Sandip Bordoloi
Graduate Student (Ph.D.)

Education

M.S. 2005, University of Alabama
M.Sc. 2002, University of Delhi; Delhi India
B.Sc. 2000, University of Delhi; Delhi India

Research Interests

• Geomicrobiology of modern extreme environments (e.g., hydrothermal vents, cold seeps,
  anoxic basins, hot springs)
• Elemental and stable isotope geochemistry of microbially precipitated authigenic minerals
  (e.g., carbonates, sulfides, barites)
• Stable isotope and elemental geochemistry of low-temperature systems (e.g., Fluid geochemistry of formation waters in sedimentary basins)
• Geochemistry’s of modern gas hydrate environments (e.g., methane seeps, mud volcanoes)
• Development of new proxies to understand records of microbial processes preserved in geological materials (e.g., biotic vs. abiotic fractionation of Fe isotopes)
• Microbe- mineral interactions (e.g., understanding the petrographic characteristics of microbially precipitated authigenic minerals)
  

Recent Publications

Bordoloi, S., Aharon, P., Taviani, M., and Vai, G.B. 2006. Trace Metal Records of Rapid
     Anoxia Development in a Mediterranean Satellite Basin During the Pre-Evaporitic
     Messinian Stage. Geological Society of America Annual Conference (Submitted)

Bordoloi, S. 2005. A Study of Geochemical and Microbial Processes in Hydrate-Bearing
     Sediments Associated with Seep Environments in the Gulf of Mexico. Abstracts, AAPG
     Foundation 2005 Grants-in-Aid Projects, Science and Discovery Article #90045

Bordoloi, S., Aharon, P., Pape, T., Taviani, M., Vai, G.B., Sen Gupta, B., and Platon, E.
     2005. Geochemistry of Anoxic Marine Sediments of Late-Miocene Age: Vena del Gesso
     Basin, Northern Apennines, Italy. Earth System Processes 2, GSA Speciality Meetings,
     Abstracts with Programs, No. 1, p.45

Bordoloi, S., Aharon, P., Taviani, M., Vai, and G.B. 2003. Hydrocarbon-Derived
     Limestones Interbeded with Euxinic Shales (Northern Apennines, Italy). Geological
     Society of America Abstracts with Programs , Vol. 35, No. 6, p. 620

Current Projects

• Bordoloi, S., Aharon, P., Taviani, M and Vai, G.B. Trace Element (Mn, V, Mo, U and Cr) and Stable Isotope (C) Geochemistry of Anoxic Marine Sediments: Gessoso-solfifera Formation (Calcare di base), Vena del Gesso Basin, Northern Apennines, Italy (manuscript in preparation)
• Bordoloi, S., Aharon, P. and Pape, T. Geochemistry of Carbonate Precipitation in a Mud Volcano Environment: Green Canyon 272, Gulf of Mexico (manuscript in preparation)
• Bordoloi, S., Aharon, P. and Zhang, C. Lipid Geochemistry of a Messinian Anoxic Basin (Gessoso-solfifera Formation): Vena del Gesso Basin, Northern Apennines, Italy (lipid extractions completed)
• Bordoloi, S., Aharon, P. and Zhang, C. Distribution of Microbial Lipids in Sediments Associated with a Mud Volcano Environment: Green Canyon 272, Gulf of Mexico (lipid extractions completed)
• Bordoloi, S. Studies of Fe isotope fractionation during microbially catalyzed oxidation of Fe(II) under micro-aerobic conditions (pO2 ≤ ca. 0.001 atm) at neutral pH (project in development)

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