Leigh McCallister

S. Leigh McCallister, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

(804) 827-0234

Trani Life Sciences Building, 1000 W. Cary St., room B009

Education

Ph.D. Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 2002
B.A. Biology, University of Virginia, 1993
B.A. Environmental Science, University of Virginia, 1993

Biotic and abiotic factors influencing the age of organic carbon in fluvial, estuarine, coastal and open ocean ecosystems
Biogeochemical transformations of organic carbon along the land to sea continuum
The sources and ages of organic carbon fueling microbial anabolic and catabolic pathways
The importance of terrestrial organic carbon subsidies to microbial and higher trophic food webs in aquatic ecosystems

McCallister, S.L., J.E. Bauer, J. Cherrier, and H.W. Ducklow. 2004. Assessing the sources and ages of organic matter supporting estuarine bacterial production: A multiple-isotope (d13C, d15N, D14C) approach. Limnology and Oceanography 49: 1687-1702.
McCallister, S.L., J.E. Bauer, H.W. Ducklow, and E.A. Canuel. 2006. Sources of estuarine dissolved and particulate organic matter: a multi-tracer approach. Organic Geochemistry 37: 454-468.
McCallister, S.L. and P.A. del Giorgio. 2012. Evidence for the respiration of ancient terrestrial organic C in northern temperate lakes and streams. Proceedings of National Academy of Science 109: 16963-16968.
Guillemette, F., S.L. McCallister and P.A. del Giorgio. 2013. Differentiating the degradation dynamics of algal and terrestrial carbon within complex natural dissolved organic carbon in temperate lakes. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences. 118: 963-973.
Lechtenfeld, O.J., G. Kattner, R. Flerus, S.L. McCallister, P. Schmitt-Kopplin and Koch, B.P. 2014. Molecular transformation and degradation of refractory dissolved organic matter in the Atlantic and Southern Ocean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 126: 321-337.