimental and theoretical determinations of hydrogen isotopic equilibrium in the system CH4H2H2O from 3 to 200 °C," 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Geochemical, Biological, and Clumped Isotopologue Evidence for Substantial Microbial Methane Production Under Carbon Limitation in Serpentinites of the Samail Ophiolite, Oman," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Shale as a Source of Organic Carbon in Floodplain Sediments of a Mountainous Watershed," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Experimental determination of hydrogen isotope exchange rates between methane and water under hydrothermal conditions," 2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Mark E. Conrad's research endeavors. Frequent co-authors include Markus Bill, Kenneth H. Williams, Patricia Fox, Peter Nico, and Wenming Dong.

Best Publications

  • Deep-sea oil plume enriches indigenous oil-degrading bacteria.

    Terry C. Hazen;Eric A. Dubinsky;Todd Z. DeSantis;Gary L. Andersen

  • Succession of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria in the aftermath of the deepwater horizon oil spill in the gulf of Mexico.

    Eric A Dubinsky;Mark E Conrad;Romy Chakraborty;Markus Bill

  • Subsurface flow paths in a steep, unchanneled catchment

    Suzanne Prestrud Anderson;William E. Dietrich;David R. Montgomery;Raymond Torres

  • Deep‐sea bacteria enriched by oil and dispersant from the Deepwater Horizon spill

    Jacob Bælum;Sharon Borglin;Romy Chakraborty;Julian L. Fortney

  • Variable carbon isotope fractionation expressed by aerobic CH4-oxidizing bacteria

    Alexis S. Templeton;Kung-Hui Chu;Kung-Hui Chu;Lisa Alvarez-Cohen;Mark E. Conrad

  • Identification and characterization of high methane-emitting abandoned oil and gas wells

    Mary Kang;Shanna Christian;Michael Anthony Celia;Denise Leonore Mauzerall

  • Oxygen effects on methane production and oxidation in humid tropical forest soils

    Yit Arn Teh;Yit Arn Teh;Whendee L. Silver;Mark E. Conrad

  • Stable carbon isotope fractionation during enhanced in situ bioremediation of trichloroethene

    Donald L Song;Mark E Conrad;Kent S Sorenson;Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

  • Experimental determination of the sources of otolith carbon and associated isotopic fractionation

    Christopher T Solomon;Peter K Weber;Joseph J Cech;B Lynn Ingram

  • Carbon-Isotope, Diatom, and Pollen Evidence for Late Holocene Salinity Change in a Brackish Marsh in the San Francisco Estuary

    Roger Byrne;B. Lynn Ingram;Scott Starratt;Frances Malamud-Roam

  • Distribution of hydrocarbons released during the 2010 MC252 oil spill in deep offshore waters

    Chelsea Spier;William T. Stringfellow;William T. Stringfellow;Terry C. Hazen;Mark Conrad

  • Approaches to modeling coupled thermal, hydrological, and chemical processes in the drift scale heater test at Yucca Mountain

    E. Sonnenthal;A. Ito;N. Spycher;M. Yui

  • Modern water/rock reactions in Oman hyperalkaline peridotite aquifers and implications for microbial habitability

    Hannah M. Miller;Jürg M. Matter;Jürg M. Matter;Peter Kelemen;Eric T. Ellison

  • Water Table Dynamics and Biogeochemical Cycling in a Shallow, Variably-Saturated Floodplain

    Steven B. Yabusaki;Michael J. Wilkins;Yilin Fang;Kenneth H. Williams

  • Stable isotope and salinity systematics in estuarine waters and carbonates: San Francisco Bay

    B. Lynn Ingram;Mark E. Conrad;James C. Ingle

  • Incomplete Wood–Ljungdahl pathway facilitates one-carbon metabolism in organohalide-respiring Dehalococcoides mccartyi

    Wei Qin Zhuang;Shan Yi;Markus Bill;Vanessa L. Brisson

  • In situ long-term reductive bioimmobilization of Cr(VI) in groundwater using hydrogen release compound

    Boris Faybishenko;Terry C. Hazen;Philip E. Long;Eoin L. Brodie

  • A 2000 yr record of Sacramento–San Joaquin river inflow to San Francisco Bay estuary, California

    B. Lynn Ingram;James C. Ingle;Mark E. Conrad

  • Combined 14C and δ13C Monitoring of in Situ Biodegradation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons

    Mark E. Conrad;Paul F. Daley;Marc L. Fischer;Bob B. Buchanan

  • Gut anatomical properties and microbial functional assembly promote lignocellulose deconstruction and colony subsistence of a wood-feeding beetle.

    Javier A. Ceja-Navarro;Ulas Karaoz;Markus Bill;Zhao Hao

  • Streamflow generation from snowmelt in semi-arid, seasonally snow-covered, forested catchments, Valles Caldera, New Mexico

    Fengjing Liu;Roger C. Bales;Martha H. Conklin;Mark E. Conrad

  • Stable Carbon Isotope Fractionation during Aerobic Biodegradation of Chlorinated Ethenes

    Kung-Hui Chu;Shaily Mahendra;Donald L. Song;Mark E. Conrad

  • Influence of hydrological, biogeochemical and temperature transients on subsurface carbon fluxes in a flood plain environment

    Bhavna Arora;Nicolas F. Spycher;Carl I. Steefel;Sergi Molins

  • Inhibition of microbial sulfate reduction in a flow-through column system by (per)chlorate treatment.

    Anna Engelbrektson;Christopher G. Hubbard;Lauren M. Tom;Aaron Boussina

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Eoin L. Brodie
Eoin L. Brodie Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kenneth H. Williams
Kenneth H. Williams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
John N. Christensen
John N. Christensen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Terry C. Hazen
Terry C. Hazen University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Tetsu K. Tokunaga
Tetsu K. Tokunaga Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Susan S. Hubbard
Susan S. Hubbard Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Carl I. Steefel
Carl I. Steefel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gary L. Andersen
Gary L. Andersen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen University of California, Berkeley

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