PI Meeting 2015 Abstracts
Research Summary from the 2015 TES/SBR Joint Investigators Meeting
2015 Environmental System Science (ESS) PI Meeting
The Subsurface Biogeochemical Research and Terrestrial Ecosystem Science programs within the Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) held their third annual joint investigators meeting April 28-29, 2015, in Potomac, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C.
Abstracts of ongoing research projects in or associated with the SBR and TES programs in 2015 are included in this PDF.
Abstracts [PDF]
Overview Presentations
- Science Communications, R. Borchelt
- TES Program Goals, Objectives, Activities and Highlights, D. Stover
- SBR Program Goals, Objectives, Activities and Highlights, D. Lesmes
- Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME) Update, D. Koch
- Regional and Global Climate Modeling and Analyses, R. Joseph
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
| Time | Program | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 6:30-8:00 am | Breakfast (Osgood Building) | |
| 7:00-8:00 am | Meeting Check In (Franklin Building) | |
| 8:00-9:55 am | Overview of Programs and Strategic Directions (Ben Franklin Hall) | Kuperberg |
| 8:00-8:05 am | Welcome and Introductory Comments | M. Kuperberg |
| 8:05-8:10 am | BER Programs | S. Weatherwax |
| 8:10-8:20 am | CESD Programs & Strategic Directions | G. Geernaert |
| 8:20-8:35 am | Science Communications | R. Borchelt |
| 8:35-8:55 am | TES Program Goals, Objectives, Activities and Highlights | D. Stover |
| 8:55-9:15 am | SBR Program Goals, Objectives, Activities and Highlights | D. Lesmes |
| 9:15-9:25 am | Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME) Update | D. Koch |
| 9:25-9:35 am | Regional and Global Climate Modeling and Analyses | R. Joseph |
| 9:35-9:45 am | CESD Data Activities | J. Hnilo |
| 9:45-10:10 am | Break | |
| 10:10-12:15 pm | Plenary Session I ?Capturing the Structure and Function of Terrestrial Environments across Scales (Ben Franklin Hall) | Lesmes |
| 10:10-10:45 am | From Archaea to the atmosphere: Can genome-scale resolution improve earth system models of climate change? | S. Saleska |
| 10:45-11:15 am | Subsurface sensing is hotting up! Heated fiber optics for water content and flux in the subsurface from 0.1 to 10,000m. | J. Selker |
| 11:15-11:45 am | Nutrient cycle impacts on forest ecosystem carbon cycling | J. Fisher |
| 11:45-12:15 pm | Google Earth Engine | D. Thau |
| 12:15-2:00 pm | Lunch (Osgood Building) | |
| 12:30-2:00 pm | Lunch with Facilities & Community Resources | |
| EMSL/JGI (Room 18/19) | N. Hess/S. Tringe | |
| ARM/AmeriFlux (Room 17A/17B) | L. Berg and M. Torn | |
| Google Earth Engine discussion and demonstration (Room 17 A/B) | D. Thau | |
| 2:00-5:00 pm | Poster Session I (Franklin Building: Rooms 9A/B, 15/16, 20 and 21) | |
| 2:00-3:30 pm | Poster Subsession A | |
| 3:30-5:00 pm | Poster Subsession B | |
| 5:30-7:00 pm | Dinner (Osgood Building) | |
| 7:00-8:30 pm | Concurrent Sessions - I (Franklin Building) | |
| Concurrent Session 1: Recent Advances in Tropical Ecosystem Research (Room 18/19) | Stover | |
| 7:00-7:20 pm | NGEE Tropics Update | J. Chambers |
| 7:20-7:40 pm | Tropical Response to Altered Climate Experiment (TRACE): Adventures in warming a wet tropical forest in Puerto Rico | T. Wood |
| 7:40-8:00 pm | Ecophysiological controls on Amazonian precipitation seasonality and variability | J-E. Lee |
| 8:00-8:20 pm | Drivers of redox biogeochemistry in humid tropical forests | W. Silver |
| 8:20 PM | Discussion | |
| 8:30 PM | Adjourn | |
| Concurrent Session 2: Environmental Microbiology (Room 1) | Bayer | |
| 7:00-7:20 pm | Toward a predictive understanding of the response of belowground microbial carbon turnover to climate change drivers in a boreal peatland | J. Kostka |
| 7:20-7:40 pm | Microbial diversity and greenhouse gas dynamics in coastal wetlands | S. Tringe |
| 7:40-8:00 pm | The diversity and possible subsurface biogeochemical roles of enigmatic bacteria and archaea from massive candidate phyla radiations | J. Banfield |
| 8:00-8:20 pm | Efforts towards understanding the links between microbial community structure and function within ENIGMA | D. Elias |
| 8:20 PM | Discussion | |
| 8:30 PM | Adjourn | |
| Concurrent Session 3: Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Room 17 A/B) | Lesmes/McFarlane | |
| 7:00-8:30 pm | Moderated discussion by Larry Berg and Margaret Torn on approaches for improving the understanding of land-atmosphere interactions at ARM and Ameriflux sites. | |
| 8:30 PM | Adjourn Concurrent Session 4: Next Generation Sensors, Networking, Data Assimilation and Modeling (Ben Franklin Hall) | Hirsch |
| 7:00-7:05 | Session Introduction | M. Mayes |
| 7:05-7:15 pm | Translating sensing technological opportunity into environmental understand from the Dead Sea to Africa (Oregon Statue Univ) | J. Selker |
| 7:15-7:25 pm | The NGEE Arctic Tram for fine resolution observations of surface energy and vegetation properties (NGEE Arctic) | S. Wullschleger/M. Torn |
| 7:25-7:35 pm | Role of continuous field measurements in determining deep soil carbon response to warming (LBNL TES SFA) | P. Nico |
| 7:35-7:45 pm | NMR sensors for in situ monitoring of soil moisture content (Vista Clara, Inc.) | D. Walsh |
| 7:45-7:55 pm | SPRUCE: Automated measurement systems and their management in support of large-scale manipulations (SPRUCE) | P. Hanson |
| 7:55-8:05 pm | HD TomoGPR: Ground Penetrating Rada system for fine root analysis (RNET Technologies) | G. Sabin |
| 8:05-8:15 pm | Above and below ground hydrogeophysical monitoring and simulation to quantify coupled hydrological and thermal processes important for carbon cycling (LBNL SBR SFA) | B. Dafflon |
| 8:15-8:25 pm | High frequency measurements to inform solute source areas within a Catchment (ORNL SBR SFA) | S. Brooks |
| 8:25-8:35 pm | Autonomous, high-performance computing enabled 4E electrical resistivity monitoring (PNNL SBR SFA) | T. Johnson |
| 8:35-8:45 pm | Sensor network for modular ecosystem model development (ORNL TES SFA) | D. Wang |
| 8:45-9:00 pm | Open Forum and Discussion | All |
| 9:00 PM | Adjourn |
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
| Time | Program | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 6:30-8:00 am | Breakfast (Osgood Building) | |
| 8:00-9:00 am | Plenary Session II: Advancements from DOE Early Career Awards | |
| (Ben Franklin Hall) | Lesmes | |
| 8:00-8:15 am | Geospatial representation of the circumarctic-scale permafrost carbon feedback | D. Hayes |
| 8:15-8:30 am | Computational Bayesian framework for quantification of predictive uncertainty in environmental modeling | M. Ye |
| 8:30-8:45 am | Quantifying river dynamics and floodplain exchanges using remotely sensed imagery | J. Rowland |
| 8:45-9:00 am | Multi-system analysis of microbial biofilms | M. Marshall |
| 9:00-12:00 pm | Poster Session II (Franklin Building: Rooms 9A/B, 15/16, 20 and 21) | |
| 9:00-10:30 am | Poster Subsession C | |
| 10:30-12:00 pm | Poster Subsession D | |
| 12:00-1:30 pm | Lunch (Osgood Building) | |
| Radionuclides Working Group (Room 1) | B. Powell | |
| 1:30-2:30 pm | Plenary Session III?Advances in Radionuclides Research (Ben Franklin Hall) | Hirsch |
| 1:30-1:50 pm | Fe and S biogeochemistry in redox dynamic environments; progressing towards a predictive understanding of U biogeochemical transformations | K. Kemner |
| 1:50-2:10p am | Subsurface biogeochemistry of actinides | A. Kersting |
| 2:10-2:35 pm | Molecular coupling between subsurface organic matter, sediment microbial processes, and uranium biogeochemistry | J. Bargar |
| 2:30-4:00 pm | Concurrent Sessions II (Franklin Building) | |
| Concurrent Session 5: Advances in Soil Organic Matter Research (Room 1) | Stover | |
| 2:30-2:50 pm | Innovative FT-ICR MS approaches to the analysis and interpretation of soil organic matter | M. Tfaily |
| 2:50-3:10 pm | News from a whole-profile soil warming experiment | M. Torn |
| 3:10-3:30 pm | Multifunctional roles of natural organic matter in biogeochemical transformation of metals | B. Gu |
| 3:30-3:50 pm | Belowground C allocation and plant-microbe interactions in two contrasting boreal peatlands | A. Finzi |
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| 4:00 PM | Adjourn | |
| Concurrent Session 6: Dynamic Vegetation & Trait-Based Modeling (Room 17 A/B) | Kuperberg | |
| 2:30-2:50 pm | Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling activities | N. McDowell |
| 2:50-3:10 pm | NGEE Tropics: Towards prognostic plant traits in emerging novel climates | C. Koven |
| 3:10-3:30 pm | A path forward to improve the representation of root traits in the terrestrial biosphere models | C. Iversen |
| 3:30-3:50 pm | TBD | |
| 3:50 PM | Discussion | |
| 4:00pm | Adjourn | |
| Concurrent Session 7: Multi-scale Watersheds (Ben Franklin Hall) | Lesmes | |
| 2:30-2:35 pm | Introduction | D. Lesmes |
| 2:35-2:39 pm | Genomes-to-Watershed LBNL SFA 2.0 snapshot | S. Hubbard |
| 2:39-2:51 pm | A floodplain perspective on subsurface nitrogen cycling | K. Williams |
| 2:51-3:03 pm | Genome-scale characterization of subsurface microbial activity relevant to the nitrogen cycle | H. Beller |
| 3:03-3:15 pm | Multi-scale, genome-informed approach to modeling the subsurface carbon-nitrogen cycle | C. Steefel |
| 3:15-3:19 pm | PNNL Subsurface Biogeochemistry SFA snapshot | J. Zachara |
| 3:19-3:37 pm | Temporal and spatial dynamics of groundwater and surface water exchange | T. Johnson |
| 3:37-3:55 pm | Multi-scale biogeochemical processes and modeling | C. Liu |
| 4:00 PM | Adjourn | |
| Breakout Session 8: Methane/Hydrobiogeochemistry (Room 18/19) | Bayer | |
| 2:30-2:50 pm | Seasonal oxygen dynamics in a thermokarst bog in interior Alaska: Implications for rates of methane oxidation | R. Neumann |
| 2:50-3:10 pm | Initial responses of methane cycling to deep peat warming in a Minnesota bog | J. Keller |
| 3:10-3:30 pm | Spatial constraints in microbial processes controlling carbon mineralization in soils | S. Fendorf |
| 3:30-3:50 pm | Methane emissions from upland forests | S. Pitz |
| 3:50 PM | Discussion | |
| 4:00 PM | Adjourn | |
| 4:15-5:30 pm | Plenary Session IV?Arctic Science and Policy (Ben Franklin Hall) | Kuperberg |
| 4:15-4:30 pm | NGEE-Arctic - capturing process understanding in large-scale models | S. Wullschleger |
| 4:30-4:45 pm | Arctic Council - translating science to inform adaptation actions in the Arctic | Tom Armstrong (Madison River Group) |
| 4:45-5:00 pm | Arctic research and international relations | Adrianna Muir (U.S. Department of State) |
| 5:00-5:15 pm | Arctic research and US perspectives. | Simon Stevenson (White House, OSTP) |
| 5:15-5:30 pm | Closeout/Announcements | |
| 5:30-7:00 pm | Dinner (Osgood Building) | |
| 7:00 PM | Adjourn | |
| Team Meetings (Franklin Building) | ||
| 6:30 PM | NGEE-Tropics (Room 1) | J. Chambers |
| 7:00 PM | NGEE-Arctic (Room 17 A/B) | S. Wullschleger |
| 7:00 PM | SPRUCE (Room 18/19) | P. Hanson |