Dr. Ethan Grossman

Acting Executive Associate Dean,
Associate Dean for Research, and
Williford Professor

Research:

• Earth system history
• Stable isotope geochemistry
• Biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology of aquifer systems
• Geoinformatics

Experience:

• 2007-2008 Acting Associate Dean for Research, College of Geoscience
• 2002-present Mollie B. and Richard A. Williford Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology & Geophysics
• 1994-2002 Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology & Geophysics
• Fall, 2001 Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of Geosciences and the Environment Institute
• 1988-94 Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology
• 1982-88 Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, Department of Geology
• 1981-82 Instructor (part-time), California State University at Northridge, Department of Geosciences
• 1977-78 Teaching Assistant, Petrology and Oceanography, University of Southern California
• 1976-77, 1979-82 Research Assistant, Supervisor of Stable Isotope Laboratory, University of Southern California
• Summer, 1976 Field assistant in Newfoundland drilling ophiolites with Norm Watkins (URI) and graduate student

Publications (Complete list with PDFs):

Recent Abstracts (*student author)

• Diver, P., Grossman, E.L., McArthur, J., and Cervato, C., 2006. HERMES: A Database for Paleochemical Proxy Data in the CHRONOS System. Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs 38.
• Sosdian*, S., Gentry*, D.K., Lear, C., Grossman, E.L., Hicks, D., Rosenthal, Y., 2006. Strontium to calcium ratios in the marine gastropod Conus ermineus: Growth rate effects and temperature calibration. Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs 38.
• Grossman, E.L., McArthur, J., and Cervato, C., et al., 2006. CHRONOS: Transforming Earth History Research by Seamlessly Integrating Stratigraphic Data and Tools. Geochemical Earth Reference Model (GERM) Workshop, New York, New York.
• Grossman, E.L., 2005. Setting the Record Straight: The Importance of Sample Preservation in Proxy Applications. Eos Trans. AGU, 85, Fall Mtg. Suppl.
• Grossman, E.L, Lear,C.H., Sosdian*, S., Rosenthal, Y., Gentry*, D.K., Kobashi*, T., and Hicks, D., 2005. Cenozoic seasonality and paleochemistry recorded in Sr/Ca ratios in serially-sampled mollusk shells. Earth System Processes II, Program with Abstracts, Geological Society of America and Geological Society of Canada.
• Gentry*, D.K., Sosdian*, S., Grossman, E.L., Lear, C., and Rosenthal, Y. 2004 Inferring paleoenvironments using seasonal isotope and trace-metal profiles of serially-sampled gastropods. Eos Trans. AGU, 85, Fall Mtg. Suppl.
• Grossman, E.L., and McArthur, J., 2004. CHRONOS-Geochemical Cycles: Painting Earth System History with Numbers. Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with Programs, v. 36, p. 212
• Grossman, E.L., Jones*, T.E., and Yancey, T.E., 2004. Oxygen isotopic evidence for Gondwanan glaciation and deglaciation in the Late Paleozoic. 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy .
• Grossman, E.L., and Kobashi*, T., 2004. The oxygen isotopic record of seasonality in Conus shells and its application to understanding Late Middle Eocene (38 Ma) climate. Geol. Soc. America, South-central meeting (College Station), Abstracts with Programs.

Recent Papers (*student author)

• Mazzullo, S.J., Boardman, D.R., Grossman, E.L., Dimmick-Wells, K., 2007. Oxygen-carbon isotope stratigraphy of Upper Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian marine deposits in Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma: implications for seawater isotopic composition, glaciation, and depositional cyclicity. Carbonates and Evaporites (in press).
• Sosdian*, S., Gentry*, D.K., Lear, C., Grossman, E.L., Hicks, D., Rosenthal, Y., 2006. Strontium to calcium ratios in the marine gastropod Conus ermineus: Growth rate effects and temperature calibration, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3), v. 7, Q11023, doi:10.1029/2005GC001233.
• Hyde, W.T., Grossman, E.L., Crowley, T.J., Pollard, D., and Scotese, C.R., 2006. Siberian glaciation as a constraint on Permo-Carboniferous CO2 levels. Geology, v. 34, p. 421-424.
• Beck*, W. C., Grossman, E. L., and Morse, .J. W., 2005, Experimental studies of oxygen isotope fractionation in the carbonic acid system at 15o, 25o, and 40oC. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 69, p. 3493-3503.
• Cervato, C. Goldstein, S.L., Grossman, E.L., Lehnert, K., and McArthur, J., 2004. Joint discussion of [sedimentary geochemistry] data management systems that cross the waterline. EOS, v. 85, no. 44, p. 450, 452 [Words in brackets appears in online and book versions only.].
• Kobashi*, T.,Grossman, E.L . , Dockery III, D.T., and Ivany, L.C., 2004. Water mass stability reconstructions from greenhouse (Eocene) to icehouse (Oligocene) for the northern Gulf Coast continental shelf (USA), Paleoceanography, 19, PA1022, doi:10.1029/2003PA000934.
• Kobashi*, T., and Grossman, E.L. , 2003. The oxygen isotopic record of seasonality in Conus shells and its application to understanding Late Middle Eocene (38 Ma) climate. Paleontological Research, v. 7, no. 4, p. 343-355. 46. Grossman, E.L., Bruckschen, P., Mii, H-S., Chuvashov, B.I., Yancey, T.E., and Veizer, J., 2002. Carboniferous paleoclimate and global change: Isotopic evidence from the Russian Platform. In Carboniferous stratigraphy and Paleogeography in Eurasia. Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Urals Branch, Ekaterinburg, p. 61-71 (invited)
• Grossman E.L. , Cifuentes, L.A., and Cozzarelli, I.M., 2002. Anaerobic methane oxidation in a landfill-leachate plume. Environmental Sci. Technol., v. 36, p. 2436-2442.
• Grossman, E.L., 2002. Stable carbon isotopes as indicators of microbial activity in aquifers, in Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 2nd ed., C.J. Hurst et al. (eds.), American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, DC, p. 728-742 (invited).
• 43. Kobashi*, T., Grossman, E.L., Yancey, T.E., and Dockery, D.T. III, 2001. Reevaluation of conflicting Eocene tropical temperature estimates: Molluskan oxygen-isotope evidence for warm low-latitudes. Geology , v. 29, p. 983-986.
• Routh*, J., Grossman, E.L. , Murphy, E.M., and Benner, R., 2001. Characterization and origin of dissolved organic carbon in Yegua groundwaters (Brazos County, Texas): Ground Water, v. 39 (5), p. 760-767.
• Mii*, H., Grossman, E.L. , Yancey, T.E., Chuvashov, B., Egorov A., 2001. Isotope records of brachiopod shells from the Russian Platform evidence for the onset of mid-Carboniferous glaciation. Chemical Geology, v. 175, p. 133-147 (invited; Special IGCP Project #386 issue)
• Grossman, E.L. , and Desrocher*, S., 2001. Microbial sulfur cycling in terrestrial subsurface environments. In Fredrickson, J.K., and Fletcher, M., Subsurface Microbiology and Biogeochemistry , New York, John Wiley and Sons, p. 219-248 (Invited).
• Routh*. J., Grossman, E.L. , Ulrich*, G.A., and Suflita, J., 2001. Volatile organic acids in the Yegua formation, east-central Texas: Applied Geochemistry, v. 16, p. 183-195.

Awards:

• Dean's Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty Research, College of Geosciences (2005)
• Awarded Mollie B. and Richard A. Williford Professorship (4/02 to present)
• Advisor to recipient of a university-wide Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Research Award (W. Cory Beck, M.S., 2005)
• Advisor to recipient of a university-wide Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Research Award (Takuro Kobashi, M.S., 2001)
• New York State Regents Scholarship (1972-76)
• New York State Earth Science Teachers Award (for academic excellence in high school earth science, 1972)

Links:

• Personal web page
• CHRONOS
• Environmental and Engineering Geology & Geophysics Program
• GESA (Geochemistry of the Earth, Sea & Atmosphere, College of Geoscience)
• Paleoecology and Global Change

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