Joyce McBeth

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About Joyce McBeth

If you are interested in furthering your career in environmental geosciences with an MSc degree in mine waste or remediation-related geosciences, please get in touch. Note that all applicants must have an undergraduate degree in a geoscience discipline with strength in geochemistry. I am based at URegina these days and I also still have an active Adjunct presence at USask as I work to support my USask students in completing their programs and as I transition my lab to my new appointment. I offer an inter-institutional undergraduate/graduate course in geomicrobiology and organic geochemistry through URegina and USask. If you are a USask or URegina geology, biology, or environmental science graduate student who is interested in participating in this course in future, reach out, even a year in advance it is helpful to hear from you for planning! My scientific interests-redox transformations of metal(loids) in the environment -relationships of microorganisms to these transformations -using synchrotron methods to image and characterize the chemistry of contaminated sites and mine wastes -microbial roles in modern microbialite formation -environmental microbiology and the cycling of iron, sulfur, toxic metals, and other elements in environments such as mine-impacted environments, uranium mine tailings, oil sands tailings, wastewater, hydrocarbon contaminated sites, constructed wetland treatment systems, salt marshes, and marine sediments -microbiology of steel corrosion -microbial ecology of microbial mats -fossilized microbes and microbial biosignatures in the rock record -archaeaology and toxicology Specialties: Geomicrobiology Biogeochemistry Geochemistry Soil and Groundwater Bioremediation Microbiology Bacteriology Microbial Ecology Use of synchrotron tools in geomicrobiology