Dr.John F. Stolz

PUBLICATIONS

Visscher, P.T. and Stolz, J.F. 2005 Microbial mats as bioreactors: populations,processes, and products. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 218:87-100

Stolz, J.F. 2003. Structure of marine biofilms: Flat laminated mats and modern marine stromatolites. In "Fossil and Recent Biofilms", W.E. Krumbein, D.M. Paterson, and G. Zavarzin (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. (in press)

Stolz, J.F., Feinstein, T.N. , Salsi, J., Visscher, P.T., and Reid, R.P. 2001. TEM analysis of microbial mediated sedimentation and lithification in modern marine stromatolites. American Minerologist 86:826-833.

Reid R.P., Visccher, P.T., Decho, A.W., Stolz, J.F., Bebout, B.M., Dupraz, C., Macintyre, I.G., Paerl, H.W., Pinckney, J.L., Prufer-Bebout, L., Steppe, T.F., and DesMarais, D.J. 2000 The Role of Microbes in Accretion, Lamination, and Early Lithification of Marine Stromatolites. Nature 406:989-992


Phototrophic Prokaryotes Bahamian Stromatolites
Surface diatoms (green) and coccoid cyanobacteria (orange) among the carbonate ooids (blue) in an ooid accreting community from Highborne Cay, Bahamas.

PROJECT In the spring of 1998 I began a collaboration with a research group headed by Dr. Pamela Reid (University of Miami) that is studying the modern stromatolites of Highborne Cay, Bahamas. My particular tasks have been to assist in the identification of phototrophic species (i.e., cyanobacteria) and to determine the community structure using confocal and electron microscopy. This work has been funded in part by Biocomplexity grant from the National Science Foundation. More information can be found at the RIBS website.

PUBLICATIONS Visscher, P.T. and Stolz, J.F. 2005 Microbial mats as bioreactors: populations,processes, and products. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 218:87-100 Stolz, J.F. 2003. Structure of marine biofilms: Flat laminated mats and modern marine stromatolites. In "Fossil and Recent Biofilms", W.E. Krumbein, D.M. Paterson, and G. Zavarzin (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. (in press) Stolz, J.F., Feinstein, T.N. , Salsi, J., Visscher, P.T., and Reid, R.P. 2001. TEM analysis of microbial mediated sedimentation and lithification in modern marine stromatolites. American Minerologist 86:826-833. Reid R.P., Visccher, P.T., Decho, A.W., Stolz, J.F., Bebout, B.M., Dupraz, C., Macintyre, I.G., Paerl, H.W., Pinckney, J.L., Prufer-Bebout, L., Steppe, T.F., and DesMarais, D.J. 2000 The Role of Microbes in Accretion, Lamination, and Early Lithification of Marine Stromatolites. Nature 406:989-992