CURRENT POSITION
Assistant Professor of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Department Coordinator
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Virginia Wesleyan College
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan, 2002
Dissertation: "The effect of mercury speciation and meteorological processing on concentrations, transport and deposition of atmospheric mercury"
Advisor: Gerald J. Keeler, Ph.D.
MS Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan, 1998
BA Environmental Science, Earlham College, 1995
Natural and Human Environment Program: The Great Barrier Reef, Rainforest Ecology, and Aboriginal Culture, Australia, School for International Training, 1994
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Research Associate, 2002-2004
Princeton University, Department of Geosciences
Adjunct Lecturer, 2003
Drew University
Lecturer, 2002
Princeton University
Graduate Student Research Assistant, 1996-2000
University of Michigan Air Quality Laboratory
Lake Superior Basin Project
Mercury Deposition and Atmospheric Concentrations in New England
Lake Champlain Basin Mercury Cycling Study
Water and Soil Quality Analyst, 1995-1996
Accutest
Research Assistant, 1993
Earlham College
Trace-level studies of environmental mercury
Laboratory Teaching Assistant, 1992, 1993, 1995
Earlham College, Chemistry Department
Water Quality Intern, 1989, 1990, 1991
Hackensack Meadowlands Environmental Research Laboratory
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Graduate Fellowship
University of Michigan College of Engineering Distinguished Achievement Award for Outstanding Dissertation
College and Departmental Honors, Earlham College
Science and Mathematics Scholarship, Earlham College
GRANTS
Moving Towards a Sustainable Campus: Design of A Greenroof Monitoring Experiment. CoPIs: Margaret Reese and Maynard Schaus. Funded by: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's P3 Award: A Student Design Competition for Sustainability, 2005-2006.
Experimental investigation of the scavenging of gaseous mercury by sea salt aerosols. Funded by the Jeffress Memorial Trust, 2005-2007.
Measurements of Atmospheric Deposition and Runoff of Mercury in a Suburban Environment. Mednick Memorial Fellowship, 2005-2006.
PEER REVIEWED PAPERS
Malcolm, E.G., Keeler, G.J. Evidence for a sampling artifact for particulate-phase mercury in the marine atmosphere. Atmospheric Environment, 2007, 41:3352-3359.
Kraepiel, A.M.L., Keller, K., Chin, H.B., Malcolm, E.G., Morel, F.M.M. Sources and variations of mercury in tuna. Environmental Science and Technology, 2003, 37:5551-5558.
Malcolm, E.G., Keeler, G.J. Landis, M.S. The effects of the coastal environment on the atmospheric mercury cycle. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2003, 108 (D12), art. no. 4357.
Malcolm, E.G., Keeler, G.J., Lawson, S.T., Scherbatskoy, T.D. Mercury and trace elements in cloud water and precipitation collected on Mt. Mansfield, Vermont. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2003, 5:584-590.
Lawson, S.T., Scherbatskoy, T.D., Malcolm, E.G., Keeler, G.J. Cloud water deposition and throughfall chemistry in a high elevation spruce-fir forest at Mt. Mansfield, Vermont. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2003, 5:578-583.
Malcolm, E.G., Keeler, G.J. Measurements of mercury in dew: atmospheric removal of mercury species to a water surface. Environmental Science and Technology, 2002, 36:2815-2821.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Morel, F.M.M. and Malcolm, E.G. The Biogeochemistry of Cadmium , in "Biogeochemical Cycles of the Elements", Vol. 43 of Metal Ions Biological Systems, A. Sigel, H. Sigel, and R. K. O. Sigel, eds., M. Dekker, New York, 2005.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Malcolm, E. Interactive comment on "Circumpolar transport and air-surface exchange of atmospheric mercury at Ny-Alesund (79 N), Svalbard, spring 2002" by J. Sommar et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 2004, 4:S624-S629. http://www.cosis.net/copernicus/EGU/acpd/4/S624/acpd-4-S624.pdf
Kraepiel, A.M.L., Keller, K., Chin, H.B., Malcolm, E.G., Morel, F.M.M. Response to comment on "Sources and variations of mercury in tuna". Environmental Science and Technology, 2004, 38, 4048-4048.
PRESENTATIONS
Malcolm, E., Reese, M., Schaus, M., Ozmon, I. Do Living Green Roofs Reduce Total Mercury in Stormwater Runoff? Poster presented at the 8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison Wisconsin, August 2006.
Malcolm, E., Redding, T. Experimental Investigation of the Scavenging of Gaseous Mercury by Sea-Salt Aerosols. Poster presented at the 8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison Wisconsin, August 2006.
Ekstrom, E., Malcolm, E., Schaefer, J., Morel, F. Biotic and Abiotic Sources of Methylmercury
in the Ocean. Poster presented at the 8th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Madison Wisconsin, August 2006.
Brynildsen, V., Dodds, K., Ozmon, I., Porter, S., Rowe, M., Redding, T., Malcolm, E., Reese, M., Schaus, M. Moving Towards a Sustainable Campus: Design of a Green Roof Monitoring Experiment. Poster presented at the EPA Sustainable Design Expo, Washington D.C., May 2006.
Ekstrom, E.B., Malcolm, E.G., Tuit, C.B., Jayakumar, D.A., Morel, F.M.M. Mercury methylation in ocean oxygen minimum zones: investigations into community diversity. Poster presented at the American Society for Microbiology 105th General Meeting, Atlanta, GA, June 2005.
Malcolm, E.G., Tuit, C.B., Jayakumar, A.D., Ekstrom, E.B., Morel, F.M.M. Investigations of mercury methylation by bacteria in the open ocean. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 2004.
Morel, F.M.M., Kraepiel, A.M.L., Keller, K., Malcolm, E.G. What is the source of methylmercury in the oceans? Paper presented at the ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, February, 2003.
Malcolm, E., Keeler, G. Atmospheric mercury chemistry in the coastal environment. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Minamata, Japan, October 2001.
Malcolm, E., Keeler, G. Mercury deposition to the Lake Champlain watershed: cloud water, cloud throughfall, and precipitation measurements on Mt. Mansfield, VT. Paper presented at the National Atmospheric Deposition Program 2000 Technical Committee Meeting, October 2000.
Malcolm, E., Keeler, G. Investigation of heavy metals in cloud water sampled at two North American Locations. Paper presented at the 25th International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment, August 2000.
Malcolm, E., Keeler, G. The potential importance of dew, frost, fog and cloud water to the environmental mercury cycle. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 1999.
Malcolm, E., Keeler, G. The role of dew and frost in the environmental mercury cycle. Paper presented at the 21st Midwest Environmental Chemistry Workshop, University of Michigan, October 1998.
Keeler, G., Malcolm, E., Burke, J., Deboe, S., Scherbatskoy, T. Atmospheric mercury transport and deposition in the Lake Champlain Basin: 1992-1997. Paper presented at Lake Champlain Research Consortium 1998 Spring Conference, May 1998.
Malcolm, E., Marsik, F., Vette, A., Keeler, G. The potential importance of dew and frost to the mercury cycle in the Great Lakes. Paper presented at the International Association for Great Lakes Research Conference, McMaster University, May 1998.
Malcolm, E., Verbrugge, M., Salanitro, A., Stratton, W. Mercury speciation in the environment. Paper presented at the Butler University Undergraduate Research Conference, April 15, 1994.