B21E:
Fifteen Years of Geobiology: The Significant Highlights and the Future I Posters

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Session ID#: 13522

Session Description:
Fifteen years have passed since the inception of the broad topic of Geobiology as a primary scientific field of investigation, with the emergent realization that geochemistry, geology, paleontology, and molecular/micro/macrobiology, are inextricably linked when approaching the co-evolution of Earth and life.  Educationally, more than 225 students have passed through the International Geobiology Course, an intense summer training program that has been instrumental to the creation of the field.  With this session, we will feature the most transformative geobiologic research that has changed the way we view the world, including but not limited to our understanding of microbe-mineral interactions (modern and ancient), biogeochemical cycling through time, and how the genomic and palegenomic revolution has impacted the field of geobiolgy.  The future of this field is bright with both talent and technology and the thorough examination of its foundation will only make it more impactful.
Primary Convener:  John R Spear, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Convener:  Frank A Corsetti, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Chairs:  Frank A Corsetti, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and John R Spear, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  John R Spear, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • P - Planetary Sciences
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0419 Biomineralization [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0424 Biosignatures and proxies [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0444 Evolutionary geobiology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Temperature and Oxygenation of the Shallow Tethys During the End-Triassic Extinction Event. (159977)
Victoria Petryshyn1, Stefan Lalonde2, Sarah E Greene3, Pierre Sansjofre4, Yadira Ibarra5, Frank A Corsetti6, David J Bottjer6 and Aradhna Tripati7, (1)University of Southern California, Environmental Studies, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, Plouzané, France, (3)University of Birmingham, School of GEES, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (4)CNRS-UMR6538 Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, European Institute for Marine Studies, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Plouzané, France, (5)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Planetary and Space Sciences, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The Biogenicity of Carbonate/Silica Structures in Little Hot Creek: Tenants and Builders (163838)
Emily Antoinette Kraus1, R. Agustin Mors2, Scott Randall Beeler3, James Gregory Floyd4, Geobiology 20165, Blake W Stamps6, Heather S Nunn6, Bradley S. Stevenson6, Russell Scott Shapiro7, Hope Johnson8, Frank A Corsetti9 and John R Spear1, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (2)Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, (3)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (7)California State University Chico, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chico, United States, (8)California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States, (9)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Assessing the Biological Contribution to Mineralized Cap Formation in the Little Hot Creek Hot Spring System (164672)
James Gregory Floyd1, Scott Randall Beeler2, Rodolfo Agustin Mors3, Emily Antoinette Kraus4, GeoBiology 20165, Olivia Piazza Paradis6, Carie Marie Frantz7, Sean J Loyd8, William Berelson9, Bradley S. Stevenson10, Pedro J Marenco11, John R Spear4 and Frank A Corsetti9, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (3)Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, Córdoba, Argentina, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Weber State University, Department of Geosciences, Ogden, UT, United States, (8)California State University Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences, Fullerton, CA, United States, (9)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (11)Bryn Mawr College, Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr, PA, United States
Microbial and Metabolic Diversity of the Alkaline Hot Springs of Paoha Island: A Late Archean and Proterozoic Ocean Analogue Environment. (164949)
Ian S. Foster, Laboratoire Domaines Océaniques, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Plouzané, France, Cansu Demirel, Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Mines, Department of Geological Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, Andrew Hyde, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Department of Marine Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Shahrzad Motamedi, University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Carie Marie Frantz, Weber State University, Department of Geosciences, Ogden, UT, United States, Blake W Stamps, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Heather S Nunn, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, Ronald S Oremland, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Micheal Rosen, USGS, Carson City, NV, United States, Laurence G Miller, USGS, Earth Systems Process Division, Menlo Park, United States, Frank A Corsetti, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, John R Spear, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States and Geobiology 2016
A Simple and Inexpensive Technique for Assessing Microbial Contamination during Drilling Operations (171110)
André Friese1, Jens Kallmeyer1, Dirk Wagner2 and Jan Axel Kitte3, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Sec. 3.7 Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany, (3)GFZ Potsdam, Geomicrobiology, Potsdam, Germany
Linking the modern to the ancient with a comprehensive geobiological understanding of biosignature preservation in microbial mats (174285)
Maya L Gomes1, Usha Farey Lingappa2, Kyle Metcalfe2, Shane Stephen O'Reilly3, Leigh Anne Riedman4, Marjorie Cantine5, Bill Ireland2, Robert Phillips2, Nathaniel Stein2, Emily Ann Orzechowski6, Justin Vincent Strauss7, Hannah M Grotzinger8, Daven Patel Quinn9, Lizzy Trower2, Woodward W Fischer10, John P Grotzinger11, Andrew H Knoll4 and David A Fike12, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, United States, (8)Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, United States, (9)University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (10)Caltech, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (11)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)Washington University, St. Louis, United States
Microbial Composition and Preliminary Age of Ooids from the Great Salt Lake, Utah (180521)
Olivia Piazza Paradis1, Frank A Corsetti2, Blake W Stamps3, Bradley S. Stevenson3, Audra Bardsley4, Douglas E Hammond5, Heather S Nunn3, William Berelson2 and John R Spear6, (1)University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (4)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Science, Los Angeles, United States, (6)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
What’s in the mud?: Water-rock-microbe interactions in thermal mudpots and springs (180607)
Georgia Rose Dahlquist, Montana Tech of The University of Montana, Butte, MT, United States and Alysia D Cox, Montana Tech of The University of Montana, Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Butte, MT, United States
Sedimentary Catalysis of Radiolytic Hydrogen Production – A Global Perspective (180639)
Justine Sauvage1, Arthur J Spivack2, David C Smith3, Chloe H Anderson4, Richard W Murray5 and Steven D'Hondt2, (1)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (3)Univ Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States, (4)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, (5)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Assessing the Biogenicity of Tufas and Their Potential as Biosignature Repositories (181732)
Fernando Medina, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Virginia Vandever Russell, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States, Jayme Feyhl-Buska, University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Fredrik Sønderholm, University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sean J Loyd, California State University Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences, Fullerton, CA, United States, Russell Scott Shapiro, California State University Chico, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chico, United States, Michael R Rosen, USGS Water Science Field Team, Carson City, NV, United States, Blake W Stamps, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, Victoria Petryshyn, University of Southern California, Environmental Studies, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Hope Johnson, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States, John R Spear, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Frank A Corsetti, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and International GeoBiology Course 2016
In search of ancient biomarkers: Using femtosecond - Laser Desorption Post Ionization - Mass Spectrometry (fs-LDPI-MS) to map organic compounds within ca. 2.7 Ga samples from the Abitibi greenstone belt, Ontario, Canada (191219)
M Joseph Pasterski1, Grant Barry2, Luke Hanley2 and Fabien P H Kenig3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Chemistry, Chicago, IL, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
A Proteomic and Lipidomic Characterization of Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens Membranes Under Microaerobic Conditions (191508)
Elise Marie Tookmanian, California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States, Cajetan Neubauer, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States and Dianne K Newman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States; HHMI/Caltech, Pasadena, United States
Assessment of empty microbial sheaths in sediment stabilization, Catalina Harbor, California (195645)
Anna Rose Waldeck, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Katharine Thompson, University of British Columbia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Life Science Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Elise Marie Tookmanian, California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States, Ian S. Foster, IUEM Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, Plouzané, France, Victoria Petryshyn, University of California Los Angeles, Earth and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Frank A Corsetti, University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Carie Marie Frantz, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
What greater spatial and temporal geochemistry detail can add to geobiology (196589)
Greg Druschel1, Fotios-Christos A. Kafantaris1, Andrew W Schroth2, David A Fike3, Victoria J Orphan4, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin5, Sabine Dvorski6 and Nicolas Clercin1, (1)Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States, (2)University of Vermont, Geography and Geosciences, Burlington, United States, (3)Washington University, St. Louis, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Neuherberg, Germany, (6)Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Research Unit Analytical Biogeochemistry, Neuherberg, Germany

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