Agenda
9:30 - 10: Breakfast and registration
10 - 10:15: Welcome and introduction
10:15 - 11:20: Oral Session 1
10:15-10:35 Investigating the causes of the Ediacaran “Kotlin crisis”
Adam Hoffmann, Kelden Pehr, Anton Kuznetsov, Victor Podkovyrov, Leonid Shumlyanskyy, Tetyana Sokur, Andrey Bekker, and Gordon Love
10:35-10:55 Tonian Sterane Patterns: Complex life before Snowball Earth
Adriana I. Rizzo, Andrey Bekker, Victoria Ershova Karl E. Karlstrom, Gordon D. Love
10:55-11:15 The Role of Marine Group II Archaea in the Degradation of Cyanobacteria-Derived Alkanes
Eleanor Arrington, Joshua Qin, Sara Matsumara, Kelsey Gosselin, Connor Love, and David Valentine
11:20 - 12: Poster Session 1
12 - 1: Lunch
1 - 2:05: Oral Session 2
1:00-1:20 Convergence and horizontal transfer drive the evolution of anaerobic methanotrophy in ANME-3
Philip Woods, Daan Speth, Rafael Laso Pérez, Dan Utte, Ranjani Murali, Hang Yu, Gray Chadwick, Victoria Orphan
1:20-1:40 Transport of microbial assemblages via subsurface eddy activity off the Oregon coast
Alexis E. Floback, James W. Moffett
1:40-2:00 Last Glacial Maximum Deep Ocean Preformed Nitrate Reconstruction: Implications for Glacial Carbon Storage
Kira Homola, Arthur Spivack, Rebecca Robinson, Richard Murray
2:05 - 2:20: Coffee break
2:20 - 3:40: Oral Session 3
2:20-2:40 Assessing climate and land use sensitivity of the California soil methane sink
Hannah Dion-Kirschner, Elin Larsson, Katie R. Huy, John S. Magyar, and Woodward W. Fischer
2:40-3:00 Investigating the impact of intra-marsh habitat variability on organic matter sulfurization and pyrite formation
Lena Capece, Melea Bailey, Alexandra Phillips, Samuel Webb, Dana Brenner, Maya Gomes, Morgan Raven
3:00-3:20 Comparing Precambrian Granular Iron Formations and Phanerozoic Oolitic Ironstones – Similar Beasts with Different Origins?
Alex Kovalick, Andrey Bekker, Andrew Heard, Maria Prokopenko, Robert Gaines
3:20-3:40 Microbial Biosignature Preservation In Ancient Evaporites From San Pedro De Atacama, Chile
Jon Lima-Zaloumis, Michael Tuite, Lucas Reynoso, Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert
3:40 - 4: Closing remarks
4 - 5:30: Poster Session 2 & Happy Hour
5:30 - 7: Dinner