Chairs: Gangsheng Wang, University of Oklahoma, Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, Melanie A Mayes, ORNL, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Xiaofeng Xu, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States and Ying Sun, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Primary Convener: Xiaofeng Xu, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
Co-conveners: Gangsheng Wang, University of Oklahoma, Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, Melanie A Mayes, ORNL, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States and Ying Sun, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
OSPA Liaison: Xiaofeng Xu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Measures of Microbial Biomass for Soil Carbon Decomposition Models (29907)
Melanie A Mayes1, Jennifer Dabbs2, Jessica M Steinweg3, Christopher W Schadt4, Laurel Anne Kluber5, Gangsheng Wang6 and Sindhu Jagadamma5, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin - Baraboo, Biological Sciences, Baraboo, WI, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (6)University of Oklahoma, Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States
Upscaling plot-scale methane flux to a eddy covariance tower domain in Barrow, AK: integrating in-situ data with a microbial functional group-based model (25992)
Xiaofeng Xu, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, Melanie S Hahn, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Fengming Yuan, ORNL, Oak Ridge, United States, Guoping Tang, ORNL, Climate Change Science Institute, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Peter E Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Margaret S Torn, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Stan D Wullschleger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Biofilm Complexity Controls Fine Particle Dynamics in Streams (22356)
Kevin Roche, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States, William Ross Hunter, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Jennifer D Drummond, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, Tom J Battin, Univ Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Fulvio Boano, Politecnico di Torino, Dept. of Environment, Land, and Infrastructure Engineering, Torino, Italy and Aaron Ian Packman, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
Combining Microbial Enzyme Kinetics Models with Light Use Efficiency Models to Predict CO2 and CH4 Ecosystem Exchange from Flooded and Drained Peatland Systems (19719)
Patty Y Oikawa1, Darrel Jenerette2, Sara H Knox1, Cove Sturtevant1, Joseph G Verfaillie3 and Dennis D Baldocchi4, (1)University of California Berkeley, Dept of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Riverside, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
Evaluation of a Thermodynamically Based Soil Microbial Decomposition Model Based on a 13c Tracer Study in Arctic Tundra Soils (10558)
Xudong Zhu1,2, Jinyun Tang1, William J Riley1, Matthew D Wallenstein2, M Francesca Cotrufo3, Megan B Machmuller2 and Laurel Lynch4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Representing Microbial Dormancy in Soil Decomposition Models Improves Model Performance and Reveals Key Ecosystem Controls on Microbial Activity (9910)
Yujie He, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Jinyan Yang, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China, Qianlai Zhuang, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States, Gangsheng Wang, University of Oklahoma, Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States and Yaling Liu, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN, United States
