>> Conferences

• The 2007 Goldschmidt conference will be in Cologne, Germany . I will be co-chairing a session with Christian Blodau on "acidic mining lakes"
• The next ISEB conference will be in New Zealand in 2007 (Nov. 11th-17th).
• The Frontiers in Mineral Sciences 2007 will be held in Cambridge, UK.

>> Awards

• Visiting Fellowship (Chercheur associé étranger) to CAREN (Centre Armoricain de Recherche en Environnement), Rennes, France (summer 2006).
• JSPS fellowship for visiting scientists,Japan (2004)
• Matsumae International Fellowship (Japan) 2003
• Premiers Research Excellence Award (PREA) (2000)
• Chaire Environnment Lyon (Rhones-Alpes) (1997)

>> Editorial Work

• Associate Editor Applied Geochemistry (Elsevier) (2005-)
• Associate Editor Geochemical Journal (2004-)
• Co-editor of special issue of Applied Geochemistry on biogeochemical cycling (2006-07)
• Co-editor of special issue of Geobiology on Bio-Geo interface (2006-07)
• Co-editor of a special issue of Chemical Geology (Elsevier Journal) (vol. 212, Dec 2004) on ”Bacteria and geochemical speciation of metals” (2004)
• Member of editorial advisory board of Geobioly (Balckwell Science) (2002-)

>> Membership

• Member of the Canadian Astrobiology work group (2005-)
• Elected member of the Executive Board of ISEB (International Symposium of Environmental Biogeochemistry) (2003-2009 )
• Member of the International Inter-Ridge Working Group on Biogeochemical interactions at deep-sea vents (2004-)

>> Publications

2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 and earlier

2007

• Fortin, D. and Glasauer, S., 2006. Biominerals. Recorders of the past? In: MILS-4 Volume 4: Biomineralization. (A. Sigel, H. Sigel and R.K.O. Sigel, Eds.), Wiley. (in press in late 2007)
• Takahashi, Y., Hirata, T., Shimizu, H., Ozaki, T. and Fortin, D., 2006. Evidence from REE Patterns for Microbial Contribution to the Deposition of Iron-Formations. Submitted to Chemical Geology.
• Adams, L.K., Harrison, J., Boothman, C., Langley, S., Fortin, D. and Lloyd, J.R., 2006. Activity and Diversity of Fe(III)-Reducing Bacteria in a 2000 Year Old Acid Rock Drainage Site. Geomicrobiol. J. (under revision)
• Krack, S., Daughney, C.D., Chatellier, X. and Fortin, D., 2006. Effect of growth phase and metabolic activity on the adhesion of Escherichia coli K-12 to quartz and iron oxides. Geomicrobiol. J. (under revision)

2005

• Kulczycki, E., Fowle, D., Fortin, D. and Ferris, F.G., 2005. Sorption of Cadmium and Lead by Bacteria-Ferrihydrite Composites. Geomicrobiol. J., 22,299-310.
• Fortin, D and Praharaj, T., 2005. Role of microbial activity in Fe and S cycling in sub-oxic to anoxic sulfide-rich mine tailings: a mini-review. Journal of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences, 6, 39-42.
• Fortin, D and Langley, S., 2005. Formation and occurrence of biogenic iron-rich minerals. (invited contribution, Earth-Science Reviews, 72, 1-19).
• Takahashi, Y., Chatellier, X., Hattori, K., Kato, K. and Fortin, D., 2005.Adsorption of rare earth elements onto bacterial cell walls and its implication for REE sorption onto natural microbial mats. Chemical Geology , 219, 53-67.

2004

• Praharaj, T. and Fortin, D., 2004b. Indicators of bacterial sulfate reduction in acidic sulfide-rich mine tailings. Geomicrobiology J., 21, 457-467.
• Chatellier, X and Fortin, D., 2004.Adsorption of ferrous ions onto Bacillus subtilis cells. Chemical Geology, 212, 209-228.
• Daughney, C.D., Chatellier, X., Chan, A., Kenward, P., Fortin, D., Suttle, C.A. and Fowle, D., 2004. Adsorption and Precipitation of Iron from Seawater by a Marine Bacteriophage (PWH3a-P1). Marine Chemistry, 91, 101-115.
• Fortin, D., 2004. What biogenic minerals tell us. Science (Invited Perspective), 303, 1618-1619.
• Ueshima, M., Fortin, D. and Kalin, M., 2004. Biogeochemical stability of iron phosphate minerals for attenuation of acid mine wastes. Geomicrobiol. J., 21, 313-323.
• Praharaj, T. and Fortin, D., 2004a. Determination of acid volatile sulfides and chromium reducible sulfides in Cu-Zn and Au mine tailings. Water Air and Soil Pollution, 155, 35-50.
• Châtellier, X., West, M., Rose, J., Fortin, D., Leppard, G.G. and Ferris, F.G., 2004. Oxidation of ferrous ions in the presence of various bacterial strains and inorganic ligands. Geomicrobiol. J., 21, 99-112.
• Daughney, C., Rioux, J-P., Fortin, D. and Pichler, T., 2004. Laboratory Investigation of the Role of Bacteria in the Weathering of Basalt near Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents. Geomicrobiol. J. 21, 21-31.
• Fortin, D., Takahashi, Y. and Ferris, F.G., 2004. Preface: Special Issue on Bacteria and geochemical speciation of metals. Chem. Geol., 212, 207-208.

2003

• Fortin, D. and Châtellier, X., 2003. Biogenic iron oxides. In: Recent Research Developments in Mineralogy, (S.G. Pandalai, Ed.), Research Signpost, vol.3, 47-63.
• Ueshima, M., Kalin, M. and Fortin, D., 2003. Microbial effects of Natural Phosphate Rock (NPR) addition to mining wastes. Refereed proceedings of the Joint conferences of the 9th Billings land reclamation symposium and the 20th ASMR meeting, Billings, MT, 2003, pp. 1294-1303

2002

• Daughney, C.J. and Fortin, D., 2002. Mineral Adsorption and Absorption by Biological Cells. In Encyclopedia of Surface and Colloid Science, (A. Hubbard, Ed.), Marcel Dekker, NY, pp. 3430-3446.
• Kulczycki, E., Ferris, F.G. and Fortin, D., 2002. Impact of Cell Wall Structure on the Behavior of Bacterial Cells as Sorbents of Cadmium and Lead. Geomicrobiol. J., 19, 553-565
• Mavrocordatos, D. and Fortin, D. ,2002. Quantitative characterization of iron oxides formed onto bacterial cell walls using TEM-Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy. Am. Mineralogist, 87, 940-946.
• Daughney, C.J., Siciliano, S.D., Rencz, A.N., Lean, D., and Fortin, D., 2002. Hg(II) Adsorption by Bacteria: A Surface Complexation Model and its Application to Shallow Acidic Lakes and Wetlands in Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada. Environ. Sci. Technol. , 36, 1546-1553.
• ElBilali, L., Rasmussen, P.E., Hall, G.E.M. and Fortin, D., 2002. Role of sediment geochemistry in trace metal distribution in lake sediments. Appl. Geochemistry , 17, 1171-1181
• Fajtl, J., Tich, R., Wendt-Potthoff, K., Friese, K.,Koschorreck,M. Herzsprung, P., Fortin, D. and Ledvina, R., 2002. Do NaOH amendments control the chemical and biological production of sulphate in aerated mine lake sediments? Environmental Geology , 41, 906-915.
• Fortin, D., Rioux, J.P. and Roy, M., 2002. Iron and Sulfur cycling in the zone of microbial sulfate reduction in mine tailings. Water, Air and Soil Pollution: Focus, 2 (3):37-56.

2001

• Rancourt, D.G., Fortin, D., Pichler, T, Thibault, P.J., G. Lamarche, Morris, R.V. and Mercier P.H.J., 2001. Mineralogy of a natural As-rich hydrous ferric oxide coprecipitate formed by mixing of hydrothermal fluid and seawater: Implications regarding surface complexation and color banding in ferrihydrite deposits . American Mineralogist, 86, 834-851.
• Daughney, C.J., Fowle, Fortin, D., 2001. The effect of growth phase on proton and metal adsorption by Bacillus subtilus. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 65, 1025-1035.
• Châtellier, X., Fortin, D., West, M., Leppard, G.G. and Ferris, F.G., 2001. Effect of the presence of bacterial surfaces during the synthesis of Fe-oxides by oxidation of ferrous ions. European J. Mineralogy , 13, 705-714.

2000

• Fortin, D. and Beveridge, T.J., 2000. Mechanistic routes towards biomineral surface development. In Biomineralisation: From Biology to Biotechnology and medical Application (E. Baeuerlein Ed.), Wiley-VCH, Verlag, Germany, 294 p.
• Fortin, D., Roy, M., Rioux, J-P and Thibault, P-J, 2000. Occurrence of sulfate-reducing bacteria under a wide range of physico-chemical conditions in sulfidic mine tailings . FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 33, 197-208.
• Fortin, D., Goulet, R. and Roy, M., 2000. The effect of seasonal variations of sulfate-reducing bacteria populations on Fe and S cycling in a constructed wetland. Geomicrobiology J., vol. 17, 221-235.

 1999 and earlier

• Fortin, D. and Ferris, F.G., 1998. Precipitation of iron, silica and sulfate on bacterial surfaces. Geomicrobiology J.,15, 309-324.
• Fortin, D., Ferris, F.G. and Scott, S.D., 1998. Formation of Fe-silicates and Fe-oxides on bacterial surfaces in hydrothermal deposits collected near the Southern Explorer Ridge in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Am. Mineralogist, 83, 1399-1408.
• Fortin, D. and Beveridge, T.J., 1997. Microbial sulfate reduction within mine tailings: formation of diagenetic Fe-sulfides. Geomicrobiology
  J., 14, 1-21
• Fortin, D. and Beveridge, T.J., 1997. Role of the bacterium Thibacillus in the formation of silicates in acidic mine tailings.
  Chemical Geology, 141. 235-250
• Fortin, D., Ferris F.G. and Beveridge, T.J., 1997. Surface-mediated mineral development by bacteria. In : Reviews in Mineralogy (Eds:
  J. Banfield and K. H. Nealson), vol. 35, 161-180.
• Fortin, D., Davis, B. and Beveridge, T.J., 1996. Role of Thiobacillus and sulfate-reducing bacteria on Fe biocycling in oxic and acidic
  mine tailings. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 21, 11-24
• Tessier, A., Fortin, D., Belzile, N., DeVitre, R. and Leppard, G.G., 1996. Trace metal-sediment interactions in two shield lakes:
  narrowing the gap between field and laboratory experiments. Geochim.
  Cosmochim. Acta, 60, 387-404
• McLean, R.J.C., Fortin, D. and D.A. Brown, 1996. Microbial metal binding in relation to nuclear waste disposal. Can. J. Microbiology,
  42, 392-400.
• Schultze-Lam, S., Fortin, D, Davis, B. and Beveridge, T.J., 1996. Mineralization of bacterial surfaces. Chemical Geology,132, 171-181
• Fortin, D., Davis, B, Southam, G. and Beveridge, T.J., 1995. Biogeochemical phenomena induced by bacteria in sulfidic mine tailings. J. Industrial Microbiol., 14, 178-185
• Fortin, D., Southam, G. and Beveridge, T.J., 1994. Nickel sulfide, iron-nickel sulfide and iron sulfide precipitation by a newly isolated Desulfotomaculum species and its relation to nickel resistance. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol., 14, 121-131
• Fortin, D., Tessier, A. and Leppard, G.G., 1993. Characteristics of lacustrine iron oxyhydroxides. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 57, 4391-4404
• St-Cyr, L., Fortin, D. and Campbell, P.G.C., 1993. Microscopic observations of the iron plaque of a sumerged aquatic plant (Vallisneria americana Michx). Aquatic Botany, 46, 155-167.