Professor BERND R.T. SIMONEIT
Professor of Organic Geochemistry
College of Food and Agricultural Science
King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Email: bsimoneit.c@ksu.edu.sa
Department of Chemistry
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, 97331, United States
E-mail: simonebe@onid.orst.edu, simoneit@ksu.edu.sa
URL: http://www.coas.oregonstate.edu/faculty/simoneit.html
Employments
| Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge |
1961 |
| Chemist, A.C. Lawrence Leather Company, Peabody, MA |
1962-63 |
| Spectroscopist, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley |
1966-70 |
| Associate Specialist, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley |
1970-72 |
| Specialist, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley |
1972-73 |
| Associate Research Geochemist, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles |
1976-81 |
| Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis |
1981-83 |
| Professor, College of Oceanography, Oregon State University, Corvallis |
1983-93 |
| Professor, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis |
1993-2002 |
| Visiting Faculty Associate, Department of Environmental Engineering Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena |
1995-2002 |
| Visiting Professor, Departament de Química Ambiental, Centre d’Investigació Desenvolupament, C.S.I.C., Barcelona, Spain |
1996-97 |
| Professor, Environmental Sciences Graduate Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis |
1997-present |
| Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City |
1998-2002 |
| Visiting Professor, Institute of Low Temperature Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan |
2002 |
| Professor Emeritus, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis |
2002-08 |
| Visiting Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University, Miami |
2003-04 |
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Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis |
2004-present |
| Professor, College of Science and College of Food and Agricultural Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
2008-present |
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Research Interests
Distribution and fate of organic matter in the geo and biospheres (organic and petroleum geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and analytical chemistry applied to pollution and ecology).
Geochemistry of organogenic elements and compounds in the lithosphere (hydrothermal systems, fluid inclusions, sediment subduction and accretion, organic metamorphism in supercritical fluids).
Origin and evolution of life on earth and the search for evidences of extraterrestrial life .
Awards & Honours
1968-70 Lunar Sample Preliminary Examination Team, NASA—Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, TX.
1977 Award by the Organic Geochemistry Division of the Geochemical Society for the best paper in organic geochemistry published that year: "Diterpenoid compounds and other lipids in deep-sea sediments and their geochemical significance," B.R.T. Simoneit, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 41:463-476. 1977
1981 Award by the Organic Geochemistry Division of the Geochemical Society for the best paper in organic geochemistry published that year: "Thermal alteration of Cretaceous black shale by basaltic intrusions in the Eastern Atlantic. II: Effects on bitumen and kerogen," B.R.T. Simoneit, S. Brenner, K.E. Peters and I.R. Kaplan, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 45:1581-1602. 1981.
1992 Tokyo Metropolitan University Fellowship, Department of Chemistry, TMU, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, Japan.
1996 Visiting faculty award by Direccíon General de Investigacíon Científica y Enseñanza Superior, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Madrid, Spain.
2001 Haagen-Smit Award by Atmospheric Environment for the paper: "Source apportionment of airborne particulate matter using organic compounds as tracers," J.J. Schauer, W.F. Rogge, L.M. Hildemann, M.A. Mazurek, G.R. Cass and B.R.T. Simoneit, Atmos. Environ. 30:3837-3855. 1996.
2003 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
2006-08 Visiting Scholar Award, Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami
2006 Alfred Treibs Medal for outstanding contributions in Organic Geochemistry by the Geochemical Society
2006 Fellow of Geochemistry, European Association of Geochemistry
2007 Haagen-Smit Prize by Atmospheric Environment for the paper: "Organic matter of the troposphere – II. Natural background of biogenic lipid matter in aerosols over the western United States," B.R.T. Simoneit and M.A. Mazurek, Atmos. Environ. 16: 2139-2159. 1982.
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Further Information and Activities
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
- American Association for Aerosol Research;
- American Association for the Advancement of Science;
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists; American Chemical Society;
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union; American Society for Mass Spectrometry;
- European Association of Organic Geochemists; Geochemical Society,
- Organic Geochemistry Section; International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry;
- International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life; Sigma Xi
EDITORSHIPS:
Associate Editor, Organic Geochemistry, Pergamon Press/ Elsevier
1982-87 &1990-2001
Editorial Advisory Board, Organic Geochemistry, Pergamon Press/ Elsevier
1988-90 & 2001-07
Associate Editor, Applied Geochemistry, Pergamon Press/ Elsevier
1992-present
Editorial Board, Ecological Chemistry, ALGA and Thesa Press, Russia
1995-2000
Associate Editor, Revista Associação Latino-Americana de Geoquímica Orgânica, BP Colombia
1995-2004
Editorial Advisory Board, Astrobiology, M.A. Liebert Publishers
2001-present
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PANEL MEMBERSHIPS AND CONSULTING:
Consultant, Bodega Bay Institute, Berkeley, CA, Petroleum Contamination 1976-80
of Biological Tissue
Consultant, Environmental Health Safety Office, University of California 1977
at Irvine, Incineration of Low Level Radioactive Organic Solid Wastes
Consultant, Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Hannover, 978-79
Germany, Scientific Editing and Translations
Member, JOIDES Organic Geochemistry Advisory Panel of DSDP 1978-80
Science Advisor, Cruse & Co. (K. Schlesinger), Los Angeles, Science Fiction Movie 1979
Chairman, JOIDES Organic Geochemistry Advisory Panel of DSDP 1980-83
Member, NASA Exobiology Advisory Panel, American Institute of Biological Sciences 1980-85
Consultant, Environmental Impacts Panel (S.K. Friedlander, Chairman) Diesel Impacts 1980
Study Committee, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences
Consultant, EG&G Idaho, Inc., Hydrothermal Processes 1983-92
Member, National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Ocean Sciences Research 1985-90
Member, SCOR Working Group 91, Chemical Evolution and Origin of Life in 1988-92
Marine Hydrothermal Systems
Consultant, Refineria de Petroleo, Concon, Chile 1990-2006
Consultant, Chevron Oil Field Research Company, La Habra, CA 1992-95
Member and Executive Committee, Joint Oceanographic Institutions, U.S. Science 1994-97
Advisory Committee for Ocean Drilling Program
Member, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Peer Review Panel, ORD-SBIR 2000
Consultant, Law Offices of Jeffrey M. Smith, Irvine, CA 2002
Expert witness, Law Offices of Reback, McAndrews & Kjar, Manhattan Beach, CA 2004-05
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FIELD EXPERIENCE:
Green River Formation Oil Shale, various field seasons 1963-73
Precambrian and Cambrian Sedimentary Geology of Australia, 3 months with 1966
T.C. Hoering and BMR, Australia
Preliminary Examination of Lunar Samples, NASA-Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston 1968-70
Interandean Plateau, Antofagasta, Chile, with ENAP, Chile 1978
Gulf of California, Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 64, D.V. Glomar Challenger, 2 months 1979
Harmattan Aerosols, Nigeria 1980
Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, R/V Lulu/D.S.V. Alvin diving, hydrothermal deposits 1982
Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, R/V Atlantis II/D.S.V. Alvin, Cruise 112 Leg 29, 1985
hydrothermal deposits
Amazonia, Brazil, natural aerosol sampling network, with University of Rio de Janeiro 1985, 86, 92
Bransfield Strait, Antarctica, F.S. Polarstern, Cruise Ant-IV/2, hydrothermal 1985
deposits and aerosols, 1 month
Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, R.V. Atlantis II/D.S.V. Alvin, Cruise 118 Legs 27 1988
and 29, Chief Scientist Leg 30, hydrothermal deposits
Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, Wyoming, various field seasons 1988-90, 92-95
98, 2001
Northern Juan de Fuca Ridge, Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 139, 1991
D.V. JOIDES Resolution,2 months
Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, M.V. Laney Chouest/D.S.V., Turtle, JASON IV, 1993
Interactive Network Science Education Program
Crater Lake National Park, various field seasons 1995, 96
Northern Juan de Fuca and Gorda Ridges, Ocean Drilling Program, Leg 169, 1996
D.V. JOIDES Resolution, 2 months
Asian Desert Dusts, ACE-Asia Project (NSF), northern P.R. China, 1 month 2001
Lake Chapala, Citala Rift, hydrothermal activity, Jalisco, Mexico 2003
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