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Research Chemistry Core Support
Project Objectives
The objectives of the Research Chemistry Core Support Project are fivefold:
- develop new and emerging geoanalytical techniques that the Geologic Discipline will need within the next 5 years,
- maintain geochemical analysis instrumentation, laboratories, and techniques for use by other projects,
- provide training and oversight to other scientists in the use of geoanalytical hardware and software,
- develop new geological standard reference materials that can are used by scientists to calibrate analytical instruments and monitor laboratory performance, and
- maintain a specialized in-house chemical analysis capability for use in the characterization of new reference materials, and for use with outside funded projects on difficult-to-analyze sample matrices that are beyond the capabilities of the contract laboratory.
Project Chief:
| Paul Lamothe |
Box 25046 MS 964
Denver, CO 80225 |
(303) 236-1923
plamothe |
Products
Products are listed according to task:
Task 1 - Research and Development of New Analytical Methods
Posters
- Crock, J.G., Gough, L.P., Day, Warren, Wanty, Richard, Wang, Bronwen, and Gamble, Bruce, 2001,
Regional geoscience baseline studies of the Fortymile and Goodpaster River watersheds, Yukon-Tanana Upland, Alaska:
Ninth Conference on analytical Chemistry in Geoscience and the Environment, Polish Geological Institute, Warsaw,
Poland, November 7-9, 2001.
- Crock, J.G., J.H. Bullock, Jr., and P.L. Hageman, 2001, The determination of mercury in
environmental samples by complimentary methods at the USGS: Ninth Conference on analytical Chemistry in
Geoscience and the Environment, Polish Geological Institute, Warsaw, Poland, November 7-9, 2001.
- Eppinger, R., Briggs, P.H., Rieffenberger, B. and Van Dorn, C., 2002, Comparing pre- and post- wildfire
stream sediment and water geochemistry from drainages impacted by the Clear Creek and Wilderness Complex wildfires of
2000, central Idaho: 2002 Wildland Fire Workshop, Nov. 2002, (poster).
Presentations
- Crock, J.G. and Lamothe, P.J., 2001, A short review of the current environmental analytical
chemistry of As, Sb, Se, Te, and Bi: Ninth Conference on analytical Chemistry in Geoscience and the Environment,
Polish Geological Institute, Warsaw, Poland, November 7-9, 2001 (Invited Plenary Lecture).
- Crock, J.G., Sanzolone, R.F., and Hall, E.M., 2003, Chemical analysis of soils: presented at the
USGS/NRC Soil Geochemistry Workshop, March 4-6, 2003, Denver, Colorado.
- Crock, J.G., Smith, D.B., and Baldwin-Yager, T.J., 2001, Application of municipal biosolids to
dry-land wheat fields - A monitoring program at Deer Trail, Colorado (USA): Sixth International Conference on the
Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, July 29-August 2, 2001.
- Gough, L.P., Crock, J.G., Wang, B., Weber-Scannell, P., and Seal, R.R., 2002, Biogeochemistry
of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) in the Fortymile River Mining District, Alaska [abs.]: 2002 Program and Abstracts,
Geol. Soc. Amer., p. 144. View Gough GSA abstract.
- Gough, L.P., Sanzolone, R.F., Lamothe, P.J., Foster, A.L., Ager, C.M., and Crock, J.G., 2003,
Boiaccumulation and mobility of Cd in willows and soils, Alaska--implications for the health of browsing animals;
presented at the USGS Health Conference, April, 2003, Reston, Virginia.
- Lamothe, P.J., 2002, Just how do we get all those numbers - the analytical connection: Sixth
International Symposium on the Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface, Honolulu, HI, May 20-24, 2002.
- Leinz, R., Sutley, S.J., Anthony, M., Desborough, G.A., 2002. The Mineralogical Implications
and Character of Amorphous Material in Weathered Mine Wastes [abs.]: EPA-Hardrock Mining 2002, May 7-9, 2002.
- Mueller, S.H., Goldfarb, R.J., Farmer, G.L., Sanzolone, R.F., Adams, M., and
Theodorakus, P., 2001, A seasonal study of arsenic and groundwater geochemistry: Fairbanks, Alaska: USGS Workshop on
Arsenic in the Environment, February 21 and 22, Denver, Colorado.
- Mueller, S.H., Verplanck, P.L., Goldfarb, R.J., Nordstrom, D.K., Farmer, G.L., Sanzolone, R.F.,
Youcha, E.K., Lilly, M., Roller, M., and Jeffress, W., 2002, A Multifaceted Geochemical Approach for Understanding Elevated Arsenic Concentrations in Groundwater Near Ester and Fairbanks, Alaska.
- Smith, K.S., Briggs, P., Campbell, D., Desborough, G., Eppinger, R., Hageman, P., Leinz, R.,
Meeker, G., Sutley, S., Swayze, G., Tuttle, M., Wilson, S., A Multidisciplinary Approach to Screening and Characterizing
Weathered Metal-Mining Waste Piles [abs.]: Hardrock Mining May 2002.
- Tuttle, M.L.W., Briggs, P.H., and Berry, C.J., 2003, A method to separate phases of sulfur in mine-waste
and natural alteration zones, and to use sulfur isotopic compositions to investigate release of metals and acidity to the
environment: 6th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage, July 12-18, 2003, 5 p.
- Wang, Bronwen, Gough, L.P., Crock, J.G., and Day, W.C., 2001, Biogeochemistry of As and
Cd in aeolian Sub-Artic soils, Yukon-Tanana Uplands, Alaska: Sixth International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of
Trace Elements, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, July 29 - August 2, 2001.
- Wang, B., Crock, J.G., Seal, R., Taggart, S., Mondragon, J., Andrews, A., and Nielsen, J.,
2004, Evaluation of using signatures in Tanner crabs as natural fingerprints to aid in determining Tanner crab movement
in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska: Glacier Bay Science Symposium, Oct. 6 – 28, 2004, Juneau, Alaska.
Reports
- Crock, J.G. and Lamothe, P.J., 2001, Current environmental analytical chemistry of As, Sb, Se, Te,
and Bi: Przedglad Geologiczny, vol. 49, num. 10/2, pp. 944-946.
- Gough, L.P., Sanzolone, R.F., Crock, J.G., Foster, A.L., Lamothe, P.J., Ager, C.M., and Gent, C.A.,
2002, Biogeochemical and biochemical pathway investigations of cadmium in subarctic ecosystems using a cadmium
accumulator species (willow), in, Balistrieri, L.S. and Stillings, L.L., eds., Pathways of metal transfer from mineralized
sources to bioreceptors: a synthesis of the Mineral Resources Program's past environmental studies in the western
United States and future research directions: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2191, Chap. 4, p. 1-11. View Bulletin 2191.
- Gray, J.E., Crock, J.G., and Fey, D.L., 2002, Environmental geochemistry of abandoned mercury
mines in West-Central Nevada, USA: Applied Geochemistry: vol. 17, pp. 1069-1079.
- Hammarstrom, J. M., Eppinger, R.G. Van Gosen, B.S. Briggs, P.H., and. Meier, A.L, 2002, Case
study of the environmental signature of a recently abandoned, carbonate-hosted replacement deposit: The Clayton Mine,
Idaho U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-10, 44p. View OFR 02-10.
- Johnson, C.A., Leinz, R.W., Grimes, D.J., Rye, R.O., 2002, Photochemical Changes in Cyanide
Speciation in Drainage from a Precious Metal Ore Heap: Environ. Sci. Technol., 36, p. 840-845.
- Leinz, R.W., Sutley, S.J., Desborough, G.A., Briggs, P.H., Fey, D.L., Anthony, M.W., Adams, M.G.,
2002, Data from the Sequential Extraction of Mine Waste Composite Samples from Colorado and New Mexico with
Results of Mineralogical Analysis: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-133, 32 p.
- Miller, W.R., Sanzolone, R.F., Lamothe, P.J., and Ziegler, T.L., 2002, Chemical analyses of soils, soil
leaches, rocks, and stream sediments from Guam and the Western United States and sample location maps of Guam:
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File-Report 02-399. View OFR 02-0399.
- Miller, W.R., Sanzolone, R.F., and Lamothe, P.J., 2003, Chemical analysis of soils and rocks from two
high elevation study areas in Colorado; USGS Open-File-Report 03-106. View OFR 03-106.
- Miller, W.R., and Sanzolone, R.F., 2002, Investigations of the possible connection of rock and soil
geochemistry to the occurrence of high rates of Neurodegenerative diseases on Guam and a hypothesis for the cause of
the diseases: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File-Report 02-475. Report is superseded by USGS OFR 03-126.
- Mueller, S.H., Goldfarb, R.J., Farmer, G.L., Sanzolone, R., Adams, M., Theodorakos, P.M., Richmond, S.A., and McCleskey, R.B., 2002, Trace, Minor and Major Element Data for Ground Water Near Fairbanks, Alaska, 1999-2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-0090. View OFR 02-0090.
- Mueller, S.H., Goldfarb, R.J., Sanzolone, R.F., Adams, M., and Farmer, G.L., 2001, A
seasonal study of arsenic and groundwater geochemistry: Fairbanks, Alaska; in Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the
21st Century, Piestrzynski, et al, eds., Sewts and Zeitlinger B.V., Lisse, Netherlands, p. 1043-1047.
- Reheis, M.C., Budahn, J.R., and Lamothe, P.J., 2002, Geochemical evidence for diversity of dust
sources in the southwestern United States: Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66, pp. 1569-1587.
- Taggart, J.E., Jr., 2002, Analytical methods for chemical analysis of geologic and other materials, U.S. Geological Survey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-0223. View OFR 02-0223.
- Wanty, R.B., Shanks, W.C. III, Lamothe, P., Meier, A., Briggs, P.H., Berger, B.R., 2001, Results of Chemical
and Stable Isotopic Analyses of Water Samples Collected in the Patagonia Mountains, Southern Arizona: U.S. Geological
Survey Open-File Report 01-463, 19 p. View OFR 01-0463.
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Task 2 - Standard Reference Materials
Reports
- Wilson, S.A., Briggs, P.H., Brown, Z.A. and Taggart, J.E., 2002, Chemical characterization of NIST cement
reference materials SRM 1880a, SRM 1881a, SRM 1886a, SRM 1888a, and SRM 1889a: U.S. Geological Survey Open-
File Report 02-432.
- Wilson, S.A., Ridley, W.I., and Koenig, A.E., 2002, Development of sulfide calibration standards for the
laser ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry technique: Jour. Anal. At. Spectrom., 17(4), pp. 406-409.
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Task 3 - Laser Ablation ICP-MS
Posters
- Ridley, W.I., Lamothe, P.J., and Koenig, A.E., 2002, Understanding Earth Systems Through Studies of
Geochemical Microcosms: Examples Using the Laser Ablation Trace Element Microprobe: GES-6 Sixth International
Symposium on the Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface, Honolulu, HI, May 20-24, 2002.
Presentations
- Ridley, W.I., 2002, The USGS standards program for laser ablation analysis: European Laser
Ablation Workshop.
Reports
- Wilson, S.A., Ridley, W.I., and Koenig, A.E., 2002, Development of sulfide calibration standards for the
laser ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry technique: Jour. Anal. At. Spectrom., 17(4), pp. 406-409.
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