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Thomas L. Kieft's Degrees

Masters Computer Science Stanford University
Bachelors Computer Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Dr. Thomas L. Kieft is an environmental microbiologist who investigates the ecology and biogeochemistry of microbes in extreme environments. He is a professor of Biology at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

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Microbial biomass response to a rapid increase in water potential when dry soil is wetted (1987) (816)
A new analysis of Mars "Special Regions": findings of the second MEPAG Special Regions Science Analysis Group (SR-SAG2). (2014) (307)
Changes in Ester-Linked Phospholipid Fatty Acid Profiles of Subsurface Bacteria during Starvation and Desiccation in a Porous Medium (1994) (299)
Dissimilatory Reduction of Fe(III) and Other Electron Acceptors by a Thermus Isolate (1999) (250)
The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface (2018) (228)
TEMPORAL DYNAMICS IN SOIL CARBON AND NITROGEN RESOURCES AT A GRASSLAND–SHRUBLAND ECOTONE (1998) (223)
Antibacterial action of a novel functionalized chitosan-arginine against Gram-negative bacteria. (2010) (194)
Survival and phospholipid Fatty Acid profiles of surface and subsurface bacteria in natural sediment microcosms (1997) (189)
Rapid detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by immunomagnetic separation and real-time PCR. (2005) (177)
Influence of the Gas-Water Interface on Transport of Microorganisms through Unsaturated Porous Media (1994) (159)
An oligotrophic deep-subsurface community dependent on syntrophy is dominated by sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrifiers (2016) (143)
Subsurface Microbial Diversity in Deep-Granitic-Fracture Water in Colorado (2007) (132)
Indigenous and contaminant microbes in ultradeep mines. (2003) (117)
The Distribution of Microbial Taxa in the Subsurface Water of the Kalahari Shield, South Africa (2006) (116)
Observations Pertaining to the Origin and Ecology of Microorganisms Recovered from the Deep Subsurface of Taylorsville Basin, Virginia (1998) (113)
Ice Nucleation Activity in Lichens (1988) (110)
The Origin and Age of Biogeochemical Trends in Deep Fracture Water of the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa (2006) (106)
A metagenomic window into carbon metabolism at 3 km depth in Precambrian continental crust (2015) (101)
Findings of the Mars special regions science analysis group. (2006) (91)
Microbiological Comparisons within and across Contiguous Lacustrine, Paleosol, and Fluvial Subsurface Sediments (1995) (83)
Variations in microbial carbon sources and cycling in the deep continental subsurface (2016) (81)
Characterization of biological ice nuclei from a lichen (1990) (77)
Microscopic physical biomarkers in carbonate hot springs: implications in the search for life on Mars. (2000) (75)
Phylogeny and phylogeography of functional genes shared among seven terrestrial subsurface metagenomes reveal N-cycling and microbial evolutionary relationships (2014) (72)
Microbial abundance and activities in relation to water potential in the vadose zones of arid and semiarid sites (1993) (71)
Single cell genomics indicates horizontal gene transfer and viral infections in a deep subsurface Firmicutes population (2015) (64)
Geochemically Generated, Energy-Rich Substrates and Indigenous Microorganisms in Deep, Ancient Groundwater (2005) (63)
Microbiology of vadose zone paleosols in south-central Washington State (1992) (63)
A highly sensitive immuno-PCR assay for detecting Group A Streptococcus. (2003) (56)
Grazing and plant-canopy effects on semiarid soil microbial biomass and respiration (1994) (56)
Factors limiting microbial growth and activity at a proposed high-level nuclear repository, yucca mountain, nevada (1997) (56)
Report of the COSPAR Mars Special Regions Colloquium (2010) (54)
Microbiological Comparison of Core and Groundwater Samples Collected from a Fractured Basalt Aquifer with that of Dialysis Chambers Incubated In Situ (2004) (53)
Does aspartic acid racemization constrain the depth limit of the subsurface biosphere? (2014) (50)
A Global Perspective on the Microbial Abundance and Activity in the Deep Subsurface (1999) (49)
Sensitive, real-time PCR detects low-levels of contamination by Legionella pneumophila in commercial reagents. (2006) (47)
Biological Ice Nucleation Activity in Lichen Mycobionts and Photobionts (1989) (46)
Identification of iron-reducing Thermus strains as Thermus scotoductus (2004) (46)
Microbial Transport, Survival, and Succession in a Sequence of Buried Sediments (1995) (43)
Microbiological characteristics of pristine and contaminated deep vadose sediments from an arid region (1993) (43)
An immuno-PCR method for detecting Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac toxin. (2006) (41)
Microbial reduction of hexavalent chromium under vadose zone conditions. (2003) (41)
Phylogenetic characterization of dwarf archaea and bacteria from a semiarid soil (2004) (41)
Comparisons of the composition and biogeographic distribution of the bacterial communities occupying South African thermal springs with those inhabiting deep subsurface fracture water (2014) (41)
Mars Extant Life: What's Next? Conference Report (2020) (40)
Drilling, Coring, and Sampling Subsurface Environments (2008) (39)
Biomass and adenylate energy charge of a grassland soil during drying. (1990) (39)
Post-Sampling Changes in Microbial Community Composition and Activity in a Subsurface Paleosol (1998) (39)
Trends and future challenges in sampling the deep terrestrial biosphere (2014) (38)
Application of respiration- and adenylate-based soil microbiological assays to deep subsurface terrestrial sediments (1991) (33)
Mammal mounds stimulate microbial activity in a semiarid shrubland. (2000) (30)
Size Matters: Dwarf Cells in Soil and Subsurface Terrestrial Environments (2000) (29)
Groundwater flow and geochemistry in the Southeastern San Juan Basin: Implications for microbial transport and activity (1998) (27)
Allometry of animal–microbe interactions and global census of animal-associated microbes (2015) (27)
Deep gold mines of South Africa: windows into the subsurface biosphere (1997) (27)
Chemostat and in‐situ colonization kinetics of thermothrix thiopara on calcite and pyrite surfaces (1984) (27)
Microbiology of the Deep Continental Biosphere (2016) (26)
Dissolved organic matter compositions in 0.6–3.4 km deep fracture waters, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa (2018) (25)
Soil microbiology in reclamation of arid and semiarid lands. (1991) (23)
South African crustal fracture fluids preserve paleometeoric water signatures for up to tens of millions of years (2018) (20)
Fluctuations in populations of subsurface methane oxidizers in coordination with changes in electron acceptor availability (2018) (19)
The role of low-temperature 18O exchange in the isotopic evolution of deep subsurface fluids (2020) (19)
In Situ Cultivation of Subsurface Microorganisms in a Deep Mafic Sill: Implications for SLiMEs (2010) (16)
Osmoregulation inThiobacillus ferrooxidans: Stimulation of iron oxidation by proline and betaine under salt stress (1988) (15)
New Horizons for Deep Subsurface Microbiology (2009) (15)
Measurement of ice nucleation in lichens using thermal analysis (1992) (14)
Derivation of a growth rate equation describing microbial surface colonization (1983) (14)
Colonization of sulfide‐oxygen interfaces on hot spring tufa by Thermothrix thiopara (1984) (13)
Sampling the Deep Sub-Surface Using Drilling and Coring Techniques (2010) (12)
Life in the Slow Lane: Activities of Microorganisms in the Subsurface (2018) (10)
Lighting Effects on the Development and Diversity of Photosynthetic Biofilm Communities in Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico (2021) (10)
Vadose Zone Microbiology (2003) (9)
Weathering of calcite, pyrite, and sulfur by Thermothrix thiopara in a thermal spring (1984) (8)
Microbial effects on nickel and cadmium sorption and transport in volcanic tuff (1994) (7)
Underground production of 81Kr detected in subsurface fluids (2020) (7)
Molecular sizes of lichen ice nucleation sites determined by gamma radiation inactivation analysis (1992) (7)
Desert Environments: Soil Microbial Communities in Hot Deserts (2003) (7)
Workshop to develop deep-life continental scientific drilling projects (2015) (7)
Abiotic and biotic processes that drive carboxylation and decarboxylation reactions (2020) (6)
A computer simulation of surface microcolony formation during microbial colonization (1983) (6)
New Allometric Scaling Laws Revealed for Microorganisms. (2017) (5)
The case for a dynamical subsurface ecosystem (2016) (4)
86Kr excess and other noble gases identify a billion-year-old radiogenically-enriched groundwater system (2022) (4)
Atmospheric Processing of Iron-Bearing Mineral Dust Aerosol and Its Effect on Growth of a Marine Diatom, Cyclotella meneghiniana. (2020) (4)
FISH-TAMB, a Fixation-Free mRNA Fluorescent Labeling Technique to Target Transcriptionally Active Members in Microbial Communities (2021) (3)
Sampling the Subsurface (2014) (2)
First Microbial Community Assessment of Borehole Fluids from the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) (2010) (2)
Water potential and starvation stress in deep subsurface microorganisms (1990) (2)
Factors limiting microbial activity in volcanic tuff at Yucca Mountain (1996) (2)
Labeling of prokaryotic mRNA in live cells using fluorescent in situ hybridization of transcript-annealing molecular beacons (FISH-TAMB) (2017) (2)
Continental subsurface waters support unique but diverse C-acquisition strategies (2013) (2)
In situ oxidation of sulfide minerals supports widespread sulfate reducing bacteria in the deep subsurface of the Witwatersrand Basin (South Africa): Insights from multiple sulfur and oxygen isotopes (2022) (2)
Microbial Ecology of the Vadose Zone (1999) (2)
Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium (WERC) annual progress report, 1992--1993 (1993) (1)
Can an Off-Nominal Landing by an MMRTG-Powered Spacecraft Induce a Special Region on Mars When No Ice Is Present? (2019) (1)
New Horizons for Deep Subsurface Microbiology Subsurface microorganisms may grow slowly, but their diversity and persistence offer insights into life in extremis (2009) (1)
COSPAR Sample Safety Assessment Framework (SSAF). (2022) (1)
Exploring the Limits of Life in a South African Deep Subsurface Brine (2018) (1)
Environmental parameters controlling microbial activities in terrestrial subsurface environments (1990) (1)
Hydrogeochemical and Isotopic Signatures Elucidate Deep Subsurface Hypersaline Brine Formation through Radiolysis Driven Water-Rock Interaction (2022) (1)
Laboratory and field evidence for long-term starvation survival of microorganisms in subsurface terrestrial environments (1997) (1)
Characterization of active members in C and N cycles in the subsurface environment of the Witwatersrand Basin (2012) (1)
Deep Trek: Mission Concepts for Exploring Subsurface Habitability & Life on Mars — A Window into Subsurface Life in the Solar System (2021) (1)
Storage-induced changes in microbial community biomass, structure, and activity in a subsurface paleosol (1993) (1)
Biodegradation and Bioremediation (1995) (0)
Temporal Dynamics of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Resources Within a Grassland-Creosote Ecotone at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico (1992-1994) (2010) (0)
U.S.{/}South African Undergraduate Education and Research Workshops (2002) (0)
Survival of Microorganisms in Subsurface Sediments (2003) (0)
Life in Inner Space: Subsurface Microbiology Investigations in Underground Research Laboratories and Deep Mines (2012) (0)
Developing Deep-Life Continental Drilling Projects (2015) (0)
Metabolic potential of a Novel Gram-Negative, Spore-forming, and Putatively Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium in the Continental Subsurface (2017) (0)
Abiotic (Prebiotic?) Organic Chemistry in a Potentially Ancient Hypersaline Brine: New Insights on the Limits of Microbial Life Inhabiting 3.1 km Deep Fracture Fluid in South Africa (2019) (0)
Microbiology and Biogeochemistry of Deep Hydrogeologic Environments of the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa (2001) (0)
The seismogenic zones of an M2.0-5.5 earthquakes successfully recovered in deep South African gold mines: the outcomes and the follow-up plan (2020) (0)
Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium (WERC) annual progress report, 1991--1992 (1992) (0)
Permeability, Fracture Clusters, and Stress State:Implications for Mine-based Studies of EcoHydrology (2011) (0)
A Conceptual Hydrogeologic Model of the Vicinity of DUSEL Homestake (2009) (0)
Preface (2006) (0)
Microbial ecosystems at depth: Contrasts in nutrient and other environmental gradients between natural caves and ultra-deep mines (2011) (0)
Final Technical Report. Origins of subsurface microorganisms: Relating laboratory microcosm studies to a geologic time scale (1998) (0)
Underground production of 81 Kr detected in subsurface ﬂuids (2021) (0)
Environmental parameters controlling microbial activities in terrestrial subsurface environments. Technical completion report (1990) (0)
OXYGEN EXCHANGE IN THE THE HIDDEN HYDROGEOSPHERE: TOWARDS A NEW EQUILIBRIUM? (2020) (0)
Spelunking into the Virosphere: Characterizing Viral Communties from Carlsbad Caverns National Park (2022) (0)
Probing the Deepest Limits of the Earth's Biosphere (2019) (0)
Microbial Dark Matter: Unusual intervening sequences in 16S rRNA genes of candidate phyla from the deep subsurface (2014) (0)
ICDP Drilling project to probe seismogenic zones of M2.0-5.5 earthquake in deep South African gold mines - Commencement of drilling. (2017) (0)
Analysis of Ground Water Flow and Deformation in the Vicinity of DUSEL Homestake (2010) (0)
Vadose Zone Microbiology: Science and Applications (2002) (0)
Fluorescent in situ hybridization of transcript‐annealing molecular beacons (FISH‐TAMB) – an innovative method to tag active, low‐abundance prokaryotic cells (2019) (0)
Lithotrophic (“Stone-Eating”) Microbes Provide the Foundation for Deep Subsurface Ecosystems (2021) (0)
Biogenic Carbon on Mars: A Subsurface Chauvinistic Viewpoint (2015) (0)
Microbiology of a Reclaimed Uranium Mine, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico (2016) (0)
The DSeis Project: Drilling into Seismogenic zones of M2.0 to M5.5 earthquakes in South African gold mines (2017) (0)
Biologically Active Contaminant Degradation Zones in a Basalt Aquifer (1997) (0)
DUSEL and the future of deep terrestrial microbiology (Invited) (2009) (0)
In-situ Microbial Cultivation in a South African Gold Mine (2002) (0)
Toxicological Study of Fluorescent Hydrologic Tracer Dye Effects on Cave Bacteria (2021) (0)
An updated planetary protection special regions on Mars analysis by the MEPAG Special Regions-Science Analysis Group 2. (2014) (0)
Bacterial genetics in natural environments: edited by John C. Fry and Martin J. Day. Chapman and Hall. 1990. £44.00 (xii + 259 pages) ISBN 0 412 35630 9 (1991) (0)
Deep Trek: Science of Subsurface Habitability & Life on Mars (2021) (0)
Responses of subsurface microorganisms to starvation and desiccation in porous media (1992) (0)
Beneath shaky ground: deep life at Koyna, India. (2021) (0)
Searching for Extant Life on Mars: What's Next? (2019) (0)
MICROBIOLOGY OF A RECLAIMED URANIUM MINE, LAGUNA PUEBLO, NM By (2016) (0)

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