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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - ASM Award for Environmental Research, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Ronald S. Oremland is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States, focusing on Environmental Science with a particular emphasis on Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, and Ecology. Their research spans multiple interconnected areas, including Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Microbial Bioremediation and Biosurfactants, and Biofuel Production and Bioconversion.

The scientist's recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Methane, arsenic, selenium and the origins of the DMSO reductase family (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • Arsenolipids in Cultured Picocystis Strain ML and Their Occurrence in Biota and Sediment from Mono Lake, California (2020) published in Life
  • Acetylene-Fueled Trichloroethene Reductive Dechlorination in a Groundwater Enrichment Culture (2021) published in mBio
  • Acetylenotrophic and Diazotrophic Bradyrhizobium sp. Strain I71 from TCE-Contaminated Soils (2022) published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Got Selenium? (2020) published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Sara Gushgari-Doyle
  • S. M. Baesman
  • Denise M. Akob
  • John F. Stolz
  • Edina Klein

Regular publication venues for their work include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Life
  • mBio
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology

The core research topics addressed include:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics

Recognition in the scientific community includes the following awards:

  • ASM Award for Environmental Research, American Society for Microbiology (2020)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2015)
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2004)

Ronald S. Oremland's body of work contributes to the understanding of microbial and chemical processes in environmental contexts, with applications spanning pollution mitigation and ecological study.

Best Publications

  • Biogeochemical aspects of atmospheric methane

    Ralph J. Cicerone;Ronald S. Oremland

  • The Ecology of Arsenic

    Ronald S. Oremland;John F. Stolz

  • Arsenic and selenium in microbial metabolism.

    John F. Stolz;Partha Basu;Joanne M. Santini;Ronald S. Oremland

  • Bacterial respiration of arsenic and selenium.

    John F. Stolz;Ronald S. Oremland

  • A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus

    Felisa Wolfe-Simon;Felisa Wolfe-Simon;Jodi Switzer Blum;Thomas R. Kulp;Gwyneth W. Gordon

  • Arsenic, microbes and contaminated aquifers

    Ronald S. Oremland;John F. Stolz

  • Use of “Specific” Inhibitors in Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology

    Ronald S. Oremland;Douglas G. Capone

  • Methanogenesis and sulfate reduction: competitive and noncompetitive substrates in estuarine sediments.

    Ronald S. Oremland;Sandra Polcin

  • Structural and spectral features of selenium nanospheres produced by Se-respiring bacteria.

    Ronald S. Oremland;Mitchell J. Herbel;Jodi Switzer Blum;Sean Langley

  • Mobilization of Arsenite by Dissimilatory Reduction of Adsorbed Arsenate

    Juerg Zobrist;Philip R. Dowdle;James A. Davis;Ronald S. Oremland

  • Selenate Reduction to Elemental Selenium by Anaerobic Bacteria in Sediments and Culture: Biogeochemical Significance of a Novel, Sulfate-Independent Respiration

    Ronald S. Oremland;James T. Hollibaugh;Ann S. Maest;Theresa S. Presser

  • Methane production and simultaneous sulphate reduction in anoxic, salt marsh sediments

    Ronald S. Oremland;Lorraine M. Marsh;Sandra Polcin

  • Anaerobic Oxidation of Arsenite in Mono Lake Water and by a Facultative, Arsenite-Oxidizing Chemoautotroph, Strain MLHE-1

    Ronald S. Oremland;Shelley E. Hoeft;Joanne M. Santini;Nasreen Bano

  • Determination of selenium bioavailability to a benthic bivalve from particulate and solute pathways

    Samuel N. Luoma;Carolyn Johns;Nicholas S. Fisher;Nisan A. Steinberg

  • Sulfate reduction and methanogenesis in marine sediments

    Ronald S. Oremland;Barrie F. Taylor

  • Methylmercury decomposition in sediments and bacterial cultures: involvement of methanogens and sulfate reducers in oxidative demethylation.

    Ronald S. Oremland;Charles W. Culbertson;Michael R. Winfrey

  • Methyl-Mercury Degradation Pathways: A Comparison among Three Mercury-Impacted Ecosystems

    Mark Marvin-Dipasquale;Jennifer Agee;Chad Mcgowan;Ronald S. Oremland

  • Alkalilimnicola ehrlichii sp. nov., a novel, arsenite-oxidizing haloalkaliphilic gammaproteobacterium capable of chemoautotrophic or heterotrophic growth with nitrate or oxygen as the electron acceptor.

    Shelley E. Hoeft;Jodi Switzer Blum;John F. Stolz;F. Robert Tabita

  • Metabolism of reduced methylated sulfur compounds in anaerobic sediments and by a pure culture of an estuarine methanogen.

    Ronald P. Kiene;Ronald S. Oremland;Anthony Catena;Laurence G. Miller

  • Arsenic(III) fuels anoxygenic photosynthesis in hot spring biofilms from Mono Lake, California.

    T. R. Kulp;S. E. Hoeft;M. Asao;M. T. Madigan

  • Isolation, Growth, and Metabolism of an Obligately Anaerobic, Selenate-Respiring Bacterium, Strain SES-3

    Ronald S. Oremland;Jodi Switzer Blum;Charles W. Culbertson;Pieter T. Visscher

Frequent Co-Authors

James T. Hollibaugh
James T. Hollibaugh University of Georgia
Partha Basu
Partha Basu Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Derek R. Lovley
Derek R. Lovley University of Massachusetts Amherst
James E. Cloern
James E. Cloern United States Geological Survey
Douglas G. Capone
Douglas G. Capone University of Southern California
Pieter T. Visscher
Pieter T. Visscher University of Connecticut
Michael R. Rosen
Michael R. Rosen United States Geological Survey
John R. Spear
John R. Spear Colorado School of Mines
Terry J. Beveridge
Terry J. Beveridge University of Guelph
Frank A. Corsetti
Frank A. Corsetti University of Southern California

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