Borch, T., Campbell, KM., Kretzchmar, R. “Guest comment: How electron flow controls contaminant dynamics,” Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 3-6, 2010.
Kate Campbell
Kate Campbell is a research biogeochemist specializing in microbial and abiotic metal redox cycling, mineralogy, and modeling in natural and mine-influenced waters.
Biography
Kate Campbell started her career with the USGS with the volunteer for science program as a high school student interested in the water quality of Boulder Creek, CO. After majoring in chemistry in college, she pursued a Ph.D. at Catech studying the biogeochemistry of arsenic redox transformations in reservoir sediments. She returned to the USGS as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow in 2007 in Menlo Park, CA, researching uranium bioremediation in shallow contaminated aquifers. Currently, she is a research chemist in Denver, CO. Her research projects include understanding the biogeochemistry and mineralogy of metals and metalloids in mine-impacted waters, particularly in acid rock drainage and uranium-contaminated water. She also studies microbial kinetics of iron, arsenic, and antimony oxidation in acid mine drainage, and how to incorporate microbial kinetics in reactive transport models for field-scale application as a tool for site managers.
Education:
Ph.D. – California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA, 2006
M.S. – California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA, 2003
B.S. – Georgetown University, Chemistry major (summa cum laude), Japanese language minor, Washington, D.C., 2001
Science and Products
Date published: September 11, 2018
Status: Active Minerals Science Team
The Minerals Integrated Science Team focuses on contaminant exposures in the environment that might originate from mineral resource activities including, transportation, storage, extraction and waste management. Perceived health risks to humans and other organisms will be distinguished from actual risks, if any. If actual risks are identified this Team will inform how to...
Year Published: 2020
Li and Ca enrichment in the Bristol Dry Lake brine compared to brines from Cadiz and Danby Dry Lakes, Barstow-Bristol Trough, California, USA
Relatively few discharging playas in western United States extensional basins have high concentrations of lithium (Li) and calcium (Ca) in the basin-center brines. However, the source of both these ions is not well understood, and it is not clear why basins in close proximity within the same extensional trough have notably different concentrations...
Rosen, Michael R.; Stillings, Lisa L.; Kane, Tyler; Campbell, Kate M.; Vitale, Matthew; Spanjers, Ray
Year Published: 2020
Antimony mobility during the early stages of stibnite weathering in tailings at the Beaver Brook Sb deposit, Newfoundland
The aqueous speciation and mineralogy of antimony (Sb) in waters and tailings at Beaver Brook antimony deposit have been analyzed to understand Sb mobility during the initial stages of stibnite (Sb2S3) weathering in a near-surface environment. Dissolution of stibnite in oxidizing conditions releases Sb in drainage water and Sb is incorporated into...
Radkova, Anezka; Jamieson, Heather E.; Campbell, Kate M.
Year Published: 2020
Formation and prevention of pipe scale from acid mine drainage at Iron Mountain and Leviathan Mines, California, USA
Pipelines carrying acid mine drainage (AMD) to treatment plants commonly form pipe scale, an Fe(III)-rich precipitate that forms inside the pipelines and requires periodic and costly cleanout and maintenance. Pipelines at Iron Mountain Mine (IMM) and Leviathan Mine (LM) in California carry acidic water from mine sources to a treatment plant and...
Campbell, Kate M.; Alpers, Charles N.; Nordstrom, D. KirkAttribution: California Water Science Center, Water Resources
Year Published: 2017
Challenges in recovering resources from acid mine drainage
Metal recovery from mine waters and effluents is not a new approach but one that has occurred largely opportunistically over the last four millennia. Due to the need for low-cost resources and increasingly stringent environmental conditions, mine waters are being considered in a fresh light with a designed, deliberate approach to resource recovery...
Nordstrom, D. Kirk; Bowell, Robert J.; Campbell, Kate M.; Alpers, Charles N.View Citation
Nordstrom, D.K., Bowell, R.J., Campbell, K.M., and Alpers, C.N., in review, Challenges in recovering resources from acid mine drainage. Extended abstract for 13th International Mine Water Association Congress – “Mine Water & Circular Economy – A Green Congress”, to be held in Rauha, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 25-30, 2017.
Year Published: 2017
Sulfolobus islandicus meta-populations in Yellowstone National Park hot springs
Abiotic and biotic forces shape the structure and evolution of microbial populations. We investigated forces that shape the spatial and temporal population structure of Sulfolobus islandicus by comparing geochemical and molecular analysis from seven hot springs in five regions sampled over 3 years in Yellowstone National Park. Through...
Campbell, Kate M.; Kouris, Angela; England, Whitney; Anderson, Rika E.; McCleskey, R. Blaine; Nordstrom, D. Kirk; Whitaker, Rachel J.View Citation
Campbell, KM, Kouris, A, England, W, Anderson,RE, McCleskey, RB, Nordstrom, DK, Whitaker, RJ. (2017) Sulfolobus islandicus meta-populations in Yellowstone National Park hot springs. Environmental Microbiology: 19(6), 2334–2347
Sulfolobus islandicus meta-populations in Yellowstone
National Park hot springs
Year Published: 2017
Biogenic non-crystalline U(IV) revealed as major component in uranium ore deposits
Historically, it is believed that crystalline uraninite, produced via the abiotic reduction of hexavalent uranium (U(VI)) is the dominant reduced U species formed in low-temperature uranium roll-front ore deposits. Here we show that non-crystalline U(IV) generated through biologically mediated U(VI) reduction is the predominant U(IV)...
Bhattacharyya, Amrita; Campbell, Kate M.; Kelly, Shelly; Roebbert, Yvonne; Weyer, Stefan; Bernier-Latmani, Rizlan; Borch, ThomasView Citation
Bhattacharyya, A, Campbell, KM, Kelly, SD, Roebbert, Y, Weyer, S, Bernier-Latmani, R, Borch, T, 2017, Biogenic non-crystalline U(IV) revealed as major component in uranium ore deposits. Nature Communications, 8, 15538, doi: 10.1038/ncomms15538.
Year Published: 2017
Structured populations of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius with susceptibility to mobile genetic elements
The impact of a structured environment on genome evolution can be determined through comparative population genomics of species that live in the same habitat. Recent work comparing three genome sequences of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius suggested that highly structured, extreme, hot spring environments do not limit dispersal of this...
Anderson, Rika E.; Kouris, Angela; Seward, Christopher H.; Campbell, Kate M.; Whitaker, Rachel J.View Citation
Anderson RE, Kouris A. Seward CH, Campbell KM, Whitaker RJ, 2017, Structured populations of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius with susceptibility to mobile genetic elements: Genome Biol Evol, doi: 10.1093/gbe/evx104
Year Published: 2017
Mineralization dynamics of metakaolin-based alkali-activated cements
This paper investigates the early-age dynamics of mineral formation in metakaolin-based alkali-activated cements. The effects of silica availability and alkali content on mineral formation were investigated via X-ray diffraction and solid-state 29Si magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 2, 7, 14, and 28...
Gevaudan, Juan Pablo; Campbell, Kate M.; Kane, Tyler; Shoemaker, Richard K.; Srubar, Wil V.View Citation
Gevaudan, JP, Campbell, KM, Kane, TJ, Shoemaker, RK, Srubar, WV. (2017) Mineralization dynamics of metakaolin-based alkali-activated cements. Cement and Concrete Research, 94: 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cemconres.2017.01.001 .
Year Published: 2017
Filamentous hydrous ferric oxide biosignatures in a pipeline carrying acid mine drainage at Iron Mountain Mine, California
A pipeline carrying acidic mine effluent at Iron Mountain, CA, developed Fe(III)-rich precipitate caused by oxidation of Fe(II)aq. The native microbial community in the pipe included filamentous microbes. The pipe scale consisted of microbial filaments, and schwertmannite (ferric oxyhydroxysulfate, FOHS) mineral spheres and filaments. FOHS...
Williams, Amy J.; Alpers, Charles N.; Sumner, Dawn Y.; Campbell, Kate M.View Citation
Williams, A.J., Alpers, C.N., Sumner, D.Y., and Campbell, K.M., 2016, Filamentous Hydrous Ferric Oxide Biosignatures in a Pipeline Carrying Acid Mine Drainage at Iron Mountain Mine, California: Geomicrobiology Journal, 14 p., http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01490451.2016.1155679.
Year Published: 2016
Biogeochemical controls of uranium bioavailability from the dissolved phase in natural freshwaters
To gain insights into the risks associated with uranium (U) mining and processing, we investigated the biogeochemical controls of U bioavailability in the model freshwater speciesLymnaea stagnalis (Gastropoda). Bioavailability of dissolved U(VI) was characterized in controlled laboratory experiments over a range of water hardness, pH, and in...
Croteau, Marie-Noele; Fuller, Christopher C.; Cain, Daniel J.; Campbell, Kate M.; Aiken, George R.Attribution: Colorado Water Science Center, Water Resources, Environmental Health, , Toxic Substances Hydrology Program, Region 7: Upper Colorado Basin
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Croteau et al. Biogeochemical controls of uranium bioavailability from the dissolved phase. Environ. Sci. Technol.
Year Published: 2015
Persistent U(IV) and U(VI) following in-situ recovery (ISR) mining of a sandstone uranium deposit, Wyoming, USA
Drill-core samples from a sandstone-hosted uranium (U) deposit in Wyoming were characterized to determine the abundance and distribution of uranium following in-situ recovery (ISR) mining with oxygen- and carbon dioxide-enriched water. Concentrations of uranium, collected from ten depth intervals, ranged from 5 to 1920 ppm. A composite...
Gallegos, Tanya J.; Campbell, Kate M.; Zielinski, Robert A.; Reimus, P.W.; J.T. Clay; N. Janot; J. J. Bargar; Benzel, William M.
Year Published: 2015
From extreme pH to extreme temperature: An issue in honor of the geochemical contributions of Kirk Nordstrom, USGS hydrogeochemist
This special issue of Applied Geochemistry honors Dr. D. Kirk Nordstrom, and his influential career spent primarily at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). This issue does not herald his retirement or other significant career milestone, but serves as a recognition of the impact his work has had on the field of geochemistry in general. This special...
Campbell, Kate M.; Verplanck, Philip L.; McCleskey, R. Blaine; Alpers, Charles N.View Citation
Campbell, K., Verplanck, P. L., McCleskey, R. B., Alpers, C. N., 2015, From extreme pH to extreme temperature: an issue in honor of the geochemical contributions of Kirk Nordstrom, USGS hydrogeochemist: Applied Geochemistry, 62, 1–2, 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2015.04.012
Pre-USGS Publications
Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Arsenic Mobilization
Campbell ,K.M., and Hering, J.G. “Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Arsenic Mobilization.”Chapter in Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater: Mechanism, Analysis, and Remediation, S. Ahuja, editor. New Jersey: J.S.Wiley & Sons, 2008
Campbell, K.M , Root, R., O’Day, P.A. and Hering, J.G. “A Gel Probe Equilibrium Sampler for Measuring Arsenic Porewater Profiles and Sorption Gradients in Sediments: I. Laboratory Development”, Environmental Science and Technology, 42 (2) 497–503, 2008.
Campbell, K.M , Root, R., O’Day, P.A. and Hering, J.G. “A Gel Probe Equilibrium Sampler for Measuring Arsenic Porewater Profiles and Sorption Gradients in Sediments: II. Field Application to Haiwee Reservoir Sediment”, Environmental Science and Technology, 42 (2) 504-510, 2008.
Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Arsenic Mobilization in Haiwee Reservoir Sediments
Campbell, K.M., “Biogeochemical Mechanisms of Arsenic Mobilization in Haiwee Reservoir Sediments,” Ph.D. Dissertation, California Institute of Technology, 2007
Root, R., Dixit, S., Campbell, K.M. , Jew, A. , Hering, J.G. and O’Day, P.A.. “Mechanism of Arsenic Sequestration in High-Iron Sediments”, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71 (23) 5782-5803, 2007.
Campbell, K.M. , Malasarn, D. , Saltikov, C.W., Newman, D.K. and Hering, J.G.. “Simultaneous Microbial Reduction of Iron(III) and Arsenic (V) in Suspensions of Hydrous Ferric Oxide”. Environmental Science and Technology 40 (19) 5950-5955, 2006.
Use of a gel robe sampling device to examine porewater profiles and the effects of porewater composition on As sorption in sediments
Campbell, K.M, Dixit, S. and Hering. J.G.. “Use of a gel robe sampling device to examine porewater profiles and the effects of porewater composition on As sorption in sediments”, Water-Rock Interaction Proceedings, Wanty & Seal II, ed. 2004.
Malasarn, D.M. , Saltikov, C.W., Campbell, K.M., Hering, J.G., Santini, J. , and Newman, D.K. “arrA as a reliable marker for As(V) respiration”, Science 306 (5695): 455-455 October 15 2004.