Stephens, E.A., Braissant, O. & Visscher, P.T. (In Review, 2008). The Role of Spirochetes in Salt Marsh Microbial Mat Geochemistry and Implications for the Fossil Record. Carnets de Géologie (Notebooks in Geology).
Buckley, D.H., Baumgartner, L.K. & Visscher, P.T. (2008). Vertical distribution of methane metabolism in microbial mats of the Great Sippewissett Salt Marsh. Environmental Microbiology, 10:967-977.
Visscher, P.T. (In Press, 2007). Stromatolites. In: C.R. Crumley (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Tide Pools and the Rocky Shore (pp. 551-554). The University of California Press.
Visscher, P.T. (2007). Keynote: Microbial carbonates: Bacterial metabolism, exopolymeric secretions and communication?. Proceedings, European Geosciences Union.
Visscher, P.T. (2006). Keynote: Microbes and minerals through time and space: A complex interplay of populations, processes and products [ABSTRACT]. Proceedings, 17th Internat. Sedimentology Congress, Fukuoka, 2006.
Rios-Velazques, C., Visscher, P.T. & Casillas-Martinez, L. (2007). Learning geomicrobiology as a team using microbial mats: A multidisciplinary approach. J. Microbiol. Biol. Ed., 8:42-51.
Hines, M.E., Visscher, P.T., Teske, A.P. & Devereux, R. (2007). Sulfur Cycling. In: C.J. Hurst, R.L. Crawford, J.L. Garland, D.A. Lipson, M. ills A.L. & L.D. Stetzenbach (Eds.). Manual of Environmental Microbiology (pp. 618-639). ASM Press.
Dupraz, C. & Visscher, P.T. (2007). Keynote: Microbially mediated carbonate cycle in microbial mats and biofilms. Proceedings, 4th ASM Conference on Biofilms. Quebec, Canada.
Visscher, P.T., Dupraz, C., Braissant, O., Decho, A.W., Reid, R.P. & Paerl, H.W. (In Press, 2006). Geology, microbiology, chemistry and physics in the Bahamas: Learning our past, predicting our future. (Extended conference abstract). Beyond Walls: Interdisciplinary Research on the Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas.
Gallagher, K., Przekop, K.M., Baumgartner, L.K., Carson, E., Blackshear, A., Dupraz, C., Braissant, O., Decho, A.W., Vasconcelos, C., McKenzie, J.A. & Visscher, P.T. (2006). Lithification in microbial mats: The role of the sulfur cycle. Astrobiology, 6:1.
Dupraz, C. & Visscher, P.T. (2005). Microbial lithification in modern marine stromatolites and hypersaline mats. Trends in Microbiology, 13:9.
Decker, K.L.M., Potter, C.S., Bebout, B.M., Des Marais, D.J., Carpenter, S., Discipulo, M., Hoehler, T.M., Miller, S.R., Thamdrup, B., Turk, K.M. & Visscher, P.T. (2005). Mathematical simulation of the diel O, S, and C biogeochemistry of a hypersaline mat. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 52.
Casillas-Martinez, L., Gonzalez, M.L., Fuentes, Z., Nieves, D., Hernandez, C., Ramirez, W., Sytsma, R.E., Perez-Jimenez, J. & Visscher, P.T. (2005). Community structure, geochemical characteristics and mineralogy of a hypersaline microbial mat, Cabo Rojo, PR. Geomicrobiological Journal, 22.
Visscher, P.T. & Stolz, J. (2005). Microbial communities as biogeochemical reactors. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology, 119:87-100.
Visscher, P.T., Dupraz, C., Reid, R.P., Stolz, J.F. & Decho, A.W. (2004). Decoupling of coupled element cycles in early microbial ecosystems: Origin of biogenic signatures in the rock record? [Abstract]. In: G. Camoin & P. Gautret (Eds.). Microbialites and Microbial Communities in Sedimentary Systems (pp. 109-110). Paris, France: Assocation des Sedimentologistes Francais.
Visscher, P.T., Dupraz, C., Baumgartner, L.K., Decho, A.W. & Reid, R.P. (2005). The role of sulfate-reducing bacteria in lithification of microbial mats [Abstract]. European Geophysical Union Genreal Assembly 2005. Vienna, Austria.
Visscher, P.T., Baumgartner, L.K., Dupraz, C., Przekop, K.M., Reid, R.P. & Decho, A.W. (2005). The role of sulfate-reducing bacteria in producing biosignatures in microbial mats [Abstract]. 2005 Biennial Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Boulder, CO. Astrobiology, 5:248.
Dupraz, C., Visscher, P.T., Baumgartner, L.K. & Reid, R.P. (2004). Microbe-mineral interactions: early carbonate precipitation in a hypersaline lake (Eleuthera Island, Bahamas). Sedimentology, 51:745-765.
Dupraz, C. & Visscher, P.T. (In Press, 2005). Microbial lithification in modern marine stromatolites and hypersaline mats. Trends in Microbiology.
Dupraz, C., Verrecchia, E.P. & Visscher, P.T. (2004). The role of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and sulfate reduction in mirobialite formation of hypersaline lakes (Bahamas) [Abstract]. In: G. Camoin & P. Gautret (Eds.). Microbialites and Microbial Communities in Sedimentary Systems (pp. 45-47). Paris, France: Assocation des Sedimentologistes Francais.
Decker, K.L.M., Potter, C.S., Bebout, B.M., Des Marais, D.J., Carpenter, S., Discipulo, M., Hoehler, T.M., Miller, S.R., Thamdrup, B., Turk, K.A. & Visscher, P.T. (2005). Mathematical simulation of the diel O, S, and C biogeochemistry of a hypersaline mat. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 52(3):377-395.
Decho, A.W., Visscher, P.T. & Reid, R.P. (2005). Changes in Microspatial Organization of Bacteria during Development of Surface Microbial Mats of Marine Lithifying Stromatolites Determined Using Combined FISH/GIS-Image Analyses [Abstract]. European Geophysical Union General Assembly 2005. Vienna, Austria.
Decho, A.W., Visscher, P.T. & Reid, R.P. (2005). The cycling and production of natural microbial exopolymers within marine stromatolite biofilms. Paleogeography Paleoclimatology Paleoecology, 119:71-86.
Casillas-Martinez, L., Gonzalez, M.L., Fuentes, Z., Nieves, D., Hernandez, C., Ramirez, W., Sytsma, R.E., Perez-Jimenez, J. & Visscher, P.T. (In Press, 2005). Community structure, geochemical characteristics and mineralogy of a hypersaline microbial mat, Cabo Rojo, PR. Geomicrobiology Journal, 22.
Baumgartner, L.K., Visscher, P.T., Dupraz, C., Przekop, K.M., Spear, J.R. & Pace, N.R. (2005). Microbial communities in lithifying and non-lithifying mats, Eleuthera, Bahamas [Abstract]. 2005 Biennial Meeting of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Boulder, CO. Astrobiology, 5:298-299.
Baumgartner, L.K., Visscher, P.T., Buckley, D.H., Dupraz, C., Pace, N.R. & Spear, J.R. (2005). Microbial Populations in Lithifying and Non-lithifying Microbial Mat Systems: Interactions with Chemical and Physical Ecology [Abstract]. American Geophysical Union Summer Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
Baumgartner, L.K., Reid, R.P., Dupraz, C., Decho, A.W., Buckley, D.H., Spear, J.R., Przekop, K.M. & Visscher, P.T. (In Press, 2005). Sulfate reducing bacteria in microbial mats: Changing paradigms, new discoveries. Sedimentary Geology.
Andres, M.S., Reid, R.P., Visscher, P.T. & Sumner, D.Y. (2005). Biocomplexity of modern marine stromatolites [Abstract]. In: G. Camoin & P. Gautret (Eds.). Microbialites and Microbial Communities in Sedimentary Systems (pp. 11-13). Paris, France: Assocation des Sedimentologistes Francais.
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