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Max Coleman
Joint Appointment with the Center for Life Detection

Director, JPL Center for Life Detection
Education
  • B.Sc. Combined Honours, Geology and Chemistry, Univ. of London (1966)
  • M.Sc. Geochemistry (with distinction), Univ. of Leeds (1967)
  • Ph.D. Isotope Geochemistry, Univ. of Leeds (1970)
Research Interests
Integration of different relevant scientific disciplines to understand how natural systems work - applied to astrobiology, sedimentary systems, environmental problems, forensic science, oilfield geology etc.
Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2000 - present)
    • Director, JPL Center for Life Detection (2003 - present)
    • Distinguished Visiting Scientist (2000-2003)
  • University of Reading (1988-2003)
    • Professor of Sedimentology (1995-2003)
    • Adjunct Professor of Sedimentary Geochemistry (1988-1995)
  • BP Exploration (1983-1995)
    • Manager, Long-term Research and Coordinator of Exploration University Liaison (1992-1995)
    • Head of Inorganic Geochemistry Group
    • Manager, Geochemistry Branch
    • Coordinator, Exploration Corporate Research, BP Research Centre, Sunbury-on-Thames
  • Head of NERC Stable Isotope Facility, Institute of Geological Sciences (now British Geological Survey) London (1973-1983)
  • University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Post-doctoral Research Fellow (1970-1973)
Selected Publications
  1. Coleman ML Data Corrections for Mass-Spectrometer Analysis of SO2. in de Groot P Handbook of Stable Isotope Analytical Techniques , Elsevier (2004).
  2. Godon A, Jendrzejewski N, Eggenkamp HGM, Banks DA, Ader M, Coleman ML and Pineau F (2004) A cross calibration of chlorine isotopic measurements and suitability of seawater as the international reference material. Chem Geol. (in press)
  3. Storrie-Lombardi MC, Tsapin AI, McDonald GD, Coleman ML and Meadows VS Photosynthetic Constraints on the Habitable Zone. Bioastronomy 2002 Proceedings (in press).
  4. Galy A and Coleman ML Carbon sources and their evolution during burial of a carbonate-cemented turbidite. Example of Mam Tor formation (Derbyshire-England). J. Sedim. Res. (in revision)
  5. Runnalls LA and Coleman ML (2003) Record of natural and anthropogenic changes in reef environments, Barbados, West Indies, using laser ablation ICP-MS and sclerochronology on coral cores. Coral Reefs 22 416-426.
  6. Phillips SA, Doyle S, Philp L and Coleman M (2003). Network developing forensic applications of stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry conference 2002. Science and justice 43 153-160.
  7. Coleman M, Ader M, Chaudhuri SK and Coates JD (2003) Microbial isotopic fractionation of perchlorate chlorine. Appl. Env. Microbiology 69 4997-5000.
  8. Buckby T, Black S, Hodson ME, and Coleman ML (2002) Iron-sulphate-rich evaporative mineral precipitates from the Rio Tinto, South West Spain. Mineralogical Magazine 67 263-278.
  9. Chopin EIB, Black S, Hodson ME, Alloway BJ and Coleman ML (2002) A preliminary investigation into mining and smelting impacts on metal concentrations in the soils and vegetation around Tharsis, SW Spain. Mineralogical Magazine 67 279-288.
  10. GruszczyDski M, Coleman ML, Marcinowski, R, Walaszczyk, I and Isaacs, MCP (2002) Palaeoenvironmental conditions of hardground formation in the Late Turonian-Coniacian of Mangyshlak Mountains, Western Kazakhstan. Acta Geologica Polonica 52 423-435.
  11. Coleman ML, Eggenkamp HGM & Aranyossy, JF (2001) Chlorine stable isotope characterisation of solute transport in mudrocks. ANDRA: Actes des journées scientifiques, 1999 Chapter 10 pp 155-175, EDP Sciences, France.
  12. Hudson JD, Coleman ML, Barreiro BA and Hollingworth NTJ (2001) Septarian concretions from the Oxford Clay (Jurassic, England, UK): involvement of original marine and multiple external pore fluids. Sedimentology 48 507-531.
  13. Ader M, Coleman M , Doyle SP, Stroud MS and Wakelin D (2001) Methods for the stable isotopic analysis of chlorine in chlorate and perchlorate compounds. Analyt. Chem. 73 4946-4950.
  14. Jendrzejewski, N, Eggenkamp, HGM and Coleman, ML (2001) Characterisation of chlorinated hydrocarbons from chlorine and carbon isotopic compositions : scope of application to environmental problems. Appl. Geochem.16 1021-1031.
  15. Zeigler K, Howarth, RJ and Coleman ML (2001) Palaeohydrodynamics of fluids in the Brent Group (Oseberg Field, Norwegian North Sea) from chemical and isotopic compositions of formation waters. Appl. Geochem. 16 609-632.
  16. Yu J-Y, McGenity TJ and Coleman ML (2000) Solution chemistry during the lag phase of pyrite oxidation by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. Chem. Geol.175 307-317.
  17. Yu J-Y and Coleman M (2000) Isotopic compositions of dissolved sulfur in acid mine drainages: case study on Youngdong and Gangreung coal mines, Korea. Jl. Geol. Soc. Korea 36 1-10.
  18. Bentley RW, Booth RH, Burton JD, Coleman ML, Sellwood BW and Whitfield OR (2000) Perspectives on the Future of Oil. Energy exploration & exploitation. 18 147-206.
  19. Rosenbaum JM,. Cliff RA and Coleman ML (2000) Chlorine stable isotopes: A comparison of dual inlet mass spectrometry and TIMS measurements Analyt. Chem. 72 2261-2264.
  20. Eggenkamp HGM and Coleman ML (2000) Rediscovery of classical methods and their application to the measurement of stable bromine isotopes in natural samples. Chem. Geol. 167 393-402.
  21. Worden RH, Coleman ML and Matray J-M (1999) Basin scale evolution of formation waters: a diagenetic and formation water study of the Triassic Chaunoy formation, Paris Basin. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63 2513-2528.
  22. Ku TCW, Walter LM, Coleman ML, Blake RE and Martini, AM (1999) Coupling between sulfur recycling and syndepositional carbonate dissolution: Evidence from oxygen and sulfur isotope composition of pore water sulfate, South Florida Platform, U.S.A. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63 2529-2546.

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