A. Zimmerman - Curriculum Vita

Education

College of William and Mary, School of Marine Science/Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA. Ph.D. in Marine Science, August, 2000.

The University of Michigan, Department of Geological Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI. Master of Science in Marine Geochemistry, 1989. “A quantitative model of the dispersal of detrital inputs and minor compositional components in Lake Michigan sediments”

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Bachelor of Arts with Honors, major in Geology, 1987.

Dissertation Title: Organic Matter Composition of Sediments and the History of Eutrophication and Anoxia in the Mesohaline Chesapeake Bay. Through the use of sediment geochemical indicators, this study examined the ecological and biogeochemical changes that have occurred over the past five hundred years in Chesapeake Bay and their relationship to the historical record of anthropogenic changes in the Chesapeake watershed.

Research

Research Associate: With Dr. S. Brantley, Penn State University, Department of Geological Sciences, State College, PA. Biogeochemistry Research and Education Initiative Program, 8/2000 - present. Initiated and carried out investigations of microbial-mineral and organic mattter-mineral interactions.
Graduate Research Assistant: With Dr. E. Canuel, College of William and Mary/Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Department of Physical Sciences, 8/1994 - 8/2000. Investigated various aspects of the organic geochemistry of coastal waters.
Visiting Foreign Researcher: With Dr. N. Rajendran, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan. 6- 8/1996. Investigated viable microbial communities within estuarine sediment using phopholipid fatty acid analysis.
Laboratory Technician: With Dr. Ronald Benner, University of Texas, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas, TX, 1993-1994. Investigated rates of denitrification, oxygen consumption and nutrient regeneration in Galveston Bay sediments.
Research Assistant: With Dr. Robert M. Owen, University of Michigan, 1987-1989. Conducted marine geochemical studies of Lake Michigan and Indian Ocean sediment.
Laboratory Technician: With Dr. Robert Aller, University of Chicago, 1984-1986. Contributed to ongoing research activities. Performed major and minor quantitative elemental analyses including nutrient and trace metal analyses of natural waters and sediment.
Research Intern: With Dr. Jonathon Sharp, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, 1986. Investigated the role of organic matter and bacteria on flocculation in Delaware estuary.
Research Intern: With Dr. Maynard Miller, Juneau Icefield Research Program, Juneau, AK, 1983. Assisted scientists in ongoing meteorological and glaciological studies.

Grants and Honors

Petroleum Research Fund Grant, 2001-2003 (with PI’s Brantley and Chorover).
Convenor of a session on Microbial-Mineral Interaction at American Geophysical Union, Fall Conference, San Francisco, December 2002
Best Student Publication Award, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 2000
School of Marine Science Fellowship (3 Years)
Best Paper Award, Chesapeake Regional Assoc. Biogeochemists Conference, 1997
VIMS-GSA Minigrant Award, 1996, 1997
NSF Japan Program grant to work with Dr. Rajendran in Japan, Summer 1996
University of Michigan Fellowship: Block Grant 1987-89
Graduated with Honors, University of Chicago, 6/87
University of Chicago Scholarship, 1983-87

Science Outreach

Outreach Coordinator and director of Geological Sciences departmental public school outreach program; The Geogators.

Outreach Volunteer: Designed, assembled and taught geology demonstrations for area public schools (K-12) to excite students about science. Wrote articles for local newpaper on science issues. Science Lions Organization, Penn State University 01-present.
Summer Intern Mentor: Mentored undergraduate students and organized and led field trips for summer internship program designed to stimulate interest in careers in biogeochemical research. Biogeochemistry Research and Education Initiative Program, Penn State University.
Symposium Coordinator: Assisted in the planning and implementation of an environmental chemistry symposium for the presentation of graduate student research at Penn State University, 3/02.
Outreach Volunteer: Designed, assembled and taught teaching modules for a program in which graduate students present marine science demonstrations to area high-school science classes with the goal of introducing marine science to students as a career. College of William and Mary, 97-00.

Publications

Mitra, S. and A. R. Zimmerman. (submitted). A Holocene Record of Climate-Driven Shifts in Carbon Sequestration. Geology.

Ahn, M.-Y., Comerford, N. B., and Sickman, J., Zimmerman, A. R., and S. Grunwald (submitted). Relationship between land-use and soil carbon pools in the Santa Fe River watershed.

Zimmerman, A. R. Ahn. M.-Y., Kang D.-H. , Banks, M. K. (2008).  Influence of a soil enzyme on iron-cyanide complex speciation and mineral adsorption. Chemosphere. 70, (6): 1044-1051.

Hyun, S., Ahn, M.-Y., Zimmerman, A. R., Kim, M., and Kim, J.-G. (2008). Implication of hydraulic properties of bioremediated diesel-contaminated soil. Chemosphere, Available online 5 March 2008.

Zimmerman, A. R. and M. Smith (2006). Engaging the Remote-Control Generation in the Gen. Ed. Earth Science Classroom.  EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union. 87(34): 339.

Ahn, M.-Y., Zimmerman, A.R., Martínez, C.E., Archibald, D.D., Bollag, J.-M., Dec, J., 2007 Characteristics of Trametes villosa laccase adsorbed on aluminum hydroxide (2007) (Available online 23 December 2006). Journal of Molecular Catalysis B: Enzymatic.

Ahn. M.-Y., Martínez, C.E., Archibald, D.D., Zimmerman, A.R. Bollag, J.M., and Dec, J. (2006). Transformation of catechol in the presence of a laccase and metal oxides.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38: 1015-1020.

Zimmerman, A. R., K.G. Goyne, S. Komarneni, J. Chorover, J. Kubicki, S.L. Brantley (2004). Mineral mesopore effects on nitrogenous organic matter adsorption. Organic Geochemistry 35: 355-375.

Zimmerman, A. R., J. Chorover, Goyne, K. W., S.L. Brantley (2004). Protection of mesopore adsorbed organic matter from enzymatic degradation. Environmental Science and Technology 38(17): 4542 - 4548.

Goyne, K. W., J. Chorover, , S. Komarneni, A. R. Zimmerman, S.L. Brantley (2004). Influence of mesoporosity on the sorption of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid to alumina and silica. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 272: 10-20.


Goyne, K. W., A. R. Zimmerman, B.L. Newalkar, S. Komarneni, S.L. Brantley, J. Chorover (2002). Surface charge of variable porosity Al2O3 (s) and SiO2(s) adsorbents. Journal of Porous Materials 9: 242-256.

Zimmerman, A. R., and E. A. Canuel, 2002. Sediment geochemical record of eutrophication in the mesohaline Chesapeake Bay. Limnology and Oceanography 47(4) 1084-1093.

Zimmerman, A. R., and E. A. Canuel, 2001. Bulk organic matter and lipid biomarker composition of Chesapeake Bay surficial sediments as indicators of environmental processes. Estuarine, Coastal Shelf Science 53: 319-341.

Zimmerman, A. R., and E. A. Canuel, 2000. A geochemical record of eutrophication and anoxia in Chesapeake Bay sediments: Anthropogenic influence on organic matter composition. Marine Chemistry 69: 117-137

Canuel, E. A., and Zimmerman, A. R., 1999. Composition of Particulate Organic Matter in the Lower Chesapeake Bay: Sources and Reactivity. Estuaries 4: 980-994.

Colman, S., Baucom, P. C., Bratton, J. F., Cronin, T. M., McGeehin, J. P., Willard, D., Zimmmerman, A. R., Vogt, P., 2002. Radiocarbon Dating, Chronologic Framework, and Changes in Accumulation Rates of Holocene Estuarine Sediments from Chesapeake Bay. Quaternary Research. 57: 58-70. http://www.idealibrary.com/links/doi/10.1006/qres.2001.2285

Marcantonio, F., Zimmerman, A., Yingfeng X., Canuel, E., 2002. A record of Eastern US atmospheric Pb emissions in Chesapeake Bay sediments: stable Pb isotopes as a chronological tool. Marine Chemistry. 77: 123-132.

Cronin, T., Willard, D., Karlsen, A., Ishman., I, Verardo, S., McGeehin, J., Kerhin, R., Holmes, C., Coleman, S., Zimmerman, A., 2000. Climatic variability in the eastern United States over the past millenium from Chesapeake Bay sediments. Geology 28: 3-6.

Zimmerman, A. R., and Benner R., 1994. Denitrification, nutrient regeneration and carbon mineralization in sediments of Galveston Bay, Texas., USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 114: 275-288.

Zimmerman, A. R., and Owen, R. M., 1990. A quantitative model of the dispersal of detrital inputs and minor compositional components in Lake Michigan sediments. Journal of Great Lakes Research 16(3): 444-456.

Owen, R. M., and Zimmerman, A. R., 1991. Geochemistry of Broken Ridge sediment . In: Weissel, J. Peirce, J., Taylor, E., Alt, J., et al., Proc. of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 121: Washington (U.S. Govt. Printing Office).

Owen, R. M., and Zimmerman, A. R., 1991. Geochemistry of the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary at Hole 752B, Broken Ridge. In: Weissel, J. Peirce, J., Taylor, E., Alt, J., et al., Proc. of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 121: Washington (U.S. Govt. Printing Office).

Owen, R. M., and Zimmerman, A. R., 1991. Data Report: Geochemical Analysis of Indian Ocean Standard Sediment Sample. In: Weissel, J. Peirce, J., Taylor, E., Alt, J., et al., Proc. of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 121: Washington (U.S. Govt. Printing Office).

Presentations
(A. R. Zimmerman first author and presenter)

Zimmerman, A.R., Ahn, M.-Y., Kang, D.-H. and M. K. Banks. Influence of a soil enzyme on iron-cyanide complex speciation and mineral adsorption. 234th American Chemical Society, National Meeting, Boston, 19-23 August, 2007.

Zimmerman, A. R., Microbes, minerals and organic matter in the environment. Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Dec. 8., 2007.

Zimmerman, A. R., and Mitra, S.  Hydrogen-pyrolysis/lipid compound analysis of black carbon composition and source in Ganges-Brahmaputra River sediments.  2008 Ocean Sciences Meeting, March 2-7, 2008.  Orlando, Florida.

American Geophysical Union, Fall 2003 (Dec. 8-12, San Francisco) Protection of organic matter from enzyme degradation by mineral mesopores (poster).

American Geophysical Union, Fall 2002 (Dec. 6-10, San Francisco) The sequestration and protection of organic matter within mineral mesopores (oral).

Goldschmidt Conference for Geochemistry, 2002 (Aug. 18-23, Davos, Switzerland) The effect of mineral mesoporosity on amino acid adsorption (poster).

American Chemical Society, 223rd National Meeting, 2002 (April 7-11, Orlando, FL) The effect of mesopores on amino acid adsorption to mineral analogues (oral).

Goldschmidt Conference on Geochemistry, 2001 (May 20-24, Hot Springs, VA) The effect of mesopores on organic matter adsorption to mineral analogues (poster).

Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, 2000 (Aug. 13-18, Holderness, NH) Historical progression of eutrophication in the mesohaline Chesapeake Bay: A sediment geochemical record (poster).

Estuarine Research Federation, 1999 (Invited, Sept. 25-29, New Orleans, LA) Eutrophication history of Chesapeake Bay established from sedimentary organic matter composition.

Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, 1998 (Aug. 9-14, Holderness, NH) An organic geochemical record of eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay (poster).

Estuarine Research Federation, 1997 (Oct. 12-16, Providence, RI) A geochemical record of eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay sediments (oral).

American Geophysical Union Spring, 1997 (May 27-30, Baltimore, MD) Organic geochemical evidence for increasing eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay: A 200 year sediment record (oral).

Chesapeake Regional Association of Biogeochemists, 1997 (May 15-16, Gloucester Point) A geochemical record of eutrophication in Chesapeake Bay sediments (oral).

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Spring, 1997 (Feb. 10-14, Santa Fe, NM) Composition of particulate organic matter in the Lower Chesapeake Bay: Sources and reactivity (poster).

Chesapeake Regional Association of Biogeochemists, 1996 (May 25, Charlottesville, VA) Saponification efficiency: Methodological and compound class variations (oral).