Chairs: Vanessa L Bailey, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States and Lee Ann McCue, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Conveners: Vanessa L Bailey, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States
Co-conveners: Lee Ann McCue, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States, Taniya Roy Chowdhury, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Neslihan Tas, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Vanessa L Bailey, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States
Incorporating Functional Gene Quantification into Traditional Decomposition Models
Katherine E Todd-Brown1, Jizhong Zhou1, Huaqun Yin1, LiYou Wu1, James M Tiedje2, Edward A G Schuur3, Kostas Konstantinidis4 and Yiqi Luo1, (1)Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (3)Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (4)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Coupled Metagenomic and Chemical Analyses of Degrading Fungal Necromass and Implications for Microbial Contributions to Stable Soil OC
Kathryn M Schreiner1, Benjamin S.T. Morgan2, Jeremy Schultz3, Neal Edward Blair4 and Louise M. Egerton-Warburton2, (1)University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States, (2)Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL, United States, (3)Wheeling High School, Wheeling, IL, United States, (4)Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States
Greenlandic Microbiomes and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Carsten Suhr Jacobsen1, Morten Schostag Nielsen1,2, Anders Prieme2, William E Holben1,3, Marek Stibal1, Sergio Morales3, Jacob Bælum1, Bo Elberling2, Peter Kuhry4 and Gustav Hugelius4, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (2)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (3)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Impacts of elevated CO2 on plant-microbial interactions
Shengjing Shi1, Donald Herman1, Erin E Nuccio2, Jennifer Pett-Ridge2, Eoin Brodie3, Zhili He4, Jizhong Zhou5 and Mary Firestone6, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Livermore, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (5)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (6)Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Microbial Decomposition of Extracellular DNA in Clay Soils
Ember M Morrissey1, Theresa Ann McHugh1, Egbert Schwartz1, Lara Preteska2, Michaela Hayer1 and Bruce A Hungate1, (1)Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
The influence of salinity and restoration on wetland soil microbial communities and carbon cycling in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Region
Susanna Theroux1, Wyatt Hartman1, Shaomei He1,2, Lisamarie Windham-Myers3 and Susannah G Tringe1, (1)DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
Linking watershed terrain and hydrology to soil chemical properties, microbial communities and impacts on soil organic C in a humid mid-latitude forested watershed
David B Watson1, Scott C Brooks1, Christopher W Schadt1, Guoping Tang2, Nathan Collier1, Jennifer e Earles2, Tonia l Mehlhorn2, Kenneth a Lowe2, Craig c Brandt2, Zamin koo Yang2, Debra Phillips3, Pengsong Li4 and Fengming Yuan5, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, (4)Peking University, Beijing, China, (5)ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Unraveling the Complex Drivers of CO2 and CH4 Flux in Permafrost Soils
Jessica Gilman Ernakovich1,2, Laurel M Lynch2,3, Francisco Calderon4, Paul E Brewer3 and Matthew D Wallenstein2,3, (1)Division of Land and Water, CSIRO, Glen Osmond, Australia, (2)Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)United States Department of Agriculture, USDA-ARS Central Great Plains Research Station, Akron, CO, United States
A Metagenomic Perspective on Changes to Nutrient-cycling Genes Following Forest-to-agriculture Conversion in the Amazon Basin
Kyle Matthew Meyer1, Ann M Womack1, Jorge Rodrigues2, Klaus Nüsslein3 and Brendan J M Bohannan1, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (3)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
