Dept. of Environmental Sciences
Craig Phelps, Ph.D.
Room 312A Foran Hall or Room 236 ENR
Dept. of Environmental Sciences
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
phone: (732) 932-8165 ext. 314
fax: (732) 932-0312
Courses
Introduction to Environmental Science 101
Environmental Microbiology Laboratory 312
Research Projects
ASM 2007 Poster - "Comparison of qPCR-Based Microbial Source Tracking Data to Traditional Water Quality Measurements in the Upper Cohansey River Watershed" C.D. Phelps, K.A. Buckley, C.C. Obropta and L.Y. Young.
Arsenic Biotransformation
Anaerobic Hydrocarbon Degradation
Teaching Projects
Volta Experiment
Professional Affiliations
American
Society for
Microbiology. 1994
- present.
Northeast
Microbiologists for Physiology, Ecology, Taxonomy.
1993
- present.
Corresponding Secretary: 2000 - present
Scientific Session Coordinator: 2003 - present
New Jersey
Science Teachers Association. 2003
– present.
Microbial Educators Network (Delaware/Lehigh Valley Region). 2003 – present.
Publications
Rhine, E.D., C.D. Phelps and Young, L.Y. 2006. Anaerobic arsenite oxidation by novel denitrifying isolates. Environ. Microbiol. 8(5):899-908.
Rhine, E.D., E. García-Domínguez, C.D. Phelps and Young, L.Y. 2005. Environmental microbes can speciate and cycle arsenic. Environ. Sci. and Tecnol. 39:9569-9573.
Gallagher, E., L. McGuinness, C.D. Phelps, L.Y. Young and L.J. Kerkhof. 2005. 13C-Carrier DNA shortens the incubation time needed to detect benzoate-utilizing denitrifying bacteria by stable-isotope probing. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 71(9):5192-5196.
Young, L.Y. and C.D. Phelps. 2005. Metabolic biomarkers for monitoring in situ anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation. Environmental Health Perspectives. 113(1):62-67.
Lamkie, J. and Phelps, C.D. Biocomplexity and Microorganisms: Lessons in Technology for Grades 5-8. http://www.engineeringplanet.rutgers.edu/lessons.php
So, C.M., C.D. Phelps and L.Y. Young. 2003. Anaerobic transformation of alkanes to fatty acids: Initial reactions by the sulfate-reducer strain HXD3 using stable isotope labeled compounds. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69(7):3892-3900.
Phelps, C.D., J. Battistelli, and L.Y. Young. 2002. Metabolic biomarkers for monitoring anaerobic naphthalene biodegradation in situ. Environ. Microbiol. 4(9):532-537.
Phelps, C.D., X. Zhang, and L.Y. Young. 2001. Detection of benzoate from anaerobic benzene metabolism by a sulfidogenic consortium. Environ. Microbiol. 3(9):600-603.
Sullivan, E.R., X. Zhang, C.D. Phelps and L.Y. Young. 2001. Anaerobic mineralization of stable isotope labeled 2-methylnaphthalene. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 67(9):4353-4357.
Phelps, C.D. and L.Y. Young. 2000. Anaerobic biodegradation of gasoline components: A review. Advances in Agronomy, Vol. 70 pp. 329-358.
Phelps, C.D., and L.Y. Young. 1999. Anaerobic biodegradation of BTEX and gasoline in various aquatic sediments. Biodegradation. 10(1): 15-25.
Boyle, A.W., C.D. Phelps and L.Y. Young. 1999. Isolation of a Desulfovibrio strain from estuarine sediments which can grow on lactate coupled to the reductive dehalogenation of 2,4,6-Tribromophenol. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65(3): 1133-1140.
Phelps, C.D., L. Kerkhof and L.Y. Young. 1998. Molecular characterization of a sulfate-reducing consortium which mineralizes benzene. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 27(3):269-279.
Phelps, C.D., X. Zhang, C.-M. So and L.Y. Young. 1998. Petroleum components can be biodegraded in anoxic environments. Proceedings: 1998 Pacific Basin Conference on Hazardous Waste. April 22-24, Honolulu, HI, USA pages 128-140.
Phelps, C.D. and L.Y. Young. 1997. Microbial metabolism of the plant phenolic compounds ferulic and syringic acids under three anaerobic conditions. Microbial Ecology 33(3): 206-215.
Phelps, C.D., J. Kazumi and L.Y. Young. 1996. Anaerobic degradation of benzene in BTX mixtures dependent on sulfate-reduction. FEMS Microbiology Letters 145(3): 433-437.