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Donald Eugene Canfield (born 1957)
[3]
[2]
[5] 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.
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[10] The
Canfield ocean , a
sulfidic
partially oxic ocean existing during the middle of the
Proterozoic
eon , is named after him.
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Education
Canfield was educated at
Miami University
[2] and
Yale University where he was awarded a
PhD for research on
diagenesis in
marine sediments supervised by
Robert Berner in 1988.
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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 .
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[17]
[18]
[19] Prior to his current position he has worked at the
Ames Research Center ,
[2]
Aarhus University , the
University of Michigan , the
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany and the
Georgia Institute of Technology .
[3] 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.
[2] He was awarded the
European Geosciences Union 's
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal in 2010.
[20]
[21] In 2021, he was knighted by
Queen Margrethe II into the
Order of the Dannebrog .
[22] 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.
References
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"NAS Member Directory: Donald E. Canfield" . 2007. Archived from
the original on 2015-03-02.
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g Downey, P. (2011).
"Profile of Donald E. Canfield" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 108 (8): 3105–3107.
Bibcode :
2011PNAS..108.3105D .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1101311108 .
PMC
3044362 .
PMID
21321217 .
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"Donald Eugene Canfield CV" . Retrieved 24 May 2020 .
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Canfield, Donald (2015).
"Robert A. Berner (1935–2015) Geochemist who quantified the carbon cycle" . Nature . 518 (7540): 484.
doi :
10.1038/518484a .
PMID
25719659 .
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Donald Canfield's publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Canfield, Donald (2014). Oxygen: a four billion year history . Princeton: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
978-0-691-14502-0 .
^ Fischer, W. W. (2014). "Breathing Life into Oxygen". Science . 343 (6173): 840.
Bibcode :
2014Sci...343..840F .
doi :
10.1126/science.1248669 .
S2CID
51599638 .
^ 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. (2000). "The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System". Science . 290 (5490): 291–296.
Bibcode :
2000Sci...290..291F .
doi :
10.1126/science.290.5490.291 .
PMID
11030643 .
^ Canfield, D. E.; Raiswell, R.; Westrich, J. T.; Reaves, C. M.; Berner, R. A. (1986). "The use of chromium reduction in the analysis of reduced inorganic sulfur in sediments and shales". Chemical Geology . 54 (1–2): 149–155.
Bibcode :
1986ChGeo..54..149C .
doi :
10.1016/0009-2541(86)90078-1 .
^ Canfield, D. E. (1989).
"Reactive iron in marine sediments" . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . 53 (3): 619–32.
Bibcode :
1989GeCoA..53..619C .
doi :
10.1016/0016-7037(89)90005-7 .
PMID
11539783 .
^ Canfield, D. E. (1998). "A new model for Proterozoic ocean chemistry". Letters to Nature. Nature . 396 (6710): 450–453.
Bibcode :
1998Natur.396..450C .
doi :
10.1038/24839 .
S2CID
4414140 .
^ Canfield, Donald Eugene (1988). Sulfate reduction and the diagenesis of iron in anoxic marine sediments (PhD thesis). Yale University.
OCLC
40356769 .
^ Canfield, D. E. (1999). "The evolution of the sulfur cycle". American Journal of Science . 299 (7–9): 697–723.
Bibcode :
1999AmJS..299..697C .
doi :
10.2475/ajs.299.7-9.697 .
^ Canfield, D. E.; Teske, A. (1996). "Late Proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration inferred from phylogenetic and sulphur-isotope studies". Nature . 382 (6587): 127–32.
Bibcode :
1996Natur.382..127C .
doi :
10.1038/382127a0 .
PMID
11536736 .
S2CID
4360682 .
^ Stolper, D. A.; Revsbech, N. P.; Canfield, D. E. (2010).
"Aerobic growth at nanomolar oxygen concentrations" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 107 (44): 18755–60.
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1013435107 .
PMC
2973883 .
PMID
20974919 .
^ Canfield, D. E. (1989).
"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.
Bibcode :
1989DSRA...36..121C .
doi :
10.1016/0198-0149(89)90022-8 .
PMID
11542177 .
^ Canfield, D. E.; Poulton, S. W.; Narbonne, G. M. (2007).
"Late-Neoproterozoic deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life" . Science . 315 (5808): 92–5.
Bibcode :
2007Sci...315...92C .
doi :
10.1126/science.1135013 .
PMID
17158290 .
S2CID
24761414 .
^ Canfield, D. E. (2004).
"The evolution of the Earth surface sulfur reservoir" . American Journal of Science . 304 (10): 839–861.
Bibcode :
2004AmJS..304..839C .
doi :
10.2475/ajs.304.10.839 .
^ Canfield, D. E.; Habicht, K. S.; Thamdrup, B. (2000). "The Archean sulfur cycle and the early history of atmospheric oxygen". Science . 288 (5466): 658–61.
Bibcode :
2000Sci...288..658C .
doi :
10.1126/science.288.5466.658 .
PMID
10784446 .
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"Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal 2010" . Archived from
the original on 2011-10-05.
^ University of Southern Denmark (2005-10-06).
"The travelling scientist" . Archived from
the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2007-06-30 .
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"DIAS Chairs appointed Knight of The Order of Dannebrog" . Retrieved 11 July 2022 .
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