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Office: SL 124
Phone: 317-274-7484
Email: gfilippe@iupui.edu
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Background
Ph.D., University of California,
Santa Cruz, 1994
Specialties
Biogeochemistry,
Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, Medical Geology
My
research focuses on biogeochemical cycling in the environment
and the connections between geochemistry and the geologic record
of climate change. Student projects involve field study,
followed by detailed geochemical analyses in the biogeochemistry
laboratory. The laboratory is equipped with a plasma emission
spectrometer for elemental analyses, as well as specialized
spectrometers for analysis of carbon, mercury, and phosphorous.
The
Biogeochemistry Laboratory |
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Research
Program |
Course Information |
 I have worked
extensively on the chemistry and geologic history of nutrient
cycling in the ocean and on land. Current research projects involve
determining the controls on nutrient cycling on land during
glaciation, examining the timing and driving forces of biological
productivity in the ocean, assessing the content and distribution of
the potentially harmful element mercury in coal resources of Indiana
and examining the links between lead distribution and children's
blood lead levels in urban areas. |
Course Information and Webpages should be accessed through Oncourse
Fall
2007
 G130
Short Course:
Mars and Beyond
(meets Oct 01-31)
G490 Undergraduate Seminar: Paleoceanography &
Paleoclimatology
G690 Graduate Seminar: Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology
Spring 2007
Sabbatical
Fall 2006
G490 Undergraduate Seminar: Geochemistry
G690 Graduate Seminar: Geochemistry |
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Recently Funded Projects |
Graduate Students/Interns |
Testing the
shelf-nutrient hypothesis by examining the oceanic phosphorus cycle
on glacial timescales
(sole PI; National Science Foundation)
Phosphorus and carbon sedimentation on
precessional timescales: A Pleistocene-Miocene comparison
(sole PI; American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund)
SMOGEE: Students as Mentors and
Owners of Geoscience and Environmental Education: The Global Warming
Road Show
(co-PI with D. Schuster, E. Wood, IUPUI School of Education; Chris
Thomas; National Science Foundation)
United States Science Advisory
Committee Chair’s Office Support
(sole PI; JOI/US Science Support Program)
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
of the Southern Ocean: A Synthesis of Three Decades of Scientific
Ocean Drilling
(primary PI, co-PI D. Warnke, Cal. State Hayward; JOI/U.S. Science
Support Program)
Study of the Effects of Atmospheric
Pollutants on the Invasibility of Panne Vegetation by Invasive
Plants
(co-PI with C. Souch; D. Mason; National Parks Service) |
Alex Rowen
Topic to be determined
Carrie Hatcher
Mercury in the White River, Central Indiana
Angie Robertson
Topic to be determined
Sarah Sutor
Changes
in biological productivity in the Equatorial Pacific due to nutrient
upwelling on glacial-interglacial timescales
Cheryl Nazareth
(M.S., 2007)
The effect of atmospheric
pollutants and hydrology on the degradation of panne vegetation by
invasive species.
Robyn Raftis
(M.S., 2007)
Phosphorus and
metal biogeochemical cycling in soils and lake sediments in urban
environments.
Past Students |
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Labs |
The
IUPUI Biogeochemistry Laboratory
Center For Environmental Health |
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Recent Publications |
Filippelli, G.M., Souch, C.S., Horn,
S., and Newkirk, D, 2009. The pre-Colombian footprint on
terrestrial nutrient cycling in Costa Rica: Insights from
phosphorus in a lake sediment record. Journal of Paleolimnology.
doi: 10.1007/s10933-009-9372-1.
Filippelli, G.M. and Flores, J.A., 2009. From the warm Pliocene
to the cold Pleistocene: A tale of two oceans. Geology, 37(10),
959-960. doi: 10.1130/focus102009.1.
Filippelli, G.M. and Laidlaw, M.A.S., 2009. Response to Comment
by Bogden and Kemp “Soil lead, blood lead, and vitamin D.”
Applied Geochemistry, 24: 1041.
Sen, A.K., Filippelli, G.M., and Flores, J.A., 2009. An
application of wavelet analysis to paleoproductivity records
from the Southern Ocean. Computers and Geoscience, 35(7):
1445-1450.
Nelson, J.A., Licht, K., Yansa, C., and Filippelli, G.M., 2009.
Climate-related cyclic deposition of carbonate and organic
matter in Holocene lacustrine sediment, Lower Michigan, USA.
Journal of Paleolimnology. doi: 10.1007/s10933-009-9381-0.
Filippelli, G.M. and Laidlaw, M.A.S., in press. The elephant in
the playground: Confronting lead-contaminated soils as an
important source of lead burdens to urban populations.
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.
Pandit, C., Filippelli, G.M., and Li, L., in press. An
estimation of heavy metal concentration in soils using
reflectance spectroscopy and partial least squares regression.
International Journal of Remote Sensing.
Filippelli, G.M., 2008. The global phosphorus cycle: Past,
present and Future. Elements, 4(2): 89-95. Highlighted as an
Editor’s Choice in Science, May, 2008.
Laidlaw, M.A. and Filippelli, G.M., 2008. Resuspension of urban
soils as a persistent source of lead poisoning in children: A
review and new directions. Applied Geochemistry, 23: 2021-2039.
McPeek, T., Brown, K., Wang, X., and Filippelli, G.M., 2008.
Rates of carbon ingrowth and nutrient release from young
Icelandic basalts. Joküll, 57: 37-44.
Schuster, D., Filippelli, G.M., and Thomas, C., 2008. Secondary
student’s subject matter representation of climate change.
Journal of Geoscience Education, 56: 307-315.
Filippelli, G.M., Latimer, J.C., Murray, R.W., and Flores, J.A.,
2007. Productivity records from the Southern Ocean and the
equatorial Pacific Ocean: Testing the Glacial Shelf-Nutrient
Hypothesis. Deep Sea Research II, 54/21-22: 2443-2452.
Highlighted as an Editor’s Choice in Science, October, 2007.
Barker, P.F., Filippelli, G.M., Florindo, F., Martin, E.E., and
Scher, H.D., 2007. Onset and role of the Antarctic Circumpolar
Current. Deep Sea Research II, 54/21-22: 2388-2398.
Latimer, J.C. and Filippelli, G.M., 2007. Sedimentary iron
records from the Cape Basin. Deep Sea Research II, 54/21-22:
2422-2431.
Warnke, D., Filippelli, G.M., and Flores, J. A., 2007.
Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology of the Southern Ocean: A
synthesis of three decades of scientific ocean drilling. Deep
Sea Research II, 54/21-22: 2291-2292.
Glenn, C. and Filippelli, G.M., 2007. Authigenic mineral
formation in the marine environment: Pathways, processes and
products. Deep Sea Research II, 54 (11-13): 1-6. |
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