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Environmental Science Faculty

Jeffrey R. White
Professor
Associate Vice Provost for Research
Research Integrity Officer

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1984

Professor White is a professor of environmental science and geological sciences at Indiana University. His fields of specialization include chemical limnology, biogeochemistry and aquatic chemistry. Professor White teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental science and water resources including advanced courses in aquatic chemistry, limnology and environmental science methods. His research group is interested in biogeochemical cycling of trace metals, inorganic nutrients and organic matter in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Specific research projects include: stable isotopic studies of greenhouse gas cycling in wetland soils and cycling of carbon, sulfur, iron and trace metals in lakes and sediments.

Awards

Biogeochemical Laboratories

Selected Publications

White, J.R., Shannon, R.D., Weltzin, J.F., Pastor, J. and Bridgham, S.D. (2008, accepted). “Soil Warming, Water-Table Manipulations in Peatland Mesocosms Affect Methane Dynamics Indirectly Through Changes in Porewater Chemistry and Plant Productivity.” J. Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences.

Herrman, K.S. and White, J.R. (2008). “Denitrification in intact sediment cores from a constructed wetland: Examining the isotope pairing technique.” Applied Goechemistry, DOI 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2008.04.024.

Keller, J.K., White, J.R., Bridgham, S.D., and Pastor, J. (2004). “Climate Change Effects on Carbon and Nitrogen Mineralization in Peatlands Through Changes in Soil Quality.” Global Change Biology, 10:1053-1064.

Avery G.B., Shannon R.D., White, J.R., Martens C.S., Alperin M.J. (2002). “Controls on Methane Production in a Tidal Freshwater Estuary and a Peatland: Methane Production via Acetate Fermentation and CO2 Reduction.” Biogeochemistry, 62:19-37.

Avery, B., Shannon, R.D., White, J.R., Martens, C.S., and Alperin, M.J. (1999). “Effect of Seasonal Changes in the Pathways of Methanogenesis on the d13C Values of Pore Water Methane in a Michigan Peatland.” Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 13:475-484.

White, J.R., and Shannon, R.D. (1997). "Modeling Organic Solutes in Peatland Soils Using Acid Analogs.” Soil Science Society of America Journal, 61:1257-1263.

Walter, B.P., Heimann, M., Shannon, R.D., White, J.R. (1996). “A Process-based Model to Derive Methane Emissions from Natural Wetlands.” Geophysical Research Letters, 23:3731-3734.

Shannon, R.D., and White, J.R. (1996). “The Effects of Spatial and Temporal Variations in Acetate and Sulfate on Methane Cycling in Two Michigan Peatlands.” Limnology and Oceanography, 41(3):435-443.

Shannon, R.D., White, J.R., Lawson, J.E., and Gilmour, B.S. (1996). “Methane Efflux from Emergent Vegetation in Peatlands.” J. Ecology, 84:239-246.

Shannon, R.D. and White, J.R. (1994). “A Three-year Study of Controls on Methane Emissions from two Michigan Peatlands.” Biogeochemistry, 27:35-60.

Shannon, R.D., and White, J.R. (1991). “The Selectivity of a Sequential Extraction Procedure for Iron Oxyhydroxide and Sulfides in Freshwater Sediments.” Biogeochemistry, 14:193-208.

Gubala, C.P., Engstrom, D.R. and White, J.R. (1990). “Effects of Iron Cycling on 210Pb Dating of Sediments in an Adirondack Lake, U.S.A.” Canadian J. Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 47:1821-1829.

White, J.R. and Gubala, C.P. (1990). “Sequentially Extracted Metals from Adirondack Lake Sediment Cores.” J. Paleolimnology, 3:243-252.

White, J.R., Gubala, C.P., Fry, B., Owen, J., and Mitchell, M.J. (1989). “Sediment Biogeochemistry of Iron and Sulfur in an Acidic Lake.” Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 53:2547-2559.