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Overview

R. Pamela Reid is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans a broad range of subfields, including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Geophysics.

Their research topics prominently focus on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

Reid's publications have appeared in multiple scientific venues, with a notable frequency in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Geosciences
  • The Depositional Record
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Annual Review of Marine Science

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Reid include:

  • Electrical conductivity as a driver of biological and geological spatial heterogeneity in the Puquios, Salar de Llamara, Atacama Desert, Chile (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • Microbialite Accretion and Growth: Lessons from Shark Bay and the Bahamas (2024, Annual Review of Marine Science)

They have also contributed to studies such as Evaluation of shallow-water carbonates as a seawater zinc isotope archive (2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters), The microbial carbonate factory of Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia (2022, Scientific Reports), and Authigenic clays as precursors to carbonate precipitation in saline lakes of Salar de Llamara, Northern Chile (2022, Communications Earth & Environment).

Key frequent co-authors collaborating with Reid include:

  • Erica P. Suosaari
  • Amanda M. Oehlert
  • Alan M. Piggot
  • Ioan Lascu
  • Álvaro T. Palma

Best Publications

  • Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats

    Christophe Dupraz;R. Pamela Reid;Olivier Braissant;Alan W. Decho

  • The role of microbes in accretion, lamination and early lithification of modern marine stromatolites

    R. P. Reid;P. T. Visscher;A. W. Decho;J. F. Stolz

  • Microbe–mineral interactions: early carbonate precipitation in a hypersaline lake (Eleuthera Island, Bahamas)

    C. Dupraz;P. T. Visscher;L. K. Baumgartner;R. P. Reid

  • Sulfate reducing bacteria in microbial mats: Changing paradigms, new discoveries

    L. K. Baumgartner;R. P. Reid;C. Dupraz;A. W. Decho

  • Microscale observations of sulfate reduction: Correlation of microbial activity with lithified micritic laminae in modern marine stromatolites

    Pieter T. Visscher;R. Pamela Reid;Brad M. Bebout

  • Production and cycling of natural microbial exopolymers (EPS) within a marine stromatolite

    Alan W. Decho;Pieter T. Visscher;R. Pamela Reid

  • Formation of lithified micritic laminae in modern marine stromatolites (Bahamas); the role of sulfur cycling

    Pieter T. Visscher;R. Pamela Reid;Brad M. Bebout;Shelley E. Hoeft

  • Optical remote sensing of benthic habitats and bathymetry in coastal environments at Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas: A comparative spectral classification approach

    Eric M. Louchard;R. Pamela Reid;F. Carol Stephens;Curtiss O. Davis

  • Growth morphologies of modern marine stromatolites: A case study from Highborne Cay, Bahamas

    Miriam S. Andres;R. Pamela Reid

  • Modern marine stromatolites in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas: Uncommonly common

    R. Pamela Reid;Ian G. Macintyre;Kathleen M. Browne;Robert S. Steneck

  • Shark Bay stromatolites: Microfabrics and reinterpretation of origins

    R. Pamela Reid;Noel P. James;Ian G. Macintyre;Christophe P. Dupraz

  • Autoinducers extracted from microbial mats reveal a surprising diversity of N‐acylhomoserine lactones (AHLs) and abundance changes that may relate to diel pH

    Alan W. Decho;Pieter T. Visscher;John L. Ferry;Tomohiro Kawaguchi

  • Microboring Versus Recrystallization: Further Insight into the Micritization Process

    R. Pamela Reid;Ian G. Macintyre

  • Carbonate Recrystallization in Shallow Marine Environments: A Widespread Diagenetic Process Forming Micritized Grains

    R. Pamela Reid;Ian G. Macintyre

  • The role of endolithic cyanobacteria in the formation of lithified laminae in Bahamian stromatolites

    Ian G. Macintyre;Leslie Prufert-Bebout;R. Pamela Reid

  • Bacterially mediated precipitation in marine stromatolites.

    Hans W. Paerl;Timothy F. Steppe;R. Pamela Reid

  • New multi-scale perspectives on the stromatolites of Shark Bay, Western Australia.

    E. P. Suosaari;E. P. Suosaari;R. P. Reid;P. E. Playford;J. S. Foster

  • Molecular and morphological characterization of cyanobacterial diversity in the stromatolites of Highborne Cay, Bahamas.

    Jamie S Foster;Stefan J Green;Steven R Ahrendt;Steven R Ahrendt;Stjepko Golubic

  • Isotopic fingerprints of microbial respiration in aragonite from Bahamian stromatolites

    Miriam S. Andres;Dawn Y. Sumner;R. Pamela Reid;Peter K. Swart

  • Intertidal stromatolites in a fringing Holocene reef complex, Bahamas

    R. Pamela Reid;Kathleen M. Browne

  • Foraminiferal-Algal Nodules from the Eastern Caribbean: Growth History and Implications on the Value of Nodules as Paleoenvironmental Indicators

    R. Pamela Reid;Ian G. Macintyre

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian G. Macintyre
Ian G. Macintyre National Museum of Natural History
Pieter T. Visscher
Pieter T. Visscher University of Connecticut
Alan W. Decho
Alan W. Decho University of South Carolina
David M. Paterson
David M. Paterson University of St Andrews
Jacco C. Kromkamp
Jacco C. Kromkamp Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Gregor P. Eberli
Gregor P. Eberli University of Miami
Robert S. Steneck
Robert S. Steneck University of Maine
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University
Kenneth J. Voss
Kenneth J. Voss University of Miami
Brad M. Bebout
Brad M. Bebout Ames Research Center

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