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Possible
thesis/dissertation topics:
Bacterial transport and implications for environmental bioremediation.
Life in extreme environment: implications for origin of life and environmental
clean-up.
Health effects of clay minerals.
Current/recent
graduate research:
Chinese continental scientific drilling project: a window into deep subsurface
microbiology.
Clay-microbe interactions and implications for microbial ecology in sedimentary
basins.
Bacterial transport and its environmental significance
Selected
publications:
Jiang, H.*, Dong, H., Zhang, G.*, Yu, B., Chapman, L.R., and Fields, M.W. (2006) Microbial diversity in water and sediment of Lake Chaka: an inland hypersaline lake in Northwestern China. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72(6), 3832-3845.
Zhang, G.*, Dong, H., Jiang, H.*, Xu, Z., and Eberl D. (2006) Unique microbial community in drilling fluid from Chinese Continental Scientific Deep Drilling. Geomicrobiological Journal, 23, 1-16.
Dong, H., Scheibe, T.D., Johnson, W.P., Monkman, C.M.* and Fuller, M.E. (2006) Direct determination of change of bacterial collision efficiency with transport distance in field scale bacterial transport experiments. Ground Water, 44(3), 415-429.
Dong, H., Zhang, G.*, Yu, B., Jiang, H.*, Chapman, L.R., and Fields, M.W. (2006) Microbial diversity in sediments of saline Qinghai Lake, China: linking geochemical controls to microbial ecology. Microbial Ecology, 51(1), 65-82.
Seabaugh, J.L.*, Dong, H., Kukkadapu, R.K., Eberl, D., Morton, J.P., and Kim, J.W. (2006) Microbial reduction of Fe(III) in the Fithian and Muloorina illites: contrasting extents and rates of bioreduction. Clays and Clay Minerals, 54(1), 67-79.
*Indicates Dr. Dong's students.
Selected
grants:
U.S. Department of Energy 2007 - 2010
Technetium and iron biogeochemistry in suboxic subsurface environments with emphasis on the Hanford site.
U.S. Department of Energy 2005 - 2008
Identification of molecular and cellular responses of Desulfovibrio vulgaris biofilms under culture conditions relevant to field conditions for bioreduction of heavy metals.
National Science Foundation 2004 - 2007 (matching funds from Ohio Board of Regents and Miami University)
Acquisition of high throughput DNA sequencing and genotyping instrumentation for research and traning.
National Science Foundation 2004 - 2008
Nanoscale investigation of microbial effects on the smectite to illite transformation.
Teaching
Interests:
GLG 121
- Environmental Geology - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 402/502 - Geomicrobiology - click here
for a complete description.
GLG 496/596 - Isotopes in Environmental Processes - click here
for a complete description.
For
more information please visit Dr. Dong's personal
web page.
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