B21L:
Wanted, Dead or Alive: Microbes in the Subsurface II
Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs: Jennifer Biddle, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Primary Conveners: Jennifer Biddle, Univ of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States
Co-conveners: Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, East Boothbay, ME, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Beth Orcutt, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, East Boothbay, ME, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
8:00 AM
Identifying the dominant metabolic strategies used by microorganisms within basalt-hosted, anoxic deep subsurface basement fluids via environmental genomics
Michael S Rappe1, Sean Jungbluth1, Stephanie A Carr2, Huei-Ting Lin1, Chih-Chiang Hsieh1, Olivia D Nigro1, Grieg F Steward1 and Beth Orcutt3, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (3)Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, East Boothbay, ME, United States
8:15 AM
Investigating Chemotactic Potential Within Crustal Fluid Communities
Stephanie A Carr1, Sean Jungbluth2, Huei-Ting Lin3, Michael S Rappe3 and Beth Orcutt4, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (2)University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, East Boothbay, ME, United States
8:30 AM
Metabolic Ecology of Chemosynthetic Nitrate Respiration at Deep-Sea Vents
Ileana M. Perez-Rodriguez, Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, Stefan Manfred Sievert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Marilyn L Fogel, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States and Dionysios Foustoukos, Carnegie Institute, Washington, DC, United States
8:45 AM
Finding the best windows: An apparent environmental threshold determines which diffuse flows are dominated by subsurface microbes
Heather C Olins1, Daniel Rogers1, Chris A Scholin2,3, Chris J Preston3, Charles Vidoudez1, William Ussler3, Doug Pargett3, Scott Jensen3, Brent Roman3, James M Birch3 and Peter R Girguis1, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (3)MBARI, Moss Landing, CA, United States
9:00 AM
Reactive transport model of growth and methane production by high-temperature methanogens in hydrothermal regions of the subseafloor
Lucy C Stewart1, Christopher K Algar2, Begüm D Topçuoğlu1, Caroline S Fortunato3, Benjamin I Larson4, Giora K Proskurowski5, David A Butterfield4, Joseph John Vallino6, Julie A Huber3 and James F Holden1, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Josephine Bay Paul Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)Ecosystems Ctr, Woods Hole, MA, United States
9:45 AM
Microbial Cells and Aerobic Respiration from Seafloor to Basement in the South Pacific Gyre
Steven D'Hondt1, Fumio Inagaki2, Carlos A Alvarez Zarikian3, Yuki Morono2, Robert A Pockalny1, Justine Sauvage1 and Arthur J Spivack1, (1)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (3)Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States
