B13A:
(Bio)geochemical Cycles in Extreme Environments I Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Eric S Boyd, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States and Mark Alexander Lever, Aarhus University, Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus, Denmark
Primary Conveners:  Brandon R Briggs, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States
Co-conveners:  Eric S Boyd, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, Mark Alexander Lever, Aarhus University, Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus, Denmark and Aude Picard, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Brandon R Briggs, Miami University, Oxford, OH, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

0154
 
Radiocarbon Evidence for Active Turnover of Pore-Water Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Methanogenic and Sulfate-Methane-Transition Zones of Santa Barbara Basin Sediments
Tomoko Komada1, Huan Lei Li2, Abraham King Cada2, David Burdige3, Cedric Magen4, Jeffrey Chanton5 and Ashley M. Grose2, (1)San Francisco State University, Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)San Francisco State University, Romberg Tiburon Center, Tiburon, CA, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Dept. of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, (4)The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD, United States, (5)Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States
0155
 
Seafloor Weathering As a Long-Term Climate Regulation Mechanism
Navah X Farahat, Dorian S Abbot and David E Archer, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
0156
 
Phototrophy in Mildly Acidic Hot Spring Ecosystems
Kristopher Fecteau1, Eric S Boyd2 and Everett Shock1, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
0157
 
Subsurface Controls on Habitability of Hydrothermal Waters
Kirsten E Fristad1, Sanjoy M Som2 and Tori M Hoehler1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA, United States
0158
 
Finding Signals for Quiescence from the Dark Matter in Marine Subsurface Metagenomics
Jennifer Biddle, Adam Marsh, Ian M Rambo, Annamarie Pasqualone and Glenn Christman, Univ of Delaware, Lewes, DE, United States
0159
 
Recalcitrant Carbonaceous Material: A Source of Electron Donors for Anaerobic Microbial Metabolisms in the Subsurface?
Sophie L. Nixon1, Wren Montgomery2, Mark A Sephton2 and Charles S Cockell3, (1)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
0160
 
Hypersaline Subsurface Microbial Communities from the Dead Sea Viewed from Their Metagenomes.
Camille Thomas1, Danny Ionescu2 and Daniel Ariztegui1, (1)University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, (2)Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany
0161
 
Investigations on the “Extreme” Microbial Arsenic Cycle within the Sediments of an Acidic Impoundment of the Former Sulfur Bank Mercury Mine: Herman Pit, Clear Lake, California.
Jodi Switzer Blum1, Shelley E. Hoeft McCann1, Stacy Bennett1, Laurence G Miller1, Brendon Stoneburner2, Chad Saltikov2 and Ronald S Oremland1, (1)USGS Western Regional Offices Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
0162
 
Investigations on the “Extreme” Microbial Methane Cycle within the Sediments of an Acidic Impoundment of the Inactive Sulfur Bank Mercury Mine: Herman Pit, Clear Lake, California.
Ronald S Oremland1, Shaun M Baesman1, Laurence G Miller1, Jeremy Hu-Chin Wei2 and Paula V Welander2, (1)USGS WRD, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
0163
 
Methane in Crystalline Bedrock: the Outokumpu Deep Drill Hole, Finland
Riikka Kietäväinen1, Lasse Ahonen1, Paula Niinikoski2, Merja Itävaara3 and Ilmo T Kukkonen2, (1)Geological Survey of Finland, Espoo, Finland, (2)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (3)VTT Tech Research Centre, Espoo, Finland
0164
 
Sulfate Reduction and Sulfide Biomineralization By Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Microorganisms
Aude Picard, Amy Gartman, David R Clarke and Peter R Girguis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
0165
 
Acetate and other Volatile Fatty Acids – Key Intermediates in marine sediment metabolism - Thermodynamic and kinetic implications
Clemens Glombitza, Marion Jaussi, Hans Røy and Bo Barker Jørgensen, Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus University, Dept. of Biosciences, Aarhus, Denmark
0166
 
Perspectives on Applying Metabolomics to Understand Carbon Cycling and Process Rates in Deep-Sea Microorganisms
Charles Vidoudez, Alan Saghatelian and Peter R Girguis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
0167
 
Biological Chlorine Cycling in Arctic Peat Soils
Jaime E Zlamal1, Theodore K Raab2 and David Lipson1, (1)San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)Carnegie Inst of Washington, Stanford, CA, United States
0168
 
Characterization of Whole Porewater Dissolved Organic Matter by 1H NMR
Christina Fox1, James P Lewicki2, Hussain A Abdulla3, David Burdige4, Cedric Magen5, Jeffrey Chanton6 and Tomoko Komada1, (1)San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (3)Old Dominion university, Norfolk, VA, United States, (4)Old Dominion University, Gloucester, VA, United States, (5)The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD, United States, (6)Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States
0169
 
Geomicrobiology of Meltwater From the Western Margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Birgit Hagedorn1, Markus Dieser2, Kyla Choquette1, Karen Anne Cameron3, Ronald S Sletten4, Lu Liu5, Karen Junge6 and Brent Craig Christner2, (1)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (3)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Kenmore, WA, United States, (4)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (6)University of Washington, seattle, WA, United States
0170
 
Genomic Analysis of Deeply-Branching Bacteria and Archaea from IODP Leg 347: Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment
Jordan T Bird and Karen G Lloyd, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
0171
 
Exploring life's limits: Deep geobiochemistry
Alysia D Cox, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
0172
 
Geochemical Tracers and Rates of Short-Chain Alkane Production in Gulf of Mexico Cold Seep Sediments
Ryan Sibert1, Bernie B Bernard2, James M Brooks2, Kimberley Hunter1 and Samantha Benton Joye3, (1)University of Georgia, Marine Science Department, Athens, GA, United States, (2)TDI-Brooks International, Inc., College Station, TX, United States, (3)Univ Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
0173
 
The Automated Dynamic Directed Evolution Chamber: A Tool for Studying Extremophile-Environment Interactions in Real Time
Nathan Wong1, Joseph M Grace2, Jeffrey Liang1, Stephanie Owyang3, Aaron Storrs3, Justin Zhou1, Lynn J Rothschild4 and Diana Gentry4, (1)San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Education Associates Program, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States
0174
 
Microbial Communities in Terrestrial CO2 Springs: Insights into the Long-Term Effects of Carbon Sequestration on Subsurface Microorganisms
Eugenio F U Santillan1, Jonathan R Major2 and Philip Bennett1, (1)Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States
0175
 
Spatial and temporal diversity of microbial mats in the shallow-water hydrothermal system of Milos Island (Greece)
Donato Giovannelli1, Dionysis Foustoukos2, Nadine Le Bris3, Stefan Manfred Sievert4, Mustafa Yucel5 and Costantino Vetriani1, (1)Rutgers University, Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Geophysical Laboratory, Washington Dc, DC, United States, (3)UPMC, Univ Paris 06, Laboratoire d'écogéochimie des environnements benthiques, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany
0176
 
Does seismic activity control carbon exchanges between transform-faults in old ocean crust and the deep sea? A hypothesis examined by the EU COST network FLOWS
Mark Alexander Lever, Aarhus University, Center for Geomicrobiology, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus, Denmark
0177
 
Viral Predation and Host Immunity Structure Microbial Communities in a Terrestrial Deep Subsurface, Hydraulically Fractured Shale System
Rebecca A Daly, Paula J Mouser, Ryan Trexler and Kelly C Wrighton, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
0178
 
Diurnal and Inter-day Variation in Atmospheric Microbial Community Diversity and Composition at Mt. Bachelor Observatory
Ann M Womack1, Robert Michael Bowers2, Daniel A Jaffe3, Brendan J M Bohannan1 and Jessica L Green1, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (3)University of Washington Bothell Campus, Bothell, WA, United States
 
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