Mark Conrad

Professional Experience

Staff Geological Scientist (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; 4/01-present): Transport of radionuclides through the vadose zone, influence of heating on the geochemistry of unsaturated rocks, monitoring subsurface microbial activity with stable isotopes, isotopic monitoring of the water cycle.

Geological Scientist (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; 5/95-3/01): Monitoring subsurface microbial activity with stable isotopes, fate and transport of groundwater contaminants, vadose zone hydrology, metal uptake by lichens, paleoclimatic patterns in California and stable isotope systematics of clay minerals.

Geologist Postdoctoral Fellow (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; 5/92- 5/95): Stable isotope evidence for subsurface microbial activity, groundwater hydrology and water-rock interaction in geothermal systems.

Research Associate (Dartmouth College; 10/90-5/92): Research on fluid-rock interaction in a moderate- to high-temperature geologic environments.

Consulting Geologist (Meridian Gold Company; 4/88-12/88, 3/90-5/90): Evaluation of gold property in the Mother Lode of California.

Exploration Geologist (Anaconda Minerals Company; 6/80-10/80, 3/81-7/81, 6/82-8/83): Evaluation of the economic potential of mining properties in Alaska, Nevada and Mexico.

Summer Geologist (Noranda Exploration, Inc.; 5/79-8/79): Reconnaissance mapping of volcanic rocks in Arizona to evaluate mineral potential.

Professional Service

• Editorial Board for Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (1998 - present).
• Reviewer for Environmental Science & Technology, Water Resources Research, Organic Geochemistry and Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology.
• Reviewer of grant proposals for National Science Foundation and Department of Energy Small Business Innovative Research program.
• Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research (1995-1998).
• Member of California Environmental Protection Agency Ad-Hoc Workgroup for Criteria and Standards in the Verification of Bioremediation Processes.
• Member of organizing committee for Eighth International Conference on Geochronology, Cosmochronology and Isotope Geochemistry.

Professional Affiliations

• Geological Society of America
• Mineralogical Society of America
• American Geophysical Union
• Society of Economic Geologists
• Clay Minerals Society