Commercial textbooks are excellent resources, but they are heavy and (often) expensive. More and more students are asking for digital resources to support their learning. I am involved with two open textbook projects here at USask to bring online textbook options to our undergraduate students. From the instructor side, these resources also offer flexibility for incorporating edits and updates and expanding and adapting content. If you are an instructor and you are interested in adapting or getting involved with either of these projects please drop me an email!

-Dr McBeth

• Introductory Physical Geology Laboratory Manual – First Canadian Edition (2018) https://openpress.usask.ca/geolmanual/
  • project lead
  • contributed content to numerous chapters and edited extensively
• Physical Geology – Third Adapted Edition (2017/18) https://openpress.usask.ca/physicalgeology/
  • Project led by Dr Karla Panchuk (USask) who has done the lion's share of the work on this project
  • I am contributing content and editing to this open textbook project (and energy!)

Dangeti SR, Roshani B, Rindall B, McBeth JM, Chang W. (2017) Biofiltration field study for cold Fe(II)- and Mn(II)-rich groundwater: accelerated Mn(II) removal kinetics and cold-adapted Mn(II)-oxidizing microbial populations. Water Quality Research Journal. 52: 229-242. https://doi.org/10.2166/wqrj.2017.006   

Christensen JR, McBeth JM, Sylvain NJ, Spence J, Chan HM (2017) Hartnell's time machine: 170-year-old nails reveal severe zinc deficiency played a greater role than lead in the demise of the Franklin Expedition. Journal of Archaeological Sciences Reports. 16: 430-440 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.11.042

McBeth JM & Emerson D. (2016) In Situ Microbial Community Succession on Mild Steel in Estuarine and Marine Environments: Exploring the Role of Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7:  http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00767

Adhikari D, Poulson SR, Sumaila S, Dynes JJ, McBeth JM, Yu Yang Y. (2016) Asynchronous reductive release of iron and organic carbon from hematite-humic acid complexes. Chemical Geology. 430: 13-20.         http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.03.013

Zhao Q, Poulson SR, Obrist D, Sumaila S, Dynes JJ, McBeth JM, & Yang Y. (2016). Iron-Bound Organic Carbon in Forest Soils: Quantification and Characterization. Biogeosciences Discussions. 2016:1-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-2015-587

Lee JS, McBeth JM, Ray RI, Little BJ, & Emerson D (2013) Iron cycling at corroding surfaces of carbon steel. Biofouling. 29(10): 1243-1252.

McBeth JM, Fleming EJ, & Emerson D (2013) The transition from freshwater to marine iron-oxidizing bacterial lineages along a salinity gradient on the Sheepscot River, Maine USA.  Environmental Microbiology Reports. 5(3):453-463.

Handley KM, Boothman C, McBeth JM, Charnock JM, Wincott PL, Vaughan DJ, Polya DA, Lloyd JR (2013). Effect of microbially mediated iron redox transformations on arsenic solid-phase associations in a high-iron, arsenic-rich hydrothermal sediment. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.102: 124–142.

Roden EE, McBeth JM, Bloethe M, Percak-Dennett E, Fleming EJ, Hollyoke R, Luther GW, Emerson D, Scheiber J. (2012) The microbial ferrous wheel in a neutral pH groundwater seep. Frontiers in Microbiological Chemistry. 3:172.

McBeth JM, Morris K, Boothman C, Burke IT, Charnock JM, Livens FR, and Lloyd JR. (2011). Technetium reduction and reoxidation in the presence of Fe(II) minerals. Min Mag 75: 2419-2430.

McAllister SM, Davis RE, Tebo BM, McBeth JM, Emerson D, Moyer CL. (2011) Biodiversity and emerging biogeography of the neutrophilic iron-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol 77: 5445-5457.  (article and cover image)

McBeth JM, Little BJ, Ray RI, Farrar KM & Emerson D (2011) Neutrophilic iron-oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria and mild steel corrosion in nearshore marine environments. Appl Environ Microbiol 77: 1405-1412 (article and cover image).

Law GTW, Geissler A, Burke IT, Livens FR, Lloyd JR, McBeth JM, Morris K (2011) Uranium redox cycling in sediment and biomineral systems. Geomicrobiology J. 28: 497-506

Emerson D, Fleming EJ & McBeth JM (2010) Iron-oxidizing bacteria: an environmental and genomic perspective. Annu Rev Microbiol 64: 561-583.

Burke IT, Livens FR, Lloyd JR, Brown AP, Law GTW, McBeth JM, Ellis BL, Lawson RS, Morris K (2010). The fate of technetium in reduced estuarine sediments: combining direct and indirect analysis. Appl Geochem 25: 233-241.

Lear G, McBeth JM, Boothman C, Gunning DJ, Ellis BL, Lawson RS, Morris K, Burke IT, Bryan ND, Brown AP, Livens FR, and Lloyd JR. (2010). Probing the biogeochemical behaviour of technetium using a novel nuclear imaging approach. Env Sci & Technol 44: 156-162.

Morris K, Livens FR, Charnock JM, Burke IT, McBeth JM, Begg JDC, Boothman C and Lloyd JR. (2008). An x-ray absorption study of the fate of technetium in reduced and reoxidised sediments and mineral phases. Appl Geochem 23: 603-617.

McBeth JM, Lear G, Morris K, Burke IT, Livens FR, and Lloyd JR. (2007). Technetium reduction and reoxidation in aquifer sediments. Geomicrobiology J 24: 189-197.

Morris K, Livens FR, Charnock JM, Burke IT, McBeth JM, Boothman C and Lloyd JR. (2007). Microbially driven transformations of technetium. Proceedings of the 4th workshop on speciation, techniques, and facilities for radioactive materials at synchrotron light sources, 18-20 Sept 2006, Karlsruhe, Germany: Nuclear Energy Agency, p. 71-81.

Burke IT, Boothman C, Lloyd JR, Livens FR, Charnock JM, McBeth JM, Mortimer RJG, and Morris K. (2006). Reoxidation behaviour of technetium, iron and sulfur in estuarine sediments. Env Sci & Technol 40: 3529-3535.