Calendar

The following events may be of interest to the Subsurface Biosphere community. If you would like to add an event to this list, please send your announcement to sbi@oregonstate.edu. You can also link to the seminar schedules for related departments and programs.

 

Campus Events
Thursday, May 8 12-1:00PM. Discharge and Deposition of Particulate Organic Carbon and Nitrogen by the Alsea River Fall 2007 Finals Week Flood: A Soil Scientist's Perspective (Biogeochemistry Seminar). Held on campus at Burt 193. FMI: http://www.coas.oregonstate.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=calendar.main.

Tuesday, May 13 3:00-4:00PM. Genomes, Silence, and the Big Deal about Small RNA. Speaker: James C. Carrington, Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology and Director of the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing. He received the 2007 Sigma Xi Researcher of the Year Award. In this public lecture he will describe the research that led to this award. Held on campus at ALS 4001. FMI:

Monday, May 19 4:00-5:00PM. 15N from Labeled Leaf Litter Found in Soil Density and Particle-Size Fractions after 12 Years (Crop and Soil Science Seminar). Presented by: Pierre-Joseph Hatton Held on campus at ALS 4000. FMI: Emmalie Goodwin emmalie.goodwin at oregonstate.edu. 737 5093.

Thursday, May 22 4:00PM. IGERT Seminar. Dr. Steven L. Bryant, Associate Professor, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Crockell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin Held on campus at Burt 193. FMI: Julie Cope julie.cope@oregonstate.edu. 7-9316. http://www.pge.utexas.edu/faculty/bryant.cfrm.

Thursday, June 5 4:00PM. IGERT Seminar. Dr. Qusheng Jin, Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon, Department of Geological Sciences Held on campus at Burt 193. FMI: Julie Cope julie.cope@oregonstate.edu. 7-9316. http://www.uoregon.edu/~qjin/.
Regional Events
Thursday, May 8 4:00PM. IGERT Seminar. Dr. Katrina J. Edwards, Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, Department of Biological Sciences, Division of Marine Environmental Biology: http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/biosci/Edwards_lab/USC%20Geomicrobiology%20Front%20page.html Held at PSU TBA. FMI: Julie Cope 7-9316. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/igert/seminars.html.

Thursday, May 29 4:00PM. IGERT Seminar. At PSU: Dr. Ron Crawford, Director - Environmental Biotechnology Institute and Distinguished Professor, University of Idaho Held at PSU TBA. FMI: Julie Cope julie.cope@oregonstate.edu. 7-9316. http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~crawford/.

Monday, June 2 - Saturday, June 7. The Second Hands-on CUAHSI/HMF Workshop: Fiber Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing for Ecological Characterization. This workshop presents a complete introduction to the technique, including fiber and instrument selection, fiber placement, fiber repair, data acquisition, and data analysis. Instructors: John Selker – Oregon State University (selkerj@engr.orst.edu); Scott Tyler – University of Nevada, Reno; Barry Freifeld – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; John Lane – USGS, Office of Groundwater. Held at HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. Cost: $$$ FMI: Jon Selker http://www.cuahsi.org/hmf/docs/fodts-workshop-20080602.pdf.
National Events
Monday, May 12. Deadline to submit abstracts for the American Water Resources Association Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held 17-20 November, 2008 in New Orleans. Held at New Orlean, LA.. FMI: http://www.awra.org/meetings/NewOrleans2008/index.html.

Sunday, June 1 - Thursday, June 5. American Society for Microbiology 108th General Meeting. The scientific program will feature nearly 300 individual colloquia, symposia, roundtable discussions, award lectures, and poster sessions. Held at Boston, Massachusetts. FMI: http://www.gm.asm.org/.

Monday, July 28 - Friday, August 8. Biofilms Summer School. Sponsored by the Center for Montana State University Biofilm Engineering - Biofilm structure and function research group. The goal of the summer school is to provide the participants with the fundamental knowledge needed to understand biofilm process and fundamental techniques needed in biofilm research. Held at Bozeman, MT. FMI: http://www.erc.montana.edu/.

Sunday, October 12 - Wednesday, October 15. 2nd ASM Conference on Beneficial Microbes: Beneficial Host-Microbial Interactions. 2nd ASM Conference on Beneficial Microbes: Beneficial Host-Microbial Interactions Held at San Diego, California. FMI: http://www.asm.org/Meetings/index.asp?bid=52027.

Monday, October 13 - Thursday, October 16. AGU Chapman Conference on Biogeophysics. “Biogeophysics” is a rapidly evolving Earth science discipline concerned with the geophysical signatures of (1) microbial cells themselves in the Earth, (2) the interaction between microorganisms and subsurface geologic media, and (3) alteration of the physical properties of geologic media as a result of microbial activity. The objective of the Chapman Conference is to define the current state of the science, identify the critical questions facing the community and to generate a roadmap for firmly establishing biogeophysics as a critical subdiscipline of earth science research. Abstracts due July 21, 2008. Held at Portland, Maine. FMI: http://www.agu.org/meetings/chapman/2008/fcall/.
International Events
Monday, May 19 - Thursday, May 22. Sixth International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds . The conference will be held May 19-22, 2008, and will include 50+ technical sessions, consisting of platform talks and poster presentations. Major issues in remediation will be explored by panel discussions. A student paper competition will be conducted, and short courses will be offered. Held at Monterey, CA. FMI: http://www.battelle.org/environment/er/conferences/chlorcon/default.stm.

Sunday, July 13 - Friday, July 18. Flow and Transport in Permeable Media (Gordon Research Conrerences). The 2008 FTPM meeting will highlight issues related to CO2 storage in geologic formations, transport of colloids and nanoparticles, advances in reservoir simulation, multiphase transport, engineered and evolving pore spaces, observational methods for porous media, flows in biological permeable media, and other advanced topics. Held at Magdalen College, Oxford, United Kingdom. FMI: (http://www.grc.org/programs/2008/flow.htm.

Saturday, November 15 - Tuesday, November 18. Conference on Predictions for Hydrology, Ecology and Water Resources Management: Using Data and Models to Benefit Society (Hydro Predict '2008). This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scientists and other experts to discuss how to improve predictions by joint use of data and models in the following three fields: (1) hydrology (groundwater, surface water and catchment, including water quality); (2) ecology (wetland, riverine, estuarine, terrestrial); and (3) water resources management (groundwater, vadose zone, and surface water). Held at Prague, Czech Republic. FMI: http://www.natur.cuni.cz/hydropredict2008/.

Sunday, November 16 - Friday, November 21. 7th International Symposium for Subsurface Microbiology (Shizuoka Japan ). Topics: Microbes in aquifer: nature, contamination and its biotechnological alteration; evolution of geochemical and microbiological systems; search for life in Mars and other environments; interaction between surface and subsurface in terrestrial and marine systems; meta-genomics and its future in geobiology; geological radioactive waste disposal and subsurface microbiology; subseafloor microbial life and biosphere; petroleum and gas hydrate; technology for subsurface sciences; more to be added. Travel awards for ISSM 2008 (http://secure1.gakkai-web.net/gakkai/knt/issm_reg/award.html) are for students and provide support up to about $1500 to make the trip (deadline for application for awards is Wednesday, April 30, 2008). Held at Shizuoka Convention and Art Center, Shizuoka Japan. FMI: Prof. Kenji Kato (Chair) shizissm@ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp. +81-54-238-4950. http://www.issm2008.com/.