B21L:
Wanted, Dead or Alive: Microbes in the Subsurface II

Session ID#: 1941

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
2004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jennifer Biddle, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, United States and Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States
Primary Convener:  Jennifer Biddle, Univ of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States
Co-Convener:  Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Identifying the dominant metabolic strategies used by microorganisms within basalt-hosted, anoxic deep subsurface basement fluids via environmental genomics (31370)
Michael S Rappe1, Sean Jungbluth2, Stephanie A Carr3, Huei-Ting Lin4, Chih-Chiang Hsieh2, Olivia D Nigro4, Grieg Steward5 and Beth Orcutt6, (1)Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Kāneʻohe, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Hartwick College, Biology Department, Oneonta, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, (5)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Oceanography, Honolulu, United States, (6)Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States
Investigating Chemotactic Potential Within Crustal Fluid Communities (29460)
Stephanie A Carr, Hartwick College, Biology Department, Oneonta, United States, Sean Jungbluth, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Huei-Ting Lin, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, Michael S Rappe, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Kāneʻohe, United States and Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States
Metabolic Ecology of Chemosynthetic Nitrate Respiration at Deep-Sea Vents (Invited) (4936)
Ileana M. Perez-Rodriguez, Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, United States, Stefan Manfred Sievert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Marilyn L Fogel, University of California Riverside, EDGE Institute, Riverside, CA, United States and Dionysis I Foustoukos, Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States
Finding the best windows: An apparent environmental threshold determines which diffuse flows are dominated by subsurface microbes (2534)
Heather C Olins1, Daniel Rogers1, Chris A Scholin2,3, Chris J Preston3, Charles Vidoudez1, William Ussler3, Doug Pargett3, Scott Jensen4, Brent Roman4, James M Birch4 and Peter R Girguis5, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (3)MBARI, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (4)MBARI, Moss Landing, United States, (5)Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Reactive transport model of growth and methane production by high-temperature methanogens in hydrothermal regions of the subseafloor (2196)
Lucy C Stewart1, Christopher K Algar2, Begum D. Topcuoglu3, Caroline S Fortunato4, Benjamin I Larson5, Giora K Proskurowski6, David A Butterfield7, Joseph John Vallino8, Julie A Huber9 and James F Holden3, (1)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (2)Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Microbiology, Amherst, MA, United States, (4)Josephine Bay Paul Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (7)University of Washington, Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean & Ecosystem Studies, Seattle, United States, (8)Ecosystems Ctr, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (9)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Energy and power limits for microbial activity (Invited) (2806)
Doug LaRowe, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Jan Amend, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The Effect of Temperature on Microbially-Mediated Organic Carbon Decomposition from a Global Survey of Scientific Ocean Drilling Data (4195)
Alberto Malinverno, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Ernesto Alonso Martinez Jr, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
Microbial Cells and Aerobic Respiration from Seafloor to Basement in the South Pacific Gyre (27934)
Steven D'Hondt1, Fumio Inagaki2, Carlos A Alvarez Zarikian3, Yuki Morono4, Robert A Pockalny5, Justine Sauvage5, Arthur J Spivack5 and IODP Expedition 329 Shipboard Science Party, (1)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan, (3)Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States, (4)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (5)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States
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