All About Me

Donald Obenhuber is a microbiologist working on monitoring airborne bacterial spores in closed systems and microbial community profiles in extreme environments.

education

Ph.D. Microbiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1986
Thesis: Rate of carbon cycling in closed microbial ecosystems

M.S. Microbiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1982
Thesis: Materially closed microbial ecosystems

B.S. Biology, Rensselaer Institute, 1977

publications

Bacterial diversity in hyperarid Atacama Desert soils.  Connon, S.A.; Lester, E.D.; Shafaat, H.S.; Obenhuber, D.C.; Ponce, A.  Journal of Geophysical Research, 2007, 112(G4): Article No. G04S17. [PDF]