Matt Ginder-Vogel
Dr. Matt Ginder-Vogel
Associate Scientist
Education
  • B.A. 2000 Carleton College: Major - Chemistry
  • Ph.D. 2006 Stanford University: Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry
Research Interests
  • Matthew Ginder-Vogel is an associate scientist in the Delaware Environmental Institute at the University of Delaware. Before joining the Institute, Dr. Ginder-Vogel worked as post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Donald Sparks at the University of Delaware. He received his Ph.D. in Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry from Stanford University. Ginder-Vogel's research seeks to define the fundamental biogeochemical processes controlling the dynamics of nutrients and contaminants within the the environment. His research combines field-based experiments with simplified lab-based experiments, in order to reveal the dominant biogeochemical mechanisms affecting element mobility in environmental systems. He uses traditional spectroscopic and microscopic methods, as well as state-of-the-art methods like synchrotron radiation-based X-ray microscopic, spectroscopic, and diffraction techniques. Ginder-Vogel recently published details of a new X-ray spectroscopic technique used to measure rapid environmental redox reactions in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and continues to push the boundaries of environmental biogeochemistry.
Publications: Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Ginder-Vogel, M.; Stewart, B.; Fendorf S. Kinetic and mineralogical controls on the oxidation of biogenic UO2 by ferrihydrite. (In press in Environmental Science and Technology)

Ginder-Vogel, M; Sparks, D.L. The impacts of X-ray absorption spectroscopy on understanding soil processes and reaction mechanisms. (In press in a book entitled Synchroton-based Techniques in Soils and Sediment)

Landrot, G.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Sparks, D.L. Kinetics of chromium(III) oxidation by manganese(IV) oxides using quick-scanning X-ray adsorption spectroscopy (Q-XAS). (In press in Environmental Science and Technology)

Shimizu, M.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Parikh, S.J.; Sparks, D.L. “Methylarsenate sorption on aluminum oxide” (In press in Environmental Science and Technology)

Feng, X.H.; Zhu, M.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Ni, C.; Parikh, S.J.; Sparks, D.L. Formation of nano-crystalline todorokite from biogenic Mn oxides. (In press in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)

Borch, T.; Kretzschmar, R.; Van Cappellen, P.; Kappler, A.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Voeglin, A.; Campbell, K. Biogeochemical redox processes and their impact on contaminant dynamics. (In press in Environmental Science and Technology)

Khalid, S.; Caliebe, W.; Siddons, P.; So, I.; Clay, B.; Lenhard, T.; Hanson, J.; Wang, Q.; Frenkel, A.I.; Marinkovic, N.; Hould, N.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Landrot, G.L. ; Sparks, D.L.; Ganjoo, A. “QEXAFS Instrument with Milli-Second Time Scale, Optimized for In Situ Applications. (In press in Review of Scientific Instruments)

Ginder-Vogel, M.; Fischel, J.S.; Landrot, G.; Sparks, D.L. Quantification of rapid environmental redox processes using quick-scanning X-ray absorption spectroscopy (Q-XAS). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2009, 106(38), 16124-16128. (Published online)

Moseley, R.A.; Barnett, M.O.; Stewart, M.A.; Mehlhorn, T.L.; Jardine, P.M.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Fendorf, S. Decreasing lead bioaccessibility in industrial and firing range soils with phosphate-based amendments. Journal of Environmental Quality. 2008, 37, 2116–2124.

Cardenas, E.; Wu, W.; Leigh, M.B.; Carley, J.; Carroll, S.L.; Gentry, T.; Luo, J.; Watson, D.; Gu, B.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Kitanidis, P.; Jardine, P. M.; Zhou, J.; Criddle, C.S.; Marsh, T.L.; Tiedje, J.M. Microbial communities in contaminated sediments association with bioremediation of uranium to submicromolar levels. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2008, 74(12), 3718-3729.

Ginder-Vogel, M.; Fendorf, S. Biogeochemical Uranium Redox Transformation: Potential Oxidants of Uraninite. Adsorption of Metals by Geomedia II: Variables, Mechanisms, and Model Applications. M. O. Barnett and D. B. Kent. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier. 2008, 7, 293-320.

Seiter, J.M.; Staats-Borda, K.E.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Sparks, D.L. XANES spectroscopic analysis of phosphorus speciation in alum-amended poultry litter. Journal of Environmental Quality 2008, 37, 477-485.

Wu, W.; Carley, J.; Luo, J.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Cardenas, E.; Leigh, M.B.; Hwang, C.; Kelly, S.D.; Ruan, C.; Wu, L.; Van Nostrand, J.; Gentry, T.; Lowe, K.; Mehlhorn, T.; Carroll, S.; Fields, M.W.; Gu, B.; Watson, D.; Kemner, K.M.; Marsh, T.; Tiedje, J.; Zhou, J.; Fendorf, S.; Kitanidis, P.K; Jardine, P.M.; Criddle, C.S. In-situ bioreduction of uranium (VI) to submicromolar levels and reoxidation by dissolved oxygen. Environmental Science and Technology 2007, 41, 5716-5723.

Tappero, R.; Peltier, E.; Grafe, M.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Heidel, K.; Livi, K.J.T.; Rivers, M.L.; Marcus, M.A.; Chaney, R.L.; Sparks, D.L. Metal interaction and localization in Ni/Co hyperaccumulator Alyssum murale: Results from synchrotron-based X-ray microfluorescence and tomography. New Phytologist 2007, 174, 641-654.

Bank, T.L.; Vishnivetskaya , T.A.; Jardine, P.M.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Fendorf, S.; Baldwin, M.E. Elucidating geochemical and biogeochemical uranium reduction on neutral, reducing soils. Geomicrobiology Journal 2007, 24,125-132.

Ginder-Vogel, M.; Wu, W.; Kelly, S.D.; Kemner, K. Carley, J.; Jardine, P.; Criddle, C.S.; Fendorf, S. Micro-scale heterogeneity in biogeochemical uranium cycling. Physica Scripta 2006, 882, 190-192.

Nyman, J.; Marsh, T. L.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Gentile, M.; Fendorf, S.; Criddle, C. Heterogeneous response to biostimulation for U(VI) reduction in replicated sediment microcosms. Biodegradation 2006, 17, 303-316.

Wu, W.-M.; Carley, J.; Gentry, T.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Fienen, M.; Mehlhorn, T.; Yan, H.; Caroll, S.; Pace, M.; Nyman, J.; Luo, J.; Gentile, M.; Fields, M. W.; Hickey, R.; Watson, D. B.; Cirpka, O.; Zhou, J.; Fendorf, S.; Kitanidis, P.; Jardine, P. M.; Criddle, C. Field-scale bioremediation of uranium in a highly contaminated aquifer II: Geochemical control of U(VI) bioavailability and evidence of U(VI) reduction. Environmental Science and Technology 2006, 40, 3986-3995.

Ginder-Vogel, M.; Criddle, C.; Fendorf, S. Thermodynamic constraints on the oxidation of biogenic UO2 by Fe(III) (hydr)oxides. Environmental Science and Technology 2006, 40, 3544-3550.

Ginder-Vogel, M.; Borch, T.; Mayes, M.A.; Jardine, P.M.; Fendorf, S. Chromate reduction and retention mechanisms within arid subsurface environments. Environmental Science and Technology 2005, 39, 7833-7839.

Gu, B.; Wu, W.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Yan, H.; Fields, M.W.; Zhou, J.; Fendorf, S.; Criddle, C.; Jardine, P.M. Bioreduction of uranium in a contaminated soil column. Environmental Science and Technology 2005, 39, 4841-4847.

Publications: Submitted Journal Articles (3)

Revill, Kristin L.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Fendorf, S. Competitive microbial reduction of U(VI) and Fe(III): Biofilm influence on substrate availability and utilization. (Submitted to Environmental Science and Technology)

Cardenas, E.; Wu, W.; Leigh, M.B.; Carley, J.; Carroll, S.; Gentry, T.; Luo, J.; Watson, D.; Gu, B.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Kitanidis, P.K.; Jardine, P.M.; Zhou, J. Criddle, C.S.; Marsh, T.L.; Tiedje, J.M. Microbial communities in contaminated sediments associated with bioremediation of uranium to submicromolar levels. (Submitted to Applied Environmental Microbiology)

Bank, T.L.; Kukkadapu, R.K.; Madden, A.S.; Ginder-Vogel, M.; Baldwin, M.E.; Jardine, P.M. Effects of sterilization on the physic-chemical properties of natural sediments from the Oak Ridge Reservation. (Submitted to Environmental Science and Technology

Awards and Scholarships

  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship – Honorable Mention (2003)

  • Best Poster in Environmental Sciences, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory User's Meeting (2003)

  • McGee Grant in Earth Science (2002)
  • Marine Biological Laboratory Microbial Diversity Course Scholarship (2002)

  • President of the Carleton Associates of the American Chemical Society (2000)

  • Vice President of the Carleton Associates of the American Chemical Society (1999)

 

 

Contact Information:

Plant and Soil Sciences
University of Delaware
152 Townsend Hall
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: 302 831-0608
Fax: 302 831-0605
e-mail: mattgv@udel.edu