Below is a list of publications related to the biomineralization in both modern and fossil terrestrial hot springs and hydrothermal systems. 

Interdisciplinary collaboration with microbiologists have led to  studies in Geomicrobiological Interactions in thermal hot springs. Studies include the effects of clay minerals on sinter formation in Yellowstone National Park.   Studies have also been conducted on biomineralizaton  in Kamchatka, Russia along with an international team of scientists. This work has been supported by the National Science Foundation’s programs: Biocomplexity and the Environment: Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles and  Microbial Observatories. In this unique collaborative and interdisciplinary effort along with many other scientists we address questions related to understanding the role of micro-organisms in hot springs.  The broader impact of this work is related to discovering novel enzymes for manufacturing processes and gaining a better understanding of how life worked during early earth history. This work is documented by San Francisco's Exploritorium Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception.

Coal fire vents also provide an interesting analog to volcanic terrestrial hot springs.  Coal fire vent collaboration is mostly with Glenn Stracher at East Georgia College.

G.A., Paul A. Schroeder, and A.G. Nikolaeva (2018) Geochemistry of rare-earth elements in thermal waters of Uzon-Geysernaya hydrothermal system (Kamchatka). Russian Geology and Geophysics. v59. 925-934.

Jennifer M.K. Neace, Erika R., Hammond, III, Max L., Hower, James C., Engle, Mark A., East, Joseph, Geboy, Nicholas J., Olea, Ricardo A., Henke, Kevin R., Copley, GregoryC., Lemley, Edward, Nally, Rachel S. 3 Hatch, Hansen, Antonia E., Richardson, Allison R., Satterwhite, Anne B., Stracher, Glenn B., Radke,Larry F., Smeltzer, Charles, Romanek, Christopher, Blake, Donald R., Schroeder, Paul A., Emsbo Mattingly, Stephen D., Stout, Scott A. (2018) Gas emissions, tars, and secondary minerals at the Ruth Mullins and Tiptop coal mine fires. International Journal of Coal Geology. 195:304-316 DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2018.06.012

Omer I., Bala Ekinci, Paul A. Schroeder, Douglas Crowe and Fahri Esenli. 2013 Origin of the Duvertepe kaolin-alunite deposits in Simav Graben, Turkey: timing and styles of hydrothermal mineralization. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 255, 57-78.

A. Engle, Lawrence F. Radke, Edward L. Heffern, Jennifer M.K. O'Keefe, James C. Hower, Charles D. Smeltzer, Judith M. Hower, Ricardo A. Olea, Robert J. Eatwell, Donald R. Blake, Stephen D. Emsbo-Mattingly, Scott A. Stout, Gerald Queen, Kerry L. Aggen l, Allan Kolker, Anupma Prakash, Kevin R. Henke, Glenn B. Stracher, Paul A. Schroeder, Yomayra Román-Colón, Arnout ter Schure  2012 Gas emissions, minerals, and tars associated with three coal fires, Powder RiverBasin, USA Science of The Total Environment, Volume 420, 15 March 2012, Pages 146-159.

Paul A. 2010 Clays of Yellowstone National Park, CMS Workshop Lectures, Vol. 17. The Clay Minerals Society, Chantilly, VA, 94 pp.

Jennifer, Schroeder, P.A., and Wiegel, J. 2007 Microbial silicification in sinters from two terrestrial hot springs in the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Russia. Geomicrobiology Journal. v. 24, 627-641.

 Ece, Ö.I., Schroeder, P.A., Smilley, M. and Wampler, M. 2007 Acid-sulfate alteration of volcanic rocks and genesis of halloysite and alunite deposits in the Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey. Clay Minerals v.43, 281-315.

Jennifer and Schroeder, Paul A. 2007 Role of smectite in siliceous sinter formation and microbial texture preservation: Octopus Spring, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Clays and Clay Minerals, v. 55(2): 189-199.

Ece,O. Isik and Schroeder, Paul A. 2007 Hydrothermal Alteration of Oligocene volcanic rocks and genesis of hallyosite-alunite-kaolinite deposits in the Turplu area, Balikesir, Turkey. Clays and Clay Minerals, 55(1), 18-36.

J  Pone, N., Kim A.A. Hein, Glenn B. Stracher, Harold J. Annegarn, Robert B. Finkleman, Donald R. Blake, John K. McCormack, Paul Schroeder. 2007 The spontaneous combustion of coal and its by-products in the Witbank and Sasolburg coalfields of South Africa, International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 72, 124-140.

B. Stracher, Anupma Prakash, Paul A. Schroeder, John McCormack, Xiangmin Zhang, Paul van Dijk, and Donald Blake 2005 New mineral occurrences and mineralization processes: Wuda coal-fire gas vents of Inner Mongolia. American Mineralogists. v. 90 1729-1739.

Ece, Ö. Isik,  Zenbe-E Nakagawa, and P.A. Schroeder, 2003 Alteration of volcanic rocks and Genesis of kaolin deposits in Sile region, northern Istanbul, Turkey, Part - I: Clay mineralogy, Clay Minerals, v. 51, No. 6, 675-688.