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    1992
    America’s Academic Future: Presidential Young Investigator Workshop on U.S. Engineering, Mathematics, and Science Education for the Year 2010 and Beyond. National Science Foundation.

    1995
    Review of U.S. Dept. of Energy Technical Basis Report for Surface Characteristics, Preclosure Hydrology, and Erosion, Committee For Yucca Mountain Peer Review: Surface Characteristics, Preclosure Hydrology, and Erosion, National Academy Press, Washington DC. 2002 Remediation at the Moab site - Now and for the Long Term. National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington D.C.

    2001
    Brantley, S. L., A. Anbar, R. L. Guynn, J. Barling, L.J. Liermann, and G. Icopini. Fe release and isotopic fractionation during dissolution of hornblende and goethite in the presence of soil bacteria, EOS, Transactions, AGU, 82(47), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract V21A-0970.

    2002
    Remediation at the Moab site - Now and for the Long Term. National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.

    2003
    Neaman A., Chorover J., and Brantley S.L. The effects of fourteen low-molecular-weight organic acids on the dissolution of basalt and granite (oral presentation). American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Soil Science Society of America Annual Meetings, November 2-6, 2003, Denver, CO.

    2006
    Brantley, S.B., White, T.S.,White, A.F., Sparks, D., Richter, D., Pregitzer, K., Derry, L., Chorover, O., April, R., Anderson, S., and Amundson, R., Frontiers in Exploration of the Critical Zone: Report of a workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), October 24-26 2005, Newark, DE, 30 p.

    2007
    Brantley, S.B., Building Critical Zone Research Cyberinfrastructure: Critical Zone Exploration Network Data and Information Systems Workshop; State College, PA, Sept. 17-18, 2007.

Chapters in Books

    1995
    White, A.F., S.L. Brantley. Chemical Weathering Rates of Silicate Minerals: An Overview, Chemical Weathering Rates of Silicate Minerals A.F. White and S.L. Brantley (eds.), Mineralogical Society of America Short Course, v. 31, 1-22.

    1995
    Brantley, S.L., Y. Chen. Chemical weathering rates of pyroxenes and amphiboles. Chemical Weathering Rates of Silicate Minerals, A.F. White and S.L. Brantley (eds.), Mineralogical Society of America Short Course, v. 31, 119-172.

    1997
    Brantley, S.L., D.M. Fisher, P. Deines, M.B. Clark, G. Myers. Segregation veins: evidence for the deformation and dewatering of a low-grade metapelite. Deformation-enhanced Fluid Transport in the Earth’s Crust and Mantle. M. B. Holness, Chapman, Hall (ed.), London, 266-287.

    1999
    Brantley, S.L., A.F. White, M. Hodson. Surface area of primary silicate minerals, Growth and Dissolution in Geosystems. B. Jamtveit and P. Meakin (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 291-326.

    2002
    Mellott, N.P., S.L. Brantley, C.G. Pantano, Topography of polished plates of albite crystal and glass during dissolution. Water-Rock Interactions, Ore Deposits, and Environmental Geochemistry, A Tribute to David A. Crerar, Hellmann R. and Wood S. (ed.), The Geochemical Society, Spec. Pub. No. 7, 83- 96.

    2003
    Brantley, S.L., Reaction kinetics of primary rock-forming minerals under ambient Conditions. Fresh Water Geochemistry, Weathering, and Soils, J.I. Drever (ed.), v. 5 of Treatise on Geochemistry, K.K. Turekian and H.D. Holland (ed.), Pergamon Press, Oxford, 73-118.

    2006
    Brantley, S.L., Ruebush, S., Jang, J-H., and Tien, M. Analysis of (Bio) Geochemical Kinetics of Fe III Oxides, in Methods for Study of Microbe-Mineral Interactions (ed. P. A. Maurice and L. A.Warren), The Clay Mineral Society, Chantilly, VA, V.14, 79-116,

    2008
    Brantley, S.L. and Conrad C.F.  Analysis of Rates of Chemical Reactions, in Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction, S.L. Brantley, J.D. Kubicki, & A.F. White (eds.), Springer, NewYork,     1-35. 

    2008
    Brantley, S.L.  Kinetics of Mineral Dissolution, in Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction S.L. Brantley, J.D. Kubicki, & A.F. White (eds.), Springer, NewYork, 151-196.

    2008
    Bandstra J.Z., and Brantley S.L.  Data Fitting Techniques with Applications to Mineral Dissolution Kinetics, in Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction, S. L. Brantley, J. D. Kubicki and A. F. White (eds.), Springer, New York, 211-258.

    2008
    Bandstra J.Z., Buss H.L., Campen K., Liermann L., Moore J., Hausrath E.M., Navarre A.K., Jang J-H. and Brantley S.L.   Appendix: Compilation of Mineral Dissolution Rates in Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction, S. L. Brantley, J. D. Kubicki and A. F. White (eds.).  Springer, New York, 731-808.

    2008
    Brantley, S.L.  Kinetics of Mineral Dissolution, in Kinetics of Water-Rock Interaction S.L. Brantley, J.D. Kubicki, & A.F. White (eds.), Springer, New York. 151-196.

Published Poetry

    2002
     Brantley, S.L., "Ode to a Geochemist", Water-Rock Interactions, Ore Deposits, and Environmental Geochemistry, A Tribute to David A Crerar, Hellmann R. and Wood S. (ed.), The Geochemical Society, Spec. Pub. No. 7, xv-xvii.

Published Conference Proceedings

    1986
    Brantley, S.L., D.A. Crerar, B. Evans. Rates and mechanisms of porosity reduction in quartz: Implications for fluid flow in rocks. Proc. Fifth Inter. Conference on Water-Rock Interactions, Reykjavik, Iceland, 79-82.

    1989
    Brantley, S.L., D. Voigt. Fluids in metamorphic rocks: Effects of fluid chemistry on quartz microcrack healing. Proc. Sixth Inter. Conference on Water-Rock Interactions, Malvern, England, 113-116.

    1990
    Brantley, S.L. and Donovan, J. Marine evaporites, bittern seepage, and the genesis of subsurface brines. Chemical Geology 84, 187-189.

    1992
    Brantley, S.L. Kinetics of dissolution and precipitation experimental and field results. Proc. Seventh Inter. Conference on Water-Rock Interactions, Park City, Utah.

    1992
    Stillings, L.L., S.L. Brantley, M.L. Machesky. Multisite proton adsorption at the feldspar-water interface. Proc. Seventh Inter. Conference on Water-Rock Interactions, Park City, Utah.

    1992
    Agustsdottir, A.M., S.L., Brantley, M.T. Godmundsson, H. Bjornsson. Volatile release rates from the Grimsvotn volcano. Iceland, Proc. Seventh Inter. Conference on Water-Rock Interactions, Park City, Utah

    1992
    Shiraki, R. and S.L. Brantley. Precipitation kinetics of calcite at elevated temperatures. Proc. Seventh Inter. Conference on Water-Rock Interactions, Park City, Utah.

    1998
    Nugent, M., P. Maurice, and S.L. Brantley. The field dissolution rate of feldspar in a Pennsylvania (USA) sposol as measured by atomic force microscopy. Proc. Ninth Inter. Conference on Water-Rock Interactions, New Zealand.

    1999
    Brantley, S.L., L. Liermann, B. Kalinowski, S. Givens, C.G. Pantano, and A. Barnes. Abiotic vs. biotic dissolution of hornblende. Geochemistry of the Earths Surface, Armannsson, H. (ed.), Balkema, Rotterdam, 357-359.

    2001
    Brantley, S.L., M. Bau, S. Yau, B. Alexander. Interpreting kinetics of groundwater-mineral interaction using major element, trace element, and isotopic tracers, Proc. Tenth Inter. Conference on Water-Rock Interaction, Villasimius, Italy, Cidu, R. (ed.), Balkema, Rotterdam, 13-18.

    2002
    Ruiz, J., R. Mathur, S. Brantley, J.L. Uhrie. Experimental constraints on Cu fractionation in natural environments, 6th International Symposium on Geochemistry of the Earth's Surface, Honolulu, Hawaii, 283-285.
    2004
    Moore J., White A. F., and Brantley S. L. Effects of giant sequoia on soil chemistry. Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Water-rock Interaction, R. Wanty & R. Seal (eds.) Taylor & Francis Group, London, V.2;1341-1345.

    2004
    Buss, H.L., Sak, P.B., White, A.F., and Brantley, S.L. Mineral dissolution at the granite-saprolite interface. Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, R. Wanty & R. Seal (eds.) Taylor & Francis Group, London, V.1: 819-823.

    2004
    Hausrath, E.M., Liermann, L.J., and Brantley, S.L. Enhanced dissolution in the presence of methanogens. Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Water-rock Interaction, R. Wanty & R. Seal (eds.) Taylor & Francis Group, London, V.1: 1123-1125.

    2004
    Navarre, A., Sak, P., and Brantley, S., Processes controlling weathering rind advancement on Costa Rican basalt clasts, Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Water-rock Interaction, R. Wanty & R. Seal (eds.) Taylor & Francis Group, London,V. 1:853-857.

    2004
    Cameron, V., Zhang, Z., House, C.H., Brantley, S.L., A search for hydrothermal tungsten ligands, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction, R. Wanty & R. Seal (eds.) Taylor & Francis Group, London,V. 2:1269-1273.

    2004
    Mathur, R., Ruiz, J., Liermann, L., and Brantley, S.L. Cu isotopic fractionation associated with oxidation of Cu sulfide with and without T. ferrooxidans. Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Water-rock Interaction, R. Wanty & R. Seal (eds.) Taylor & Francis Group, London, V.1: 1327-1330.

    2004
    Neaman, A., Chorover, J., and Brantley, S.L. The effect of organic ligands on basalt and granite weathering. .Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Water-rock Interaction, R. Wanty & R. Seal (eds.) Taylor & Francis Group, London, V.1: 1347-1350.

    2004
    Zimmerman, A.R., Brantley, S.L., Goyne, K.G., Chorover, J. Investigations of the effects of mineral mesopores on the adsorption and preservation of organic matter. Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Water-rock Interaction, R. Wanty & R. Seal (eds.) Taylor & Francis Group, London, V.1: 1059.

    2008
    Hausrath, E.M., Navarre-Sitchler, A.K., Moore, J., Sak, P.B., Brantley, S.L., Golden, D.C., Sutter, B., Schröder, C., Socki, R., Morris, R.V., Ming, D.W. (submitted) Mars sample return: The value of depth profiles. Ground truth from Mars: Science payoff from a sample return mission April 21-23, 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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