Joel E. Kostka

Recent Publications

D. M. Akob, H. J. Mills, D. L. Swofford, J. E. Kostka, 2006. Metabolically-Active Microbial Communities in Uranium-Contaminated Subsurface Sediments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, (submitted).

J.-H. Hyun, A. C. Smith and J. E. Kostka, 2006. Relative significance of sulfate- and iron(III) reduction to organic matter mineralization and its controls in contrasting habitats of the Georgia saltmarsh. Environmental Microbiology, (submitted).

E.M. Hunter, H.J. Mills, and J.E. Kostka, 2006. Microbial community diversity associated with carbon and nitrogen cycling in permeable shelf sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, (submitted).

L. Edwards, K. Kuesel, H. Drake, and J.E. Kostka, 2006. Electron flow in acidic subsurface sediments cocontaminated with nitrate and uranium during nuclear weapons production. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, (submitted).

J.W. Stucki and J.E. Kostka, 2006. Microbial reduction of iron in smectite. Compte Rendu Geosciences, (in press).

K. Lee, J.E. Kostka, and J.W. Stucki, 2006. Comparisons of structural iron reduction in smectites by bacteria and dithionite: an infrared spectroscopic study. Clays and Clay Minerals, 54, 195-208.

S. G. Wakeham, A. P. McNichol, J.E. Kostka, and T.K. Pease, 2006. Natural-abundance radiocarbon as a tracer of assimilation of petroleum carbon by bacteria in saltmarsh sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 1761-1771.

E. Kristensen and J.E. Kostka, 2005. Macrofaunal burrows and irrigation in marine sediment: microbiological and biogeochemical interactions. In: Interactions between Macro- and Microorganisms in Marine Sediments, E. Kristensen, J.E. Kostka, R. Haese (edit's), American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 390 pp.

S.L. Dollhopf, J. Hyun, A.C. Smith, H.J. Adams, S. O'Brien, and J.E. Kostka, 2005. Quantification of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and controls of nitrification in saltmarsh sediments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71, 240-246.

C. Koretsky, A. Roychoudhury, E. Voillier, C. Moore, J.E. Kostka, T. DiChristina, P. Van Cappellen, 2005. Salt marsh pore water geochemistry does not correlate with microbial community structure. Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science, 62, 233.

A.C. Smith, J.E. Kostka, R. Devereux, and D.F. Yates, 2004. Seasonal composition and activity of sulfate-reducing prokaryotic communities in seagrass bed sediments. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 37, 183-195.

Y. Furukawa, A.C. Smith, J.E. Kostka, J. Watkins, and C.R. Alexander, 2004. Quantification of macrobenthic impacts on diagenesis using a multicomponent inverse model in saltmarsh sediments. Limnology and Oceanography, 49, 2058-2072.

N.N. North, S.L. Dollhopf, L. Petrie, J.D. Istok, D.L. Balkwill, and J.E. Kostka, 2004. A Change in Bacterial Community Structure During in situ Biostimulation of Subsurface Sediment Cocontaminated with Uranium and Nitrate. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70, 4911-4920.