Characteristic relaxation time and chargeability of polarizing subsurface microbes: in situ estimation of microbial abundance and inferences on metabolic state


Adrian Mellage1, Christina Marie Smeaton1, Estella A Atekwana2, Alex Furman3, Fereidoun Rezanezhad1 and Philippe Van Cappellen4, (1)University of Waterloo, Ecohydrology Research Group, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (3)Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Haifa, Israel, (4)Ecohydrology Research Group, Water Institute and Global Water Futures Program, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada