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Dr Dominique Tobler
EPSRC Post-doctoral Research Assistant

Room: 419, Gregory Building
Telephone: +44 (0) 141 330 5442
Fax: +44 (0) 141 330 4817
Email: dominique.tobler@ges.gla.ac.uk
Personal website: Not available

Dominique Tobler
 
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Biography

2009 – present: EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Geographical and Earth Sicences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Feb. – Jul. 2009: Visiting Research Assistant, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, USA.

Sept. – Dec. 2008: WUN (Worldwide Universities Network) exchange visit, Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA.

2005 – 2008: PhD in Experimental Biogeochemistry, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK.

1999 – 2004: ETH Diploma in Earth Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Recent publications | View all publications >>

Tobler, D. J., Cuthbert, M. O., Greswell, R. B., Riley, M. S., Renshaw, J. C., Handley-Sidhu, S. and Phoenix, V. R. 2011. Comparison of rates of ureolysis between Sporosarcina pasteurii and an indigenous groundwater community under conditions required to precipitate large volumes of calcite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (In Press).

Tobler, D.J. and Benning, L.G. 2011. Bacterial diversity in five Icelandic geothermal waters: temperature and sinter growth rate effects. Extremophiles (In Press).

Jones, D. S., Tobler, D.J., Schaperdoth, I., Galdenzi, S. Mainiero, M. and Macalady, J. L. 2010. Community structure of biofilms in the thermic, sulfidic caves of Acquasanta Terme, Italy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 76, 5902-5910.

Tobler, D.J., Shaw, S. and Benning, L.G. 2009. Quantification of initial steps of nucleation and growth of silica nanoparticles: an in-situ SAXS and DLS study? Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 73, 5377-5393.

Tobler D.J., Stefánsson, A. and Benning, L.G. 2008. In-situ grown silica sinters in Icelandic geothermal areas. Geobiology, 6, 481-502.

Recent research grants

Tobler, D.J. 2008. Composition and Distribution of Hydrocarbons in arctic near-surface glacial ice, £ 4800. EAOG (European Association of Organic Geochemists) travel scholarship.

Tobler, D.J. 2008. Diversity of extremophile microbial communities in the sulfidic caves of Acquasanta Terme, Italy, £ 3900. WUN (Worldwide Universities Network) research mobility grant, University of Leeds, UK.

Tobler, D.J. 2008. GS/NSF Student Travel Grant Award (Can$ 1000) to attend 18th V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland.

Tobler, D.J. 2006. Biosilicification processes in Icelandic hot springs, £1400. Thomas Jefferson Field Research Fund from Geological Society of London, UK.

Tobler, D.J. 2006. GS/NSF Student Travel Grant Award (US$ 1000) to attend 16th V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Melbourne, Australia.

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