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Postdoc NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA 1981-1983.
Hydrologist National Research Program, US Geological Survey, Arvada, CO, 1983-1988.
American Society for Microbiology; American Society of Limnology and Oceanography; American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Geophysical Union; International Society for Microbial Ecology, Geological Society of America.
1981 National Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship.
1) Adjunct Professor: Dept. Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma; Dept. of Geology and Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado.
2) Committees: EPA Technical Advisory Committee on Groundwater Microbial Processes 1985; National Academy of Sciences Workshop on Biological Aspects of the National Water Quality Assessment Program, 1987; International Committee of the Symposium for Subsurface Microbiology, 1999-present; Executive Committee AGU Biogeosciences Section, 1999-2004; AGU Walter Sullivan Award Committee for Excellence in Science Journalism Features, 2000-2004; AGU David Perlman Award Committee for Excellence in Science Journalism News, 2000-2004.
3) USGS Water Resources Division Research Advisor for the Ecology Discipline, 1998-2000; Assistant Research Advisor for the Ecology Discipline, 1994-1997.
4) Co-chair and co-organizer of the 1999 International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology.
U.S. Patent #6863815, Small-Scale Hydrogen Oxidizing Denitrifying Bioreactor for Treatment of Nitrate-Contaminated Drinking Water.
Boshers, D.S., Granger, J., Tobias, C.R., Böhlke, J.K., and Smith, R.L., 2019, Constraining the oxygen isotope composition of nitrate produced by nitrification: Environment Science and Technology, v. 53, p. 1206-1216, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b03386.
Smith, R.L., Kent, D.B., Repert, D.A., and Böhlke, J.K., 2017, Anoxic nitrate reduction coupled with iron oxidation and attenuation of dissolved arsenic and phosphate in a sand and gravel aquifer: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 196, p.102-120, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.09.025.
Stoliker, D.L., Repert, D.A., Smith, R.L., Song, B., LeBlanc, D.R., McCobb, T.D., Conaway, C.H., Hyun, S.P., Koh, D.-C., Moon, H.S., Kent, D.B., 2016, Hydrologic controls on nitrogen cycling processes and functional gene abundance in sediments of a groundwater flow-through lake: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 50, p. 3649-3657, doi:10.1021/acs.est.5b06155.
Smith, R.L., and Harris, S. H., 2007, Determining the terminal electron-accepting reaction in the saturated subsurface, In: C. J. Hurst, R. L. Crawford, J. L. Garland, D. A. Lipson, A. L. Mills, and L. D. Stetzenbach, eds., Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 3nd Edition, ASM Press, Washington, DC, pp. 860-871.
Holloway, J.M., Smith, R.L., and Nordstrom, D.K., 2004, Nitrogen transformations in hot spring runoff, Yellowstone National Park, USA: Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, WRI-11, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA, p. 145-148.
Smith, R.L., 2002, Determining the terminal electron-accepting reaction in the saturated subsurface, In: C. J. Hurst, R. L. Crawford, G. R. Knudsen, M. J. McInerney, and L. D. Stetzenbach, eds., Manual of Environmental Microbiology, 2nd Edition, ASM Press, Washington, DC, pp. 743-752.
Smith, R.L., Kumler, B.A., Peacock, T.R., and Miller, D.N., 1999, Evolution of a ground water sewage plume after removal of the 60-year-long source, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Inorganic nitrogen species, In: Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999-- Volume 3 of 3—Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, pp 285-292.
Smith, R.L., Böhlke, J.K., Revesz, K., Yoshinari, T., Hatzinger, P.B., Penarrieta, C.T., and Repert, D.A., 1999, In situ assessment of the transport and microbial consumption of oxygen in ground water, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, In: Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999-- Volume 3 of 3—Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, pp 317-322.
Revesz, K., Böhlke, J.K., Smith, R.L., and Yoshinari, T., 1999, Stable isotope composition of dissolved O2 undergoing respiration in a ground water contaminant plume, In: Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999-- Volume 3 of 3—Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, pp 323-328.
Miller, D.N., Smith, R.L., and Böhlke, J.K., 1999, Nitrification in a shallow, nitrogen-contaminated aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, In: Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999-- Volume 3 of 3—Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, pp 329-336.
LeBlanc, D.R., Hess, K.M., Kent, D.B., Smith, R.L., Barber, L.B., Stollenwerk, K.G., and Campo, K.W., 1999, Natural restoration of a sewage plume in a sand and gravel aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, In: Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999-- Volume 3 of 3—Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, pp 245-260.
Böhlke, J.K., Smith, R.L., Coplen, T.B., Busenberg, E., and LeBlanc, D.R., 1999, Recharge conditions and flow velocities of contaminated and uncontaminated ground waters at Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Evaluation of d2H, d18O, and dissolved gasses, In: Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999-- Volume 3 of 3—Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, pp 337-348.
Bekins, B.A., Baehr, A.L., Cozzarelli, I.M., Essaid, H.I., Haack, S.K., Harvey, R.W., Smith, J.A., and Smith, R.L., 1999, Capabilities and challenges of natural attenuation in the subsurface: Lessons from the U.S. Geological Survey Toxics Substances Hydrology Program, In: Morganwalp, D.W., and Buxton, H.T., eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, March 8-12, 1999-- Volume 3 of 3—Subsurface Contamination from Point Sources: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, pp 37-56.
Smith, R.L., and Garabedian, S. P., 1998, Using transport model interpretations of tracer tests to study microbial processes in groundwater, in: A.L. Koch, J. A. Robinson and G. A. Milken, eds., Mathematical Models: Applications to Microbial Ecology. Chapman and Hall, pp 94-123.
Smith, R.L., 1997, Determining the terminal electron-accepting reaction in the saturated subsurface, in C. J. Hurst, G. Knudsen, M. McInerney, L. D. Stetzenbach, and M. Walter, eds., Manual of Environmental Microbiology, ASM Press, Washington, D.C., p. 577-585.
Reilly, T.E., LeBlanc, D.L., Bussey, K.W., Councell, T.B., Smith, R.L., and Böhlke, J.K., 1996, Chemical and stable-isotope data from an experiment to examine temporal variability in water samples from screened wells on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1994, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-734.
Spaulding, S. A., McKnight, D. M., Smith, R.L., and Dufford, R., 1994, Phytoplankton population dynamics in perennially ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica: Journal of Plankton Research, v. 16, p. 527-541.
Oremland, R. S., Miller, L. G., Culbertson, C. W., Robinson, S. W., Smith, R.L., Lovley, D. R., Whiticar, M. J., King, G. M., Kiene, R. P., Iversen, N., and Sargent, M., 1993, Aspects of the biogeochemistry of methane in Mono Lake and the Mono Basin of California, in R. S. Oremland, ed., Biogeochemistry of Global Change: Radiatively Active Trace Gases. Chapman and Hall, New York, p. 704-741.
Brooks, M. H., Smith, R.L., and Garabedian, S. P., 1993, Small-scale tracer tests applied to the measurement of in situ denitrification rates in a sewage-contaminated aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in G. E. Mallard, ed., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, September 20-24, 1993: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations 94-4015, p. 243-248.
Smith, R.L., Brooks, M. H., and Ceazan, M. L., 1992, The use of natural gradient tracer tests to identify and quantify microbial processes occurring in groundwater, in J. A. Stanford and J. J. Simon (eds.) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Ground Water Ecology: American Water Resources Association, p. 59-65.
Krumme, M.L., Smith, R.L., and Dwyer, D.F., 1991, Survival of a model pollutant-degrading microorganism in a sand and gravel aquifer and in microcosms, in G.E. Mallard, ed., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Monterey, California, March 11-15, 1991: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations. 91-4034. pp 144-147.
Smith, R.L., and Ceazan, M.L., 1991, Isolation and characterization of autotrophic, hydrogen-oxidizing denitrifying bacteria from groundwater as potential agents for bioremediation of nitrate contamination, in G.E. Mallard, ed., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Monterey, California, March 11-15, 1991: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations. 91-4034. pp 123-127.
Smith, R.L., Howes, B.L., and Duff, J.H., 1991, The effect of denitrification on nitrogen geochemistry in a nitrate-contaminated sand and gravel aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in G.E. Mallard, ed., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Monterey, California, March 11-15, 1991: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations, 91-4034, pp 128-134.
Krumme, M.L., Smith, R.L., and Dwyer, D.F., 1991, Development of microcosms designed to evaluate the effects of adding microorganisms to aquifers as bioremediation agents, in C.B. Fliermans and T.C. Hazen (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Microbiology of the Deep Subsurface, WSRC Information Services, Aiken, SC, p. 7-117 to 7-128.
Smith, R.L., and Harvey, R. W., 1991, Development of sampling techniques to measure in situ rates of microbial processes in a contaminated sand and gravel aquifer, in C. B. Fliermans and T. C. Hazen (eds.), Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Microbiology of the Deep Subsurface: WSRC Information Services, Aiken, SC, p. 2-19 to 2-33.
Howes, B.L., and Smith, R.L., 1990, Sulfur cycling in a permanently ice covered amictic antarctic lake, Lake Fryxell: Antarctic Journal of the U.S., v. 25, p. 230-233.
Smith, R.L., and Howes, B.L., 1990, Bacterial biomass and heterotrophic activity in the water column of an amictic antarctic lake: Antarctic Journal of the U.S., v. 25, p. 233-235.
Brooks, M.H., and Smith, R.L., 1989, Total adenylate and adenylate energy charge measurements from bacterial communities in ground water, in G.E. Mallard and S.E. Ragone, ed., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, September 26-30, 1988: USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report 88-4220, pp. 541-545.
Smith, R.L., Howes, B.L., and Duff, J.H., 1989, The use of tracer tests to measure the transport and consumption of methane in a contaminated aquifer, in G.E. Mallard and S.E. Ragone, eds., U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program--Proceedings of the Technical Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, Sept. 26-30, 1988: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 88-4220, pp. 167-175.
McKnight, D.M., Aiken, G.R., Andrews, E.D., Bowles, E.C., and Smith, R.L., 1988, Dissolved organic material in desert lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Antarctic Journal of the U.S., v. 23, p. 152-153.
McKnight, D.M., Miller, C., Smith, R.L., Baron, J., and Spaulding, S., 1988, Phytoplankton populations in lakes in Loch Vale, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: Sensitivity to acidic conditions and nitrate enrichment: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report, 88-4115.
Oremland, R.S., Cloern, J.E., Sofer, Z., Smith, R.L., Culbertson, C.W., Zehr, J., Miller, L., Cole, B., Harvey, R., Iversen, N., Klug, M., DesMarais, D.J., and Rau, G., 1988, Biogeochemistry and microbial processes of Big Soda Lake, Nevada, in K. Kelts, ed., Lacustrine PetroleumSource Rocks: Geologic Society of London.
Tarafa, M.E., Whelan, J.K., Oremland, R.S., and Smith, R.L., 1987, Evidence for microbiological activity in Leg 95 (New Jersey Transect) sediments, in C.W. Poag, A.B. Watts, et al., eds., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 95, p. 635-640.
Whelan, J.K., Oremland, R.S., Tarafa, M., Smith, R.L., Howarth, R., and Lee, C., 1986. Evidence for sulfate reducing and methane-producing microorganisms in sediments from sites 618, 619, and 622, in A.H. Bowman, J.M. Coleman, and A.W. Meyer, eds., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, v. 96, p. 767-775.
McKnight, D. M., Brenner, M., Smith, R.L., and Baron, J., 1986, Seasonal changes in phytoplankton populations and related chemical and physical characteristics in lakes in Lock Vale, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 86-4101.
Oremland, R.S., Smith, R.L., and Culbertson, C., 1985, Aspects of the biogeochemistry of Big Soda Lake, Nevada, in D.E. Caldwell, J.A. Brierley, and C.L. Brierley, eds., Planetary Ecology, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, pp. 81-88.
Harvey, R.W., Smith, R.L., and George, L., 1984, Microbial distribution and heterotrophic uptake in sewage-contaminated groundwater, in D.R. LeBlanc, ed., Movement and fate of solutes in a plume of sewage-contaminated groundwater, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Waste Groundwater Contamination Program. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-475, pp. 137-152.
Smith, R.L., and Duff, J.H., 1984, A preliminary study of denitrification in a plume of sewage-contaminated groundwater, in D.R. LeBlanc, ed., Movement and fate of solutes in a plume of sewage-contaminated groundwater, Cape Cod, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Waste Groundwater Contamination Program. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-475, pp. 153-175.
Herrick, C.J., Goodman, E.D., Guthrie, C.A., Blythe, R.H., Hendrix, G.A., Smith, R.L., and Galloway, J.E., 1982, A model of mercury contamination in a woodland stream: Ecological Modeling, v. 15, p. 1-28.
Boshers, Danielle S.; Granger, Julie; Tobias, Craig R.; Böhlke, John K.; Smith, Richard L.
Smith, Richard L.; Kent, Douglas B.; Repert, Deborah A.; Böhlke, J.K.
Stoliker, Deborah L.; Repert, Deborah A.; Smith, Richard L.; Song, Bongkeun; LeBlanc, Denis R.; McCobb, Timothy D.; Conaway, Christopher; Hyun, Sung Pil; Koh, Dong-Chan; Moon, Hee Sun; Kent, Douglas B.
Smith, R.L., Bohlke, J.K., Song, B., and Tobias, C.R., 2015. Role of anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in nitrogen removal from a freshwater aquifer, Environmental Science and Technology, doi: 10.1021/acs.est5b02488.
Repert, D.A., Underwood, J.C., Smith, R.L., and Song, Bongkeun, 2014, Nitrogen cycling processes and microbial community composition in bed sediments in the Yukon River at Pilot Station: Journal of Geophysical Research, Biosciences, v. 119, p. 2328-2344, at doi:10.1002/2014JG002707.
Smith, Richard L.; Repert, Deborah A.; Barber, Larry B.; LeBlanc, Denis R.
Byrne, Michael J.; Smith, Richard L.; Repert, Deborah A.
Potential For Denitrification near Reclaimed Water Application Sites in Orange County, Florida, 2009; 2012; OFR; 2012-1123; Byrne, Michael J. Sr.; Smith, Richard L.; Repert, Deborah A.
Savoie, Jennifer G.; LeBlanc, Denis R.; Fairchild, Gillian M.; Smith, Richard L.; Kent, Douglas B.; Barber, Larry B.; Repert, Deborah A.; Hart, Charles P.; Keefe, Steffanie H.; Parsons, Luke A.
Groundwater-quality data for a treated-wastewater plume near the Massachusetts Military Reservation, Ashumet Valley, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2006-08; 2012; DS; 648; Savoie, Jennifer G.; LeBlanc, Denis R.; Fairchild, Gillian M.; Smith, Richard L.; Kent, Douglas B.; Barber, Larry B.; Repert, Deborah A.; Hart, Charles P.; Keefe, Steffanie H.; Parsons, Luke A.
Barnes, Rebecca T.; Smith, Richard L.; Aiken, George R.
Barnes, R. T., Smith, R. L. Smith, and Aiken, G. R., 2012, Linkages between denitrification and dissolved organic matter quality, Boulder Creek watershed, Colorado, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, G01014, doi:10.1029/2011JG001749.
Underwood, Jennifer C.; Harvey, Ronald W.; Metge, David W.; Repert, Deborah A.; Baumgartner, Laura K.; Smith, Richard L.; Roane, Timberly M.; Barber, Larry B.
J.C. Underwood, R.W. Harvey, D.W. Metge, D.A. Repert, L.K. Baumgartner, R.L. Smith, T.M. Roane, and L.B. Barber, 2011, Effects of the antimicrobial sulfamethoxazole on groundwater bacterial enrichment: Environmental Science and Technology, 45, 7, 3096-3101, doi: 10.1021/es103605e.
Mueller, Ryan S.; Denef, Vincent J.; Kalnejais, Linda H.; Suttle, K. Blake; Thomas, Brian C.; Wilmes, Paul; Smith, Richard L.; Nordstrom, D. Kirk; McCleskey, R. Blaine; Shah, Menesh B.; VerBekmoes, Nathan C.; Hettich, Robert L.; Banfield, Jillian F.
Smith, Richard L.; Repert, Deborah A.; Hart, Charles P.
Smith, R. L., Kent, D. B., Repert, D. A., and Böhlke, J.K., 2017, Anoxic nitrate reduction coupled with iron oxidation and attenuation of dissolved arsenic and phosphate in a sand and gravel aquifer, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 196:102-120, doi: http//dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.09.025.

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