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Donald Canfield
Birth Name:Donald Eugene Canfield
Birth Date:14 November 1957[1]
Thesis Title:Sulfate reduction and the diagenesis of iron in anoxic marine sediments
Thesis Url:http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40356769
Thesis Year:1988
Doctoral Advisor:Robert Berner[2]
Known For:Canfield ocean
Awards:Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2007),[3] knight of the Order of the Dannebrog (2021)
Spouse:Marianne prip Olsen
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Donald Eugene Canfield (born 1957)[1] [4] is a geochemist and Professor of Ecology at the University of Southern Denmark known for his work on the evolution of Earth's atmosphere and oceans.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] The Canfield ocean, a sulfidic partially oxic ocean existing during the middle of the Proterozoic eon, is named after him.[10]

Education

Canfield was educated at Miami University[4] and Yale University where he was awarded a PhD for research on diagenesis in marine sediments supervised by Robert Berner in 1988.[2] [11] [12] [13]

Career and research

Canfield has been the director of the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (NordCEE) since August 2006, and works at the University of Southern Denmark. His research investigates the geobiology of ocean chemistry.[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] Prior to his current position he has worked at the Ames Research Center,[4] Aarhus University, the University of Michigan, the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany and the Georgia Institute of Technology.[1] Author of more than 350 articles. Cited nearly 55,000 times. He is Author of Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History (2014) Princeton University Press.

Awards and honors

Canfield was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.[4] He was awarded the European Geosciences Union's Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal in 2010.[19] [20] In 2021, he was knighted by Queen Margrethe II into the Order of the Dannebrog.[21] Canfield is a member of the Royal Society of London, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Geophysical Union, Society for Microbiology, Geochemical society, and American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Canfield is Chair, Danish Institute of Advanced Study (DIAS). He is the Villum Investigator, 2023.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Donald Eugene Canfield CV. 24 May 2020.
  2. 10.1038/518484a. 25719659. Robert A. Berner (1935–2015) Geochemist who quantified the carbon cycle. Nature. 518. 7540. 484. 2015. Canfield . Donald. Donald Canfield. Robert Berner. free.
  3. Web site: NAS Member Directory: Donald E. Canfield . 2007 . 2015-03-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20150302041338/http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20014905.html.
  4. Downey . P. . Profile of Donald E. Canfield . 10.1073/pnas.1101311108 . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 108 . 8 . 3105–3107 . 2011 . 21321217 . 3044362 . 2011PNAS..108.3105D . free .
  5. Book: Canfield, Donald . Oxygen: a four billion year history . Princeton University Press . Princeton . 2014 . 978-0-691-14502-0 .
  6. 10.1126/science.1248669. Breathing Life into Oxygen. Science. 343. 6173. 840. 2014. Fischer . W. W.. 2014Sci...343..840F. 51599638.
  7. Falkowski . P. . Scholes . R. J. . Boyle . E. . Canadell . J. . Canfield . D. . Elser . J. . Gruber . N. . Hibbard . K. . Högberg . P. . Linder . S. . MacKenzie . F. T. . Moore III . B. . Pedersen . T. . Rosenthal . Y. . Seitzinger . S. . Smetacek . V. . Steffen . W. . The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System . 10.1126/science.290.5490.291 . Science . 290 . 5490 . 291–296 . 2000 . 11030643. 2000Sci...290..291F .
  8. 10.1016/0009-2541(86)90078-1. The use of chromium reduction in the analysis of reduced inorganic sulfur in sediments and shales. Chemical Geology. 54. 1–2. 149–155. 1986. Canfield . D. E. . Raiswell . R. . Westrich . J. T. . Reaves . C. M. . Berner . R. A. . 1986ChGeo..54..149C.
  9. 11539783. 1989. Canfield. D. E.. Reactive iron in marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 53. 3. 619–32 . 10.1016/0016-7037(89)90005-7. 1989GeCoA..53..619C.
  10. 10.1038/24839. 1998. Canfield . D. E.. Nature. A new model for Proterozoic ocean chemistry. Letters to Nature. 396. 6710. 450–453. 1998Natur.396..450C. 4414140.
  11. PhD . Donald Eugene. Canfield . Sulfate reduction and the diagenesis of iron in anoxic marine sediments . Yale University. 1988 . 40356769.
  12. 10.2475/ajs.299.7-9.697. The evolution of the sulfur cycle. American Journal of Science. 299. 7–9. 697–723. 1999. Canfield . D. E.. 1999AmJS..299..697C.
  13. 11536736. 1996. Canfield. D. E.. Late Proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration inferred from phylogenetic and sulphur-isotope studies. Nature. 382. 6587. 127–32. Teske. A.. 10.1038/382127a0. 1996Natur.382..127C. 4360682.
  14. 20974919. 2973883. 2010. Stolper. D. A.. Aerobic growth at nanomolar oxygen concentrations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107. 44. 18755–60. Revsbech. N. P.. Canfield. D. E.. 10.1073/pnas.1013435107. free.
  15. 11542177. 1989. Canfield. D. E.. Sulfate reduction and oxic respiration in marine sediments: Implications for organic carbon preservation in euxinic environments. Deep-Sea Research Part A: Oceanographic Research Papers. 36. 1. 121–38 . 10.1016/0198-0149(89)90022-8. 1989DSRA...36..121C.
  16. 17158290. 2007. Canfield. D. E.. Late-Neoproterozoic deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life. Science. 315. 5808. 92–5. Poulton. S. W.. Narbonne. G. M.. 10.1126/science.1135013. 2007Sci...315...92C. 24761414. free.
  17. 10.2475/ajs.304.10.839. The evolution of the Earth surface sulfur reservoir. American Journal of Science. 304. 10. 839–861. 2004. Canfield . D. E.. 2004AmJS..304..839C. free.
  18. 10784446. 2000. Canfield. D. E.. The Archean sulfur cycle and the early history of atmospheric oxygen. Science . 288. 5466. 658–61. Habicht. K. S.. Thamdrup. B. . 10.1126/science.288.5466.658. 2000Sci...288..658C.
  19. Web site: Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20111005070925/http://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/awards-and-medals/award/vladimir-vernadsky/donald-canfield.html. 2011-10-05 .
  20. Web site: The travelling scientist . 2007-06-30 . University of Southern Denmark . 2005-10-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070911043905/http://www1.sdu.dk/E/new/10_Donald_Canfield.html . 2007-09-11 . dead .
  21. Web site: DIAS Chairs appointed Knight of The Order of Dannebrog. 11 July 2022.

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