Curriculum Vita Updated February 3, 2014 D.E. LaRowe

Douglas E. LaRowe

University of Southern California◦ Department of Earth Sciences Zumberge Hall of Sciences,

3651 Trousdale Pkwy.Los Angeles, CA 90089-0740, (213)

EDUCATION

2005Ph.D. Earth and Planetary Science,University of California, Berkeley, advisor: Harold C. Helgeson (deceased)

1998B.A. Earth & Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis

1997 (fall)St. Lawrence University Semester Abroad in Kenya and Tanzania

EMPLOYMENT

2014Assistant Professor (Research), University of Southern California

2012 – 2013Research Scientist, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

2008 – 2011Research Scientist II, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

2006 – 2010Postdoctoral Researcher, Utrecht University, Netherlands

1998 – 2005Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley

1997 Internship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (summer)

PUBLICATIONS

25. Price, R.E., LaRowe, D.E., Italiano, F., Savov, I, Pichler, T. and Amend, J.P. Geochemistry

andbioenergetic potentialof a shallow-sea hydrothermal vent system off Panarea Island, Aeolian Islands, Italy. submitted, Chemical Geology

24. Takai, K., Nakamura, K., LaRowe, D.E. and Amend, J.P. Life under subseafloor extremes,

in Developments in Marine Geology Vol. 7: Earth and Life Processes Discovered from Subseafloor Environments, Ed. Fumio Inagaki., submitted

23. Robador, A., Jungbluth, S.P., LaRowe, D.E., Bowers, R.M., Lin, H.-T., Rappé, M.S.

Amend, J.P. and Cowen, J.P. Co-evolution of fluids and microorganisms in deep subseafloor basaltic crust, submitted to Nature

22. LaRowe, D.E. and Amend, J.P., Catabolic rates, population sizes and doubling/replacement

times of microorganisms in the deep subsurface, submitted toAmerican Journal of Science

21. Orcutt, B.N., LaRowe, D.E., Lloyd, K.G., Mills, H., Orsi, W., Reese, B.K., Sauvage,

J., Huber, J. and Amend, J.P. IODP deep biosphere research workshop report – A synthesis of recent investigations, and discussion of new research questions and drilling targets, Scientific Drilling, in press

20. Marlow, J., and LaRowe, D.E.,Ehlmann, B.L., Amend, J.P. and Orphan, V. The Potential

for Biologically Catalyzed Anaerobic Methane Oxidation on Ancient Mars, Astrobiology, in revision

19.LaRowe, D.E. and Amend, J.P. (2014) Energetic constraints on life in marine deep

sediments, inLife in Extreme Environments: Microbial Life in the Deep Biosphere, J. Kallmeyer and K. Wagner, eds., De Gruyter Publishing, in press

18. Orcutt, B.N., LaRowe, D.E., Biddle, J.F., Cowell, F., Kirkpatrick, J.B., Lapham, L., Mills,

H., Reese, B., Sylvan, J. and Wankel, S. (2013) Microbial activity in the marine deep biosphere: Progress and prospects, Frontiers in Extreme Microbiology,4, article 189,doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00189, 15p

17.LaRowe, D.E., Dale, A.W., Aguilera, D. R., L’Heureux, I., Amend, J.P. and Regnier, P. (2014) Modeling microbial reaction rates in a submarine hydrothermal vent chimney

wall, Geochim. Cosmochim.Acta, 124, 72-97.

16. Regnier, P., Friedlingstein, P.,Ciais, P., Mackenzie, F.T., Gruber, N., Janssens, I.,Laruelle,

G.G.,Lauerwald, R.,Luyssaert,S., Andersson, A.J., Arndt, S.,Arnosti, C., Borges, A.V., Dale, A.W.,Galego-Sala, A.,Godderis, Y., Hartmann, J.,Heinze, C.,Ilyiana, T.,Joos, F.,LaRowe, D.E.,Leifeld, J.,Meysman, F.J.R.,Munhoven, G., Raymond, P.A.,Spahni, R.,Suntharalingham, P. and Thullner, M. (2013)Anthropogenic perturbation of the land to ocean carbon fluxes, Nature Geosci.6, 597-607.

15. Arndt, S., Jørgensen, B.B., LaRowe, D.E., Middelburg, J.B.M., Pancost, R.D., Regnier, P.,

(2013) Quantifying the degradation of organic matter in marine sediments: A review and synthesis, Earth Sci. Rev., 123, 53-86.

14. Amend, J.P., LaRowe, D.E., McCollom, T.M. and Shock, E.L. (2013)The energetics of

organic synthesis inside and outside the cell, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 368, 1-15.

13.LaRowe, D.E., Dale, A.W., Amend, J.P. and Van Cappellen, P. (2012)Thermodynamic

limitations on microbially catalyzed reaction rates, Geochim. Cosmochim.Acta, 90, 96-109.

12.LaRowe, D.E. and Dick, J.M. (2012)Calculation of the standard molal thermodynamic properties of crystalline peptides, Geochim. Cosmochim.Acta, 80, 70-91.

11. Nielsen, S.G., Goff, M., Hesselbo, S.P., Jenkyns, H.C., LaRowe, D.E. and Lee, C.-T. A.

(2011)Thallium isotopes in early diagenetic pyrite – A paleoredox proxy?Geochim.Cosmochim.Acta, 75, 6690-6704.

10.LaRowe, D.E. and Van Cappellen, P. (2011) Degradation of natural organic matter: A thermodynamic analysis. Geochim.Cosmochim.Acta75, 2030-2042.

9. Regnier, P., Dale, A. W., Arndt, S., LaRowe, D.E., Mogollón, J.M. & Van Cappellen, P.

(2011)Quantitative analysis of anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) in marine sediments: a modeling perspective. Earth Science Reviews, 106, 105-130.

8. Nielsen, S.G., Mar-Gerrison, S., Gannoun, A., LaRowe, D.E., Klemm, V., Halliday, A.N.,

Burton, K.W. and Hein, J.R. (2009) Thallium isotope evidence for a permanent increase in marine organic carbon export in the early Eocene. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 278, 297-307.

7.LaRowe, D.E., Dale, A.W. and Regnier, P. (2008) A thermodynamic analysis of the anaerobic

oxidationof methane in marine sediments.Geobiology6, 436-449.

6.LaRowe, D.E. and Regnier, P. (2008) Thermodynamic potential for the abiotic synthesis of

adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine, uracil, ribose, and deoxyribose in hydrothermal systems, Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 38, 383-397.

5. Franiatte, M., Richard, L., Elie, M., Nguyen-Trung, C., Perfetti, E. and LaRowe, D. E. (2008)

Hydrothermal stability of adenine under controlled fugacities of N2, CO2 and H2. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 38, 139-148.

4.LaRowe, D. E. and Helgeson, H. C. (2007) Quantifying the energetics of metabolic reactions

in diverse biogeochemical systems: Electron flow and ATP synthesis.Geobiology5, 153-168.

3.LaRowe, D.E. and Helgeson, H.C. (2006) Biomolecules in Hydrothermal Systems:

Calculation of the standard molal thermodynamic properties of nucleic-acid bases, nucleosides, and nucleotides at elevated temperatures and pressures.Geochim.Cosmochim.Acta70, 4680-4724.

2.LaRowe, D. E. and Helgeson, H. C. (2006) Energetics of metabolism in hydrothermal

systems: Calculation of the standard molal thermodynamic properties of magnesium-complexed adenosine nucleotides and NAD and NADP at elevated temperatures and pressures.Thermochim.Acta448, 82-106.

1. Dick, J.M., LaRowe, D.E., and Helgeson, H.C. (2006) Temperature, pressure, and

electrochemical constraints on protein speciation: Group additivity calculation of the standard molal thermodynamic properties of ionized unfolded proteins.Biogeosciences,3, 311-336.

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREP

Teske, A.P., Callaghan, A.V. and LaRowe, D.E. Biosphere Frontiers: Deep Life in a

sedimented hydrothermal system, to be submitted to Frontiers in Extreme Microbiology

McKay, L., LaRowe, D.E.Amend, J.P. Teske, A. Hydrothermal AOM in Guaymas Basin, in

prep

Hernandez-Sanchez, M.T., Homoky, W.B., LaRowe, D.E., Deng, F., Browning, T.,

Pabortsava, K., Henderson, G., Bouman, H. and Pancost, R.D. Is upper water column productivity reflected in underlying sediments?,in prep

Koch, B.P., LaRowe, D.E., Schmitt-Kopplin P., Amend, J.P. and Kattner, G. Molecular

mechanisms of dissolved organic matter preservation in the ocean, in prep

Lin, H.-T.,LaRowe, D.E. Amend,J.P., Bingham, J.-P., and Cowen, J.P.Dissolved amino

acids in basement fluids from sediment-buried eastern Juan de Fuca Ridge flank

LaRowe, D.E., Buwicz, E., Arndt, S. and Amend, J.P. The geography of life in marine

sediments, in prep

AWARDS

Margeret E. Bewig Memorial Field Camp Award, Washington University in St. Louis, 1998

Ernest L. Ohle Jr. Award, Washington University in St. Louis, 1998

FUNDING

  • ARCS Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2 years (1998-1999)
  • Graduate Opportunity Program Award, University of California, Berkeley, 2 years(2000-2001)
  • NSF-funded Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) Postdoctoral Scholar Program, 2 years(April 2012-March 2014)
  • NSF-funded Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) travel grant, 2012
  • Travel grant for 2nd International Workshop on Microbial Life under Extreme Energy Limitation, Aarhus, Denmark, May 2012
  • Collaborator on NASA Astrobiology Institute Grant based at USC, lead PI Jan Amend, $6.7 million

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

  • Reviewer for Nature, Nature Geoscience,PLoS ONE, American Journal of Science, Geochimica et CosmochimicaActa, American Chemical Society Books, PLoS Computational Biology, National Science Foundation, Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres,Geofluids,Geomicrobiology, Geochemical Transactions, Journal of Sea Research, C-DEBI graduate fellowship program, C-DEBI postdoctoral fellowship program
  • Member of the International Committee for ISEB, International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry(2013 -)
  • Session organizer at the 2008 Goldschmidt Conference in Davos, Switzerland
  • Contributor to NASA-NORDIC Astrobiology Winter School, “Water and the Evolution of Life in the Universe,” Honolulu, HI, January 2014
  • Contributor to International Society for Environmental Biogeochemistry short course - “Microbe-Mineral Interactions: Molecular to Global Scale Interactions”, Riviera Maya, Mexico, November 2012
  • Geochemical Society’s Goldschmidt Student Travel Fund Committee (2013-)
  • Organizer for Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI) Research Coordination Network (RCN) meeting and workshop, April 2014
  • Thesis committee for JotautasBaronas, USC
  • Paleoenvironment/Geobiology Seminar Series Organizer, USC, 2013-2014

INVITATIONS

Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department Seminar, April 2014

Keynote speaker for American Geophysical Union session, Carbon Transformations in

Hydrothermal System, San Francisco, December 2013

Bristol University, School of Geographical Sciences Biogeochemistry Seminar, May 2012

University of Southern California, Paleoenvironment Seminar, April 2012

University of Hawaii, Astrobiology Seminar, February 2012

Invited participant at Exploring Knowledge Gaps Along the Global Carbon Route: A

Hitchhiker’s Guide for a Boundless Cycle Workshop, Belgium, October 2011

University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, May 2010

University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, May 2010

Penn State University, lecturer for Issues in Microbial Geobiology seminar, October 2009

Georgia Institute of Technology, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Science, March 2008

Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences – Geochemistry, January 2006

TEACHING

Fall 2013 Co-instructor for Geochemistry, University of Southern California

Spring 2011, 2010 & 2009 Co-instructor for Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Georgia Institute of Technology

Fall 2010 & 2009 Co-instructor for Environment and Health, Georgia Institute of Technology

Fall 2006 Co-organizer for Geomicrobiology Seminar, Utrecht University

Fall 2003 & 1999 Graduate Student Instructor for Introduction to Geochemistry, University of

California, Berkeley

Fall 2000 Graduate Student Instructor for Astrobiology, University of California, Berkeley

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