CV- Huiming Bao
Department of Geology & Geophysics, E235 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA Tel: 225-578-3419 (office), -3413 (lab); Fax: 225-578-2302;
E-mail: bao@lsu.edu
http://geol.lsu.edu/hbao/
Professional Preparation
Peking University, P. R China | Palaeontology & Stratigraphy | B. Sc. | 1982-1986 |
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Academia Sinica | Calcareous Algae & carbonate sedimentology | M.Sc. | 1986-1989 |
Princeton University | Stable isotope geochemistry | Ph. D | 1993-1998 |
University of California San Diego | Atmospheric chemistry & Stable isotopes | Postdoc | 1998-2001 |
Appointments
2007- Associate professor in Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University
2001-2007 Assistant professor in Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University
1998-2001: Postdoctoral Research Chemist, University of California San Diego
1996-1997: Research Scientist, University of California, Santa Cruz (in absentia
from Princeton University)
1993-1998: Assistant in Instruction/Research, Princeton University
1989-1993: Assistant Researcher, Nanjing Institute of Geology and
Palaeontology, Academia Sinica
Research Interests
Multiple stable isotopic system; Earth systems evolution
Publications
Manuscript(s) in review
*Peng, Y., Bao, Huiming, and Yuan, X-L, Complex morphologies of Paleoproterozoic acritarchs suggesting an earlier prevalence of the eukaryotes; in revision, Precambrian Researches.
2008
Farquhar, J., Canfield, D. E., Masterson, A., Bao, H., and Johnston, D., Sulfur and oxygen isotope study of sulfate reduction in experiments with natural populations from Fællestrand, Denmark, 2008, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 72, 2805-2821.
Bao, Huiming, Jim Lyons, and Chuanming Zhou, May 2008, Triple oxygen isotope evidence for elevated CO2 levels after a Neoproterozoic glaciation, Nature, v. nsture06959
Bao, Huiming, Sun, T., Kohl, I., and Peng, Y.-P., 2008, Comments on “Early Archaean microorganisms preferred elemental sulfur, not sulfate”, Science, v. 319 (5868), p. 1336.
Bao, Huiming, Jaime D. Barnes, Zach D. Sharp, and David R. Marchant, 2008, Two chloride end-members in soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research, D: Atmospheres, 113, D03301, doi:10.1029/2007JD008703.
Bing Shen, Shuhai Xiao, Alan J. Kaufman, Huiming Bao, Chuanming Zhou, Haifeng Wang, Stratification and mixing of a post-glacial Neoproterozoic ocean: Evidence from carbon and sulfur isotopes in a cap dolostone from northwest China, 2008, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 265 (102), 209-228.
Socki, R. A., Harvey, R. P. , Bish, D. L., Tonui, E., Bao, Huiming, 2008, Stable isotope systematics of cryogenic evaporite deposits from Lowis Cliff ice tongue, Antarctica: A Mars analog, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (NASA, Houston, 2008), Vol. XXXIX, pp. 1964.
2007
Bao, Huiming, Rumble III, D., Lowe, D. R., 2007, The five stable isotope compositions of the Fig Tree barites: Implications on sulfur cycle in an early Archean ocean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2007.05.032.
Schiffbauer, J. D., Yin, L.-M., Bondnar, R. J. Kaufman, A. J., Meng, F.W., Hu, J., Shen, B., Yuan, X.-L., Bao, H. M., and Xiao, S. H., 2007, Ultrastructural and geochemical characterization of Archean–Paleoproterozoic graphite particles: Implications for recognizing traces of life in highly metamorphosed rocks. Astrobiology, 7(4), 684-704, DOI: 10.1089/ast.2006.0098.
2006
Bao, Huiming, and D. R. Marchant (2006), Quantifying sulfate components and their variations in soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research, D: Atmosphere, 111, D16301, doi:10.1029/2005JD006669.
*Howell, K. J. and Bao, Huiming, 2006, Caliche as a geological repository of atmospheric sulfate, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L13816, doi: 10.1029/2006GL026518.
*Jenkins, K. A. and Bao, Huiming, 2006, Multiple oxygen and sulfur isotope characterization of total atmospheric sulfate deposition in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, Atmospheric Environment, 40, 4528-4537.
Bao, Huiming, 2006, Purifying synthetic barite for oxygen isotope measurement by dissolution and reprecipitation in a chelating solution. Analytical Chemistry, 78(1): 304-309.
2005
Airieau, S.A., Farquhar, J., Thiemens, M.H., Leshin, L.A., Bao, H., and Young, E., 2005, Planetesimal sulfate and aqueous alteration in CM and CI carbonaceous chondrites: Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, v. 69, p. 4166-4171.
Loope, D. B., Mason, J. A., Bao, H., et al., 2005, Deformation structures and an alteration zone linked to deposition of volcanogenic sulfate in an ancient playa (Oligocene of Nebraska, USA). Sedimentology, 52, 123-139.
Bao, Huiming, 2005, Sulfate in modern playa settings and in ash beds in hyperarid deserts: Implication on the origin of 17O-anomalous sulfate in an Oligocene ash bed. Chemical Geology, 214 (1-2), 127-134.
2004
Bao, Huiming and Gu, Baohua, 2004, Natural perchlorate has a unique oxygen isotope signature. Environmental Science and Technology, 38(19): 5073-5077.; 10.1021/es049516z
Bao, Huiming, Jenkins, K.A., Khachaturyan, M. and Chong-Díaz, G., 2004. Different sulfate sources and their post-depositional migration in Atacama soils. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 224 (3-4), 577-587.
2003
Bao, Huiming, and Reheis, M.C., 2003. Multiple oxygen and sulfur isotopic analyses on water-soluble sulfate in bulk atmospheric deposition from the southwestern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research, D: Atmosphere, 108(D14): 4430; 10.1029/2002JD003022.
Bao, Huiming, Thiemens, M.H., Loope, D.B. and Yuan, X.-L., 2003. Sulfate oxygen-17 anomaly in an Oligocene ash bed in mid-North America: Was it the dry fogs? Geophysical Research Letters, 30(16): 1843; 10.1029/2003GL016869.
2002 (A publication gap: Building Oxy-Anion Stable Isotope Center at LSU)
2001
Bao, Huiming, Thiemens, M. H., and Heine, K., 2001, Oxygen-17 excesses of the central Namib gypcretes: Spatial distribution. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 192. 125-135.
Farquhar, J., Bao, Huiming & Thiemens, M. H. et al., 2001, Questions regarding Precambrian sulfur isotope fractionation – Response. Science, 292 (5524), U6-U7.
Thiemens, M. H., Savarino, J., Farquhar, J., Bao, Huiming, 2001, Mass-independent isotopic compositions in terrestrial and extraterrestrial solids and their Applications. Accounts of Chemical Research, 34(8), 645-652.
Bao, Huiming, Greg Michalski, and Mark H. Thiemens, 2001, Sulfate oxygen-17 anomalies in desert varnishes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 65 (13), 2029-2036.
2000
Bao, Huiming, Douglas A. Campbell, James G. Bockheim, Mark H. Thiemens, 2000, Origin of sulfate in Antarctic Dry Valley soils as deduced from anomalous 17O compositions. Nature 407, 499-502.
Bao, Huiming, Thiemens, M. H., 2000, Generation of O2 from BaSO4 using a CO2-laser fluorination system for simultaneous δ18O and δ17O analysis. Analytical Chemistry 72(17), 4029-4032.
Bao, Huiming et al. 2000, Anomalous 17O compositions in massive sulphate deposits on the Earth. Nature 406, 176-178.
Farquhar, J., Bao, Huiming & Thiemens, M. H., 2000, Atmospheric influence of Earth's earliest sulfur cycle. Science 289, 756-758.
Wing, S. L.; Bao, Huiming; & Koch, P. L., 2000, An early Eocene cool period? Evidence for continental cooling during the warmest part of the Cenozoic. In: Huber, Brian T., editor, Warm climates in Earth history. Cambridge : University of Cambridge, p. 197-237.
Bao, Huiming, Koch, P. L., and Thiemens, M. H., 2000, Oxygen isotope composition of ferric oxides from recent soil, hydrologic, and marine environments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64 (11), 2221-2231.
1999
Bao, Huiming, Koch, P. L., and Rumble, D. III , 1999, Paleocene/Eocene climatic variation in western North America: Evidence from the δ18O of pedogenic hematite. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 111, 1405-1415.
Bao, Huiming and Koch, P. L., 1999, Oxygen isotope fractionation in ferric oxide-water systems: Low temperature synthesis. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63, 599-613.
1998
Bao, Huiming, Koch, P. L. and Hepple, R., 1998, Hematite and calcite coatings on fossils. Journal of Sedimentary Research A, v. 68, p. 273-287.
1997 and earlier
Shen, J.W., Yu, C.M., and Bao, Huiming, 1997, A Late-Devonian (Famennian) Renalcis-epiphyton reef at Zhaijiang, Guilin, South China. Facies, 37: p. 195-209.
Bao, Huiming, 1993, Some crypt habitats and cryptobionts in Late Devonian algal mounds in Guilin, south China. Acta Micropalaontologica Sinica, 10(2): 181-190.
Jingeng, S., Linxin, Z., Hui, L., Shanhong, X. and Bao, Huiming, 1992, The closure age of the late Paleozoic rift in Hohxil, Qinghai. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 9, 177-182.
Bao, Huiming, 1992, Middle Devonian Rothpletzella stromatolites from Yangshuo, Guangxi (China). Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 9(4): 397-407.
* Student authored paper
Meetings
Goldschmidt Conference at Vancouver, July 2008: Co-convener of a session + Oral presentation: Extraordinary Neoproterozoic conditions implicated by sulfate of extraordinary oxygen isotopic compositions.
AGU Annual Fall Meeting 2007 at San Francisco; Poster: Negative sulfate 17O anomalies and an extraordinary temporal spike at the immediate aftermath of Marinoan ‘snowball’ Earth.
7th International Symposium on Applied Isotope Geochemistry, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Sept. 8-14, 2007; Invited Keynote speaker: Complex oxidation pathways of volcanic SO2 recorded in ancient tuffaceous deposits.
17th Goldschmidt at Cologne, Germany, Aug. 19-24, 2007; Poster presentation: Negative sulfate 17O anomalies as positive evidence for “snowball Earth” hypothesis.
IAVCEI (International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of Earth's Interior, International Conference on Continental Volcanism, May 2006, Guangzhou, P. R. China; Oral presentation: Multiple extreme sulfate-haze events in the Cenozoic North America
Astrobiology Science Conference, NASA, Washington DC, March 2006; Oral presentation: Quantifying multiple sulfate components in hyperarid deserts.
Workshop on “Focus on perchlorate”-International Society of Environmental Forensics, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sept. 2005; Invited speaker: Total stable isotope measurement of perchlorate.
15th Goldschmidt Conference at Moscow, Idaho, USA, April 2005; Invited talk: 17O anomaly in terrestrial rocks: An update.
AGU Fall Meeting -San Francisco 2004: Oral presentation: Bao and Marchant, High-resolution sulfate oxygen and sulfur isotope profiles for soils in Antarctica Dry Valleys.
GSA Annual Meeting 2004 Denver: Oral presentation: High spatial heterogeneity of a cap-carbonate's stable isotope signatures: a stagnant Late Neoproterzoic ocean basin.
ACS National Meeting 2004 at Philadelphia; Invited talk: Unique oxygen isotope composition for natural perchlorate.
AGU Annual Fall Meeting 2003 at San Francisco; Poster: Widespread sulfate oxygen-17 anomaly in Cenozoic ash beds in North America High Plains: What could be the cause(s)?
13th Goldschmidt Conference at Kurashiki, Japan, Sept. 2003; Invited talk: Increasing sulfate oxygen-17 anomaly with depth in hyperarid regolith profiles.
AGU Chapman Conference on Volcanism and the Earth's Atmosphere, Santorini, Greece, June 2002; Talk + Poster: Sulfur and Oxygen Isotopic Records on Atmospheric Chemistry of Volcanic Gases.
11th Goldschmidt Conference at Hot Spring, Virginia, May, 2001; Co-chair of a session + Oral presentation: Basal Miocene volcanic ashes in mid-North America: An isotopic mystery.
Membership in professional organizations
American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 1995
Geochemical Society since 2001
Geological Society of America since 1994
Funding
(All listed $$ amounts were/are Bao’s shares, unless specified)
1. PI
Petroleum Research Fund - Type AC
Title: “Experimental Sulfate Triple Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry”
Amount: $100,000
Duration: 07-2008 to 08-2010
2. PI
Economic Development Assistantship (EDA) from the State of Louisiana:
Title: “Total isotope composition of natural perchlorate”
Amount: $100,000
Duration: 08-2006 to 05-2010
Graduate students advised
Kathryn Jenkins, M. Sc., Graduated 2005
Katie Howell, M. Sc., Gradated 2006
Issaku Kohl, Ph. D, current
Yongbo Peng, Ph. D, current
Tao Sun, Ph. D, current
Active collaborators in the last two years
Ian Fairchild, University of Birmingham, UK
Jim Lyons, UCLA
David Marchant, Boston University
Martin Reich, University of Chile, Chile
David Loope and Jim Swinehart, University of Nebraska Lincoln
James Farquhar, Jay Kaufman, University of Maryland
Shuhai Xiao, Virginia Tech
Zach Sharp, University of New Mexico
Doug Rumble, the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institute of Washington
Baohua Gu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Don Lowe, Stanford University
Galen Halverson, University of Adelaide, Australia
Xunlai Yuan and Chuanming Zhou, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, P. R. China
Lang Farmer, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ilya Bindeman, University of Oregon
Yu Liu, Dalian Maritime University, P. R. China