SBI 2006 Summer Workshop
Hallmark Resort in Newport, OR, June 18 -21, 2006
Workshop Agenda
Sunday Evening, June 18 |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Lew Semprini, Oregon State University
Introductory talk about SBI and Workshop |
| 8:00 p.m. |
Campfire Social |
Monday, June 19
|
| 8:15 a.m. |
Marty Fisk, Oregon State University
Session 1 Introduction: Global Geochemical Cycles and the Subsurface Biosphere |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Jim Fredrickson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Biogeochemical Transformations of Metals: New Mechanistic Insights from
Coupled Microbial- Geochemical Research |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Radu Popa, Portland State University
Microbes, the First Miners |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Melissa Kendall, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Life in the Slow Lane: Methanogenesis in Permanently Cold Marine Sediments |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:45 a.m. |
Rick Colwell, Oregon State University/Idaho National Laboratory
Methane Hydrates |
| 11:45 a.m. |
George Redden, Idaho National Laboratory
Solution Mixing and Mineral Precipitation in Porous Media |
| 12:15 p.m. |
Discussion |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Break for lunch (on own) |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Peter Bottomley, Oregon State University
Session 2 Introduction: Plants as Drivers |
| 1:45 p.m. |
Tom Boutton, Texas A&M University
Woody Plant Invasion of Grassland: Impacts on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Storage
and Dynamics |
| 2:45 p.m. |
Kathleen Treseder, University of California, Irvine
Mycorrhizal Fungi and their Influence on Soil Dynamics |
| 3:45 p.m. |
Break |
| 4:00 p.m. |
Sulzman, Elizabeth, Oregon State University
Carbon In and Out of DIRT: Can We Really Study Ecology in the Mountains? |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Break for dinner |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Dave Myrold, Oregon State University
Evening introduction |
| 7:05 p.m. |
Darlene Southworth, Southern Oregon University
Oaks Below Ground: Mycorrhizas, Truffles and Small Mammals |
| 7:25 p.m. |
Poster Session |
| 9:30 p.m. |
Beach Activities |
Tuesday, June 20 |
| 8:15 a.m. |
Lew Semprini, Oregon State University
Session 3 Introduction: Bioremediation |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Frank Loeffler, Georgia Institute of Technology Bioremediation
The Solution from Within
|
| 9:30 a.m. |
Craig Criddle, Stanford University
Bioremediation of Atomic Bomb Wastes |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:45 a.m. |
Jack Istok, Oregon State University
Thermodynamics and Growth: Is it Possible to Predict Changes in Microbial
Community Composition Using Equilibrium-Based Reaction Paths? |
| 11:15 a.m. |
Yoshiko Fujita, Idaho National Laboratory
Microbially Facilitated Calcite Precipitation for Immobilization of Strontium-90
in the Subsurface |
| 11:45 a.m. |
Anne Taylor, Oregon State University
Evaluation of Fluoroethene as an Analogue for Aerobic Vinyl Chloride Degradation |
| 12:15 p.m. |
Discussion |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Break for lunch (on own)/free afternoon |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Lew Semprini, Oregon State University
Evening introduction |
| 7:05 p.m. |
Rick Colwell, Oregon State University/Idaho National Laboratory
Secure Earth |
| 7:25 p.m. |
Poster Session |
| 9:30 p.m. |
Beach or other activities |
Wednesday June 21 |
| 8:15 a.m. |
SBI Meeting
Program Development
Integrated Research Development |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Final Business |
Previous Announcements about the workshop...
February 2006
OSU's Subsurface Biosphere Initiative (SBI), along with the NSF-funded Earths
Subsurface Biosphere IGERT, is planning a scientific workshop to be held at
the .
The workshop will include platform presentations by invited speakers from throughout
the United States, as well as OSU faculty and students. There will also be a
poster session for all participants to present results of their research.
We are currently planning three workshop sessions related to the Subsurface
Biosphere:
- Plants as Drivers of Subsurface Processes (session chairs, Dave Myrold and
Peter Bottomley)
- In-Situ Bioremediation of Hazardous Wastes (session chair, Lew Semprini)
- Microbes in Subsurface Marine and Volcanic Environments (session chair,
Marty Fisk).
We will also have breakout sessions to discuss future directions of the SBI.
Travel Funds for OSU Faculty/Students:
SBI is making travel funds available to OSU faculty and graduate students participating
in the workshop. To qualify for SBI travel funds, a faculty member or student
must be an author or co-author of a poster or workshop presentation. Responses
received before March 7 were given first consideration for SBI travel funds
but some funding may still be available. If you have any questions about the
workshop, please feel free to contact us by e-mail (sbi@oregonstate.edu)
or by phone (Garrett Jones, 737-2751).
To apply for travel funding, send an email to sbi@oregonstate.edu
with the following information:
Name:
( ) Faculty; ( ) Research Associate; ( ) Graduate Student
If you are a graduate student, the name of your faculty advisor:
Tentative title for a poster or platform presentation:
E-mail address:
Phone number:
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