Gavin Chan

Gavin Chan

  • Position:
    Chief-of-Everything

    Independent professional at Information design, quantitative analysis and writing

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  • Degrees:
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Everett L. Shock (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
     
    Wayne Dollase (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    Bio-geochemistry

    Combined microbiology and geochemistry to study microbial metabolic reactions using thermodynamics. Focused on the environmental supply of energy available to microorganisms, as well as the energetic demand during cell growth. Studied high-temperature microbial habitats in Yellowstone National Park, and analyzed water, rock, sediment and biological samples. Did systematic studies on how chemical speciations and stabilities change as functions of temperature, pH and oxygen potential. Compiled and organized data of physiology and metabolism of thermophiles and other extremophiles.

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  • Other Experience:

    2006-2007 Web Administrator, Keck Graduate Institute, The Claremont Colleges

    2004-2005 Head Technician, the Baltimore Lab., Caltech

    2004 Volunteer, Chemometrics Assistant, CSULA

    2003-2004 Trainee, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, CSULA

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  • Honors:

    1999-2000 Graduate Representative to the Board of Trustees, Washington University

    1999 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence

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Gavin Chan's Publications (2)



Gavin Chan's Posters and Presentations (11)

  • Variability in the Microbial Populations in Soils with Elevated CO2 (poster)

    Carolina Reyes, Gavin Chan and Tina Salmassi

    American Society for Microbiology; 05/2004
  • What Can Fluid/Rock Composition Say About A Microbial Habitat? (poster)

    Gavin Chan and Everett Shock

    American Society for Microbiology; 05/2002
  • Thermodynamic Evaluations of Microbial Growth (poster)

    Gavin Chan and Everett Shock

    The 5th RIDGE Theoretical Institute on the Subsurface Biosphere at Mid-Ocean Ridges; 07/2000
  • Energy Supply for the Subsurface Biosphere (poster)

    Everett Shock, Jan Amend and Gavin Chan

    American Geophysical Union; 12/1999
  • Microbial Diversity Recapitulates Hot Spring Geochemistry (poster)

    Gavin Chan, Everett Shock and Anna-Louise Reysenbach

    American Geophysical Union; 12/1999
  • Biomineralization in Near Neutral Thermal Environments by Members of One of the Deepest Rooted Lineages of Life (poster)

    Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Doel Rodriguez, Paula Aquiar, Terry Beveridge, T.C. Onstott, Ken Tobin, Gavin Chan and Everett Shock

    American Geophysical Union; 12/1998
  • Microbial Habitats in Deep Granitic Rock: A Thermodynamic Approach. (poster)

    Gavin Chan and Everett Shock

    American Geophysical Union; 12/1998
  • Possible Evidence for Fossil Biofilm in Calcite Springs, Yellowstone, from LA-ICP-MS data (poster)

    Robby Valentine, Steve Shuttleworth, Dan Kremser, Gavin Chan, Everett Shock and Julie Morris

    American Geophysical Union; 12/1998
  • Thermodynamics and Thermocrinis' Habitats (poster)

    Gavin Chan and Everett Shock

    First General Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute; 11/1998
  • Metabolic Energy Available During Weathering of Granite (presentation)

    Gavin Chan and Everett Shock

    Geological Society of America; 10/1997
  • Mineral-Solution Disequilibria as Sources of Metabolic Energy in Subsurface Habitats (poster)

    Everett Shock, Jan Amend and Gavin Chan

    Geological Society of America; 10/1997

One Figure

One Figure for Gavin Chan

Thermodynamic analysis of one microbial nitrogen-fixation reaction under highly reducing and ultrabasic conditions. (2006, K. Nealson, personal communication)


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