Earth Scientist
Earth Scientist

Biography

Amy Goldman’s work focuses on the dynamics of hydrology, biogeochemistry, and microbiology across global river corridors. She is a founding member and co-lead of the Worldwide Hydrobiogeochemical Observation Network for Dynamic River Systems (WHONDRS). She supports a broad range of projects, including those dedicated to data management and standards development, environmental remediation, and the National Environmental Policy Act.

Research Interest

  • Open science across the research lifecycle
  • Global collaborative research efforts
  • Organic matter characterization in river corridors
  • Hydrologic monitoring data and metadata standards

Education

  • MS in Environmental Science, Indiana University, 2014
  • MS in Geological Science, Indiana University, 2014 
  • BS in Earth Systems, University of Massachusetts, 2012

Affiliations and Professional Service

  • American Geophysical Union
  • Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography

Awards and Recognitions

  • Outstanding Performance Award, Energy and Environment Directorate, PNNL (2021, 2022)
  • Outstanding Performance Award, Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate, PNNL (2020)
  • Outstanding Performance Award, Energy and Environment Directorate, PNNL (2018, 2019)
  • Exceptional Contribution Award, Energy and Environment Directorate, PNNL (2017)
  • Core Value of the Year Award, Energy and Environment Directorate, PNNL (2017)

Publications

2022

  • Goldman A.E., S. Emani, L.C. Pérez-Angel, J.A. Rodríguez-Ramos, and J.C. Stegen. 2022. "Integrated, Coordinated, Open, and Networked (ICON) Science to Advance the Geosciences: Introduction and Synthesis of a Special Collection of Commentary Articles." Earth and Space Science. DOI:10.1029/2021EA002099
  • Borton M.A., S. Collins, E.B. Graham, V.A. Garayburu-Caruso, A.E. Goldman, M. De Melo, and L. Renteria, et al. 2022. "It takes a village: using a crowdsourced approach to investigate organic matter composition in global rivers through the lens of ecological theory." Frontiers in Water.  DOI:10.3389/frwa.2022.870453
  • Stegen J.C., S.J. Fansler, M.M. Tfaily, V.A. Garayburu-Caruso, A.E. Goldman, R.E. Danczak, and R.K. Chu, et al. 2022. "Organic Matter Transformations are Disconnected Between Surface Water and the Hyporheic Zone." Biogeosciences. DOI:10.5194/bg-19-3099-2022
  • Johnson T.C., J.N. Thomle, C.E. Strickland, A.E. Goldman, and J.C. Stegen. 2022. "Riverbed temperature and 4D ERT monitoring reveals heterogeneous horizontal and vertical groundwater-surface water exchange flows under dynamic stage conditions." Frontiers in Earth Science. DOI:10.3389/feart.2022.910058
  • Kaufman M.H., R.N. Ghosh, J.W. Grate, D.S. Shooltz, M. Freeman, T.M. Ball, and R. Loloee, […], A.E. Goldman, and J.C. Stegen. 2022. "Dissolved oxygen sensor in an automated hyporheic sampling system reveals biogeochemical dynamics." PLoS Water. DOI:10.1371/journal.pwat.0000014
  • Crystal-Ornelas R., C. Varadharajan, K. Beilsmith, B. Bond-Lamberty, K.E. Boye, M. Burrus, and S. Cholia, […] A.E. Goldman, et al. 2022. "Data from: “Enabling FAIR data in Earth and environmental science with community-centric (meta)data reporting formats"."  ESS-DIVE repository. DOI:  10.15485/1866606
  • Boye K.E., R. Crystal-Ornelas, D. O'Ryan, A.E. Goldman, J. Damerow, C. Varadharajan, and D.A. Agarwal. 2022. "ESS-DIVE Reporting Format for Sample-based Water and Soil Chemistry Measurements. Environmental Systems Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE)."  ESS-DIVE repository. DOI:  10.15485/1865731

2021

  • Goldman, A.E., S.R. Emani, L.C. Perez-Angel, J.A. Rodriguez-Ramos, J.C. Stegen, and P.A. Fox. 2021. Special Collection on Open Collaboration Across Geosciences. Eos. DOI: 10.1029/2021EO153180
  • Crystal-Ornelas, R.,  C. Varadharajan, B. Bond-Lamberty, K. Boye, M. Burrus, S. Cholia, M. Crow, J. Damerow, R. Devarakonda, K. S. Ely, A.E. Goldman, S. Heinz, V. Hendrix, Z. Kakalia, S.C. Pennington, E. Robles, A. Rogers, M. Simmonds, T. Velliquette, H. Weierbach, P. Weisenhorn, J.N. Welch, and D.A. Agarwal. 2021.  A guide to using GitHub for developing and versioning data standards and reporting formats. Earth and Space Science. DOI: 10.1029/2021EA001797
  • Damerow, J.E.,  C. Varadharajan, K. Boye, E.L. Brodie, M. Burrus, K.D. Chadwick, R. Crystal-Ornelas, H. Elbashandy, R.J. Eloy Alves, K.S. Ely, A.E. Goldman, T. Haberman, V. Hendrix, Z. Kakalia, K.M. Kemner, A.B. Kersting, N. Merino, F. O'Brien, Z. Perzan, E. Robles, P. Sorensen, J.C. Stegen, R.L. Walls, P. Weisenhorn, M. Zavarin, D. Agarwal. 2021. Sample identifiers and metadata to support data management and reuse in multidisciplinary ecosystem sciences. Data Science. DOI: 10.5334/dsj-2021-011
  • Danczak, R.E., R.K. Chu, S.J. Fansler, A.E. Goldman, E.B. Graham, M.K. Tfaily, J. Toyoda, and J.C. Stegen. 2021.  Ecological theory applied to environmental metabolomes reveals compositional divergence despite conserved molecular properties. Nature Communications. DOI:  10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147409
  • Garayburu-Caruso V.A., A.E. Goldman, R.K. Chu, R.E. Danczak, M.L. McCall, S.A. McKever, and L. Renteria, et al. 2021. "FTICR, NPOC, TN, and Moisture of Variably Inundated Sediment across 48 North American Rivers."  ESS-DIVE repository. DOI:  10.15485/1834208
  • Garayburu-Caruso V.A., A.E. Goldman, E.B. Graham, J.C. Stegen, S.S. Roley, L. Renteria, and J.M. Torgeson, et al. 2021. "Optode Images, and Dissolved Oxygen Data from Sand and Sediment Flow-through Column Experiments associated with: “2-D Imaging of Dissolved Oxygen Concentration in Flow-Through Sediment Columns for Robust Interpretation of Biogeochemical Processes”."  ESS-DIVE repository. DOI:  10.15485/1828377
  • Reed A.T., V.A. Garayburu-Caruso, A.E. Goldman, M.L. McCall, L. Renteria, J.M. Torgeson, and J.C. Stegen. 2021. "Time Series Surface Temperature of Variably Inundated Sediment across 30 North American Rivers."  ESS-DIVE repository. DOI:  10.15485/1834207
  • Sengupta A., S.J. Fansler, J.G. Toyoda, R.K. Chu, V.A. Garayburu-Caruso, L. Renteria, J.R. Wells, […] A.E. Goldman, et al. 2021. "Respiration data, microbial community assembly data, and FTICR-MS data associated with: Disturbance Triggers Non-Linear Microbe-Environment Feedbacks."  ESS-DIVE repository. DOI:  10.15485/1807580
  • Goldman A.E., H. Ren, J. Torgeson, and H. Zhou. 2021. ESS-DIVE Reporting Format for Hydrologic Monitoring Data and Metadata.  ESS-DIVE repository. DOI:  10.15485/1822940
  • Crystal-Ornelas, R., C. Varadharajan, B. Bond-Lamberty, K. Boye, S. Cholia, M. Crow, R. Devarakonda, K..S. Ely,  A.E. Goldman, S. Heinz, V. Hendrix, J. Damerow, S. Pennington, M. Burrus, Z. Kakalia, E. Robles, M. Simmonds, A. Rogers, T. Velliquette, H. Weierbach, P. Weisenhorn, J.N. Welch, D.A. Agarwal. 2021. Data from: "A guide to using GitHub for developing and versioning data standards and reporting formats".  ESS-DIVE repository. DOI:  10.15485/1780565
  • Crystal-Ornelas, R., C. Varadharajan, B. Bond-Lamberty, K. Boye, M. Burrus, S. Cholia, M. Crow, J. Damerow, R. Davarakonda, K.S. Ely,  A.E. Goldman , S. Heinz, V. Hendrix, Z. Kakalia, S. Pennington, E. Robles, A. Rogers, M. Simmonds, T. Velliquette, H. Weierbach, P. Weisenhorn, J.N. Welch, D.A. Agarwal. 2021.Templates for developing and versioning data standards and reporting formats using GitHub.  ESS-DIVE repository. DOI:  10.15485/1780564
  • Damerow J., C. Varadharajan, K.E. Boye, E.L. Brodie, M. Burrus, D. Chadwick, and S. Cholia, et al. 2021. "Sample Identifiers and Metadata Reporting Format for Environmental Systems Science. Environmental Systems Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE)."  ESS-DIVE repository. DOI:  10.15485/1660470

2020

  • Garayburu-Caruso, V.A., R.E. Danczak, J.C. Stegen, L. Renteria, M. McCall, A.E. Goldman, et al. 2020. Using community science to reveal the global chemogeography of river metabolomes. Metabolites. DOI: 10.3390/metabo10120518
  • Danczak, R.E., R.K. Chu, S.J. Fansler, A.E. Goldman, E.B. Graham, M.K. Tfaily, J. Toyoda, and J.C. Stegen. 2020. Using community assembly metrics from metacommunity ecology to understand environmental metabolomes. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19989-y
  • Fang, Y., X. Chen, J. Gomez-Valez, X. Zhang, Z. Duan, G.E. Hammond, A.E. Goldman, V.A. Garayburu-Caruso, E.B. Graham. 2020.  A multirate mass transfer model to represent the interaction of multicomponent biogeochemical processes between surface water and hyporheic zones (SWAT-MRMT-R 1.0).  Geoscientific Model Development. DOI:  10.5194/gmd-13-3553-2020
  • Lin X., H. Ren, A.E. Goldman, J.C. Stegen, T.D. Scheibe. 2020. WHONDRS-GUI: a web application for global survey of surface water metabolites. PeerJ. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9277
  • Danczak, R.E., R.K. Chu, S.J. Fansler, A.E. Goldman, E.B. Graham, M.K. Tfaily, J. Toyoda, and J.C. Stegen. 2020.  Columbia River Surface Water and Pore Water Unaligned FTICR-MS Data Associated with “Using Community Assembly Metrics from Metacommunity Ecology to Understand Environmental Metabolomes”. ESS-DIVE repository. DOI: 10.15485/167502
  • Garayburu-Caruso VA, JC Stegen, H Song, L Renteria, J Wells, W Garcia, CT Resch, AE Goldman, RK Chu, J Toyoda, EB Graham. 2020. "Carbon Limitation Leads to Thermodynamic Regulation of Aerobic Metabolism." Environmental Science and Technology Letters. PNNL-SA-150146. doi:10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00258
  • Toyoda JG, AE Goldman, RK Chu, R Daly, RE Danczak, VA Garayburu-Caruso, and EB Graham, et al. 2020. "WHONDRS Summer 2019 Sampling Campaign: Global River Corridor Surface Water FTICR-MS and Stable Isotopes.” ESS-DIVE. PNNL-SA-151978. doi:10.15485/1603775

2019

  • Chu RK, AE Goldman, SC Brooks, RE Danczak, VA Garayburu-Caruso, EB Graham, M Jones, et al. 2019. “WHONDRS 48 Hour Diel Cycling Study at the East Fork Poplar Creek in Tennessee, USA.” ESS-DIVE. doi:10.15485/1577278
  • Danczak RE, AE Goldman, RK Chu, VA Garayburu-Caruso, EB Graham, X He, X Lin, et al. 2019. “WHONDRS 48 Hour Diel Cycling Study at the Altamaha River in Georgia, USA.” ESS-DIVE. doi:10.15485/1577263
  • Garayburu-Caruso VA, AE Goldman,  RK Chu, RE Danczak, EB Graham, X Lin, JW Morad, et al. 2019. “WHONDRS 48 Hour Diel Cycling Study at the Columbia River in Washington, USA.”  ESS-DIVE. doi:10.15485/1577265
  • Wells JR, AE Goldman, RK Chu, RE Danczak, VA Garayburu-Caruso, EB Graham, J Lewandowski, et al. 2019. “WHONDRS 48 Hour Diel Cycling Study at the Erpe River, Germany.” ESS-DIVE. doi:10.15485/1577260
  • Goldman AE, S Arnon, E Bar-Zeev, RK Chu, RE Danczak, VA Garayburu-Caruso, EB Graham, et al. 2019. “WHONDRS 48 Hour Diel Cycling Study at the Jordan River, Israel.” ESS-DIVE. doi:10.15485/1577266
  • Missik JE, H Liu, Z Gao, M Huang, X Chen, EV Arntzen, DP McFarland, et al. 2019. "Groundwater-River Water Exchange Enhances Growing Season Evapotranspiration and Carbon Uptake in a Semiarid Riparian Ecosystem." Journal of Geophysical Research. Biogeosciences 124, no. 1:99-114. PNNL-SA-142097. doi:10.1029/2018JG004666
  • Renteria L, AE Goldman, RK Chu, RE Danczak, VA Garayburu-Caruso, EB Graham, X Lin, et al. 2019. “WHONDRS 48 Hour Diel Cycling Study at the Nisqually River in Washington, USA.” ESS-DIVE. doi:10.15485/1576995
  • Stegen JC, AE Goldman, RK Chu, RE Danczak, VA Garayburu-Caruso, EB Graham, X Lin, et al. 2019. “WHONDRS 48 Hour Diel Cycling Study at HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Watershed 1 (WS1).” ESS-DIVE. doi:10.15485/1509695

2018

  • Stegen JC and AE Goldman. 2018. “WHONDRS: A community resource for studying dynamic river corridors.” mSystems. DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00151-18 
  • Stegen JC, AE Goldman, SE Blackburn, RK Chu, RE Danczak, VA Garayburu-Caruso, EB Graham, et al. 2018. “WHONDRS Surface Water Sampling for Metabolite Biogeography.” ESS-DIVE. doi:10.15485/1484811

2017

  • Goldman AE, EB Graham, AR Crump, DW Kennedy, EB Romero, CG Anderson, KL Dana, CT Resch, JK Fredrickson, and JC Stegen. 2017. “Biogeochemical cycling at the aquatic-terrestrial interface is linked to parafluvial hyporheic zone inundation history.” Biogeosciences. doi:10.5194/bg-14-4229-2017. 
  • Colotelo AH, AE Goldman, KA Wagner, RS Brown, Z Deng, and MC Richmond. 2017. "A Comparison of Metrics to Evaluate the Effects of Hydro-facility Passage Stressors on Fish." Environmental Reviews 25, no. 1:1-11. PNNL-SA-115486. doi:10.1139/er-2016-0006
  • Graham EB, MM Tfaily, AR Crump, AE Goldman, LM Bramer, EV Arntzen, EB Romero, et al. 2017. "Carbon inputs from riparian vegetation limit oxidation of physically bound organic carbon via biochemical and thermodynamic processes." Journal of Geophysical Research. Biogeosciences 122, no. 12:3188-3205. PNNL-SA-125144. doi:10.1002/2017JG003967
  • Miller BL, EV Arntzen, AE Goldman, and MC Richmond. 2017. "Methane Ebullition in Temperate Hydropower Reservoirs and Implications for US Policy on Greenhouse Gas Emissions." Environmental Management 60, no. 4:615-629. PNNL-SA-115464. doi:10.1007/s00267-017-0909-1
  • Zhou T, M Huang, J Bao, Z Hou, EV Arntzen, RD Mackley, AR Crump, et al. 2017. "A New Approach to Quantify Shallow Water Hydrologic Exchanges in a Large Regulated River Reach." Water 9, no. 9:703. PNNL-SA-123562. doi:10.3390/w9090703

2015

  • Goldman AE, SB Cadieux, JR White, LM Pratt. 2015. “Passive sampling method for high‐resolution concentration and isotopic composition of dissolved methane in Arctic lakes.” Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. doi: 10.1002/lom3.10070