H. Catherine W. Skinner, PhD

My academic career has an interdisciplinary flavor. I teach and do research/writing in the Departments of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University and Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine. My major interests are in biominerals, the materials found in life forms from bacteria to humans, especially bone mineral and biomineralization processes. Recently very active in the formation of the new GSA Division of Geology and Health I am serving as Chair of the National Research Council/ National Academies of Sciences Committee on Research Priorities for Earth Science and Public Health, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources/Board on Health Science Policy. The Report should be out in early 2007.

I am a Fellow of GSA, MSA, SEG, AAAS, and on the Board of GSA Foundation, and the CT Academy of Arts and Sciences. I have been a Visiting Prof at Harvard, Cornell, Stanford, Adelaide University, and in 2005 became the first woman to give the Hallimond lecture at the Mineralogical Society meeting, Bath, England.

Recent selected publications:

Skinner, HCW (2007) The Earth: Source of health and hazards. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet Sci 35 IN PRESS

Sahia, N., Schooten, M and Skinner, HCW (2006) The emerging field of medcal mineralogy and geochemistry pp.1-4 in Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry vol 64.

Skinner, HCW (2005) Mineralogy of Bone. Chapter 28 in Medical Geology Edited by Olle Selenus, Elsevier, New York.

Skinner, HCW and Jahren, AH (2003) Biomineralization Chapter 4 in Vol 8 Treatise on Geochemistry General editors F. Holland and K.K.Turekian, Elsevier, New York. I have just OK'ed the upgrade in e-form for immediate publication (2006).

Skinner, HCW and Berger, AR (2003) Geology and Health: Closing the Gap. Oxford University Press.

Skinner, HCW (2000) Minerals and Human Health. In Vaughan, D.J. and Wogelius, R.J.(Editors) Environmental Mineralogy. European Mineralogical Union Short Notes in Mineralogy. Eotvos University Press, Budapest. Hungary.

Skinner, HCW and Banfield, J (1997) Interactions between microbes and minerals. Preface Geomicrobiology Reviews in Mineralogy #35, edited by Banfield ,J. and Nealson, K. Mineralogical Society of America, Washington, D.C.

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