B24A:
(Bio)geochemical Cycles in Extreme Environments III

Session ID#: 5515

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 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
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0448 Geomicrobiology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0456 Life in extreme environments [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0465 Microbiology: ecology, physiology and genomics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

B24A-01
A SIMPLE Perspective on Europa's Habitability (Invited) (6109)
Britney Schmidt, Cornell University, Astronomy and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States and SIMPLE Team
B24A-02
Exploring the Habitability of Ice-covered Waterworlds: The Deep-Sea Hydrothermal System of the Aurora Mount at Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean (82°54’ N, 6°15W, 3900 m) (23127)
Antje Boetius1,2, Wolfgang Bach3, Christian Borowski4, Alexander Diehl2, Christopher R German5, Norbert E Kaul2, Janna Köhler6, Yann Marcon1,2, Christian Mertens7, Massimiliano Molari8, Vera S N Schlindwein1, Andreas Tuerke2, Gunter Wegener4,9 and Science Party of RV POLARSTERN Expedition Aurora PS86, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Research, University Bremen, Germany, (3)University of Bremen, MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany, (4)Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, (5)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)MARUM/Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (7)Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (8)Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, HGF-MPG Joint Research Group for Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology, Bremen, Germany, (9)University of Bremen, MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Science, Bremen, Germany
B24A-03
Potential Physiologies of Deep Branches on the Tree of Life with Deep Subsurface Samples from IODP Leg 347: Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment (Invited) (22764)
Karen G Lloyd1, Jordan T Bird2, Alexander Shumaker2 and Scientific Team of IODP Expedition 347, (1)University of Tennessee, Microbiology, Knoxville, United States, (2)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
B24A-04
Silicate Weathering and Pervasive Authigenic Carbonate Precipitation Coupled to Methanogenesis in the Krishna-Godavari Basin, Offshore India (28031)
Evan A Solomon, Univ Washington, Seattle, United States, Arthur J Spivack, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, Miriam Kastner, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Marta E Torres, Oregon State Univ, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
B24A-05
Evidence for a Methane-Fueled Ecosystem within Anchialine Caves of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico (8091)
David Brankovits1, John Pohlman2,3, Helge Niemann4, Mary Beth Leigh5, Moritz F Lehmann4 and Thomas M. Iliffe3, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, United States, (3)Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States, (4)University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences, Basel, Switzerland, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States
B24A-06
Biological Sources of Branched Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraethers (brGDGTs) in Terrestrial Hot Springs: A Possible Link Between Nitrogen-cycling Bacteria and brGDGT Production (12712)
Jin-Xiang Wang1,2, Wei Xie2, Eric S Boyd3, Brian P Hedlund4 and Chuanlun Zhang2, (1)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (2)Tongji University, Shanghai, China, (3)Montana State University, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States
B24A-07
Experimental Evolution of UV-C Radiation Tolerance: Emergence of Adaptive and Non-Adaptive Traits in Escherichia coli Under Differing Flux Regimes (26672)
Amy Moffet1, Alexis Okansinski2, Camilla Sloan3, Joseph M Grace4, Ivan G Paulino-Lima5, Diana Gentry6, Lynn Rothschild6 and Manel Camps7, (1)University of California Santa Cruz, Biomolecular Engineering, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA, United States, (3)Cañada College, Redwood City, CA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Education Associates Program, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (6)NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (7)University of California Santa Cruz, Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
B24A-08
High Pressures and Preserving the Records of Life. (14034)
Wren Montgomery1, Jonathan S Watson2 and Mark A Sephton2, (1)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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