B51A:
From -omics to the Earth System: Bridging Scales to Improve our Understanding of Earth System Function and Response I


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Session ID#: 59755

Session Description:
Rapid advances in genomic-, transcriptomic-, proteomic-, metabolomic-based (‘-omics’ based) approaches present opportunities to all areas of research in molecular biology, microbial ecology, soil/plant/climate sciences, and Earth system modeling. Despite these advances, interpreting these complex data types in the broader context of their roles in dynamic ecosystems and/or across regional to global scales is challenging, and it remains to be seen how -omics observations will constrain and inform Earth system models. This session aims to collate research across scales and disciplines to develop a coherent roadmap towards linking new insights from omics information to biogeochemical dynamics.
Primary Convener:  Dr. Katharyn Aurora Duffy, Ph.D, Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States
Conveners:  Mary Suzanne Lipton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental and Molecular Sciences, Richland, WA, United States and Emily Bonnell Graham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Colin Averill, Funga PBC, Austin, United States
Chairs:  Dr. Katharyn Aurora Duffy, Ph.D, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, United States and Emily Bonnell Graham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mary Suzanne Lipton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental and Molecular Sciences, Richland, WA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0465 Microbiology: ecology, physiology and genomics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Metabolomics as a Systems Tool for Understanding Ecosystem Responses to Environmental Drivers: Three Case Studies (Invited) (444947)
Claudia M Boot, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Alcohol Cycling Supports High Rates of Metabolic Activity in Prairie Pothole Wetland Sediments (Invited) (360912)
Michael J Wilkins, Colorado State University, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Paula Dalcin Martins, Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Microbiology, Columbus, OH, United States, David W Hoyt, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Malak Tfailly, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Distinct microbial communities in the active and permafrost layers on the Tibetan Plateau (356942)
Yongliang Chen, IB Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Integrating -omics data into soil organic matter decomposition models (445959)
Edward R Brzostek1, Benjamin N Sulman2, Ember Morrissey3, Kara Elizabeth Allen1, Joseph Carrara1 and Nanette Christine Raczka1, (1)West Virginia University, Biology, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)University of California Merced, Merced, NJ, United States, (3)West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown, WV, United States
Upscaling Strategies for Quantitative Modeling of Soil Microbial Metagenomics in a Biogeochemical Model (Invited) (432319)
Melanie A Mayes1, Yang Song2, Dali Wang2, Debjani Sihi3, Ryan Quinn4, Julia Brenner5, Chongle Pan6, Qiuming Yao7, Eric Johnston8,9, Minjae Kim9,10 and Konstantinos Konstantinidis11, (1)ORNL, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Emory University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (6)Oak Ridge National Lab, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (7)Oak Ridge National Lab, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (8)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (9)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States, (10)Aurora, CO, United States, (11)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
Temperature Response of Foliar Dark Respiration and Consequences for the Stand Carbon Budget (414329)
Anthony W King1, Jeffrey S. Amthor2, Anna M Jensen3, Daniel M Ricciuto4, Eric J Ward5 and Jeff Warren4, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)AIR Worldwide, Boston, MA, United States, (3)Linnaeus University, Department of Forestry and Wood Technology, Växjö, Sweden, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, United States
Temperature Acclimation of Nitrogen Fixation and Photosynthesis in Tropical and Temperate Woody Nitrogen Fixing Plants (460241)
Thomas Bytnerowicz, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Integrative Biology, Austin, TX, United States, Kevin Lee Griffin, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Duncan Menge, Columbia University, New York, United States
Multi-year and multi-season transcriptomic profiling of forest tree species from LTER sites for understanding latitudinal variation in growth performance. (Invited) (436904)
Uzay Sezen, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, MD, United States, Sean McMahon, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Forest Global Earth Observatory, Balboa, Panama, Nathan G Swenson, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, Jill Wegrzyn, University of Connecticut, Storrs, United States, Petya K. E. Campbell, UMBC, Greenbelt, United States, Geoffrey Parker, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, Edgewater, United States and Stuart J Davies, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Forest Global Earth Observatory, Washington DC, United States
Improved Representation of Photosynthetic Temperature Acclimation and Adaptation in Global Vegetation Models (376495)
Dushan Kumarathunge, Coconut Research Institute of Sri Lanka, Plant Physiology Division, Lunuwila, Sri Lanka, Belinda Medlyn, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Penrith, NSW, Australia, John Ellis Drake, State University of New York, Forest and Natural Resources Management, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States and Mark G Tjoelker, Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia
Soil Carbon Response to Climate Warming - Using Functional Benchmarks to Evaluate Model Projections of Soil Carbon Dynamics in a Changing World (Invited) (397908)
Deborah N Huntzinger, Northern Arizona University, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Christopher R Schwalm, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, Joshua Fisher, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Yuanyuan Fang, Carnegie Institution for Science, Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States, Anna Michalak, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, United States, Kevin M Schaefer, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A, Boulder, United States, Yaxing Wei, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and MsTMIP Model Team Contributors

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