Agenda

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9 AM Registration & Breakfast, Geology Courtyard

9:50 AM Opening Remarks, LFSC 1500

10-11:15 AM Session 1: Climate and Biogeochemical Cycling in Deep Time, LFSC 1500

10:00 Nate Marshall, UCR - “Insights into Ordovician and Silurian marine chemistry and biology from a lipid biomarker perspective”

10:25 Adrian Tasistro-Hart, UCSB - “Snowball Glaciomarine Sedimentation Contextualized by Antarctic Sediment Cores”

10:50 Chenyi Tu, UCR - “Dynamic evolution of marine productivity, redox, and biogeochemical cycling linked to wax and wane of the Cryogenian glaciations”

11:15-11:30 AM Coffee Break, Life Sciences Walkway

11:30 AM-12:45 PM Session 2: Earth-Life Interactions in Animal Evolution, LFSC 1500

11:30 Alison Cribb, USC - “Revealing the biogeochemical role of Ediacaran-Cambrian bioturbators in the Agronomic Revolution”

11:55 Pulkit Singh, Stanford - “Reduction in animal abundance and oxygen availability during and after the end-Triassic mass extinction”

12:20 Robert Ulrich, UCLA - “Exploring phylogenetic and mineralogic signals in the elemental geochemistry of calcium carbonate biominerals”

12:45-2 PM Lunch, Geology Courtyard

2-4 PM Session 3: Microbial Metabolism and Ancient Analogues, LFSC 1500

2:00 Shaelyn Silverman, Caltech - “Amino acid δ2H values as a potential tool for distinguishing metabolic pathways used by organisms”

2:25 Heidi Aronson, USC - “S0 disproportionating microbial communities in a Proterozoic-analog sediment environment”

2:50 Nancy Alejandra Carman, UNLV - “Simulated Fe-Mg-silicate chimneys as analogs to saponite-rich hydrothermal systems: Strytan Hydrothermal Field, Iceland and Eridania Basin, Mars”

3:15 Eryn Eitel, Caltech - “Investigating the role of sulfur redox intermediates within the sulfate-methane transition zone of cold seep sediments”

3:40 Closing Remarks, LFSC 1500

4-6 PM Poster Session, Geology Courtyard

6-8 PM Dinner, Geology Courtyard