DANIEL ALBERT- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL

Marine Sciences Department, CB#3300, 12-7 Venable Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3300
Phone:  919-962-0298     Fax:  919-962-1254     Email:  dan_albert@unc.edu

Title and Role

Co-Investigator – Responsible for studies of the fermentation of glycogen to organic acids in cyanobacterial mats under dark, anoxic conditions.  Also responsible for studying the fate of these fermentation products within the mat (consumption by heterotrophs, uptake by the cyanobacteria themselves etc.).

Related Experience Summary

20 years experience studying anoxic biogeochemical processes

Employment History

07/2001 to Present, Research Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina
09/1985 to 07/2001, Research Associate, University of North Carolina

Education

B.A.- Biology, 1978, Albion College
M.S.P.H.- Environmental Chemistry and Biology, 1981, University of North Carolina
Ph.D. - Environmental Chemistry and Biology, 1986, University of North Carolina

Professional Societies

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
American Society of Microbiology
The Geochemical Society

Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1980-1983

Selected Relevant Publications

Hoehler, T. M., M. J. Alperin, D. B. Albert and C. S. Martens. 2001. Apparent minimum free energy requirements for methanogenic Archaea and sulfate-reducing bacteria in an anoxic marine sediment.  FEMS Microbiology Ecology 38: 22-41.

Hoehler, T. M., D. B. Albert, M. J. Alperin and C. S. Martens. 1999. Acetogenesis from CO2 in an anoxic marine sediment.  Limnol. Oceanogr. 44: 662-667.

Albert, D. B., C. S. Martens and M. J. Alperin. 1998. Biogeochemical processes controlling methane in gassy coastal sediments 2.  Groundwater flow control of acoustic turbidity in Eckernförde Bay sediments.  Continental Shelf Res. 18: 1771-1793.

Hoehler, T. M., M. J. Alperin, D. B. Albert and C. S. Martens. 1998.  Thermodynamic control on hydrogen concentrations in anoxic marine sediments.  Geoch. Cosmochim. Acta 62: 1745-1756.

Albert, D. B., and C. S. Martens. 1997. Determination of low molecular weight organic acid concentrations in seawater and porewater samples via HPLC. Marine Chemistry 56: 27-37.

Albert, D. B., C. Taylor, and C. S. Martens. 1995.  Sulfate reduction rates and low molecular weight fatty acid concentrations in the water column and surficial sediments of the Black Sea. Deep Sea Research I 42: 1239-1260.

Martens, C. S., D. B. Albert, and M. J. Alperin. 1999. Stable isotope tracing of anaerobic methane oxidation in the gassy sediments of Eckernförde Bay, German Baltic Sea.  Amer J. Sci. 299:589-610.

Alperin, M.J., C. S. Martens, D. B. Albert, I.B. Suayah, L. K. Benninger, N. E. Blair and R. A. Jahnke. 1999. Benthic Fluxes and porewater concentration profiles of dissolved organic carbon in sediments from the North Carolina continental slope.  Geochim. Cosmochim Acta 63: 427-448.

Megonigal, J. P., S. C. Whalen, D. T. Tissue, B. D. Bovard, D. B. Albert and A. S. Allen. 1999.  A plant-soil-atmosphere microcosm for tracing radiocarbon from photosynthesis through methanogenesis.  Soil Sci. Soc. of America Jour. 63: 665-671.

Martens, C. S., D. B. Albert and M. J. Alperin. 1998 Biogeochemical processes controlling methane in gassy coastal sediments 1.  A model coupling organic matter flux to gas production, oxidation and transport. Continental Shelf Res. 18: 1741-1770.

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