B21A:
Biogeosciences General Contributions Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Scott P Werts, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, United States and Adrian V Rocha, Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Primary Conveners:  Scott P Werts, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, United States
Co-conveners:  Adrian V Rocha, Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Jennifer Biddle, Univ of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Scott P Werts, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Multiclass relevance vector machine classification to explore annual and seasonal dynamics of an Invasive reed
Bushra Zaman1,2, Alfonso Torres2 and Mac McKee3, (1)Chitkara University, Haryana, India, (2)Utah Water Research Lab, Utah State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah Water Research Laboratory, LOGAN, UT, United States
 
Visualizing Gene - Interactions within the Rice and Maize Network
Asher Sampong, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Alex Feltus, Clemson University, Genetics and BioChemistry, Clemson, SC, United States and Melissa Smith, Clemson University, College of Engineering and Science, Clemson, SC, United States
 
Defining Anaerobic Digestion Stability-Full Scale Study
Morris Elya Demitry Sr, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
 
Pisolithus tinctorius, Fungal Extremophile and Modern Analog to an Early Earth Environment; An Unlikely Harbor for Deeply Diverging and Novel Chemoautrophic Microbes
Ken Cullings Cullings1, Carol Lauzon2, Nicole Marinkovich1 and Tina Truong1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA, United States
 
Drivers of Tree Species Effects on Phosphorus and Cation Cycling in Plantations at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica
Ann E Russell, Iowa State University, Natural Resource Ecology & Management, Ames, IA, United States
 
Phosphorus and Nitrogen Co-Limit Global Grassland Productivity
Philip A Fay1, Suzanne M. Prober2, W. Stanley Harpole3, Johannes M.H. Knops4, Jonathan D. Bakker5, Elizabeth T. Borer6, Andrew S. MacDougall7, Eric W. Seabloom6, Peter D. Wragg6 and Eric M. Lind6, (1)USDA-ARS, Temple, TX, United States, (2)CSIRO Land and Water Flagship, Wembley, WA, Australia, (3)Iowa State University, Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Ames, IA, United States, (4)University of Nebraska Lincoln, School of Biological Sciences, Lincoln, NE, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (7)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
 
Elastic Wave Imaging of in-Situ Bio-Alterations in a Contaminated Aquifer
Rohit Raj1, Priyank Jaiswal2, Estella A Atekwana2, Brooke Briand2 and Iftekhar Alam2, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, (2)Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States
 
Novel Lipid Biomarkers for Past Oceanic N2 Fixation
Nicole Jane Bale1, Ellen C Hopmans1, Tracy A Villareal2, Claudia I Zell1, Jaap Sinninghe Damsté,1 and Stefan Schouten1, (1)NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, Texel, Netherlands, (2)The University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX, United States
 
AUV Measured Variability in Phytoplankton Fluorescence within the ETM of the Columbia River during Summer 2013
Craig L McNeil1, Andrey Shcherbina1, Trina M Litchendorf1, Thomas B Sanford1, David Martin1, António M. Baptista2, Jesse Lopez3, Byron C Crump2, Tawnya D Peterson4, Fredrick G Prahl5 and Alexandra Cravo6, (1)Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, OR, United States, (3)Oregon Health Sciences Univ, Portland, OR, United States, (4)Oregon Health & Science Univ, Beaverton, OR, United States, (5)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)University of the Algarve, Faro, Portugal
 
Modeling the Response of Soil Organic Matter Decomposition to Warming: Effects of Dynamical Enzyme Productivity and Nuanced Representation of Respiration.
Debjani Sihi1, Stefan Gerber2, Kanika Sharma Inglett3 and Patrick Inglett3, (1)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida IFAS, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
 
Comparison of Essential Oil Content, Constituents, and Antioxidant Activity of Nepeta Glomerulosa during Three Developmental Stages
Hoda Moradi1, Majid Azizi1 and Vahid Rowshan2, (1)Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Department of Horticulture, Mashhad, Iran, (2)Fars Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Medicinal Plant, Shiraz, Iran
 
Hydrodynamics and eutrophication in a mariculture site in the Philippines
Ma. Teresa Escobar1, Maria Lourdes San Diego-McGlone1, Marilou Martin1 and Cesar Villanoy2, (1)Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Metro Manila, Philippines, (2)Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
 
Export of Dissolved Organic Matter, Nutrients and Carbon from Himalayan River System in Central Nepal
Maya P Bhatt, Asian Institute of Technology and Management, Kathmandu, Nepal; Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, Hamburg University, Germany, KlimaCampus, Hamburg, Germany
 
Simultaneous Analysis of Nitrogen, Carbon and Sulfur Stable Isotopes and Concentrations in Organics and Soils
Stefania Mambelli1, Paul D Brooks1, Robin Sutka2, Scott Hughes3, Kari M Finstad4, M. Joey Pakes5 and Todd E Dawson1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Center for Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)MLS Analytical, Wilmington, IL, United States, (3)EA Consumables, Collingswood, NJ, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Applications of GIS and a Handheld XRF for Mapping Cu and Pb Contaminations in Abandoned Mine Areas
Hyeongyu Lee, Bukyong National University, Busan, South Korea, Yosoon Choi, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea, Huiuk Yi, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea and Dong-Hwan Kim, MIRECO, Seoul, South Korea
 
Nitrate and Anion Behavior in Alpine Tundra Soil in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
Andrew Evans, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO, United States and Jason R Janke, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Denver, CO, United States
 
GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION INFORMS BONOBO (PAN PANISCUS) CONSERVATION EFFORTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Janet Nackoney1, Jena Hickey2, David Williams3, Charly Facheux4 and Jef Dupain4, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)International Gorilla Conservation Program, Musanze, Rwanda, (3)African Wildlife Foundation, Washington, DC, United States, (4)African Wildlife Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
 
Geospatial Distribution of Heavy Metals in an Urban Soil, El Paso, Texas, USA
Maria A Amaya, Ali R Elkekli, Juan W Clague, Samia E Grimida and Nicholas E Pingitore Jr, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States
 
SPRUCE Deep Peat Heating Manipulations: in situ Methods to Characterize the Response of Deep Peat to Warming
Paul J Hanson1, Jeffery S Riggs1, Charlotte N Barbier1, William R Nettles IV1, Jana R. Phillips1 and Leslie Hook2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
Spatially and Temporally Detailed Modeling of Water Quality in Narragansett Bay
Lucner Charlestra, Edward H Dettmann and Mohamed Abdelrhman, USEPA (ORD-NHEERL), Narragansett, RI, United States
 
Lead Isotopic Tracing of Coal-Based Anthropogenic Pollution in Agricultural Soils in Jianghan Plain, China
Julia N Daniel1, Samantha Ying1, Ray Zhao1, Jianwei Bu2, Yiqun Gan2, Yanxin Wang2, Dominik J Weiss3 and Scott E Fendorf1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)China University of Geosciences Wuhan, Wuhan, China, (3)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
 
Landscape scale variability of atmospherically derived industrial metal enrichment in surfical environments
Nicola Stromsoe, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia, Samuel K Marx, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, Hamish A McGowan, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, John N Callow, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia and Atun Zawadzki, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Kirrawee, Australia
 
Phase transition of Fe oxides under reducing condition and its relation with the As behavior
Seung-Hyun Choi1, Seok-hwi Kim1, Gi-Young Jeong2 and Kangjoo Kim1, (1)Kunsan National University, Environmental Engineering, Kunsan, South Korea, (2)Andong National University, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Andong, South Korea
 
Nutrient leaching from sediments according to different oxygen supplying conditions
Lee jin Won, Ju-il Park, Seung-Hyun Choi and Kangjoo Kim, Kunsan National University, Kunsan, South Korea
 
Impact of nitrogen limitation on terrestrial carbon cycle responses to climate variations and atmosphere CO2
Qian Zhang, Duoying Ji and Yong Jiu Dai, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
 
Analysis of Inter- and Intra-individual Variation in Foraging Habits of the Endangered Hawaiian Petrel Using Stables Isotopes
Kaycee Eileen Morra1, Peggy H Ostrom1, Anne E Wiley2, Helen F James3, Craig A Stricker4 and Hasand Gandhi1, (1)Michigan State Univ, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)University of Akron, Biology, Akron, OH, United States, (3)Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, DC, United States, (4)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
ASSESSING ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL CONSEQUENCES OF VIRUS-HOST INTERACTIONS IN MARINE EUKARYOTIC PICOPHYTOPLANKTON
Amy E Zimmerman1 and Alexandra Z Worden1,2, (1)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Watsonville, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Cruz, Ocean Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Pathogen inactivation in liquid dairy manure during anaerobic and aerobic digestions
Sagor Biswas1, Pramod Pandey1, Alejandro R Castillo2 and Venkata Kumar Vaddella1, (1)University of California - Davis, Population Health and Reproduction, Vet Med Extension, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Cooperative Extension Merced County, Davis, CA, United States
 
Investigating the Role of H2S Stress on the Photochemical Efficiency of Phytoplankton Found in the Delaware Inland Bays: A Field and Laboratory Study
Daniel J MacDonald1, George W Luther III2, Matthew J Oliver2 and Caitlyn T Sarno1, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States
 
A novel nanoparticle approach for imaging nutrient uptake by soil bacteria
Sarah L O'Brien1, Matthew D Whiteside2, Deirdre Sholto-Douglas1, Dionysios A. Antonopoulos1, Maxim Boyanov1, Daniel M. Durall3, Melanie D. Jones3, Barry Lai1, Edward J O'Loughlin1 and Ken M Kemner1, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (2)Vrije Universiteit,, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada
 
Landscape Variation in Plant Defense Syndromes across a Tropical Rainforest
Kelly M McManus1, Gregory P Asner1,2, Roberta Martin3 and Christopher B Field4, (1)Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, CA, United States, (4)Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States
 
Assessing Pathogen Levels in Dairy Lagoon Wastewater and Potential Evaporation Losses
Pramod Pandey1, Sagor Biswas1, Alex Souza2, Noelia Silva-del-Rio2, Venkata Kumar Vaddella1 and Alejandro R Castillo3, (1)University of California - Davis, Population Health and Reproduction, Vet Med Extension, Davis, CA, United States, (2)UC Cooperative Extension, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Tulare, CA, United States, (3)UC Cooperative Extension, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Merced, CA, United States
 
Rates and Controls of N2 Fixation in Sphagnum spp. along the Hydrological Gradient – Beaver Pond to Bog Transition at Mer Bleue, Ontario, Canada
Tatjana Zivkovic, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada and Tim R Moore, McGill Univ, Montreal, QC, Canada
 
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