B11J:
Molecular Biomarkers: From Source to Sink to Environmental Reconstruction I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Peter M Douglas, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Camilo Ponton, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Srinath Krishnan, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Primary Conveners:  Peter M Douglas, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Camilo Ponton, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Srinath Krishnan, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Peter M Douglas, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
B11J-01
 
The Fate of Molecular Markers in Soils and Their Implications for Soil Carbon Cycling
Guido LB Wiesenberg, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
8:15 AM
B11J-02
 
Paleo-Reconstruction of Carbon Cycling in Large-River Delta-Front Estuaries: Use of Molecular Biomarkers
Thomas S Bianchi, University of Florida, Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States
8:30 AM
B11J-03
 
Characterization of terrestrial organic matter transported through the Lena River Delta (NE Siberia) to its adjacent nearshore zone using lignin phenols, δ13C and ∆14C
Maria Winterfeld1, Miguel A Goni2, Janna Just3, Jens Hefter1, Pai Han4 and Gesine Mollenhauer1, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)MARUM, Bremen, Germany, (4)University of Bremen, Geosciences, Bremen, Germany
8:45 AM
B11J-04
 
Basin-wide investigation of terrestrial biomarker source to sink transport along a major modern fluvial system
Chantal Freymond1, Francien Peterse2, Florin Filip3 and Timothy I Eglinton1, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, (3)Fabrica de Cercetare, Bucharest, Romania
9:00 AM
B11J-05
 
Exploring the Use of Branched Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraethers (brGDGTs) as a Lacustrine Paleotemperature Proxy
Shannon E Loomis, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, James M Russell, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States and Jaap Sinninghe Damsté,, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, Texel, Netherlands
9:15 AM
B11J-06
 
Climate forcing of the terrestrial organic carbon cycle during the last deglaciation: the Himalaya-Bengal fan example
Valier Galy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Christopher J Hein, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Hermann Rudolf Kudrass, MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Timothy I Eglinton, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
9:30 AM
B11J-07
 
Comparing Terrestrial Organic Carbon Cycle Dynamics in Interglacial and Glacial Climates in the South American Tropics
Kyrstin L Fornace1,2, Valier Galy2 and Konrad A Hughen2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
9:45 AM
B11J-08
 
Alkane distribution and carbon isotope composition in fossil leaves: An interpretation of plant physiology in the geologic past 
Heather V Graham, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Katherine H Freeman, Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA, United States
 
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