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  1. Lloyd, M.K., Trembath-Reichert, E. Dawson, K.S., Feakins, S.J., Mastalerz, M., Orphan, V.J., Sessions, A.L., and Eiler, J.M. (2021) Methoxyl stable isotopic constraints on the origins and limits of coal-bed methane, Science, In press
  2. Ashford, O.S., Guan, S., Capone, D., Rigney, K., Rowley, K., Cordes, E.E., Orphan, V.J., Mullin, S.W., Dawson, K.S., Cortés, J., Rouse, G.W., Mendoza, G.F., and Levin, L.A. (2021) A chemosynthetic ecotone – ‘chemotone’ –surrounds deep-sea methane seeps. Limnology and Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.11713
  3. Dean, R.K., Schneider, C.R., Almnehlawi, H.S., Dawson, K.S., and Fennell, D.E. (2020) Dioxin dechlorination is differentially enhanced by dichlorobenzene and trichloroethene amendment in Passaic River, NJ sediments. Environmental Science and Technology, 54, 8380-8389, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c00876
  4. Houghton, J.L., Jones, C., Dawson, K.S., Orphan, V.J., Gomes, M.L., and Fike, D.A. (2020) Resolving micron-scale heterogeneity in Porewater δ34SH2S by combining films for in-situ sulfide capture and secondary ion mass spectrometry. Marine Chemistry, 223, 103810, doi: 10.1016/j.marchem.2020.103810
  5. Douglas, P., Gonzalez Moguel, R., Anthony, K.W., Wik, M., Crill, P., Dawson, K.S., Smith, D.A, Yanay, E., Stolper, D., Eiler, J., and Sessions, A.L. (2020) Clumped isotopes link old carbon substrates with slow methanogen kinetics in northern lakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, 6, e2019GL086756, doi: 10.1029/2019GL086756
  6. Goffredi, S.K., Tilic, E., Mullin, S.W., Dawson, K.S., Keller, A., Lee, R.W., Wu, F., Levin, L.A., Rouse, G.W., Cordes, E.E., Orphan, V.J. (2020) Hidden in Plain Sight: Methanotrophic Annelids Redefine the Seep Habitat. Science Advances, 6, 14, eaay8562, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay8562
    1. Science Friday interview with Shana Goffredi
  7. Bird, L.R., Dawson, K.S., Chadwick, G.L., Fulton, J.F., Orphan, V.J., and Freeman, K.H. (2019) Carbon isotopic heterogeneity of co-enzyme F430 and membrane lipids in methane-oxidizing Archaea from the water column and sediment pore waters for abundance and stable isotope analysis. Geobiology, 17, 6, 611-627, doi: 10.1111/gbi.12354
  8. Michel, A.J., Ward, L.W., Goffredi, S.K., Dawson, K.S., Baldassarre, D.T., Brenner, A., Gotanda, K.M., McCormack, J.E., Mullin, S., O’Neill, A., Tender, G., Uy, A., Yu, K., Orphan, V.J., and Chaves, J.A. (2018) The gut of the finch: Uniqueness of the gut microbiome of the Galápagos vampire finch. Microbiome, 6, 167-181, doi: 10.1186/s40168-018-0555-8
  9. Dekas, A.E., Fike, D.A., Chadwick, G.L., Green-Saxena, A., Fortney, J., Connon, S.A., Dawson, K.S., and Orphan, V.J.  (2018) Widespread nitrogen fixation in sediments from diverse deep-sea habitats. Environmental Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14342
  10. Glass, J.B., Chen, S., Dawson, K.S., Horton, D.R., Vogt, S., Ingall, E.D., Twining, B.S., and Orphan, V.J. (2018) Trace metal imaging of sulfate-reducing bacteria and methanogenic archaea at single-cell resolution by synchrotron X-ray fluorescence imaging. Geomicrobiology Journal, 35, 81-89, doi: 10.1080/01490451.2017.1321068
  11. Fike, D.A., Houghton, J.L., Moore, S.E., Gilhooly, W.P., Dawson, K.S., Druschel, G.K., Amend, J.P., and Orphan, V.J. Spatially resolved capture of hydrogen sulfide from the water column and sedimentary pore waters for abundance and stable isotopic analysis. (2017) Marine Chemistry, doi: 10.1016/j.marchem.2017.10.004
  12. Trembath-Reichert, E., Morono, Y., Ijiri, A., Dawson, K.S., Inagaki, F., and Orphan, V.J. Estimates of deep biosphere activity in 2,000 mbsf coal beds utilizing passive tracer and minimal carbon and nitrogen amended SIP-NanoSIMS incubations. (2017) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114, E9206-E9215, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1707525114.
  13. Smith, D.A., Dawson, K.S., Daleska, N.F., Sessions, A.L., and Orphan, V.J. Rapid quantification and isotope labeling analysis in reduced sulfur intermediate redox species of sulfur. (2017) Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 31,791-803, doi: 10.1002/rcm.7846
  14. Pasulka, A.L, Goffredi, S.K., Tavormina, P.L., Dawson, K.S., Levin, L.A., Rouse, G.W., and Orphan, V.J. Foliculinid ciliates influence methane cycling and microbial diversity within methane seep ecosystems. (2017) Frontiers in Aquatic Sciences, 3:276, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00276
  15. Osburn, M.R., Dawson, K.S., Fogel, M.L., and Sessions, A.L. Fractionation of hydrogen isotopes by anaerobic bacteria. (2016) Frontiers in Microbiology, 7:1166, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01166
  16. Dawson, K.S., Scheller, S., Dillon, J.G., and Orphan, V.J. Stable isotope phenotyping via cluster analysis of NanoSIMS data as a method for characterizing distinct microbial ecophysiologies and sulfur-cycling in the environment. (2016) Frontiers in Microbiology, 7; 774, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00774
  17. Dawson, K.S., Osburn, M.R., Sessions, A.L., and Orphan, V.J. Metabolic associations with archaea drive shifts in hydrogen isotope fractionation in sulfate-reducing bacterial lipids in co-cultures and methane seeps. (2015) Geobiology, 13, 462-477, doi: 10.1111/gbi.12140
  18. Maloney, J.M., Grupe, B.M., Pasulka, A.L., Frieder, C.A., Levin, L.A., Dawson, K.S., Case, D.H., and Driscoll, N.W. Transpressional segment boundaries in strike-slip fault systems offshore southern California: Implications for fluid expulsion and seep habitats. (2015) Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 4080-4088, doi: 10.1002/2015GL063778
  19. Tavormina, P.L., Hatzenpichler, R., McGlynn, S.E., Chadwick, G., Dawson, K.S., Connon, S.A., and Orphan, V.J. Methyloprofundis sedimentus gen. nov., sp. nov. an obligate methanotroph from ocean sediment belonging to the Deep Sea 1 clade of marine methanotrophs. (2015) International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 65, 251-259, doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.062927-0
  20. Glass, J.B, Yu, H., Steele, J.A., Dawson, K.S, Sun, S., Chourey,K., Hettich, R.L., and Orphan, V.J. Geochemical, metagenomic and metaproteomic insights into metal requirements for anaerobic oxidation of methane.(2014) Environmental Microbiology, 16 (6), 1592-1611, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12314
  21. Dawson, K.S., Schaperdoth, I., Freeman, K.H., and Macalady, J.L. Anaerobic biodegradation of the isoprenoid biomarker analogues pristane and phytane. (2013) Organic Geochemistry, 65, 118-126, doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.10.010.
  22. Dawson, K.S., Freeman, K.H., and Macalady, J.L. Molecular characterization of core lipids from halophilic archaea grown under difference salinity conditions. (2012) Organic Geochemistry, 48, 1-8, doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.04.003
  23. Dawson, K.S., Strapoć, D., Huizinga, B., Lidstrom, U., Ashby, M., and Macalady, J.L. Quantitative FISH analysis of a microbial consortia from a biogenic gas field in the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska. (2012) Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78, 3599-3605, doi: 10.1128/aem.07122-11.
  24. Jones, D. S., Schaperdoth, I., Stoffer, T. S., Dawson, K.S., Freeman, K. H., Albrecht, H.A., and Macalady, J. L. Metagenomic, phylogenetic, and culture-based analysis of subsurface extremophile microbial communities. (2011) ISME Journal, 1-13, doi: 10.1038/ismej.2011.75
  25. Strapoć, D., Mastalerz, M., Dawson, K.S., Macalady, J. L., Callaghan, A., Wawrik, B., and Ashby, M. Biogeochemistry of Microbial Coal Bed Methane. (2011) Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science 39, 617-656, doi: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040610-133343.