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Greg Slater
Greg Slater
Professor, Associate Director (Graduate): SEES
General Science Building, Rm 306
(905) 525-9140 ext. 26388
(905) 546-0463
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My research focuses on understanding the fate and transport of organic compounds, organic contaminants in particular, in the environment and on the microbial processes which control carbon cycling in both contaminated and natural environments. Research in my lab uses both traditional and novel techniques to investigatequestions relating to topics ranging from organic contaminant sources and biodegradation in the environment to the metabolic processes and bio-signatures associated with microbial metabolism and carbon cycling in extreme environments. The common theme in this research is to understand the fundamental processes that control the environment around us and the impact that life, including industrial society, has on the environment and vice versa.

Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Environmental and Organic Geochemistry, Geobiology, Contaminant Hydrogeology, Biodegradation and Bioremediation, Astrobiology

  • Earth Sc/Envir Sc 3O03: Organic contaminents in the Environment, (Term One) 2018-19
  • Earth Sc 6N03: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, (Term Two) 2018-19

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(Note HQP are underlined and italicized)

Eschelman, E ., Daly M.G., Slater, G.F., Cloutis, E. Time-resolved detection of aromatic compounds on planetary surfaces by ultraviolet laser induced fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy (2015) Planetary and Space Sciences 119 pp 200-207 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2015.09.021

Warren, L.A., Kendra, K ., Brady A.L. , Slater G.F . Oil Sands Composite Tailings a Sulphur and Organic Carbon rich, Microbially Extreme Enviornment December 2015 Frontiers in Microbiology doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01533

Harwood Theisen, C., Sumner D.Y., Mackey, T.J., Lim, D.S.S., Brady A.L ., Slater G.F. Carbonate fabrics in the modern microbialites of Pavilion Lake: two suites of microfabrics that reflect variation in microbial community morphology, growth habit and lithification (2015) Geobiology March 2015 DOI 10.1111/gbi.12134

Petryshyn, V.A., Lim, D., Laval, B.L., Brady, A.L. , Slater, G.F., Tripati, A.K. Reconstruction of limnology and microbialite formation conditions from carbonate clumped isotope paleothermometry Geobiology 2015 13(1) DOI 10.1111/gbi.12121

Bowman, D.T , Slater, G.F. , Warren, L., McCarry, B.E., Identification of Individual Thiophene-, Indane-, Tetralin-, Cyclohexane-, and Adamantane-type Carboxylic Acids in Composite Tailings Pore Water from Alberta Oil Sands. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (2014) vol 28 iss 19 pp 2075-2083

Joseph A. Russell, Zena Cardman, Allyson Brady , Gregory F. Slater , Darlene Lim, Jennifer F. Biddle Prokaryote populations of extant microbialites along a depth gradient in Pavilion Lake, British Columbia, Canada Geobiology (2014) vol 12 P 250-264 doi 10.111/gbi. 12082

Hilts, R., Herd C.D.K., Simkus, D ., Slater, G.F., Soluble Organic Compounds in the Tagish Lake Meteorite Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences (2014) pp 1-24 doi 10.1111/maps.12272

M. Skulinova, C. Lefebvre, P. Sobron, E. Eshelman , M. Daly, J.-F. Gravel, J.F. Cormier, F. Chateauneuf , G. Slater , W. Zheng, A. Koujelev, R. Leveille Time-resolved stand-off UV-Raman spectroscopy for planetary exploration Planetary and Space Science (2014) pp 88-100 doi 10.1016/j.pss.2014.01.010

E. Eschelman , M.G.Daly, G. Slater , P. Dietrich, J-F Gravel, Ultraviolet Raman Wavelength for the In-Situ Analysis of Organic Compounds Relevant to Astrobiology Planetary and Space Sciences 93-94 (2014) 65-70 doi 0.1016/j.pss.2014.01.021

Penny Morrill , Natalie Szponar, Matthew Johnston , Chris Marvin, Gregory F Slater, Deciphering Microbial Carbon Substrates in PAH Contaminated Sediments using Phospholipid Fatty Acids, and Compound Specific delta13C and 14C ( 2014 ) Organic Geochemistry 69 pp 76-87 doi 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.01.017

Brady A.L., Laval, B., Lim D.S.S., Slater G.F. Identifying seasonal and spatial variation in autotrophic and heterotrophic communities and associated biosignatures in modern, freshwater microbialites (2014) Organic Geochemistry 67 pg 8-18 dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.11.013

L.A. Ziolkowski, N . Mykytczuk, C.R. Omelon, H. Johnson, L.G. Whyte, G. Slater Arctic Gypsum Endoliths: A biogeochemical characterization of a viable and active microbial community Biogeosciences (2013) 10 7661-7675 doi 10.5194/bg-10-7661-2013

Mahmoudi, N., Porter, T., Zimmerman, A., Fulthorpe, R., Kasozi, G., Silliman, B., Slater, G.F., Rapid degradation of Deepwater Horizon spilled oil by indigenous microbial communities in Louisiana salt marsh sediments (2013) Environmental Science and Technology 47, 13303-13312 dx.doi.org/10.1021/es4036072 |

Mills, C., Slater, G.F. , Dias, R., Carr, S., Reddy, C.M., Schmidt, R., Mandernack, K. Microbial community structure and carbon cycling in soil overlying a coal-deb methane seep. FEMS microbiology ecology (2013) 84, 474-494

Lori A Ziolkowski , Jacek Wiezerchos, Alfonso Davila and Gregory F. Slater , Natural abundance radiocarbon evidence of active endolithic microbial communities in the Atacama Desert Astrobiology (2013) Volume 13, Number 7, pages 607-616

Christopher Omelon Allyson Brady ; Greg Slater ; Bernard Laval; Darlene Lim; Gordon Southam .Microstructure variability in freshwater microbialites, Pavilion Lake, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 392 (2013) 62-70

Brady, A.L , Druschel, G., Lim D.S.S., Slater, G.F ., Carbon cycling in carbonate rich, cyanobacteria dominated microbial mats of the Cariboo plateau, B.C. Geobiology (2013), 11, 437-456 DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12050

Slater G.F. , Benson, A.A , Marvin, C., Muir, D., Siskiwit Revisited: Recent trends in PAH sources to Isle Royal resolved using 14C analysis Environmental Science and Technology 2013, 47 5066-5073DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es400272z

G. Holland, B. Sherwood Lollar, L. Li, G. Lacrampe-Couloume, G.F. Slater, C.J. Ballentine Free fluid habitats can be isolated in deep crustal fractures since the Precambrian Nature 497 p 357-360 May 16, 2013 doi: 10.1038/nature12127

Mahmoudi, N., Slater G.F., Juhasz, A.L., Assessing limitations for PAH biodegradation in long-term contaminated soils using bioaccessibility assays Water, Air Soil Pollution (2013), 224(2): 1411.

Nagissa Mahmoudi , Roberta R. Fulthorpe, Leanne Burns, Silvia Mancini, and Greg F. Slater Assessing microbial carbon sources and potential PAH degradation using natural abundance radiocarbon analysis Environmental Pollution 2013 vol 175 p 125-130

Melissa M. Battler,*, Gordon R. Osinski, Darlene S. S. Lim, Alfonso F. Davila, Frederick A. Michel, Michael A. Craig, Matthew R. M. Izawa, Lisa Leoni, Gregory F. Slater, Alberto G. Fairen, Neil R. Banerjee, and Louisa J. Preston, Characterization of the acidic cold seep emplaced jarositic Golden Deposit, NWT, Canada, as an analogue for jarosite deposition on Mars Icarus, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2012.05.015 : Available online 22 May 2012, ISSN 0019-1035

Mailloux, B. J., Dochenetz, A., Bishop, M. E., Dong, H., Ziolkowski, L. A., Wommack, K. E., Sakowski, E. G., Onstott, T. C., and Slater, G. F., A Carbon Free Filter for Collection of Large Volume Samples of Cellular Biomass from Oligotrophic Waters. ( 2012 ) Journal of Microbiological Methods Vol 90, Issue 3 pp 141-151

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