Office: (518) 442-5053; Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer Lab: (518) 442-4471; email
Research Geochemist
Research Interests
Mineralogy, fluid inclusions, and stable isotope geochemistry of hydrothermal mineral deposits to construct genetic deposit models.
Bulk and compound-specific stable isotope geochemistry of modern and ancient sediments and rocks from lacustrine and marine settings to evaluate global climate and environmental change.
Selected Publications
Lim, Chul, Kidd, W. S. F., and Howe, S. S., 2005, Late shortening and extensional structures and veins in the western margin of the Taconic orogen (New York to Vermont): Journal of Geology, v. 113, p. 419-438. [PDF file, full text]
Bagnato, Stefan, Linsley, B. K., Howe, S. S., Wellington, G. M., and Salinger, J., 2005, Coral oxygen isotope records of interdecadal climate variations in the South Pacific Convergence Zone region: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 6, no. 6, 06001, doi:10.1029/2004GC000879, 8 p. [PDF file, full text]
Bagnato, Stefan, Linsley, B. K., Howe, S. S., Wellington, G. M., and Salinger, Jim, 2004, Evaluating the use of the massive coral Diploastrea heliopora for paleoclimate reconstruction: Paleoceanography, v. 19, PA1032, doi:10.1029/2003PA000935, 12 p. [PDF file, full text]
Elliot, M., deMenocal, P. B., Linsley, B. K., and Howe, S. S., 2003, Environmental controls on the stable isotopic composition of Mercenaria mercenaria: Potential application to paleoenvironmental studies: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 4, no. 7, 1056, doi: 10.1029/2002GC000425, 16 p. [PDF file, full text]
Linsley, B. K., Ren, L., Dunbar, R. B., and Howe, S. S., 2000, El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and decadal-scale climate variability at 10°N in the eastern Pacific from 1893 to 1994: A coral-based reconstruction from Clipperton Atoll: Paleoceanography, v. 15, p. 322-335.Shields, G. A., Strauss, H., Howe, S. S., and Siegmund, H., 1999, Sulphur isotope compositions of sedimentary phosphorites from the basal Cambrian of China: Implications for Neoproterozoic-Cambrian biogeochemical cycling: Journal of the Geological Society, London, v. 156, p. 943-957.
Nattis, Randy, Lapenis, Andrei, and Howe, Stephen, 1998, Loss of soil organic carbon during the last 100 years from the pasture in the collective farm KIM, Russia [abs.]: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 25-29, 1998, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Abstracts, one CD-ROM.
Howe, S. S., Theodore, T. G., and Arehart, G. B., 1995, Sulfur and oxygen isotopic composition of vein barite from the Marigold mine and surrounding area, north-central Nevada: Applications to gold exploration [abs.]: Geology and Ore Deposits of the American Cordillera Symposium, Reno/Sparks, Nevada, April 10-13, 1995, Geological Society of Nevada, Program with Abstracts, p. 39.
Howe, S. S., Arehart, G. B., Nielsen, P. A., and Perkowski, Robert, 1995, Rift-related fluorite–quartz–barite–base-metal deposits in southwestern New Hampshire [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 1, p. 55.
Howe, S. S., and Theodore, T. G., 1993, Sulfur isotopic composition of vein barite—a guide to the level of exposure of disseminated gold–porphyry copper systems in north-central Nevada? [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. 162-163.
Theodore, T. G., Howe, S. S., Blake, D. W., and Wotruba, P. R., 1986, Geochemical and fluid zonation in the skarn environment at the Tomboy-Minnie gold deposits, Lander County, Nevada: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 25, p. 99-128.
Howe, S. S., and Hall, W. E., 1985, Light-stable-isotope characteristics of ore systems in central Idaho, in McIntyre, D. H., ed., Symposium on the geology and mineral deposits of the Challis 1° x 2° quadrangle, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1658-P, p. 183-192.
Howe, S. S., 1985, Mineralogy, textures, and relative age relationships of massive sulfide ore in the West Shasta district, California: Economic Geology, v. 80, p. 2114-2127.
Howe, S. S., 1984, Formation of Mississippi Valley-type lead-zinc deposits by periodic expulsion of basin brines—an example from central Pennsylvania [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 16, no. 6, p. 544-545.
Hall, W. E., Schmidt, E. A., Howe, S. S., and Broch, M. J., 1984, The Thompson Creek, Idaho, porphyry molybdenum deposit—an example of a fluorine-deficient molybdenum granodiorite system, in Janelidze, T. V., and Tvalchrelidze, A. G., eds., Proceedings of the Sixth Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium, Tbilisi, USSR, September 6-12, 1982, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits: Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nagele u. Ober-miller), v. 1, p. 349-357.
Thompson, J. M., Howe, S. S., and Hall, W. E., 1983, Chemical analysis of fluid inclusions by ion chromatography [abs.]: Rocky Mountain (Spectroscopy) Conference, 25th annual meeting, Denver, Colorado, August 14-17, 1983, abstracts and meeting program, p. 108.
Gordon Research Conference Participation
Howe, S. S., Bourgon, G. R., Hollander, D. J., Seagren, E. A., Gong, Changrui, Stahl, D. A., and Rittmann, B. E., 1996, New insights into evaluating bioremediation: An integrated geochemical and microbiological approach [abs.]: Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, Holderness, New Hampshire, August 11-16, 1996.
Hollander, D. J., Howe, S., Werne, J., MacGregor, B., Stahl, D. A., Ringelberg, D., White, D. C., Nealson, K., and Moser, D., 1996, Nucleic acid and lipid chemical indicators of archaeal activity and their contribution to sedimentary organic carbon in anaerobic sediment, Lake Michigan [abs.]: Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, Holderness, New Hampshire, August 11-16, 1996.