UCSB Professor David Valentine Awarded Leopold Leadership Fellowship

Valentine, a professor in the Department of Earth Science, is one of 20 Leopold Leadership fellows for 2013.

Valentine’s research focuses on the interaction among microbes, and between microbes and the Earth system. He uses tools of isotope geochemistry and molecular microbiology to probe fundamental questions at the interface of biology, chemistry, and earth science. His 2012 study documenting the process of how bacteria blooms had consumed almost all of the deepwater methane plumes following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 received worldwide attention.

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