Emily Walsh

100B Horn Building

ewalsh@gso.uri.edu

http://www.gso.uri.edu/dhondtlab

Degree Program: PhD

Educational Background

B.S. Cell/Molecular Biology

Bridgewater State College

2007

Areas of Specialization

Research

I utilize molecular techniques along with next generation sequencing approaches to address questions relating to microbial community dynamics in deep sea sedimentary environments.

Publications:

Expedition 323 Scientists, 2010. Bering Sea paleoceanography: Pliocene–Pleistocene
paleoceanography and climate history of the Bering Sea. IODP Prel. Rept., 323.
doi:10.2204/iodp.pr.323.2010 (http://iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/expeditions/bering_sea.html)

Wehrmann, L.M., N. Risgaard-Petersen, H.N. Schrum, E.Walsh, Y. Huh, M. Ikehara, S.
D’Hondt, T.G. Ferdelman, A.C. Ravelo, K. Takahashi, C. Alvarez Zarikian and the
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 323 Scientific Party, in review. “Coupled
organic and inorganic carbon cycling in the deep subseafloor sediment of the northeastern
Bering Sea Slope (IODP Exp. 323), Chem. Geol.

Reeves, E.P., J.S. Seewald, P. Saccocia, W. Bach, P.R. Craddock, W.C. Shanks, S.P.. Sylva,
E. Walsh, T. Pichler, and M. Rosner, 2011. "Geochemistry of Hydrothermal Fluids from
the PACMANUS, Northeast Pual and Vienna Woods Hydrothermal Fields, Manus Basin,
Papua New Guinea." Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta (75) 1088-1123 .

Takahashi, K., C.A. Ravelo, C. Zarikian, and IODP Expedition 323 Scientists. "IODP
Expedition 323 Pliocene and Pleistocene Paleoceanographic Changes in the Bering Sea."
Scientific Drilling.

Presentations:

Walsh, E., D'Hondt, S.L., Smith, D.C., Sogin, M.L."Assessing bio-geographic patterns in bacterial community structures from sea-surface to sub-seafloor from three Pacific Ocean stations" . Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union Fall meet. Suppl. Abstract B51K-0558.

Walsh, E., K.G. Eilers, S.M. Ulrich, C. Wenk, L. MacKenzie, S.C. Dawson, J. Spear, J.R. de la
Torre and the 2010 USC International Geobiology Course. Changes in the community
structure of microbial mats along chemical and temperature gradients in a Yellowstone hot
spring, EOS Trans. AGU, Fall meet. Suppl, Abstract B21B-0320

Wehrmann, L.M., Risgaard-Petersen, N., Schrum, H.N., Walsh, E., D’Hondt, S.L., Brunner, B.,
Ferdelman, T.G., Huh, Y., Ikehara, M., Ravelo, C., Takahashi, K., and Alvarez Zarikian,
C.A., 2010. Carbon and sulfur biogeochemistry of the Bering Sea: initial results from IODP
Expedition 323). Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 91(26)(Ocean Sci. Suppl.):CO35A-12.
http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10/waisos10.html

Wehrmann, L.M., Huh, Y., Ikehara, M., Risgaard-Petersen, N., Schrum, H., Walsh, E., Ravelo,
C., Takahashi, K., Alvarez Zarikian, C., and the IODP Expedition 323 Scientific Party, 2009.
IODP Expedition 323 initial results: microbial respiration and diagenetic redox cycling in
sediments of the high-productivity Bering Sea [presented at the IODP New Ventures in
Exploring Scientific Targets (INVEST) Meeting, Bremen, Germany, 13–25 September 2009.

Seewald, J, Reeves, E, Saccocia, P, Rouxel, O, Walsh, E, Price, R, Tivey, M, Bach, W, Tivey,
M, Scientific MGLN06MV. Water-Rock Reaction, Substrate Composition, Magmatic
Degassing, and Mixing as Major Factors Controlling Vent Fluid Compositions in Manus
Basin Hydrothermal Systems. (2006) Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl.,