Madeline E. Schreiber

Associate Professor of Hydrogeosciences

5048 Derring Hall

+1.540.231.3377 (Phone)

+1.540.231.3386 (FAX)

4044 Derring Hall (0420)
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Ph. D., 1999, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.S., 1995, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.S., 1991, Yale University

Professional Experience

2005 - present: Associate Professor of Hydrogeosciences, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech

1999 - 2005: Assistant Professor of Hydrogeosciences, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech

1991 - 1993: Environmental Consultant, Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, MA

Selected Articles

Brown, BV, Valett, HM and Schreiber ME. 2007 (In press).  Arsenic transport in groundwater, surface water, and the hyporheic zone of a mine-influenced stream-aquifer system.  Water Resources Research.

Lottig, NR, Valett, HM, Wester, JR and Schreiber, ME.  2007 (In press).  Chronic arsenic pollution and flooding interact to influence ecosystem structure and function in a headwater stream.  Limnology and Oceanography.

Alley, M, Schreiber M, Diesel, Ramsdell, K and Borrego, M.  2007.  Increasing the learning in large sections of resources geology through the incorporation of teaching slides that use sentence headlines.  Journal of Geoscience Education 55(1): 83-89.

Harvey, MA, Schreiber, ME, Rimstidt, JD and Griffith, MG.  2006. Scorodite disslution kinetics: Implications for arsenic release.  Environmental Science and Technology 40: 6709-6714.

Walker, FP, Schreiber ME, and Rimstidt, JD. 2006.  Kinetics of arsenopyrite oxidative dissolution by oxygen.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70: 1668-1676.

Alley, M, Schreiber, M, Ramsdell, K and Muffo, J. 2006.  How the design of headlines in presentation slides affects audience retention.  Technical Communication 53: 225-234.

Starry, OS, Valett, HM and Schreiber, ME. 2005.  Nitrification rates in a headwater stream: influences of seasonal variation in C and N supply.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 24: 753-768.

Valenti, TW, Chaffin, JL, Cherry DS, Schreiber ME, Valett HM, Charles M. 2005. Bioassessment of an abandoned arsenic mine on an Appalachian headwater stream. Archives of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 49: 488-496.

Tadanier C.J., Schreiber M.E., Roller JW. 2005. Arsenic mobilization through microbially-mediated deflocculation of ferrihydrite. Environmental Science and Technology 39: 3061-3068.

Brown, M., Kowalewski, M., Neves R., Cherry, D., Schreiber ME.  2005. Freshwater mussel shells as environmental chronicles: geochemical and taphonomic signatures of mercury-related extirpations in the North Fork Holston River, Virginia. Environmental Science and Technology 39(6): 1455-1462.

Brown BL, Slaughter AD, Schreiber ME. 2005. Controls on arsenic transport within agricultural watersheds. Applied Geochemistry 20 (1): 123-133.

Schreiber ME, Carey GC, Feinstein DT, Bahr JM. 2004. Mechanisms of electron acceptor utilization: Implications for simulating anaerobic biodegradation. Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 73: 99-127.

Gotkowitz MB, Schreiber ME , Simo JA. 2004. Effects of water use on arsenic release to well water in a confined aquifer. Ground Water 42 (4): 568-576

Johnson J , Schreiber ME. 2004. Arsenic: Perspectives on a New Environmental Concern. The Professional Geologist, 41(3): 41-44.

Book chapters

Schreiber ME, Gotkowitz MB, Simo JA, Freiberg PG. 2003. Mechanisms of arsenic release to groundwater from naturally occurring sources, Eastern Wisconsin. Welch A and Stollenwerk K (eds.) Arsenic in Groundwater, Kluwer Publishers: 259-280.