B42B:
Biogeochemical and Isotopic Characterization and Modeling of Biologically Mediated Processes Across Scales II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Yiwei Cheng1, Mark E Conrad2, Christopher G Hubbard2 and Nicholas Bouskill2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States(2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Yiwei Cheng, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Mark E Conrad1, Christopher G Hubbard1 and Nicholas Bouskill2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States(2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Yiwei Cheng, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Marietta, GA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Microbial Colonization of Earth's Subsurface: A Thermodynamically Consistent Perspective
Craig M Bethke1, Robert A. Sanford1, Qusheng Jin2 and Matthew F Kirk3, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Oregon, Department of Geological Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, (3)Kansas State University, Department of Geology, Manhattan, KS, United States
10:50 AM
 
Evidence of a dynamic microbial community structure and predation through combined microbiological and stable isotope characterization
Jennifer L Druhan1, Markus Bill2, Hsiao Chien Lim2, Cindy Wu2, Mark E Conrad3, Kenneth Hurst Williams3, Donald J DePaolo3 and Eoin Brodie3, (1)Stanford University, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berleley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
11:05 AM
 
Compound-specific stable isotope analysis of pesticides: a combined monitoring and modeling approach to assess pesticide fate and degradation at catchment scale
Boris Maurijn van Breukelen1, Stefanie Lutz1, Ype Van der Velde2, O. F. Elsayed3, Marie LeFrancq3, Sylvain Payraudeau3 and Gwenaël Imfeld3, (1)Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (3)University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France
11:20 AM
 
Coupling Isotopic Fractionation to Multiple-Continuum Reactive Transport Models of Biogeochemical Systems
Eric L Sonnenthal, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States and Christoph Wanner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
11:35 AM
 
Beyond The Blueprint: Development Of Genome-Informed Trait-Based Models For Prediction Of Microbial Dynamics And Biogeochemical Rates
Eoin Brodie1,2, Eric King1, Sergi Molins1, Ulas Karaoz1, Jeffrey N Johnson1, Nicholas Bouskill1, Laura A Hug2, Brian C Thomas2, Cindy J Castelle2, Harry R Beller1, Jillian F Banfield1,2 and Carl I Steefel1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
11:50 AM
 
Scaling Soil Microbe-Water Interactions from Pores to Ecosystems
Stefano Manzoni, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden and Gabriel George Katul, Duke Univ, Durham, NC, United States
12:05 PM
 
An Evaluation of Processes Critical to Predicting the Carbon Sink of Natural Tropical Forests in a Demographic Vegetation Model
Ryan G Knox1, Jennifer A. Holm1, Jeffrey Q Chambers1,2, Marcos Longo3, Paul R Moorcroft4, Niro Higuchi5, William J Riley1, Antonio O Manzi6 and Charles D Koven1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Campinas, Brazil, (4)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Departamento de Silvicultura Tropical, Manejo Florestal, Manaus AM, Brazil, (6)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
 
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