Chairs: Cecilia Batmalle Kretz, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States and Amy E Zimmerman, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Watsonville, CA, United States
Primary Conveners: Cecilia Batmalle Kretz, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Co-conveners: Amy E Zimmerman, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Watsonville, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Julian Damashek, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Comparative genomic analysis of oil spill impacts on deep water shipwreck microbiomes in the northern Gulf of Mexico
Leila J Hamdan1, Melanie Damour2, Christine McGown1, Christine Figan1, Zeima Kassahun1, Kate Blackwell1, Christopher Horrell3 and Patrick Gillevet1, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)Bureau of Ocean Energy Management New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, United States, (3)Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, New Orleans, LA, United States
The Impact of Salinity on the Diversity of Microbial Sediment Communities
Craig McLean1, Emily Cardarelli2, Jessica Audrey Lee2 and Chris A. Francis3, (1)University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States
Differences between the bacterial community structures of first- and multi-year Arctic sea ice in the Lincoln Sea.
Ido Hatam, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Justin F Beckers, University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Christian Haas, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada and Brian D Lanoil, University of Alberta, Biological Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Testing the Role of Microbial Ecology, Redox-Mediated Deep Water Production and Hypersalinity on TEX86: Lipids and 16s Sequences from Archaea and Bacteria in the Water Column and Sediments of Orca Basin
Courtney Warren1, Isabel Romero2, Greg Ellis2, Ethan Goddard3, Srinath Krishnan1, Lisa M. Nigro4, James R Super1, Yige Zhang5, Guangsheng Zhuang1, David J Hollander2 and Mark Pagani1, (1)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, (3)University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States, (4)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (5)Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States