Chairs: Dipankar Dwivedi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Lifen Jiang, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States and Margaret S Torn, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Conveners: Lucas E Nave, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Co-conveners: Christopher Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Houghton, MI, United States, Margaret S Torn, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Nancy J Hess, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Christopher Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Houghton, MI, United States
Historical Reconstruction of Organic Carbon Decay and Preservation in the Sediment on the East China Sea Shelf
Xinxin Li, Taxas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, Thomas S Bianchi, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, Mead A Allison, The Water Institute of the Gulf, Batn Rouge, LA, United States, Piers Chapman, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States and Guipeng Yang, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Novel Tool for Simultaneous Carbon and Nitrogen Stable Isotope Analyses in Aqueous Samples
Eugen Federherr1,2, Torsten C. Schmidt1, Chiara Cerli3, Karsten Kalbitz3, Hans J. Kupka2, Lutz Lange2, Ralf Dunsbach2, Robert J. Panetta4 and Art Kasson5, (1)University of Duisburg-Essen, Instrumental Analytical Chemistry, Essen, Germany, (2)Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH, Research and Innovation, Hanau, Germany, (3)University of Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (4)Isoprime Ltd, Research and Development, Manchester, United Kingdom, (5)Elementar Americas, Inc., Mount Laurel, NJ, United States
Field-Scale Partitioning of Ecosystem Respiration Components Suggests Carbon Stabilization in a Bioenergy Grass Ecosystem
Christopher K Black1, Jesse Nathan Miller1, Michael D Masters2, Carl Bernacchi3 and Evan H DeLucia4, (1)University of Illinois Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Energy Biosciences Institute, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
Impact of warming on microorganisms and soil organic matter cycling with depth in soils
Neslihan Tas1, Caitlin Hicks Pries1, Shi Wang1, Andrew Goring1,2, Biao Zhu1, Cristina Castanha1, Eoin Brodie1 and Margaret S Torn3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Soil Microbial Mineralization of Cellulose in Frozen Soils
Javier Segura1, Mahsa Haei1, Tobias Sparrman2, Mats B Nilsson1, Jürgen Schleucher3 and Mats G Oquist1, (1)SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå, Umeå, Sweden, (2)Umeå University, Chemistry, Umeå, Sweden, (3)Umeå University, Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå, Sweden
Characterization of Soil Organic Matter from African Dark Earth (AfDE) Soils
Alain F Plante1, Manna Fujiu1, Tsutomu Ohno2, Dawit Solomon3, Johannes Lehmann3, James Angus Fraser4, Melissa Leach5 and James Fairhead6, (1)University of Pennsylvania, Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (2)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (3)Cornell University, Crop & Soil Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)University of Lancaster, Lancaster Environment Center, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (5)University of Sussex, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, United Kingdom, (6)University of Sussex, Anthropology, Brighton, United Kingdom
Response of Soil Temperature to Climate Change in the CMIP5 Earth System Models
Claire Louise Phillips, Oregon State University, Department of Crops and Soil Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, Margaret S Torn, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Charles D Koven, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Soil organic carbon stock changes in the contiguous United States from 1920s to 2010s
Baijing Cao1, Sabine Grunwald2, Henry J. Ferguson3, Jon W. Hempel3, Xiong Xiong2, Risa Patarasuk4 and Christopher Wade Ross2, (1)University of Florida, School of Natural Resources and Environment, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Soil and Water Science, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)Natural Resources Conservation Service Lincoln - NRCS, Lincoln, NE, United States, (4)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
Characterizing Feedback Control Mechanisms in Nonlinear Microbial Models of Soil Organic Matter Decomposition by Stability Analysis
Katerina Georgiou, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jinyun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, William J Riley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States and Margaret S Torn, Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Using thermal and spectroscopic (XANES) indices to understand the biological stability of soil organic matter.
Adam W Gillespie1, Hamed Sanei2, Amanda Diochon3, Charles Tarnocai4, Henry Janzen5, Tom Z Regier1 and Ed Gregorich4, (1)Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (2)Canadian Geological Survey, Calgary, AB, Canada, (3)Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, (4)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (5)Agriculture and Agrifood Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Accelerating Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Analysis of Soil Organic Matter with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) Enhancement
Anna Evangeline Normand1, Adam N Smith2, Joanna R Long3 and K. Ramesh Reddy1, (1)University of Florida, Soil and Water Science, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Chemistry, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (3)University of Florida, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Integrating Diffraction, Advanced Microscopy and NMR Methods to Explore NOM-Mineral-Cation Interactions
R James Kirkpatrick1, Geoffrey Bowers2, Brennan Ferguson2, Haley Argersinger2, Uddigiri Venkateswara3, Bruce Arey4 and Mark Bowden4, (1)Michigan State University, College of Natural Science, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Alfred University, Chemistry, Alfred, NY, United States, (3)Michigan State University, Chemistry, East Lansing, MI, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, William R. Wiley Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States