Jeremy B. Fein Professor
Director, Center for Environmental Science and Technology
M.S., Geochemistry, Northwestern University (1986)
B.A., Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago (1983)
Postdoctoral Research Experience: U.S. Geological Survey, Illinois State Water Survey, University of Edinburgh
Geomicrobiology: Determining the effects of bacteria on the fate and mobility of heavy metal and radionuclide contaminants in groundwater systems. We focus on the adsorption, redox, and precipitation reactions that occur in these systems and we take an experimental approach in order to isolate and model these reactions. The objective of the research is to derive thermodynamic and kinetic models that can account for reactions involving these metals under realistic geologic systems.
Solubility of Actinide-bearing mineral phases: Spent nuclear fuel and high level nuclear waste contain a number of actinide elements that are both toxic and high radioactive. The solubility of actinide-bearing mineral phases can control the mobility of the actinides that are (or will be) introduced into geologic systems. We are using solubility measurements, coupled with calorimetry, to determine the thermodynamic stabilities of environmentally relevant mineral phases. The objective is to construct a database that is extensive enough to accurately improve the predictive models for subsurface actinide transport.
Sheng, L ., Szymanowski, J.E.S., and Fein, J.B. (2010, submitted) "The effects of uranium speciation on the rate of U(VI) reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Kenney, J.P.L., Song, Z ., Bunker, B.A., and Fein, J.B. (2010, submitted) "An experimental study of Au removal from solution by bacterial cells. Part 1: Aqueous chemistry results. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Song, Z., Kenney, J.P.L., Bunker, B.A., and Fein, J.B. (2010, submitted) "An experimental study of Au removal from solution by bacterial cells. Part 2: X-ray absorption spectroscopy experiments." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Alessi, D.S ., and Fein, J.B. (2009, in press) "Cadmium adsorption to mixtures of soil components: Testing the component additivity approach" Chemical Geology 270, 186- 195.
Alessi, D.S., Henderson, J.M., and Fein, J.B. (2010, in press) "Experimental measurement of monovalent cation adsorption onto Bacillus subtilis cells." Geomicrobiology Journal.
Gorman-Lewis, D ., Shvareva, T., Kubatko, K.-A., Burns, P.C., Wellman, D.M., McNamara, B., Szymanowski, J.E.S., Navrotsky, A., and Fein, J.B. (2009) "Thermodynamic properties of autunite, uranyl hydrogen phosphate, and uranyl orthophosphate from solubility and calorimetric measurements." Environmental Science and Technology 43 , 7416-7422.
Alessi, D.S ., Forbes, T.Z., Quicksall, A.N., Sigmon, G.E., Burns, P.C., and Fein, J.B. (2009, submitted) "Highly non-ideal effects of ppm-level substitution on solid-phase solubility." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Jaisi, D.P., Liu, C., Dong, H., Blake, R.E., and Fein, J.B. (2008) "Fe2+ sorption onto nontronite (NAu-2)." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, 5361-5371.
Mishra, B., Boyanov, M .,Bunker, B.A., Kelly, S.D., Kemner, K.M., and Fein, J.B. (2010) " High- and low-affinity binding sites for Cd on the bacterial cell walls of Bacillus subtilis and Shewanella oneidensis." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74, 4219-4233.
Ueshima, M., Ginn, B.R ., Haack, E.A., Szymanowski, J.E.S., and Fein, J.B. (2008) "Cd adsorption onto Pseudomonas putida in the presence and absence of extracellular polymeric substances." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, 5885-5895.
Alessi, D.S., Cox, D.M., and Fein, J.B. (2010, submitted)"Uncertainties in determining microbial biomass C using the chloroform fumigation-extraction method." Chemical Geology.
Gorman-Lewis, D ., Fein, J.B., Burns, P.C., Szymanowski, J.E.S., and Converse, J. (2008 "Solubility measurements of the uranyl oxide hydrate phases metaschoepite, compreignacite, Na-compreignacite, becquerelite, and clarkeite." Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 40, 980-990.
Ginn, B.R ., and Fein, J.B. (2008) "The effect of species diversity on metal adsorption onto bacteria."
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72 , 3939-3948.
Ginn, B.R ., Szymanowski, J.E.S., and Fein, J.B. (2009, in press) "Calibration of a linear free energy estimation approach for estimating stability constants for metal-bacterial surface complexes." Geomicrobiology Journal.
Ginn, B.R., Szymanowski, J.E.S., and Fein, J.B. (2008) "Metal and proton binding onto the roots of Fescue rubra ." Chemical Geology 253, 130-135.
Gorman-Lewis, D.,Burns, P.C., and Fein, J.B. (2008) "Review of uranyl mineral solubility measurements." Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 40, 335-352.
Ginn, B., and Fein, J.B. (2009) "Temperature dependence of Cd and Pb binding onto bacterial cells." Chemical Geology, 259, 99-106.
Mishra, B., Fein, J.B., Boyanov, M.I., Kelly, S.D., Kemner, K.M., and Bunker, B.A. (2007) "Comparison of Cd binding mechanisms by Gram-positive, Gram-negative and consortia of bacteria using XAFS." Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 882, 343- 345.
Mishra, B., Boyanov, M., Bunker, B.A., Kelly, S.D., Kemner, K.M., Nerenberg, R., Read-Daily, B.L., and Fein, J.B., (2009) "X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of Cd adsorption onto bacterial consortia." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73, 4311-4325.
Johnson, K.J., Ams, D.A ., Wedel, A.N., Szymanowski, J.E.S., Weber, D.L., Schneegurt, M.A., and Fein, J.B. (2007) "The impact of metabolic state on Cd adsorption onto bacterial cells." Geobiology 5, 211-218.
Gorman-Lewis, D., Mazeina, L., Fein, J.B., Szymanowski, J.E.S., Burns, P.C., and Navrotsky, A. (2007) "Thermodynamic properties of soddyite from solubility and calorimetry measurements." Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics 39, 568-575.
Dahlheimer, S.R ., Neal, C.R., and Fein, J.B. (2007) "Potential siderophore mobilization of platinum-group elements in surface environments." Environmental Science and Technology 41, 870-875.
Johnson, K.J ., Szymanowski, J.E.S., Borrok, D., Huynh, T.Q., and Fein, J.B. (2007) "Proton and metal adsorption onto bacterial consortia: Similarities in adsorption behaviors and estimation of generalized stability constants for metal-bacterial surface complexes." Chemical Geology, 239, 13-26.
Boyanov, M.I ., O'Loughlin, E.J., Roden, E.E., Fein, J.B., and Kemner, K.M. (2007) "Adsorption of Fe(II) and U(VI) to carboxyl-functionalized microspheres: The influence of speciation on uranyl reduction studied by titration and XAFS." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71, 1898-1912.
Borrok, D ., Aumend, K., and Fein, J.B. (2007) "Significance of ternary bacteria-metal- natural organic matter complexes determined through experimentation and chemical equilibrium modeling." Chemical Geology, 238, 44-62.
Fein, J.B. (2006) "Thermodynamic modeling of metal adsorption onto bacterial cell walls: Current challenges." Advances in Agronomy, V. 90, 179-202.
Phone: 574-631-6101
Email: fein(at)nd.edu
Web: http://www.nd.edu/~fein/
Geomicrobiology