David Fowle

David Fowle joined the research teams in the Department of Earth Sciences and the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER) at the University of Windsor in January, 2001. Dr. Fowle completed his Ph.D. in 1999 in the field of biogeochemistry at the University of Notre Dame. He then became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for 1999-2000. In October 2002, he was appointed to a Canada Research Chair in Biogeochemistry (Tier II) at the University of Windsor. In 2006 he moved on to the University of Kansas in the department of Geology. Dr. Fowle's research interests include: quantitative geochemical modeling of bacterial-metal sorption reactions; biomineralization and its effects on contaminant mobility in the subsurface; bioavailability of trace metals in aquatic ecosystems; microbially promoted mineral dissolution; and biogeochemical interactions in wetlands and soil systems. The long-term objective of his work is to develop quantitative biogeochemical models that describe the effect of microorganisms on the mobility, speciation, and toxicity of metal cations in aquatic and soil ecosystems.