Professor Bradley Tebo, Institute of Environmental Health at Oregon Health & Science University Van Mildert College January – March 2014
Bradley Tebo is a Distinguished Professor of Marine and Biomolecular Systems, Head of the Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems, and Co-director of the Institute of Environmental Health at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Educated at the University of California San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, he took his first position at Johns Hopkins University, Chesapeake Bay Institute in 1985. He returned to Scripps in 1987 as a Research Biologist and Lecturer and eventually became Professor. He became a distinguished faculty member at OHSU. Professor Tebo is a Fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology, a co-founding editor for Frontiers in Microbiological Chemistry and member of the editorial board of the Geomicrobiology Journal. He is the author of more than 135 scientific publications.
Professor Tebo’s research expertise is in interactions between biological and geochemical processes, particularly redox transformations of metals and radionuclides. An overarching theme of his work is understanding these transformations at the molecular level. His research approaches range from genomics, biochemistry, and environmental microbiology to biogeochemistry, mineralogy, and oceanography. He is internationally best known for his work on manganese biogeochemistry and microbiology. His research has helped unravel the biochemical mechanism of Mn(II) oxidation and has identified novel proteins involved in the process.
As an IAS Fellow Professor Tebo will work on the sub-theme Light for Life and in particular the project Astrobiological and technological implications of 2.5Bn year old sequestered carbon in Kalahari manganese oxide deposits. More specifically he will be working with the sub-theme participants conducting research on the use of biogenic, synthetic and geological Mn oxides in lignin degradation for bioenergy applications and on the potential of modern Mn oxide deposits for carbon sequestration.
Julie Westerman, Sheffield Hallam University University College January – March 2014
Julie Westerman is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.
Working with drawing, sculpture, film, animation, and CAD her work engages with a range of research questions. She considers the relationship to the pervading anxiety over global warming as a focus for a series of projects that juxtapose; structural failure and climatic events, subjective responses to unpredictable natural phenomena and relationships to the science that seeks to explain and predict them. Encounter at the Mead Gallery, appropriated material placed on YouTube by amateur tornado chasers. The work explored the overwhelming desire to encounter a deadly, unpredictable natural force and to taunt fate. Disaster Bridges (Die Panke, Berlin) overlaid CAD models of great feats of engineering against chalk drawings of the relentless erosion by the elements. Work for two publications Noel was Responsible and It was Iris considered the language used when plotting the paths of killer hurricanes whose names have since been retired.
Fly Birdie Fly, a collaboration with Dr John Hart looked at the language and images that result from data analysis generated from CFD. The resulting film focused on the flight of the shuttlecock, and sort to be readable both as Art and Science.
Currently working on Tegel: Speculations/Provocations, the publication takes the imminent closure of Tegel Airport to provoke enquiries into modernist architecture, the changing face of air travel, and concepts of cultural mobility, exchange and internationalism.
Illuminated Carpet is one of a series of light sculptures that explores the altered perception of the environment at night. Where R U, a projection work was encountered on a night walk through the Forest of Dean. Critical Mass a steam and light sculpture investigated the often difficult relationship between large institutions, and the general public in their host cities. The resulting sculpture used programs of steam and light to make visible the hidden activities of the institution.
Whilst at the IAS Julie Westerman’s research will be directed to develop new works that explore our perception of light.
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