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
Monday, November 9 4:00-5:00PM. Crop and Soil Science Seminar. Speaker: John Baham, Associate Professor, Soil Geochemistry, OSU Held on campus at ALS 4000. FMI: http://cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu/news/seminars/fall-2009.

Thursday, November 12 5:00PM. Bacterial and Fungal Contributions to Forest Soil Nutrient Cycling (Microbiology Department Fall Colloquium). Speaker: Stephanie Yarwood Held on campus at ALS 1019. FMI: http://microbiology.science.oregonstate.edu/node/88.

Monday, November 16 9:00AM. Does nutrient supply or hydrology affect bacterial communities in desert stream sediments?. Speaker: Lydia Zeglin, OSU, Crop and Soil Science. Stream Team Monday Morning Meeting. Held on campus at 10 Nash Hall. FMI: http://fw.oregonstate.edu/Whats New/Seminars/streamteam.htm.

Tuesday, November 17 4:00-5:00. Biological control in horticultural crops: Facts and fancy. Speaker: Jana Lee, Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS HCRL, Corvallis. Part of the Horticulture fall term seminar series. Held on campus at ALS 4000. FMI: http://calendar.oregonstate.edu/event/32413/.

Tuesday, November 17 12:00-1:00PM. Preliminary Results from the Pacific Equatorial Age Transect, IODP Expeditions 320/321 ( COAS Marine Geology & Geophysics Seminar). Speaker: William Busch, University of New Orleans Held on campus at Burt Hall 193. FMI: http://calendar.oregonstate.edu/event/32276/.

Thursday, November 19 4:00-5:00PM. Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in Southern Willamette Basin (Geology Fall Seminar Series). Speaker: Qusheng Jin, University of Oregon, Dept. of Geology Held on campus at Wilkinson Hall 108. FMI: http://calendar.oregonstate.edu/event/32284/.

Tuesday, November 24 4:00-5:00PM. Heat budget in the hyporheic zone on the Willamette River - Implications for aquatic habitat. Speaker: Stephen Lancaster, Associate Professor, Dept. of Geosciences, OSU. Dept. of Geosciences (Geography Seminar Series). Held on campus at 108 Wilkinson Hall. FMI: http://calendar.oregonstate.edu/event/32294/.

Monday, November 30 4:00. The origin of species at 150: Is it past its sell-by date?. Speaker: Michael Ruse, Florida State University. Stream Team Monday Morning Meeting at a special time and place. Held on campus at 109 Withycombe Hall. FMI: http://fw.oregonstate.edu/Whats New/Seminars/streamteam.htm.
Regional Events
Monday, February 22 - Friday, February 26. From Observation to Prediction in the 21st Century (AGU 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting). This overarching theme emphasizes efforts to link observations and models to form superior predictions across multiple space and time scales. Held at Portland, Oregon. FMI: http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10/.

Sunday, August 22 - Friday, August 27. 2010 13th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology. Sponsored by the International Society for Microbial Ecology. Plenary presenters; Penny Chisholm, Jeffrey Gordon, Ian Sanders, Christa Schleper, and Warwick Vincent. Abstracts due in March 2010. Held at Seattle, Washington. FMI: http://www.isme-microbes.org/isme13.
National Events
Monday, December 14 - Friday, December 18. 2009 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 16,000 geophysicists from around the world. Held at San Francisco. FMI: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/.

Thursday, May 20 - Sunday, May 23. ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators. Now in its seventeenth year, ASMCUE gathers approximately 300 microbiology and biology educators for an interactive four-day conference. Abstracts due: January 13, 2010. Held at San Diego, California. FMI: http://www.asmcue.org/.

Sunday, May 23 - Thursday, May 27. 110th General Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology. The scientific program will feature nearly 300 individual colloquia, symposia, roundtable discussions, award lectures, & poster sessions. Student travel grants available. Abstracts due in mid-January. Held at San Diego, California. FMI: http://gm.asm.org/.

Monday, May 24 - Thursday, May 27. Seventh International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and chlorcon10.gif Photos courtesy of Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau and The Conference Group, Inc. Recalcitrant Compounds. Held biennially since 1998, the Conference is one of the world’s leading environmental remediation conferences. FMI: http://www.battelle.org/conferences/chlorinated/.

Monday, June 27 - Thursday, June 30. Eleventh International In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation Symposium. First held in 1991, the Bioremediation Symposium program integrates recent developments in risk assessment, fundamental research, and innovative engineering applications for both traditional and emerging contaminants. Held at Reno, NV. FMI: http://www.battelle.org/conferences/bioremediation/index.aspx.
International Events
Sunday, November 15 - Thursday, November 19. 5th ASM Conference on Biofilms . Held at Cancun, Mexico . FMI: http://www.asm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59578&Itemid=227.

Wednesday, December 2 - Friday, December 4. BioMicroWorld2009 Conference: III International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology. A multi-disciplinary forum bringing together those involved in microbiology from both applied and research communities to present current science and also to discuss and synthesize research priorities and directions for the future. Extended Deadline for Abstract Submission: 29 September. Held at Lisbon, Portugal. FMI: http://www.formatex.org/biomicroworld2009/.

Tuesday, June 22 - Friday, June 25. 2010 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting. The Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (WPGM) provides an opportunity for AGU members and members of the sponsoring societies in the western Pacific region, to attend a meeting that serves the needs of geophysicists interested in studies in the western Pacific region. Abstracts due 25 February, 2010. Held at Taipei, Taiwan. FMI: http://www.agu.org/meetings/wp10/.

Sunday, September 12 - Thursday, September 16. 8th International Conference on Extremophiles. An international forum to appreciate the current state of the art of Extremophiles and to discuss how science in this field can contribute to finding solutions to the challenges we face in the future. Held at Azores, Portugal. FMI: http://extremophiles2010.itqb.unl.pt/.