Hyporheic Microbial Biofilms as Indicators of Heavy and Rare Earth Metals in the Clark Fork Basin, Montana

Elliott Paul Barnhart1, Michelle Hornberger2, Chiachi Hwang3, Ishai Dror4, Nicholas Bouskill5, Terry Short2, Daniel Cain6 and Matthew W. Fields7, (1)USGS Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center, Helena, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (3)Center for Biofilm Engineering, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rehovot, Israel, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Ecology, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)USGS, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Montana State University, Bozeman, United States