Richard E. Marinos

Assistant Professor of Geology

The University at Buffalo

428 Cooke Hall

716-645-4289

rmarinos@buffalo.edu

http://www.richardmarinos.com

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Research interests: ecosystem ecology of managed lands and waters, mechanisms of soil organic matter stabilization, rhizosphere ecology, soil greenhouse gas emissions, biogeochemistry of mycorrhizal fungi, in-stream and near-stream carbon and nitrogen transformations

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Education:

2012 - 2018

Ph.D. in environment, Duke University, Durham, NC

  • Certificate in College Teaching
  • Dissertation title: Ecosystem Recovery from Acid Precipitation: Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in the Soil-Stream Continuum (Advisor: Emily Bernhardt)

2003 - 2007

A.B. in philosophy cum laude, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Appointments:

2020 - present

Assistant Professor of Geology, SUNY-Buffalo

2020

Paternity leave (Mar-Aug)

2018 - 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo

2015 - 2018

Teaching Assistant, Duke University

2012 - 2017

NSF Graduate Research Fellow

Publications (†=lab member):

In-process:

Zemaitis, K. D., Velickovic, D., Ellsworth, F.M., Marinos, R.E. Complementary plant root metabolite profiling achieved with DESI-FTICR-MS and MALDI-FTICR-MS (in prep, Target journal: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry)

Ellsworth, F.M., Possinger, A.R., Velickovic, D., Marinos, R. E. Rhizosphere carbon flux persists under severe drought in P. trichocarpa (in prep, Target journal: Soil Biology and Biochemistry)

Marinos, R. E., Aliannel, J. P. A rugged, low-cost peristaltic pump for automated field sampling of environmental waters.  (in revision, Target journal: HardwareX)

Ellsworth, F.M., Marinos, R. E. Microbial carbon transformations are more important than sorption in forming mineral-associated organic matter. (in prep, Target journal: ES&T)

Published:

Conrad, P. E., Marinos, R. E. (2024) Nitrogen Availability and Denitrification in Urban Agriculture and Regreened Vacant Lots. Urban Ecosystems. doi:10.1007/s11252-024-01532-2

Marinos, R.E., Driscoll, C. T., Groffman, P. M., and Bernhardt, E. S. (2024) Accelerated nitrogen cycling during ecosystem recovery from acid precipitation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109286

Marinos, R. E., Van Meter, K. J., Basu, N. B.  (2020) Is the River a Chemostat?: Scale Versus Land Use Controls on Nitrate Concentration-Discharge Dynamics in the Upper Mississippi River Basin. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2020GL087051

Marinos, R. E. and Bernhardt, E. S. (2018) Soil carbon losses due to higher pH offset vegetation gains due to calcium enrichment in an acid mitigation experiment. Ecology, 99: 2363-2373. doi:10.1002/ecy.2478

Marinos, R. E., Campbell, J. C., Driscoll, C. T., Likens, G. E.,  McDowell, W. H., Rosi, E. J., Rustad, L. E., and Bernhardt, E. S. (2018) Give and Take: Watershed acid remediation increases stormflow nitrogen export but increases baseflow in-stream nitrogen retention. Environmental Science and Technology, 52 (22): 13155–13165. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b03553

Non-refereed:

Marinos, R. E. (2021). SNODASR: Tools for manipulating SNODAS data in R (Version 1.0). doi:10.5281/zenodo.4568272

Presentations (* = invited):

(*) Marinos, R.E., Ellsworth, F.M., Possinger, A.R., Velickovic, D.A., Mass spectrometry imaging for understanding spatial and temporal rhizosphere carbon dynamics. Oral presentation. DOE Environmental System Science Principal Investigators meeting, Reston, VA. April 2024

(*) Marinos, R.E.  SOM Dynamics and Deacidification at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and Beyond. Oral presentation. Hubbard Brook LTER Committee of Scientists Spring meeting, virtual, April 2022.

Marinos, R.E., Basu, N.B. Scale-dependency of nitrate concentration-discharge relationships in the Upper Mississippi. Oral presentation. Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Washington, D.C., December 2019.

Marinos, R.E., Basu, N.B. Riparian form and function across hydrogeomorphic regimes. Oral presentation. Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Washington, D.C., December 2018.

Marinos, R.E., Bernhardt, E S., Campbell, J. C., Groffman, P.M., McDowell, W. H., Rosi, E. J., Rustad, L. E. Soil and Stream Signals of a Changing Nitrogen Cycle in the Ca-enriched Watershed. Oral presentation. Hubbard Brook Cooperators Meeting. Thornton, NH, July 2018.

Marinos, R.E., Bernhardt, E.S. Will Ecosystem Recovery from Acid Rain Jeopardize Soil Carbon

        Storage? Oral presentation. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Portland, OR, July

        2017.

(*) Marinos, R.E., Bernhardt, E S., Campbell, J. C., Driscoll, C. T., McDowell, W. H., Rosi, E. J., Rustad, L. E. Nitrogen Export Becomes Flashier in a Watershed Acid Remediation Experiment. Oral presentation. Gordon Research Conference: Catchment Science. Lewiston, ME, June 2017.

Marinos, R.E., Bernhardt, E S., Campbell, J. C., Driscoll, C. T., McDowell, W. H., Rosi, E. J., Rustad, L. E. The Stream Feasts while the Forest Leaks: In-stream and Watershed Responses to an Acid Mitigation Treatment. Oral presentation. Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting.

        Raleigh, NC, June 2017.

Marinos, R. E., Bernhardt, E. S., Groffman, P. M., Likens, G. E., Rosi-Marshall, E. J. Soil Organic Matter Dynamics under Long-Term Recovery from Acid Precipitation. Oral presentation. Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA, December 2016.

Marinos, R. E., Bernhardt, E. S., Groffman, P. M., Likens, G. E., Rosi-Marshall, E. J.  Coupled Ca and C Dynamics in the Ca-enriched Watershed. Oral presentation. Hubbard Brook Cooperators Meeting. Thornton, NH, July 2016.

Marinos, R. E.,  Bernhardt, E. S., Rosi-Marshall, E. J. and Likens, G. E. Nitrate Sources and In-Stream Nitrogen Processing in the Calcium-Enriched Watershed. Oral presentation. Hubbard Brook Cooperators Meeting.  Thornton, NH, July 2015.

Marinos, R. E.,  Bernhardt, E. S., Rosi-Marshall, E. J. and Likens, G. E. Algae bloom where none did before: Why Hubbard Brook streams are turning green. Poster.  Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon. Portland, OR, June 2014.

Grants and Awards:

University at Buffalo - “Understanding how plant roots regulate soil ecosystem responses to drought” - Principal Investigator - UB Research and Creative Activities for Undergraduates Program - $9750 (2024)

US Department of Energy - “Imaging the Spatial Effects of Hydraulic Redistribution on Root Exudation”  - Pacific Northwest National Lab Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Large-Scale User Proposal - Principal Investigator - $221,000 in kind (2023)

University at Buffalo - OVPRED Matching Program for Equipment Purchases - “Analyzer for Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Content of Environmental Waters” - Principal Investigator - $27,431 (2023)

US Department of Energy - “Expansion and Stimulation of the Rhizosphere under Hydraulic Redistribution” - Principal Investigator - $499,998 (2022)

NYS Water Resources Institute - “Groundwater Nutrient Dynamics in Urban Vacant Lots and Other Green Infrastructure” - Principal Investigator - $20,000 (2021)

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant - “Will Ecosystem Recovery from Acid Rain Jeopardize Soil Carbon Storage?” - Co-investigator -  $20,460 (2017)

Data+ Big Data Initiative - “Visualizing Long-Term Water Chemistry Records” - Principal Investigator $12,500 (2016)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - Fellow - ~$120,000 (2012)

Graduate Students Mentored:

 

Jessica Paskie, M.S. student (2023-)

Angela Laier, M.S. student (2022-)

Fiona Ellsworth, Ph.D. candidate (2020-)

Philip Conrad, M.S. (2020-2022)

Undergraduate Students Mentored:

Kristina Ogilvie, Biology B.S. (2024-)

Kay Kennedy, Environmental Geosciences B.S. (2022-2024)

Jared Aliannel, Electrical Engineering B.S. (2021-2024)

Derek Zurenda, Geology B.S. (2021-2024)

Jessica Paskie, Environmental Geosciences B.S. (2022-2023)

Michael Macdonald, Environmental Geosciences B.S. (2021-2022)

Riley Jones, Biology B.S. (2022)

University Service:

Faculty search committee member - Cold regions hydrologist (2023-2024)

Faculty search committee member - Global hydrologist (2023-2024)

Geology Department Awards Committee, member (2022-)

Women in Science and Engineering faculty participant (2022)

UB Pegrum Lecture Series Chair (2020-2022)

Ecology, Evolution and Evolutionary Biology Curriculum Committee Member (2020-)

Duke Data+ Project Mentor (2017)

University Program in Ecology Symposium Committee Member (2014)

Extramural Service:

Review panelist: Pacific Northwest National Lab (2024)

Review panelist: DOE Office of Science (2023)

Ad-hoc reviewer: NSF Hydrologic Sciences (2022)

Graduate Women In Science National Fellowship Program review panelist (2022)

Journal Reviewer: Nature Communications, Biogeosciences, Ecological Applications, Ecosystems, HESS, Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Environmental Quality, Environmental Sciences: Processes and Impacts, Water Resources Research (2018-)

Society for Freshwater Science Student Resources Committee Member (2015)

Peace Corps volunteer, Cameroon, agroforestry extension (2009-2012)

Teaching Experience:

Instructor, GLY 199: Water and Civilization (Fall 2022)

Instructor, GLY 569: Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Ecology (Spring 2022, Spring 2024)

Instructor, GLY 102: Climate Change (Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

Instructor, GLY 462/562: Aqueous Geochemistry (Spring 2021, Spring 2023)

Instructor, GLY 308: Introduction to Geochemistry (Spring 2021, Spring 2022)

Thesis/Dissertation Committee Membership:

Mitchell Hitchcock (EEB Ph.D., ongoing)

Rebecca Topness (GLY Ph.D., ongoing)

Cadence Mannino (GLY M.S., ongoing)

Banu Bayratkar (GLY M.S., 2023)

Louie Manzella (GLY M.S., 2023)

Kevin Griswold (GLY M.S., 2022)

William Russo (GLY M.S., 2021)

Hannah Annunziata (GLY M.S., 2021)