B23G:
(Bio)geochemical Cycles in Extreme Environments II

Session ID#: 3007

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Eric S Boyd, Montana State University, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Bozeman, MT, United States and Mark Alexander Lever, Aarhus University, Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus, Denmark
Primary Convener:  Brandon R Briggs, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States
Co-Convener:  Eric S Boyd, Montana State University, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Bozeman, MT, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Aude Picard, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Life Sciences, Las Vegas, United States
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Finding the Biotic Fringe (Invited) (10817)
Everett Shock, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States
Physiology and phylogeny of the candidate phylum “Atribacteria” (formerly OP9/JS1) inferred from single-cell genomics and metagenomics (Invited) (2430)
Jeremy A Dodsworth1,2, Senthil Murugapiran3, Paul C Blainey4, Masaru Nobu5, Christian Rinke6, Patrick Schwientek6, Esther Gies7, Gordon Webster8, Peter Kille8, Andrew Weightman8, Wen-Tso Liu5, Steven James Hallam7, George Tsiamis9, Wesley Swingley10, Christian Ross11, Susannah G Tringe12, Patrick SG Chain6,13, Matthew B Scholz6,14, Chien-Chi Lo6,14, Jason Raymond15, Stephen R Quake16, Tanja Woyke6 and Brian P Hedlund11, (1)California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, United States, (2)California State University San Bernardino, Department of BIology, San Bernardino, CA, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (6)DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, (7)University of British Columbia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (8)Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (9)University of Patras, Patras, Greece, (10)Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, United States, (11)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (12)DOE Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, CA, United States, (13)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Genomic Science Group, Los Alamos, CA, United States, (14)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Genomic Science Group, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (15)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (16)Stanford University, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford, CA, United States
Microbial Carbon Processing in Gas-Rich Ultrabasic Wells from Groundwaters Hosted in Serpentinizing Diamondiferous Kimberlite Pipes (23175)
Matthew O Schrenk1, Stew Hamilton2, Berivan Esen3, Trevor Brisco3, Georges Lacrampe Couloume3 and Barbara Sherwood Lollar3, (1)Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Ontario Geological Survey, Sudbury, ON, Canada, (3)University of Toronto, Earth Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada
Carbon fixation in oceanic crust: Does it happen, and is it important? (Invited) (2743)
Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, United States, Jason B Sylvan, Texas A&M University, Oceanography, College Station, United States, Daniel Rogers, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Ray Lee, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, Peter R Girguis, Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Stephanie A Carr, Hartwick College, Biology Department, Oneonta, United States, Sean Jungbluth, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Michael S Rappe, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Kāneʻohe, United States
Deep Carbon Cycling in the Deep Hydrosphere: Abiotic Organic Synthesis and Biogeochemical Cycling (Invited) (16432)
Barbara Sherwood Lollar1, Chelsea N Sutcliffe1, Chris J. Ballentine2, Oliver Warr2, Long Li3, Shuhei Ono4 and David T Wang5, (1)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (5)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
Carbon Processing in the Marine Subsurface: What Are They Doing Down There? (Invited) (4931)
Jennifer Biddle1, Amanda Jean Martino2, Joseph A. Russell III3, Glenn Christman1 and Christopher H House4, (1)Univ of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States, (3)College of Marine and Earth Studies, Lewes, DE, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University, Geosciences and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States
First scientific dives of the Nereid Under Ice hybrid ROV in the Arctic Ocean. (Invited) (17743)
Christopher R German1, Antje Boetius2,3, Louis L Whitcomb4, Michael Jakuba1, John Bailey1, Christopher Judge1, Christopher McFarland4, Stefano Suman1, Stephen Elliott1, Christian Katlein3, Stefanie Arndt5, Andrew Bowen6, Dana Yoerger7, James C Kinsey1, Larry Mayer8, Marcel Nicolaus3, Samuel Laney9, Hanumant Singh1, Ted Maksym1 and PS86 Scientific Research Team, (1)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Max-Planck-Instutute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, (3)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (4)Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, (7)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Durham, United States, (9)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Sources and sinks of methane beneath polar ice (Invited) (17736)
John C Priscu1, Heather E Adams2, Kevin P Hand3, John E Dore4, Paula Matheus-Carnevali5, Alexander B Michaud6, Alison E Murray5, Mark L Skidmore7 and Trista Vick-Majors8, (1)Desert Research Institute, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Reno, United States, (2)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (5)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (6)Montana State University, Bozeman, United States, (7)Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (8)Michigan Technological University, Biological Sciences, Houghton, MI, United States
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