Ariel Anbar

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Ariel Anbar is an isotope geochemist and President's Professor at Arizona State University. He has published over 180 refereed papers on topics ranging from the origins of Earth's atmosphere to detecting life on other worlds to diagnosing human disease. [1]

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Ariel D. Anbar
Alma mater Harvard University AB 1989, California Institute of Technology PhD 1996
Awards Arthur L. Day Medal (2020), Donath Medal (2002)
Scientific career
Institutions Arizona State University
Doctoral advisor Gerald J. Wasserburg
Website https://www.anbarlab.org/

Education and career

Anbar was born in Rehovot, Israel and raised in Palo Alto, California and Amherst, New York. He received a A.B. in Geological Sciences and Chemistry from Harvard University in 1989. [2] While at Harvard, he worked under the supervision of Heinrich Holland and conducted experiments that suggested the importance of photochemical oxidation in Archean oceans, especially as a possible source of manganese oxides before the Great Oxidation Event. [3] Since 2004, he has been on the faculty in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University. [2] . Anbar was a co-author with Felisa Wolfe-Simon on the 2011 Science article "A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus". [4] Reports refuting the most significant aspects of the original results were published in the same journal in 2012. [5] Following the publication of the articles challenging the conclusions of the original Science article first describing GFAJ-1, David Sanders on the website Retraction Watch argued that the original article should be retracted because of misrepresentation of critical data. [6] [7] The article has been retracted, although Anbar argued that it should not have been. [8]

Research

His group was the first to report natural fractionation of molybdenum isotopes, [9] including how and why molybdenum isotopes fractionate during adsorption to manganese oxides. [10] This work provided a foundation for the use of molybdenum isotopes to study ancient ocean redox change. [11] Anbar and colleagues discovered a "whiff of oxygen" fifty million years before the Great Oxidation Event [12] [13]

Anbar's group has also worked on iron isotopes, demonstrating abiotic fractionation in low and high temperature systems. [14] They have also worked to develop the uranium isotope system as a paleoredox proxy, opening up the carbonate sedimentary record for investigation of changes in ocean oxygenation and their linkages to evolution. [15]

Anbar has also been involved in development of method to use calcium isotopes to study bone disease. [16] [17]

Leadership

Anbar led the NASA Astrobiology Institute program at Arizona State University from 2009 to 2015. [18] He served as President-Elect and President of the Biogeosciences Section of the American Geophysical Union from 2015 to 2019. [19]

Awards

Anbar is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the Geochemical Society, the European Association of Geochemistry, and the American Geophysical Union. [20] In 2002, he was awarded the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) from the Geological Society of America. [21] [22] In 2014, he was appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in recognition of his work in digital learning innovation. [23] In 2017, he was named one of 10 “teaching innovators” by the Chronicle of Higher Education. [24] He was the Endowed Biogeochemistry Lecturer at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in 2017, [25] and received the Samuel Epstein Science Innovation Award from the European Association of Geochemistry in 2019. [26] He received the Arthur L. Day Medal from the Geological Society of America in 2020. [27] [28] He is a Distinguished Sustainability Scholar in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.

References

  1. ↑ "Ariel Anbar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  2. 1 2 "Ariel Anbar | iSearch". isearch.asu.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  3. ↑ Anbar, A.D.; Holland, H.D. (1992). "The photochemistry of manganese and the origin of banded iron formations" . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 56 (7): 2595–2603. Bibcode:1992GeCoA..56.2595A. doi:10.1016/0016-7037(92)90346-K. ISSN   0016-7037. PMID   11537803.
  4. ↑ Wolfe-Simon, F.; Blum, J. S.; Kulp, T. R.; Gordon, G. W.; Hoeft, S. E.; Pett-Ridge, J.; Stolz, J. F.; Webb, S. M.; Weber, P. K.; Davies, P. C. W.; Anbar, A. D.; Oremland, R. S. (2011). "A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorus". Science. 332 (6034): 1163–1166. Bibcode:2011Sci...332.1163W. doi: 10.1126/science.1197258 . PMID   21127214. (Retracted, see doi:10.1126/science.adu5488, PMID   40705905,  Retraction Watch . If this is an intentional citation to a retracted paper, please replace {{ retracted |...}} with {{ retracted |...|intentional=yes}}.)
  5. ↑ Erb, T. J.; Kiefer, P.; Hattendorf, B.; Gunther, D.; Vorholt, J. A. (2012). "GFAJ-1 is an Arsenate-Resistant, Phosphate-Dependent Organism". Science. 337 (6093): 467–470. Bibcode:2012Sci...337..467E. doi: 10.1126/science.1218455 . PMID   22773139. S2CID   20229329.
  6. ↑ David Sanders (2012-07-09). "Despite refutation, Science arsenic life paper deserves retraction, scientist argues". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
  7. ↑ Sanders, David (21 January 2021). "Why one biologist says it's not too late to retract the "arsenic life" paper".
  8. ↑ https://retractionwatch.com/2025/07/24/science-retraction-arsenic-life-nasa-astrobiology
  9. ↑ Barling, J.; Arnold, G.L.; Anbar, A.D. (2001). "Natural mass-dependent variations in the isotopic composition of molybdenum" . Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 193 (3–4): 447–457. Bibcode:2001E&PSL.193..447B. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00514-3. ISSN   0012-821X.
  10. ↑ Barling, J.; Anbar, A.D. (2004). "Molybdenum isotope fractionation during adsorption by manganese oxides" . Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 217 (3–4): 315–329. Bibcode:2004E&PSL.217..315B. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00608-3. ISSN   0012-821X.
  11. ↑ Arnold, G. L.; Anbar, A. D.; Barling, J.; Lyons, T. W. (2004). "Molybdenum Isotope Evidence for Widespread Anoxia in Mid-Proterozoic Oceans" . Science. 304 (5667): 87–90. Bibcode:2004Sci...304...87A. doi:10.1126/science.1091785. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   15066776. S2CID   130579844.
  12. ↑ Anbar, Ariel D.; Duan, Yun; Lyons, Timothy W.; Arnold, Gail L.; Kendall, Brian; Creaser, Robert A.; Kaufman, Alan J.; Gordon, Gwyneth W.; Scott, Clinton; Garvin, Jessica; Buick, Roger (2007). "A Whiff of Oxygen Before the Great Oxidation Event?" . Science. 317 (5846): 1903–1906. Bibcode:2007Sci...317.1903A. doi:10.1126/science.1140325. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   17901330. S2CID   25260892.
  13. ↑ "Discovery challenges timeline of oxygen on Earth". phys.org. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  14. ↑ Anbar, A. D.; Roe, J. E.; Barling, J.; Nealson, K. H. (2000). "Nonbiological Fractionation of Iron Isotopes" . Science. 288 (5463): 126–128. Bibcode:2000Sci...288..126A. doi:10.1126/science.288.5463.126. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   10753114.
  15. ↑ Romaniello, S.J.; Herrmann, A.D.; Anbar, A.D. (2013). "Uranium concentrations and 238U/235U isotope ratios in modern carbonates from the Bahamas: Assessing a novel paleoredox proxy" . Chemical Geology. 362: 305–316. Bibcode:2013ChGeo.362..305R. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.10.002. ISSN   0009-2541.
  16. ↑ Morgan, Jennifer L. L.; Skulan, Joseph L.; Gordon, Gwyneth W.; Romaniello, Stephen J.; Smith, Scott M.; Anbar, Ariel D. (2012). "Rapidly assessing changes in bone mineral balance using natural stable calcium isotopes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (25): 9989–9994. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.9989M. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1119587109 . PMC   3382538 . PMID   22652567.
  17. ↑ "Stable isotopes offer novel methods of disease detection". www.earthmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  18. ↑ "NASA Astrobiology Institute". astrobiology.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  19. ↑ "NASA Astrobiology". astrobiology.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  20. ↑ "ASU President's Professor Ariel Anbar elected as an AGU fellow". ASU News. 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  21. ↑ "NASA Astrobiology". astrobiology.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  22. ↑ "Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal)" (PDF). geosociety.org. p. 7. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  23. ↑ "ASU faculty member named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor". ASU News. 2014-06-30. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  24. ↑ "Innovators: 10 Classroom Trailblazers". www.chronicle.com. Archived from the original on 2020-08-31. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  25. ↑ "Society News" (PDF). Elements Magazine. June 2017. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  26. ↑ "ASU geochemist Ariel Anbar to receive 2019 European science innovation award". ASU News. 2019-04-29. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  27. ↑ "Arthur L. Day Medal - 2020". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  28. ↑ "ASU President's Professor Ariel Anbar awarded medal from the Geological Society of America". ASU News. 2020-08-24. Retrieved 2021-10-18.


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