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Carol D. Litchfield, Ph. D.
Research Professor, Department of
Environmental Science & Policy
I. Education and Experience
Carol Litchfield received her PhD from Texas A & M in Biochemistry with a minor in organic chemistry. Her BS and MS degrees were from the University of Cincinnati. She worked for almost 20 years in oceanography and solar salt works at A& M and at Rutgers University. After 15 years in industry she return to academie and has been studying Great Salt Lake for over six years where she was part of a team that performed the first molecular analyses of the microbial community in Great Salt Lake. She is on the editorial board of Environmental Microbiology and the Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnomogy. She is the current Past President of the Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIM) where she has organized several symposia on halophiles and Archaea. She is also co-chair of the Education Committee for SIM. She serves on the IUMS subcommittees on the taxonomy of the Halomonadaceae and the Halobacteriaceae which contain the bacterial genera most frequently found in salt lakes and solar salterns. She also teaches a course in microbial diversity and has presented papers on microbial diversity and its detection at several of the ISSLR symposia. She was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of SIM, and is a member of the American Academy of Microbiology.
II. Selected publications
Vreeland, R. H., Litchfield, C. D., Martin, E. L. and Elliot, E. 1980. Halomonas elongata: A new genus and species of extremely salt tolerant bacteria. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 30: 485-495.
Carol D. Litchfield, Amy Irby, Tamar Kis-Papo, and Aharon Oren. 2000. Comparisons of the polar lipid and pigment profiles of two solar salterns located in Newark, California, U.S.A., and Eilat, Israel. Extremophiles 4: 259-265.
C. D. Litchfield, M. Sikaroodi and P. M. Gillevet. 2005. The microbial diversity of a solar saltern on San Francisco Bay. In: Adaptation to life at high salt concentrations in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya, eds. N. Gunde-Cimerman, A. Oren, and A. Plemenita�. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
C. D. Litchfield, M. Sikaroodi, and P. M. Gillevet. 2006. Chapter 21: Characterization of natural communities of halophilic microorganisms. pp. 513-533. In: Extremophiles - Methods in Microbiology, Vol. 35, F. A. Rainey and A. Oren, eds. Academic Press.
Pesenti, T., M. Sikaroodi, P. M. Gillevet, C. Sanchez-Porro, A. Ventosa, and C. D. Litchfield. In Press Scheduled for Dec. 2008. Halorubrum californiense sp. nov., an extreme halophile isolated form a crystallizer pond at a solar salt works in California. Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol.
III. Candidate Statement
My interest in serving ISSLR as a Member-at-Large is the result of being involved with the society for over 15 years starting with the meeting in Beijing. I have been active in both oceanography and limnology for many years and want to contribute to ISSLR in more substantive ways than just attendance at meetings. It is extremely important that we preserve the saline lakes and hypersaline environments as they are likely sources of as yet undiscovered biodiversity besides providing important habitats for migratory and residential birds and other eukaryotes. There are both natural and man-made assults on these environments, and I feel that ISSLR can play a significant role in their preservation and in educating the general public about their importance.
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