Chairs: Xiaofeng Xu, NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, Gangsheng Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Melanie A Mayes, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Ying Sun, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Primary Conveners: Xiaofeng Xu, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-conveners: Gangsheng Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Melanie A Mayes, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Ying Sun, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
OSPA Liaisons: Xiaofeng Xu, NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Measures of Microbial Biomass for Soil Carbon Decomposition Models
Melanie A Mayes1, Jennifer Dabbs2, Jessica M Steinweg3, Christopher W Schadt1, Laurel A Kluber1, Gangsheng Wang1 and Sindhu Jagadamma1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin - Baraboo, Biological Sciences, Baraboo, WI, United States
Upscaling plot-scale methane flux to a eddy covariance tower domain in Barrow, AK: integrating in-situ data with a microbial functional group-based model
Xiaofeng Xu1, Melanie S Hahn2, Jitendra Kumar3, Fengming Yuan4, Guoping Tang3, Peter E Thornton5, Margaret S Torn6 and Stan D Wullschleger5, (1)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)ORNL, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (6)Berkeley Lab/UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Biofilm Complexity Controls Fine Particle Dynamics in Streams
Kevin R Roche1, William Ross Hunter2, Jennifer D Drummond3, Tom J Battin4, Fulvio Boano5 and Aaron Ian Packman1, (1)Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States, (2)University of Vienna, Wien, Austria, (3)Northwestern Univeristy, Evanston, IL, United States, (4)Univ Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (5)Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Evaluation of a Thermodynamically Based Soil Microbial Decomposition Model Based on a 13c Tracer Study in Arctic Tundra Soils
Xudong Zhu1,2, Jinyun Tang1, William J Riley1, Matthew D Wallenstein2, M Francesca Cotrufo2, Megan B Machmuller2 and Laurel Lynch3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Representing Microbial Dormancy in Soil Decomposition Models Improves Model Performance and Reveals Key Ecosystem Controls on Microbial Activity
Yujie He, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Jinyan Yang, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Qianlai Zhuang, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Gangsheng Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Yaling Liu, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN, United States