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WILLIAM M. BERELSON
abqck0@r.postjobfree.com
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740
Updated 7-9-11
PERSONAL
Married: (Meredith Parmelee), 2 children (Nicki, Chaz)
EMPLOYMENT
2008-present Professor, University of Southern California
2004-2008 Associate Professor, University of Southern California
1996-2004 Research Associate Professor, University of Southern California
1988-1995 Research Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
1985-1988 Research Associate of Geochemistry (Post-doc), U.S.C.
EDUCATION
Ph. D. Geological Sciences (Geochemistry), Studies of water column mixing and benthic exchange of nutrients, carbon and radon in the southern California borderland. PhD Dissertation, University of Southern California, 219 pp. 1985.
M.S. Geological Sciences (Sedimentology), Barrier island evolution and its effect on lagoonal sedimentation; Shackleford Banks, Back Sound, and Harkers Island: Cape Lookout National Seashore. M.S. Thesis, Duke University, 227 pp. 1979.
B.A. Geological Sciences, Cum Laude, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y. 1977
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS, ACTIVITIES, HONORS
General Education Teaching Award USC Dornsife College (2011)
Member: NAS-NRC Committee on the Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars
Associate Editor --Reviews of Geophysics (two terms)
N.S.F. Chemical Oceanography Panelist (multiple years)
Member: US-JGOFS Steering Committee (elected to two terms)
Member: NSF advisory group: Biogeosciences
Member: American Geophysical Union, American Society of Limnologists and Oceanographers,
The Oceanography Society
Cited: CSIRO award for Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (numbered)
Submitted or in Review:
Yeungb, L, W. M. Berelson, D. E. Hammond, M. G. Prokopenko, C. Wolfe and N.
Rollins (2011) Air-sea exchange in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific: Evaluation of wind speed parameterizations for biogeochemical applications using upper-ocean radon profiles (Submitted to JGR, March 2011).
Martindalea, R.C., W. M. Berelson, F. A. Corsetti, D. J. Bottjer and A. J. West (2010) Coral reefs constrain CaCO3 chemistry during a potential ocean acidification event (T-J), submitted to EPSL (Dec. 2011).
Published:
Petryshyna, V. A., F. A. Corsetti, W. M. Berelson, W. Beaumont and S. P. Lund (2012)
Stromatolite lamination frequency, Walker Lake, Nevada: Implications for stromatolites as biosignatures. Geology, 40, 499-502. (93)
McManus, J., W. Berelson, S. Severmann, K. S. Johnson, D. E. Hammond, M. Roy and K. H. Coale (2012). Benthic manganese fluxes along the Oregon-California continental shelf and slope. Continental Shelf Research, 43, 71-85. (92)
Mataa, S. A., C. L. Harwood, F. A. Corsetti, N. J. Stork, K. Eilers, W. M. Berelson and J. R. Spear. (2012) Influence of gas production and filament orientation on stromatolite microfabric. Palaios, 27, 206-219. (91)
Greenea, S. E., R. C. Martindalea, K. A. Ritterbusha, D. J. Bottjer, F. A. Corsetti and W. Berelson (2012) Recognising ocean acidification in deep time: An evaluation of the evidence for acidification across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Earth Science Reviews, 113, 72-93. (90)
Homockya, W. B., S. Severmann, J. McManus, W. Berelson, T. Riedel, P. Stratham, R. A. Mills (2012) Dissolved oxygen and suspended particles regulate the benthic flux of iron from continental margin sediments. Marine Chemistry134-135, 59-70. (89)
Pepe-Ranneya, C., W. Berelson, F. Corsetti, M. Treants and J. Spear (2012) Cyanobacterial Construction of Hot Spring Siliceous Stromatolites in Yellowstone National Park. Environmental Microbiology 14(5), 1182-1197. (88)
Loyda, S., W. M. Berelson, T. Lyons, D. E. Hammond and F. A. Corsetti, (2012) Contraining pathways of microbial mediation for carbonate concretions of the Miocene Monterey Formation using carbonate-associated sulfate. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, Vol 78, 77-98. (87)
Chonga, L. E., M. G. Prokopenko, W. M. Berelson, A. Townsend Small and J. McManus (2012) Nitrogen cycling within Suboxic and Anoxic Marine Sediments from the Continental Margin of Western North America. Marine Chemistry, Vols. 128-129, 13-25. (86)
Prokopenko, M. G., D. M. Sigman, W. Berelson, D. E. Hammond, B. Barnett, L. Chong and A. Townsend-Small (2011) Denitrification in anoxic sediments supported by biological nitrate transport, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 7180-7199. (85)
Berelson, W., F. A. Corsetti, C. Pepe-Ranney, D. E. Hammond, W. Beaumont and J. Spear (2011). Hot spring siliceous stromatolites from Yellowstone National Park: Assessing growth rate and laminae formation. Geobiology, 9, 411-424. (84)
Collinsa, L. E., W. M. Berelson, D. E. Hammond, A. Knapp, R. Schwartz and D. Capone (2010) Particle fluxes in San Pedro Basin, California: A four-year record of sedimentation and physical forcing. Deep Sea Research, 58, 898-914 (83).
Berelson, W. (2011) The role of marine biota in the biogeochemical and geological cycles of carbon. (Chapter In: The role of marine biota in biogeochemical cycles, pp. 21-37, C. Duarte, ed., Fundacion BBVA) (82).
Meister, P., C. Reyes, W. Beaumont, M. Rincon, L. Collins, W. Berelson, L. Stott, F. Corsetti and K. Nealson (2011) Calcium and magnesium-limited dolomite precipitation at Deep Springs Lake, CA. Sedimentology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01240. (81)
Lund, S., E. Platzman, N. Thouveny, G. Camoin, F. Corsetti and W. Berelson (2010) Biological control of paleomagnetic remanence acquisition in carbonate framework rocks of the Tahiti coral reef. Earth Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.07.010 (80)
Severmann, S., J. McManus, W. Berelson and D. E. Hammond (2010) The continental shelf benthic iron flux and its isotope composition. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74, 3984-4004 (79)
Salasa, E. C., W. M. Berelson, D. E. Hammond, A. R. Kampf and K. H. Nealson (2010) The impact of bacterial strain on the products of dissimilatory iron reduction Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 574-583. (78)
Salasa, E. C., W. M. Berelson, D. E. Hammond, A. R. Kampf and K. H. Nealson (2009) The influence of carbon source on the products of dissimilatory iron reduction. Geomicrobiology Journal, 26, 451-462. (77)
Johnson, K. S., Berelson, W. M., Boss, E. S., Chase, Z., Claustre, H., Emerson, S. R., Gruber, N., Kortzinger, A., Perry, M. J. and Riser, S. C. (2009), Observing biogeochemical cycles at global scales with profiling floats and gliders: prospects for a global array, Oceanography Magazine, 22, 216-225. (76)
Poulson Brucker, R. L., J. McManus, S. Severmann, and W. M. Berelson (2009), Molybdenum behavior during early diagenesis: Insights from Mo isotopes, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q06010, doi:10.1029/2008GC002 (75)
Sekula-Wood, E., A. Schnetzer, C. R. Benitez-Nelson, C. Anderson, W. Berelson, J. Burns, D. Caron, J. Ferry, E. Fitzpatrick, B. Jones, P. E. Miller, S. Morton and R. Thunell (2009) The Toxin Express: Rapid downward transport of the neurotoxin domoic acid in coastal waters
Nature GeoSciences, DOI:10.1038/NGEO472 (74)
Nealson, K. and W. Berelson (2009) Sedimentary Habitats, Encyclopedia of Microbiology, (M. Schaechter, Editor), pp. 350-360, Oxford: Elsevier. (73)
Harrison, B. K., H. Zhang, W. Berelson and V. Orphan (2009) Variations in archaeal and bacterial diversity associated with the sulfate-methane transition zone in continental margin sediments (Santa Barbara Basin, CA), Applied and Environmental Microbiology, doi:10.1128/AEM.01812-0 (72)
Cheng, Tao, D. E. Hammond, W. M. Berelson, J. G. Hering and S. Dixit (2009) Dissolution kinetics of biogenic silica collected from the water column and sediments of three southern California borderland basins, Marine Chemistry 113, 41-49. (71)
Berelson, W., F. Corsetti, B. Johnson, T. Vo and C. Der. (2008) Carbonate Associated Sulfate as a proxy for lake level fluctuations: A proof of concept for Walker Lake, Nevada. Journal of Paleolimnology, 10.1007/s10933-008-9245-z (70)
Colbert, S. L., D. E. Hammond and W. M. Berelson (2008). Radon-222 budget in Catalina Habor, California: 1. Water mixing rates. Limnol. Oceanog. 53: 651-658. (69)
Colbert, S. L., W. M. Berelson and D. E. Hammond (2008). Radon-222 budget in Catalina Habor, California: 2. Flow dynamics and residence time in a tidal beach. Limnol. Oceanog. 53: 659-665. (68)
Berelson, W. M., W. M. Balch, R. Najjar, R. Feely, C. Sabine and K. Lee (2007). Relating estimates of CaCO3 production, export, and dissolution in the water column to measurements of CaCO3 rain into sediment traps and dissolution on the sea floor: A revised global carbonate budget. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, v. 21, GB1024, doi:10.1029/2006GB002803 (67).
Schnetzer, A., P. Miller, R. A. Schaffner, B. Stauffer, B. Jones, S. B. Weisberg, P. N. DiGiacomo, W. Berelson and D. A. Caron (2006) Blooms of Pseudo-Nitzschia and domoic acid in the San Pedro Channel and Los Angeles Harbor areas of the Southern California Bight, 2003-2004, Harmful Algae, v. 6, 372-387. (66)
McManus, J., W. M. Berelson, S. Severman, R. L. Poulson, D. E. Hammond, G. P. Klinkhammer and C. Holm (2006) Molybdenum and uranium geochemistry in continental margin sediments: Paleoproxy potential. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta:doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.06.1564 (65)
Poulson, R. L., C. Siebert, J. McManus and W. Berelson (2006) Authigenic molybdenum isotope signatures in marine sediments Geology, v. 34, 617-620 (64)
Siebert, C., J. McManus, A. Bice, R. Poulson, and W. M. Berelson (2006) Molybdenum isotope signatures in continental margin marine sediments. Earth Planetary Science Letters, 241, 723-733. (63)
Prokopenkoa, M.G., Hammond, D.E., Berelson, W.M., Bernhard, J.M., Stott, L., Douglas, R. (2006) Nitrogen cycling in the sediments of Santa Barbara Basin and Eastern Subtropical North Pacific – Isotopic evidence for chemosymbiosis between two lithotrophs: riding on a glider, Earth Planetary Sci. Lett., 242 (1-2), pp. 186-204. (62)
McManus, J., W. M. Berelson, G.P. Klinkhammer, D. E. Hammond and C. Holm (2005). Authigenic uranium: Relationship to oxygen penetration depth and organic carbon rain. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69, 95-108 (61)
Berelson, W. M., Prokopenko, M., Graham, A., Sansone, F. J., McManus, J., Bernhard, J. M. (2005) Anaerobic diagenesis of silica and carbon in continental margin sediments: Discrete zones of TCO2 production. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 69, 4611-4629. (60)
Lehmann, M., D. Sigman and W. Berelson (2004) Coupling the 15N/14N and 18O/16O of nitrate as a constraint on benthic nitrogen cycling. Marine Chemistry, v. 88, 1-20. (59)
Hammond, D. E., J. McManus, W. Berelson (2004) Oceanic Germanium:Silicon ratios: evaluation of the potential overprint of temperature on weathering signals . Paleoceanography 19, PA2016, doi: 10.1029/2003PA000940 (58)
Elrod, V. A., W. M. Berelson, K. H. Coale and K. S. Johnson (2004) The flux of iron from continental shelf sediments: A missing source for global budgets. Geophysical Research Letters, v. 31, L12307, doi:10.1029/2004GK020216, 2004 (57)
Hammond, D. E., K. M. Cummins, J. McManus, W. M. Berelson, G. Smith, and F.
Spagnoli. (2004) Methods for measuring benthic nutrient flux on the California Margin: Comparing shipboard core incubations to in situ lander results. Limol. Oceanog. Methods 2; 146-149 (56)
Feely, R., C. Sabine, K. Lee, W. Berelson, J. Kleypas, V. Fabry and F. Millero (2004) Impact of anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 system in the oceans. Science, 305, 362-366. (55)
Sansone, F. J., A.W. Graham, and W. M. Berelson (2004) Methane along the western Mexican margin. Limnol. Oceanogr. 49: 2242-2255 (54).
Holstena, J., L. Stott and W. Berelson (2004) Reconstructing benthic carbon oxidation rates using 13C of benthic foraminifera. Marine Micropaleontology, 53, 117-132 (53)
Berelson, W. and L. Stott (2003) Productivity and organic carbon rain to the California margin sea floor: Modern and paleoceanographic perspectives. Paleoceanography, v. 18, 1002, doi:10.1029/2001PA000672 2003 (52)
Berelson, W., J. McManus, K. Coale, K. Johnson, D. Burdige, T. Kilgore, D. Colodner, F. Chavez, R. Kudela and J. Boucher (2003) A time-series of benthic flux measurements from Monterey Bay, CA. Continental Shelf Research, v. 23, 457-481. (51)
Nealson, K. and W. Berelson (2003) Layered microbial communities and the search for life in the universe. Geomicrobiology Journal, v. 20, 451-462. (50)
Kuwabara, J. S., P. F. Woods, W. M. Berelson, L. S. Balistrieri, J. L. Carter, B. R. Topping and S. V. Fend (2003) Importance of sediment-water interactions in Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho: Management implications. Environmental Management, v. 32 (3): 348-359 (49)
McManus, J., D. E. Hammond, K. Cummins, G.P. Klinkhammer, and W. M. Berelson (2003)
Diagenetic Ge-Si fractionation in continental margin environments: Further evidence for a non-opal Ge sink. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 67, 4545-4557. (48)
Berelson, W. M. (2003) A summer course in Geobiology: The introduction of an emerging field. EOS, v. 84, 459, 463. (47)
Berelson, W. (2002) Biogenic particle settling rates increase with depth in the ocean. Deep-Sea Research II, v. 49, 237-251. (46)
Berelson, W., K. Johnson, K. Coale and H-C. Li (2002) Organic matter diagenesis in the sediments of the San Pedro Shelf along a transect affected by sewage effluent. Continental Shelf Research, v. 22, 1101-1115. (45)
Colbert, D., K. Coale, W. Berelson and K. Johnson (2001) Cadmium flux in LA/LB Harbors and at sites along the California continental margin. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 63, 169-180. (44)
Berelson, W. (2001) POC fluxes into the ocean interior: A comparison of 4 US-JGOFS regional studies. Oceanography, v. 14, 59-67. (43)
Hammond, D. E., J. McManus, W. Berelson, C. Meredith, G. Klinkhammer and K. Coale (2000) Fractionation of Ge and Si in reducing sediments: The missing Ge sink and a possible mechanism to cause glacial/interglacial variations in oceanic Ge/Si. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, v. 64, 2453-2465. (42)
Kuwabara, J., W. Berelson, L. Balistrieri, P. Woods, B. Topping, D. Steding and D. Krabbenhof (2000) Benthic flux of metals and nutrients into the water column of Lake Coeur d’Alene, Idaho: Report of an August, 1999 pilot study. USGS Water Resources Investigations Report 00-4132. (41)
Stott, L., W. Berelson, D. Gorsline and R. Douglas (2000) Increased dissolved oxygen in Pacific intermediate waters due to lower rates of carbon oxidation in sediments. Nature, v. 407, 367-370. (40)
McManus, J., W. Berelson, D. E. Hammond and G. P. Klinkhammer (1999) Barium cycling in the N. Pacific: Implications for the utility of Ba as a paleoproductivity and paleoalkalinity proxy. Paleoceanography, v. 14, 53-61. (39)
Hammond, D. E., P. Giordani, W. Berelson, and R. Poletti (1999) Diagenesis of carbon and nutrients in sediments of the Northern Adriatic Sea. Marine Chemistry, v. 66, 53-79. (38)
Burdige, D., W. Berelson, K. Coale, J. McManus and K. Johnson (1999) Fluxes of dissolved organic carbon from California continental margin sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta., v. 63, 1507-1515. (37)
Berelson, W., T. Townsend, D. Heggie, P. Ford, A. Longmore, G. Skyring, T. Kilgore and G. Nicholson (1999) Modeling bioirrigation rates in sediments of Port Phillip Bay. Marine and Freshwater Research., v. 50, 573-579. (36)
Nicholson, G., A. Longmore and W. Berelson (1999) Nutrient fluxes measured by two types of benthic chamber. Marine and Freshwater Research., v. 50, 567-572. (35)
Heggie, D., G.W. Skyring, W. M. Berelson, A. R. Longmore and G. J. Nicholson (1999) Sediment-water interaction in Australian coastal environments: implications for water and sediment quality. AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, v. 17, 159-173. (34)
Berelson, W., D. Heggie, A. Longmore, T. Kilgore, G. Nicholson and G. Skyring (1998) Benthic nutrient recycling in Port Phillip Bay, Australia. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 46, 917-934. (33)
McManus, J., W. Berelson, G. Klinkhammer, K. Johnson, K. Coale, R. Anderson, N. Kumar, D. Burdige, D. Hammond, H. Brumsack, D. McCorkle and A. Rushdi (1998) Geochemistry of barium in marine sediments: Implications for its use as a paleoproxy.
Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, v. 62, 3453-3473. (32)
McManus, J., W. Berelson, K. Coale, K. Johnson and T. Kilgore (1997) Phosphorus regeneration in continental margin sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, v. 61, 2891-2907. (31)
Berelson, W., R. Anderson, J. Dymond, D. DeMaster, D. Hammond, R. Collier, S. Honjo, M. Leinen, J. McManus, R. Pope, C. Smith and M. Stephens (1997) Biogenic budgets of particle rain, benthic remineralization and sediment accumulation in the Equatorial Pacific. Deep-Sea Research, v. 44, 2251-2282. (30)
Smith, C. R., W. Berelson, D. DeMaster, F. Dobbs, D. Hammond, D. Hoover, R. Pope and M. Stephens (1997) Latitudinal variations in benthic processes in the abyssal equatorial Pacific: control by biogenic particle flux. Deep-Sea Research, v. 44, 2295-2317. (29)
Tengberg, A., R. DeBovee, P. Hall, W. Berelson and 26 others (1996) Benthic chamber and profile landers in oceanography-A review of design, technical solutions and functioning. Prog. Oceanog., v. 35, 253-294. (28)
Hammond, D. E., J. McManus, W. Berelson, T. Kilgore and R. Pope (1996) Early diagenesis of organic carbon in the equatorial Pacific: Rates and kinetics. Deep-Sea Research, v. 43, 1365-1412. (27)
Johnson, K. S., K. Coale, W. Berelson and R. M. Gordon (1996) On the formation of the manganese maximum in the oxygen minimum. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, v. 60, 1291-1299. (26)
Berelson, W., J. McManus, K. Coale, K. Johnson, T. Kilgore, D. Burdige and C. Pilskaln (1996) Biogenic matter diagenesis on the sea floor: A comparison between two continental margin transects. Journal of Marine Research., v. 54, 731-762. (25)
Pilskaln, C. H., J. B. Paduan, F. P. Chavez, R. Y. Anderson and W. Berelson (1996) Carbon export and regeneration in the coastal upwelling system of Monterey Bay, central California. Journal of Marine Research, v. 54, 1149-1178. (24)
McManusb, J., D. E. Hammond, W. Berelson, T. E. Kilgore, D. J. DeMaster, O. G. Ragueneau and R. W. Collier (1995) Early diagenesis of biogenic opal: Dissolution rates, kinetics, and paleoceanographic implications. Deep-Sea Research, v. 42, 871-903. (23)
Berelson, W. M., D. E. Hammond, J. McManus and T. E. Kilgore (1994) Dissolution kinetics of calcium carbonate in Eq. Pac. Sediments. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, v. 8, 219-235. (22)
McManusb, J., W. Berelson, G. Klinkhammer, T. Kilgore and D. Hammond (1994) Remobilization of barium in continental margin sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, v. 58, 4899-4907. (21)
Giordani, P., D. E. Hammond, W. M. Berelson, R. Poletti, G. Montanari, A. Milandri, M. Frignani, L. Langone, M. Ravaioli and E. Rabbi (1992) Benthic fluxes and nutrient budgets for sediments in the Northern Adriatic Sea: Burial and recycling efficiencies. Science of the total environment (suppl.). pp. 251-269. (20)
Johnson, K. S., W. M. Berelson, K. H. Coale, T. L. Coley, V. A. Elrod, W. R. Fairey, H. D. Iams, T. E. Kilgore, and J. L. Nowicki (1992) Manganese flux from continental margin sediments in a transect through the oxygen minimum. Science, v. 257, 1242-1245. (19)
Ledwell, J. R., A. J. Watson, K. W. Doherty and W. M. Berelson (1991) Integrating samplers for the deep sea. Jour. of Geophys. Research, v. 96, 8727-8732. (18)
Berelson, W. M. (1991) Recent flushing of two basins in the southern California borderland. Limnology & Oceanography, v. 36, 1150-1166. (17)
Berelson, W. M. and K. Johnson (1991) Measurements of nutrient and metal fluxes from the seafloor in the area around the Whites Point Sewage Outfall, Los Angeles, CA.
Seventh Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management, Coastal Zone '91. (16)
Hammond, D. E., Marton, R. A., W. M. Berelson and T-L. Ku (1990) Ra-228 distribution and mixing in San Pedro and San Nicolas Basins, California borderland. Jour. Geophys. Research, v. 95, 3321-3336. (15)
Leslie, B. W., D. E. Hammond, W. M. Berelson and S. P. Lund (1990) Diagenesis in anoxic sediments from the continental California borderland and its influence on iron, sulfur and magnatite behavior. Jour. Geophys. Research, v. 95, 4453-4470. (14)
Berelson, W. M., D. E. Hammond, D. O'Neill, X. M. Xu, C. Chin and J. Zukin (1990) Benthic fluxes and pore water studies from sediments of the central equatorial N. Pacific: Nutrient diagenesis. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, v. 54, 3001-3012. (13)
Berelson, W. M., D. E. Hammond and G. Cutter (1990) In situ measurements of calcium carbonate dissolution in deep-sea sediments. Geochim. Cosmochm. Acta, 54, 3013-3020 (12)
Berelson, W. M., D. E. Hammond and P. Giordani (1989) Effect of sea floor disturbance on benthic flux measurements in the continental margin off Southern California, Catalina Basin. Giornale di Geologia, v. 51, 143-150. (11)
Johnson, K. S., P. S. Stout, W. M. Berelson and C. M. Sakamoto-Arnold (1988) Cobalt and copper distributions in the waters off Santa Monica Basin, California. Nature, v. 332, 527-530. (10)
Berelson, W. M., D. E. Hammond and A. Eaton (1987) A technique for the rapid extraction of radon-222 from water samples and a case study. In: Radon in Groundwater, ed. B. Graves, National Water Well Association, 271-281. (9)
Berelson, W. M., D. E. Hammond, K. L. Smith, R. A. Jahnke, A. H. Devol, K. R. Hinga, G. T. Rowe and F. Sayles (1987) In situ benthic flux measurement devices: bottom lander technology. Invited contribution to Marine Technology Society Journal, v. 21, 26-32. (8)
Berelson, W. M., D. E. Hammond and K. S. Johnson (1987) Benthic fluxes and the cycling of biogenic silica and carbon in two southern California borderland basins. Geochimica et. Cosmochimica Acta, v. 51, 1345-1363. (7)
Berelson, W. M., M. R. Buchholtz, D. E. Hammond and P. H. Santschi (1987) Radon fluxes measured with the MANOP Lander. Deep-Sea Research, v. 34, 1209-1228. (6)
Berelson, W. M. and D. E. Hammond (1986) The calibration of a new free vehicle benthic flux chamber for use in the deep sea, Deep Sea Research, v. 33, 1439-1454. (5)
Berelson, W. M. and S. D. Heron, Jr (1985) Correlations between Holocene flood tidal delta and barrier island inlet fill sequences: Back Sound-Shackleford Banks, North Carolina. Sedimentology, v. 32, 215-232. (4)
Hammond, D. E., C. Fuller, D. Harmon, B. Hartman, M. Korosec, L. Miller, R. Rea, S. Warren, W. Berelson and S. W. Hager (1985) Benthic fluxes in San Francisco Bay. Hydrobiologia, v. 129, 69-90. (3)
Heron, S. Duncan, Jr., T. F. Moslow, W. M. Berelson, J. R. Herbert, G. A. Steele, III, and K. R. Susman (1984) Holocene sedimentation of a wave-dominated barrier-island shoreline: Cape Lookout, North Carolina. Marine Geology, v. 60, 413-434. (2)
Berelson, W. M., D. E. Hammond and C. Fuller (1982) Radon-222 as a tracer for mixing in the water column and benthic exchange in the southern California borderland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 61, 41-54. (1)
aStudent supervised or co-supervised by WB (first authors only)
bPost doc supervised by WB (first authors only)
PROPOSALS (last 8 years)
Granger, J., M. Prokopenko and W. Berelson (ARC 1204160, $461,158) Collaborative Research: Nitrogen Biogeochemical Cycling on the Bering Sea Shelf and Fixed N Export to Arctic Ocean NSF Pending
Berelson, W. (2010--NSF ANT1029878 $367,596) Collaborative Research: Continental Shelf diagenesis II: The importance of increasing oceanic hypoxia to coastal iron suppy and the ocean’s iron isotope composition. NSF ANT Funded
Berelson, W. and Capone, D. (2009--OCE 0934073 $912,517) Collaborative Research: ETBC: Amazon influence on the Atlantic: Carbon export from Nitrogen fixation by diatom symbioses (ANACONDAS). NSF OCE Funded
Berelson, W. and F. Corsetti (NASA Astrobiology, $207,282) A community education and outreach activity: International GeoBiology Summer Course. NASA Astrobiology Funded
Berelson, W., D. Hammond, M. Prokopenko (2009--OCE 0961207 $301,969) Collaborative Research: Applying O2/Ar, Delta 17O and 222Rn methodologies to constrain organic carbon productivity in the upper ocean of the ETSP. NSF OCE Funded
Capone, D., W. Berelson and A. Knapp (2009--$781,420) Determining N2 fixation in N deficient waters of the Eastern Tropical South Pacific. NSF OCE--Funded
Berelson, W. and F. Corsetti ($246,148 for two years starting 2008) Carbonate Associated Sulfate as a novel paleolimnologic and geobiological tool, NSF Geobiology--Denied
Berelson, W. and F. Corsetti ($398,443 for three years starting 2008) Stromatolite accretion and biogeochemistry in an alkaline lake: bottom-up, top-down, or sideways processes?
NASA Exobiology--Denied
Berelson, W., T. Michaels and F. Corsetti ($200,000 for one year starting 2007) International GeoBiology Summer Course - A Renewal Matching Gift, Agouron Institute
Berelson, W. (P.I.) ($380,379 for three years starting 2007) Collaborative research: Non-Local Bacterial Transport of Nitrate within Sediments Underlying Oxygen Deficient Zones: A New Twist in the N Cycle time commitment of 15%/year NSF OCE
Berelson, W. (P.I) and F. Corsetti ($120,000 for one year starting 2007) International GeoBiology Summer Course - A Renewal 10%--NSF EAR
Berelson, W. (P.I.), F. Corsetti, T. Pottenbaum, E. Meng, K. Edwards and K. Nealson ($20,000 starting 2007) Geobiological Imaging and Microfluidic Program at USC 5%--USC College
Berelson, W. (P.I.) ($200,000 for 2 years starting 2006) Collaborative Research (OSU, USC, UCR): Continental Shelf Diagenesis: The Importance of Fresh Continental Material Degradation and Seasonal Diagenesis to Coastal Iron Supply 15%-- NSF OCE
Berelson, W. (P.I.) and F. Corsetti (2006) USC undergraduate research program award, $5,500 for undergraduates T. Vo and C. Der to work on research projects in my lab USC College
Berelson, W. and T. Michaels (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)-- Awarded 5 years of support ($650,000/years 1-3; $350, 000 year 4 and $200,000 year 5) International GeoBiology Summer Course 20% Agouron Institute.
Berelson, W. (P.I.) and T. Michaels ($354, 693 for 2 years starting 2005). International GeoBiology Summer Course: Providing focus for an emerging field 20%--NSF GEO
Berelson, W. (P.I.) ($59,631 for 3 years starting 2004)-- Simulating and Assessing the Carbon Cycle off the West Coast of North America 5%-- NASA Prime Award NNG04GJ78G, subcontract to UCLA grant.
Berelson, W. (P.I.) ($164,938 for 2 years starting 2004) Collaborative Proposal: Anoxic sediment diagenesis at the sulfate-methane interface: Does a novel microbial syntrophy result in enhanced POC remineralization? 10% --NSF OCE/GEO
Berelson, W. (P.I.) ($72,833 for one year, 2004) A study of benthic fluxes in Newport Bay, California 10%--SCCWRP
Prior to 2004, I was on the Research Faculty and had to raise 100% salary
Berelson, W. (P.I.) and D. Hammond ($420, 588 for 3 years starting 2002) Collaborative Research (USC/Caltech): Evaluation of Opal Dissolution Kinetics and Factors that may Regulate Opal Accumulation in Margin Sediments 20%--NSF OCE
Berelson, W. (P.I.) ($179,645 for 3 years starting 2002) Collaborative Research: Production and dissolution of calcium carbonate in the global ocean: A synthesis and modeling project 20%--NSF OCE
Fink, W. (Caltech), Berelson, W (co-I). and Nealson, K. ($62,500 for 1.5 years starting 2002) Geochemical biosignatures for life detection derived from layered microbial interfaces 15%--Caltech Presidents Fund.
Berelson, W. (P.I.) ($59,056 for 1 year starting 2001). New scales of measuring organic carbon diagenesis in marine sediments 20%--NSF-SGER-OCE
Stott, L, Berelson, W. (co-I) and Douglas, R. ($424,531 for 3 years starting 2000). A study to determine what has controlled the spread of anoxia and laminated sediments in NE Pacific basins: Ventilation vs. carbon oxidation 20%-- NSF EAR
COMMUNITY SERVICE--WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, INVITED TALKS (last 9 years)
December 2011 Invited participant, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation meeting of directors of summer courses
February 2011 Invited speaker, Los Angeles Basin Geological Society
April 2010 Invited speaker, UCLA
April 2010 Invited speaker, Caltech
January 2010 Invited speaker, Caltech
August 2009 Invited participant, NSF-sponsored planning workshop on Soledad Basin, Ensenada, Mexico
March 2009 Invited speaker, US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program (OCB) Scoping Workshop: ‘Observing Biogeochemical Cycles at Global Scales with Profiling Floats and Gliders’, author of final report
January 2009 Invited participant Ocean Acidification Workshop, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, author final report
December 2008 AGU meeting, San Francisco, author on 7 abstracts
October 2008 Symposium organizer, SACNAS meeting, Salt Lake City
October 2008 Invited speaker at FBBVA sponsored symposium, Madrid, Spain
April 2008 Invited talk, CalState LA
March 2008 ASLO mee
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