Dr. Peggy H. Ostrom

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

National Science Foundation (NSF): Origins of Nitrous Oxide in Terrestrial Environments: Applications of Isotopes and Isotopomers, $420,381, 2003 to 2006.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Defining the Characteristics Essential for Biomolecular Preservation: A systematic Study of Bone Diagenesis, $356,079, 2003 to 2007.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Structural characterization of an ancient protein by MALDI-MS: The preservational state of osteocalcin in fossils, $29,000, 2001 to 2002.
National Science Foundation (NSF): The application of scaling rules to energy flow in stream ecosystems, $150,000, 2000 to 2002.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Acquisition of stable isotope ratio mass spectrometers, $262,260, 2000 to 2001.
Michigan Sea Grant (NOAA): Evaluation of the Trophic State of Lakes Michigan and Superior, $138,110, 2000 to 2002.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): Influence of marine nutrients from salmon on stream ecosystems, $150,000, 2000 to 2003.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Controls on N2O production: Interactions between nitrification, denitrification and N2 fixation, $208,912, 1998 to 2001.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Structural characterization of an ancient protein by MALDI-MS: The preservational state of osteocalcin in fossils, $199,996, 1998 to 2000.
Department of Energy/ University of Montana: Bacterial transport in a heterogeneous coastal plain aquifer, $50,000, 1997 to 1998.
United States Geological Survey: Analysis of trophic relationships within the Pacific drift-net fishery, $3,250, 1997 to 1998.
Department of Energy/ University of Montana: Bacterial transport in a heterogeneous coastal plain aquifer, $100,000, 1997 to 1998.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Phylogenetic and indigeneity implications of MALDI-MS determined osteocalcin protein sequences, $9,981, 1996 to 1997.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Trophic transfer of atmospheric and sedimentary contaminants into Great Lakes Fish: Controls on Ecosystem Scale Response Time, $681,231, 1996 to 1999.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Isotopic analysis of the trophic dynamics within the North Pacific drift-net fishery, $28,969, 1993 to 1995.
Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada: Differentiation of salmon stocks using stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses, $32,000, 1993 to 1994.
National Science Foundation (NSF): Biogeochemical and ecological analysis of the population dynamics of the spotted ladybird beetle using geographic information systems and naturally occurring isotopes, $21,982, 1993 to 1994.
General Electric Foundation Fellowship: , $20,000, 1993 to 1994.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Initial assessment of food web relationships within the North Pacific drift-net fishery based on stable isotopic analyses, $15,000, 1992 to 1993.
Michigan State University Research Initiation Grant: Spatial dynamics of the spotted ladybird beetle in a diverse agroecosystem as determined by geographic information systems and naturally occurring isotopes, $9,880, 1992 to 1993.
General Electric Foundation Fellowship: $20,000, 1992 to 1993.
Argonne National Laboratory: Faculty Participation Research Fellowship, $9,900, 1991 to 1991.

• Kaplan, Weigner, T, Newbold, D., Ostrom, P.H., Gandhi, H. (2008) Estimating dissolved organic carbon uptake lengths through a whole stream 13C addition coupled with bioreactor measurements of bioavailabilty, Freshwater Biology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365
• Buckley, M., Walker, A, Ho, Y., Yue, Y., Smith, C, Ashton, C., Thomas-Oates, J, Capellini, E., Koon, H., Andrews, P., Strahler, J., Ostrom, P., Gandhi, H., Miller, W., Raney, B (2008) Weighing the mass spectrometric evidence for authentic Tyrannosaurus rex collagen., Science, DOI 10.1126/science.
• Humpula, J, Ostrom, P, Gandhi, H, Strahler, J, Walker, A, Stafford, T, Smith, J, Voorhies, M, Corner, R., Andrews, P. (2007) . Investigation of the protein osteocalcin of Camelops hesternus: sequence, structure and phylogenetic implications., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71 (24), 5956-5967
• Ostrom, N.E., Pitt, A., Sutka, R., Ostrom, P.H., Grandy, A.S., Huizinga, K.M. and Robertson, G.P., Pitt, A., Sutka, R.L., Ostrom, P.H., Grandy, A.S., Huizinga, K.M., Robertson, G.P. (2007) . Isotopologue Effects During Nitrous Oxide Reduction in Soils and in Pure Cultures of Denitrifiers., Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, 2005
• Ostrom, P.H., Gandhi, H., Strahler, J., Walker, A.K., Andrews, P.A., Leykam, J., Kelly, R.L., Walker, D., Buckley, M., Humpula, J. (2006) Unraveling the sequence and structure of the protein osteocalcin from a 42ka fossil horse., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 2034-2044
• Sutka, R.L., Ostrom, N.E., Ostrom, P.H., Breznak, J.A., Gandhi, H., Pitt, A., Li, F. (2006) . Distinguishing Nitrous Oxide Production from Nitrification and Denitrification on the Basis of Isotopomer Abundances, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72, 638-644
• Weigner, T, Kaplan, LA, Newbold, D, Ostrom, P.H. (2005) Synthesis of 13C labeled tulip poplar label for stream DOC: Labeling tulip poplar with 13CO2, Ecosystems, 8 (501), 511
• Chaloner, D. T., Merritt, R.W., Mitchell, N.L., Ostrom, P.H., Wipfli (2004) Freshwater Biology., Variation in responses to spawning Pacirn among three southeastern Alaskan streams, 49 (587-599)
• Sutka R.L.,, Ostrom, NE, Ostrom, PH, Phanikumar, MS (2004) Ostrom, N.E., OStable nitrogen isotope dynamics of dissolved nitrate in a transect from the North Pacific subtropical gyre to the eastern tropical North Pacific., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta., 68 (517), 527
• Gandhi, H.,, Ostrom, PH, Kaplan, LA, Ostrom, NE, Wiegner, T (2004) Isotopic (13C) analysis of dissolved organic carbon in stream water samples using an elemental analyzer coupled to a stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer., Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 18 (1), 4
• Russ, M, Ostrom, NE, Gandhi, G, Ostrom, P.H., Urban, N (2004) Temporal and spatial variation in R:P in Lake Superior an oligotrophic freshwater environment. Journal of Geophysical Research., 109, 109 (C10), C10s12
• Sutka R.L.,, Ostrom, NE, Ostrom, PH, Gandhi, H, Breznak, J.A. (2004) Nitrogen isotopomer site preference of N2O produced by Nitrosomonas europaea and Methylococcus capsulatus Bath, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 18 (1411), 1412
• Sutka RL, Ostrom NE, Ostrom PH, Gandhi H, Breznak JA, Nitrogen isotopomer site preference of N2O produced by Nitrosomonas europaea and Methylococcus capsulatus Bath, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry : Rcm, 17(7), 738-45, 2003
• Popp, B.N., Westley, M.B., Dore, J.E., Rust, T.M., Sansone, F., Ostrom N.E., Ostrom, P.H. and Russ, M., New isotopic constraints on the origins and sea-to-air flux of N2O in the oligotrophic subtropical North Pacific gyre, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16(4), 10.1029/2001GB001806, 2002
• Nielsen-Marsh C, Ostrom, P.H., Shapiro, B., Cooper, A., Hauschka, P. and Collins, M.J., Sequence preservation of osteocalcin protein and mitochondrial DNA in bison bones older than 55 ka, Geology, 30, 1099–1102, 2002
• Chaloner, D.T., Martin, K.M., Wipfli, M.S., Ostrom, P.H., and Lamberti, G.A., Marine carbon and nitrogen in southeastern Alaska stream food webs: evidence from artificial and natural streams, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 59, 1-9, 2002
• McNulty, T.W., Calkins, A.E., Ostrom, P.H., Gandhi, H., Gottfried, M., Martin, L.D, and Gage, D.A., Artificial diagenesis experiments and paleoecology of Natural Trap Cave (Wyoming), Palaios, 17, 36-49, 2002
• Nielsen-Marsh, C, Ostrom, PH, Gandhi, G, Shapiro, B, Cooper, A, Hauschka, P, Collins, MJ (2002) Sequence preservation of osteocalcin and DNA in bison bones >55 Ka, Geology, 30 (1099), 1102
• Hooker S.K., Iverson S.J., Ostrom P., and Smith, S.C., Diet of northern bottlenose whales inferred from fatty-acid and stable-isotope analyses of biopsy samples, Canadian Journal of Zoology, 79, 1442-1454, 2001
• Stapleton, H. M., Masterson, C., Skubinna, J., Ostrom, P., Ostrom, N.E., and Baker, J.E., Accumulation of atmospheric and sedimentary PCB’s and Toxaphene in a Lake Michigan Food Web, Environmental Science and Technology, 35, 3287-3293, 2001
• Yanni, Y.G., Rizk, Y., Faiza K. El-Fattah, A., Squartini, A, Corich, V., Giacomini, A., de Bruijn, F., Rademaker, J., Maya-Flores, J., Ostrom, P., The beneficial plant growth-promoting association of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii with rice roots, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, 28, 845-870, 2001
• Holben WE, Ostrom PH, Monitoring bacterial transport by stable isotope enrichment of cells, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 66(11), 4935-9, November 2000
• Dazzo, F.B. et al, Progress in multinational collaborative studies on the beneficial association between Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii and rice, The Quest for Nitrogen Fixation in Rice., J.K. Ladha and P.M.(International Rice R), 167-189, 2000
• Silliman, J.E., Meyers, P.A., Ostrom, P.H., Ostrom, N.E., and Eadie, B.J., Insights into the Origin of Perylene from Isotopic Analyses of Sediments from Saanich Inlet, British Columbia, Organic Geochemistry, 31, 1133-1142, 2000
• Robbins, L.L., Andrews, S., and Ostrom, P.H., Characterization of ultrastructural and biochemical characteristics of modern and fossil shells, Perspectives in amino acid and protein geochemistry. Oxford, NY, 98-107, 2000
• Ostrom P.H., Schall M., Gandhi H., Shen T.L., Hauschka P.V., Strahler J.R., and Gage D.A., . New strategies for characterizing ancient proteins using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 64, 1043-1050, 2000
• Gould, P.J., Ostrom, P., and Walker, W., Trophic relationships and migration of sooty and short-tailed shearwaters associated with squid and other large-mesh driftnet fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean, Waterbirds, 2, 165-186, 2000
• McCusker, E.M., Ostrom, P.H., Ostrom, N.E., Jerremaison, J. and Baker, J., Seasonal variation in the biogeochemical cycling of seston and PCBs in Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan, Organic Geochemistry, 30, 1543-1557, 1999
• Ostrom, N.E., and Ostrom, P.H., Nitrogen isotopes, Encyclopedia of Geochemistry, Ed.C.P. Marshall(Chapman and Hall), 432-435, 1999
• Gould, P.J., Ostrom, P., Walker, W., Pilichowski, K., Laysan and black-footed albatrosses: Trophic relationships and driftnet fisheries associations of non-breeding birds, Albatross Biology and Conservation. Surrey Beatty and Sons Pty Ltd., NSW, Australia, 199-207, 1998
• Ostrom, P.H., Ostrom, N.E., Henry, J., Eadie, B., Meyers, P.A. and Robbins, J.A., Molecular isotopic and organic geochemical analysis of variations in trophic state of Lake Erie, Chemical Geology, 152, 163-179, 1998
• Gould, P.J., Ostrom, P., and Walker, W., Foods of Buller's shearwaters associated with driftnet fisheries in the central north Pacific Ocean, Notornis, 45, 81-94, 1998
• Feuerstein, T.P., Ostrom, P.H., and Ostrom, N.E., Isotopic biogeochemistry of dissolved organic nitrogen: A new technique and application, Organic Geochemistry, 27, 363-370, 1997
• Gould, P.J., Walker, W., and Ostrom, P. H., Food of northern fulmars wintering in the transitional north Pacific, Northwestern Naturalist, 78, 57-61, 1997
• Todd, S., Ostrom, P.H., Lien, J., and Abrajano, J., Use of biopsy samples of humpback whale (Magaptera novaeangliae) skin for stable isotope, d13C, determination, Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science, 22, 71-76, 1997
• Gould, P.J., Ostrom, P. and Walker, W.A., Food of flesh-footed shearwaters associated with high-seas driftnets in the central North Pacific, Emu, 97, 168-173, 1997
• Gould, P.J., Ostrom, P.H., and Walker, W.A., Trophic dynamics of albatrosses associated with squid and large-mesh drift-net fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 75, 549-562, 1997
• Ostrom, P.H., Colunga, M. and Gage, S.H., Evaluating pathways of energy flow for insect predators with stable isotope ratios: Field and laboratory evidence, Oecologia, 109, 108-113, 1997
• Kucklick, J.R., Harvey, H.R., Ostrom, P.H., Ostrom, N.E., and Baker, J.E., Organochlorine dynamics in the pelagic food web of Lake Baikal, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 15, 1388-1400, 1996
• Robbins, L.L. and Ostrom, P.H., Molecular isotopic and biochemical evidence of the origin and diagenesis of shell organic material, Geology, 23, 345-348, 1995
• Ostrom, P.H., Zonneveld, J.P., and Robbins, L.L., Organic geochemistry of hard parts: assessment of variability and indigeneity, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 107, 201-212, 1994
• Bakel, A.J., Ostrom, P.H., and Ostrom, N.E., Carbon isotopic analysis of individual n-alkanes: evaluation of accuracy and application to marine particulate organic material, Organic Geochemistry, 21, 595-602, 1994
• Ostrom, P.H., Lien, J. and Macko, S.A., Evaluation of feeding strategies for the Sowerby's Beaked whale, Mesoplodon bidens, based on isotopic comparisons among northwestern Atlantic Cetaceans, Canadian Journal of Zoology, 71, 858-861, 1993
• Ostrom, P.H. and Fry B., Sources and cycling of organic matter in modern and prehistoric food webs, Organic Geochemistry (Edited by: M.H. Engel and S.A. Macko) Plenum Press, New York, 785-798, 1993
• Ostrom, P.H., Macko, S.A., Engel, M.H., and Russell, D.A., Assessment of the trophic structure of Cretaceous communities based on stable nitrogen isotope analyses, Geology, 21, 491-494, 1993
• Nelson, D., Desbrosse, A., Lien, J., Ostrom, P. and Seton, R., A new stranding record of the pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps, in waters off eastern Canada, Canadian Field-Naturalist, 105, 407-408, 1991
• Ostrom, P.H., Macko, S.A., Engel, M.H., Silfer, J.A., and D. Russell, Geochemical characterization of high molecular weight organic material from fossils, Organic Geochemistry, 16, 1129-1138, 1990
• Pomeroy, L.R., Macko, S.A., Ostrom, P.H. and Dunphy J., The microbial food web in Arctic seawater: Concentration of dissolved free amino acids, and bacterial abundance and activity in the Arctic Ocean and Resolute Passage, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 61, 31-40, 1990
• Harrigan, P., Zieman, J.C., and Macko, S.A., The base of nutritional support for the gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus): an evaluation based on a combined stomach content and stable isotope analysis, Bulletin of Marine Science, 44, 65-77, 1989
• Felten, D.L., Harrigan, P., Burnett, B.T., and Cummings, J.P., Fourth ventricular tanycites: A possible relationship with monaminergic nuclei, Brain Research Bulletin, 6, 427-436, 1981
• Felten, D.L. and Harrigan, P., Dendrite bundles in nuclei raphe dorsalis and centralis superior of the rabbit: a possible substrate for local control of serotonergic neurons, Neuroscience Letters, 16, 275-280, 1980
• Ostrom, PH, Gandhi, H, Strahler, J, Walker, A.K., Andrews, P.A., Stafford, TW, Walker, D, Kelly, R, Buckley, M, Humpula, J, Unraveling the sequence and structure of the protein osteocalcin from a 42 ka fossil horse, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta., In Press
• Sutka R.L.,, Ostrom, NE, Ostrom, PH, Breznak, JA, Gandhi, H, Pitt, A, Li, F, Distinguishing N2O production from nitrification versus denitrification based on isotopomer abundances, Applied and environmental microbiology, In Press
• Ostrom, N.E., Pitt, A., Sutka, R., Ostrom, P.H., Grandy, A.S., Huizinga, K.M. and Robertson, G.P., . Isotopologue Effects During Nitrous Oxide Reduction in Soils and in Pure Cultures of Denitrifiers., Journal of Geophysical Research