2017 ESS PI Meeting Research Summary

Last Name	First Name	Poster Title	Institution	Activity/Group	Program Area
Adhikari	Dinesh	Biogeochemical Fate and Stability of Iron Oxide-Organic Carbon Complexes	Univ of Nevada, Reno	SBR Student	Student
Andresen	Christian	Wetter or Drier? Large Uncertainty in Permafrost Hydrology Projections	Los Alamos Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Arellano	Gabriel	Prediction of Individual Tree Mortality in Tropical Forests Using Inexpensive Field Methods	CTFS-ForestGEO	NGEE Tropics	TES
Arendt	Carli	Nitrate and Oxyanion Concentrations in Unsaturated High-Topography Polygonal Features: Implications for a More Fertile Arctic	Los Alamos Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Argawal	Deb	AmeriFlux Data Product and Interface Improvements	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	AmeriFlux	TES
Argawal	Deb	LBNL Watershed SFA Data Management and Assimilation	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Bailey	Vanessa	Pore- to Core-Scale Research to Inform Ecosystem-Scale Soil C Biogeochemistry: Drought and Wetting Events Alter Soil Carbon Dynamics	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	PNNL	TES
Balboni	Enrica	Plutonium Incorporation into Iron Oxide Minerals	Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab	LLNL SBR SFA	SBR
Baldocchi	Dennis	Inter-Annual Variability of Net and Gross Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes: A Review	Univ of California, Berkeley	Flux	TES
Banfield	Jill	Genome-resolved metagenomic and geochemical analysis of East River riparian zone soils supports the 'systems within systems' approach for watershed analysis	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Bargar	John	Coupled cycling of organic matter, uranium, and biogeochemical critical elements in subsurface systems. Overview of the SLAC SFA	SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab	SLAC SBR SFA	SBR
Bargar	John	U.S. Synchrotron Capabilities for Environmental System Science	SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab	User Facility	User Facility
Battiato	Ilenia	A vegetative facies-based multiscale approach to modeling nutrient transport	Stanford Univ	Hydrology	SBR
Bearup	Lindsay	Observing and modeling snow processes across spatial and temporal scales in a Rocky Mountain Headwater Catchment	US Bureau of Reclamation	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Biraud	Sebastien	Updates from the AmeriFlux Tech Team	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	AmeriFlux	TES
Blanchard	Jeffery	Coupling Changes in Soil Respiration and Nutrient Cycling with Community Structure and Function in Long-Term Soil Warming Experiments	Univ of Massachusetts Amherst	SPRUCE Boreal	TES
Bond-Lamberty	Ben	Pore- to Core-Scale Research to Inform Ecosystem-Scale Soil C Biogeochemistry: Effects of Soil Moisture on Heterotrophic Respiration across Spatial Scales	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	PNNL	TES
Bouskill	Nicholas	Spatial and temporal dynamics of carbon and nitrogen within a mountainous watershed	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Boyanov	Maxim	Using x-ray spectroscopy to define the interplay between Fe, S, and U dynamics in batch reactors and flow-through columns	Argonne Natl Lab	ANL SBR SFA	SBR
Boye	Kristin	SLAC SFA: Hydrologically driven process coupling between biogeochemical cycles and solute transport in transiently saturated sediments at the Riverton site (WY)	SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab	SLAC SBR SFA	SBR
Breen	Amy	Diversity of High and Low Arctic Vegetation in Alaska	Univ of Alaska, Fairbanks	NGEE Arctic	TES
Briggs	Martin	A last line of defense: understanding unique coupled abiotic/biotic processes at upwelling groundwater interfaces	US Geological Survey	Watershed	SBR
Brodi	Eoin	Ecohydrological Controls on Watershed Function: Quantifying Dynamic Surface-Subsurface Interactions	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Brooks	Scott	Measurement and Modeling of Methylmercury Production in Periphyton Biofilms	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	ORNL SBR SFA	SBR
Campbell	Elliott	Large historical growth in global terrestrial gross primary production	Univ of California, Merced	Flux	TES
Cardarelli	Emily	SLAC SFA: Effects of microbial communities on uranium oxidation and mobilization in the presence of nitrate, nitrite, and oxygen	Stanford Univ - SLAC	SLAC SBR SFA	SBR
Carroll	Rosemary	Nested-EMMA to Identify Stream Sources in a Colorado River Headwater Catchment	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Carter	Kelsey	Plant Physiological Thermal Acclimation of Understory Shrubs in a Puerto Rican Tropical Rainforest	Michigan Technological Univ	TES Student	TES
Cavaleri	Molly	Tropical rain forest biogeochemistry in a warmer world: results from a novel warming experiment in a Puerto Rico tropical forest	Michigan Technological Univ	Tropical	TES
Chambers	Jeffrey	Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE)--Tropics Overview	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	NGEE Tropics	TES
Chen	Xingyuan	Quantifying Reach-Scale Hydrological Exchange Flows and Their Influences on Biogeochemistry, Contaminant Mobility, and Land-Surface Fluxes	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	PNNL SBR SFA	SBR
Christianson	Danielle	NGEE Tropics Data Collection and Management	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	NGEE Tropics	TES
Christoffersen	Bradley	Synthesis of Tropical Forest Sapflow Responses to the 2015-2016 ENSO Event: Insights into Key Plant Traits and Mechanisms	Los Alamos Natl Lab	NGEE Tropics	TES
Coon	Ethan	Recent Advances in Fine-Scale Integrated Modeling of Permafrost Systems	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Cusack	Daniela	Tropical root exudate responses to changing water and nutrients	Univ of California, Los Angeles	Tropical	TES
Dafflon	Baptiste	Quantifying Multi-Dimensional Relationships to Estimate Arctic Soil Properties and Ecosystem Functioning at Relevant Scales	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
DeAngelis	Kristen	Resolving Conflicting Physical and Biochemical Feedbacks to Climate in Response to Long-Term Warming	Univ of Massachusetts Amherst	SPRUCE Boreal	TES
deAraujo	Alessandro	Overview of research activities at the K34 site in Manaus, Brazil: long-term datasets and new data collection initiatives	Embrapa Eastern Amazon (Brazil)	NGEE Tropics	TES
Demers	Jason	Use of Stable Mercury Isotopes to Assess Mercury and Methylmercury Transformation and Transport across Critical Interfaces from the Molecular to the Watershed Scale	Univ of Michigan	Mercury	SBR
Dengel	Sigrid	Characterization And Partitioning Of CH4 And CO2 Eddy Flux Data Measured Near Utqiagvik, Alaska	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Ehleringer	James	Confronting the Community Land Model Against Atmospheric CO2 and Biospheric Datasets in the Western U.S.	Univ of Utah	Flux	TES
Eissenstat	David	Influence of topography on soil respiration in the Susquehanna-Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory	Penn State Univ	Soils/BGC	TES
Elias	Dwayne	Application of hgcAB Biomarker Detection and Characterization in the Environment	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	ORNL SBR SFA	SBR
Elias	Dwayne	Assessment of Microbial Community Responses Towards a Model Synthetic Community for Studying Multispecies Hg-methylation	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	ORNL SBR SFA	SBR
Eloe-Fadrosh	Emiley	The DOE Joint Genome Institute: A User Facility for Environmental & Energy Genomics	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab - Joint Genome Institute	User Facility	User Facility
Fang	Yilin	Assessing development needs in Earth System Models by hydrological modeling in the Asu Catchment using a hierarchy of hydrological models	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	NGEE Tropics	TES
Fendorf	Scott	Metabolic Constraints of Organic Matter Mineralization and Metal Cycling During Flood Plain Evolution	Stanford Univ	SLAC SBR SFA	SBR
Ferguson	Brennan	The influence of porous medium on citrate facilitated dissolution of uranyl-phosphate: Connecting batch flow reactors with micromodels	Clemson Univ	SBR Student	Student
Finstad	Kari	Measurements and modeling of carbon turnover rates in tropical forest soils	Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab	Tropical	TES
Finzi	Adrien	Effects of Experimental Warming & Elevated CO2 on Trace Gas Emissions from a Northern Minnesota Black Spruce Peatland	Boston Univ	SPRUCE Boreal	TES
Fisher	Joshua	Carbon-Nutrient Economy of the Rhizosphere: Improving Biogeochemical Prediction and Scaling Feedbacks From Ecosystem to Regional Scales	Univ of California, Los Angeles	Soils/BGC	TES
Flynn	Ted	Biogeochemical Impacts of the Microbially-Mediated Cycling of Iron and Sulfur	Argonne Natl Lab	ANL SBR SFA	SBR
Fraterrigo	Jennifer	Arctic Shrub Expansion, Plant Functional Trait Variation, and Effects on Belowground Carbon Cycling	Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Arctic	TES
Fung	Inez	Sensitivity of Transpiration to Subsurface Properties	Univ of California, Berkeley	Hydrology	SBR
Gilbert	Benjamin	Shale weathering in the East River watershed	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Ginder-Vogel	Matthew	Transport and Transformation of Particulate Organic Matter in Permeable Riverbed Sediments	Univ of Wisconsin, Madison	Hydrology	SBR
Graham	David	Soil Property Comparisons from the Seward Peninsula	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Graham	Emily	Organic Carbon Thermodynamics Elucidate Spatiotemporal Mechanisms Governing Hyporheic Zone Biogeochemical Cycling	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	PNNL SBR SFA	SBR
Griffiths	Natalie	Initial Effects of Warming on Water and Solute Yields from a Black Spruce-Sphagnum Bog	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Gu	Baohua	Elucidating Mechanisms of Natural Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) in Influencing Mercury Chemical Speciation and Microbial Methylation	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	ORNL SBR SFA	SBR
Gu	Lianhong	Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Auto-Measurement Equipment (FAME) Designed for Use at Eddy Covariance Flux Sites	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Hammond	Glenn	Low Flow Conditions Maximize the Impacts of High-frequency River Dynamics on Hyporheic Biogeochemical and Thermal Exchange	Sandia Natl Laboratories	PNNL SBR SFA	SBR
Hanson	Paul	ORNL's Terrestrial Ecosystem Science -- Scientific Focus Area (TES SFA) A 2017 Overview	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Hanson	Paul	Peatland Carbon Cycle Responses to Warming and Elevated CO2: Early CO2and CH4 Flux Responses and Status of Tree and Shrub Net Primary Production	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Harp	Dylan	Constraining Arctic Models with Disparate Datasets to Enhance Physical Process Understanding	Los Alamos Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Hayes	Daniel	Spatiotemporal variation in recent (2002-2015) browning and greening trends in the Arctic-Boreal Region of western North America: regional differences, post-fire trends, and time-series effects	Univ of Maine	Arctic	TES
Heikoop	Jeff	Macrotopographic Controls on Surface Water and Active Layer Chemistry in the Arctic Coastal Plain of Northern Alaska	Los Alamos Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Henning	Jeremiah	A little help from your friends: heterogeneity in forest diversity explains observed variation in carbon respiration in a lowland tropical forest	Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville	TES Student	TES
Hess	Nancy	EMSL: A DOE Scientific User Facility for Earth System Science Research	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab - Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab	User Facility	User Facility
Hess	Nancy	Characterizing metallo-organic species involved in biological metal acquisition from soils using advanced mass spectrometry	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab - Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab	User Facility	User Facility
Hicks-Pries	Caitlin	How Soil Depth Affects Decomposition	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL TES SFA	TES
Hinkle	Ross	Carbon dynamics across the terrestrial-aquatic landscape of subtropical Florida	Univ of Central Florida	Soils/BGC	TES
Hofmockel	Kirsten	Microbial response to Deep Peat Heating in SPRUCE peatland experiment	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	SPRUCE Boreal	TES
Hook	Leslie	ORNL's TES SFA Data Acquisition, Archiving, And Sharing To Support Publications, Synthesis, And Modeling Tasks	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Hopple	Anya	How Does Whole Ecosystem Warming of a Peatland Affect Methane Production?	Univ of Oregon	SPRUCE Boreal	TES
Hsu	Hsiao-Tieh	An Integrated Method for Molecular Investigation of Soil Organic Carbon Composition, Variability, and Spatial Distribution Across a Sub-alpine Catchment	Stanford Univ	SBR Student	Student
Hsu-Kim	Heileen	Reactivity and Bioavailability of Mercury Sorbed to or Coprecipitated with Iron Sulfides	Duke Univ	Mercury	SBR
Huang	Maoyi	Impacts of forest degradation on water, energy, and carbon budgets in Amazon forest	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	NGEE Tropics	TES
Huang	Maoyi	Quantifying Stream-Aquifer-Land Interactions Along the Columbia River Corridor Using Integrated Modeling and Observations	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	PNNL SBR SFA	SBR
Hubbard	Susan	Watershed Function SFA: Hydrological and Biogeochemical Dynamics from Genomes to Watershed Scales	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Ivanov	Valeriy	Understanding the Response of Photosynthetic Metabolism in Tropical Forests to Seasonal Climate Variations	Univ of Michigan	Tropical	TES
Jafarov	Elchin	Modeling Hydrothermal Interactions Within 2D Hillslope	Los Alamos Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Jastrow	Julie	Estimating arctic coastal plain soil carbon stocks vulnerable to active layer thickening under future climate	Argonne Natl Lab	ANL SFA	TES
Johnson	Daniel	Improving Plant Functional Types in Earth System Models: Pan-Tropical Analysis of Tree Survival across Environmental Gradients	Los Alamos Natl Lab	NGEE Tropics	TES
Johnson	Tim	Interactions Between River Stage Dynamics and Physical Setting on Hydrologic Exchange Flows and Primary Producer Biomass within the River Corridor	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	PNNL SBR SFA	SBR
Johs	Alexander	The Biochemistry of Mercury Methylation in Anaerobic Bacteria	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	ORNL SBR SFA	SBR
Kemner	Ken	The Argonne Natl Lab Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Program SFA: Fe and S Biogeochemistry in Redox Dynamic Environments	Argonne Natl Lab	ANL SBR SFA	SBR
Kersting	Annie	The LLNL Subsurface Biogeochemistry of Actinides SFA	Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab	LLNL SBR SFA	SBR
Killeffer	Terry	The NGEE Arctic Data Archive: Data Sharing Metrics; Manuscript and Dataset Submission Tracking; and Tool Updates and Improvements	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
King	Anthony	Implications of Uncertainty in Fossil Fuel Emissions for Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Knox	Ryan	Software Developments in the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES)	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	NGEE Tropics	TES
Kostka	Joel	The response of belowground carbon turnover and heterotrophic microbial communities to warming and elevated CO2 in peatlands at the ecosystem scale.	Georgia Institute of Technology	SPRUCE Boreal	TES
Kueppers	Lara	Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment: Highlights from an Experimental Test of Expected Upslope Tree Range Shifts and Alpine Community Responses	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	SPRUCE Boreal	TES
Law	Beverly	Carbon Cycle Dynamics within Oregon's Urban-Suburban-Forested- Agricultural Landscapes: Impacts of Bioenergy from Additional Forest Harvest and Conversion of Non-Food Crops to Poplar	Oregon State Univ	Flux	TES
Lee	Jung-Eun	Ecophysiological Controls on Amazonian Precipitation Seasonality and Variability	Brown Univ	Tropical	TES
Leger	Emmanual	Investigating Bedrock Through Canopy Structure, Organization and Connectivity of an Arctic Watershed	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Longo	Marcos	Recovery time of carbon, structure and functioning of degraded forests in the Amazon	Embrapa Agricultural Informatics	NGEE Tropics	TES
Lu	Dan	Global Parameter Optimization of ALM Using Sparse-Grid Based Surrogates	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Maher	Kate	A multiscale approach to modeling carbon cycling within a high-elevation watershed	Stanford Univ	Watershed	SBR
Malenda	Helen	Real rivers have curves: Meander-scale field investigation of linkages between fluvial geomorphology, dynamic hydrology, and patterns of hyporheic exchange	Colorado School of Mines	SBR Student	Student
Malhotra	Avni	Whole Ecosystem Warming at SPRUCE: Variable Fine-Root Response of Plant Functional Types	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Mao	Jiafu	Detection and Attribution of the Terrestrial Runoff in the Conterminous United States	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Mao	Jiafu	To What Extent Can Variability of Tropical Vegetation Growth Be Predicted Using Sea Surface Temperatures?	Oak Ridge Natl Lab -NGEE Tropics	NGEE Tropics	TES
Martinuzzi	Sebastian	NGEE-Tropics: Recent remote sensing campaign in Puerto Rico	Univ of Wisconsin, Madison	NGEE Tropics	TES
Matamala	Roser	Predicting potential C mineralization of tundra soils using spectroscopy techniques	Argonne Natl Lab	ANL SFA	TES
Maxwell	Reed	Advancing Integrated Hydrologic Modeling at the Continental Scale	Colorado School of Mines	IDEAS	SBR
Mayes	Melanie	Linking Meta-omics with the Microbial ENzyme Decomposition Model	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	Tropical	TES
McCormack	M.Luke	A Growing and Global Fine-Root Trait Database: Current Coverage and Scientific Applications	Univ of Minnesota	SPRUCE SFA	TES
McDowell	Nate	Results of the first TES Early Career Award: understanding and simulating drought-induced forest mortality	Los Alamos Natl Lab	Soils/BGC	TES
McFarlane	Karis	Constraining Belowground Carbon Turnover Times in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Insights Gained through Radiocarbon Analysis and Interpretation at AmeriFlux Network Sites	Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab	AmeriFlux	TES
McFarlane	Sally	The DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Facility (ARM) Climate Research Facility	US Department of Energy	User Facility	User Facility
Megonigal	Patrick	Coastal Wetland Carbon Sequestration in a Warmer Climate	Smithsonian Environmental Research Ctr	Soils/BGC	TES
Mekonnen	Zelalem	Modeling Shrub Expansion Under Changing Climate Across Arctic Tundra of North America	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Mishra	Umakant	Observed and modeled spatial distribution of uncertainties in Alaskan soil carbon stocks	Argonne Natl Lab	ANL SFA	TES
Morrison	Keith	Pu(VI) Hydroxamate Complex Formation at Circumneutral pH	Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab	LLNL SBR SFA	SBR
Moulton	David	Interoperable Design of Extreme-scale Application Software (IDEAS): Improving Developer Productivity and Software Sustainability	Los Alamos Natl Lab	IDEAS	SBR
Muller	Albert	SLAC SFA: Spatial constraints on microbial metabolic activity in anaerobic environments	Stanford Univ - SLAC	SLAC SBR SFA	SBR
Naughton	Hannah	Metabolic Constraints on Carbon Oxidation Impacting Metal Cycling and Greenhouse Gas Production	Stanford Univ	SBR Student	Student
Negron-Juarez	Robinson	Tropical Forest Recovery Following Disturbances: A Remote Sensing Approach	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	NGEE Tropics	TES
Neumann	Rebecca	Rain Promotes Methane Production & Methane Oxidation in a Thermokarst Bog in Interior Alaska	Univ of Washington	Arctic	TES
Newcomer	Michelle	Geomorphic Controls on Riparian and River Geochemistry in the East River Watershed	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Noel	Vincent	SLAC SFA: Redox constraints on shallow alluvial sediments: Implications for U mobility	SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab	SLAC SBR SFA	SBR
O'Day	Peggy	Experimental and modeling investigation of the impact of atmospherically deposited phosphorus on terrestrial soil nutrient and carbon cycling, and ecosystem productivity	Univ of California, Merced	Watershed	SBR
O'Loughlin	Edward	Electron Shuttle Effects on Iron(III) Reduction, Methane Production, and Microbial Community Dynamics	Argonne Natl Lab	ANL SBR SFA	SBR
Painter	Scott	Modeling Solute Transport and Coupled Biogeochemical Transformations in Low-order Streams Using a Stochastic Travel-time Approach	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	ORNL SBR SFA	SBR
Painter	Scott	Intermediate-scale Simulations of Thermal Hydrology of Polygonal Tundra	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	IDEAS	SBR
Parks	Jerry	Biomolecular Insights into the Transport and Transformations of Mercury	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	ORNL SBR SFA	SBR
Pierce	Eric	ORNL's Critical Interface Science Focus Area (CI-SFA): An Overview	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	ORNL SBR SFA	SBR
Porras	Rachel	Otherwise decomposable substrates exhibit apparent recalcitrance when sorbed to minerals: a study of glucose and organo-mineral complexes in soil	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL TES SFA	TES
Powell	Brian	Characterization of redox mediated alterations in PuO2(s), NH4PuO2CO3(s) and NpO2(s) sources in multi-year field lysimeter studies	Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab	LLNL SBR SFA	SBR
Powell	Brian	Imaging radionuclide transport in porous media	Clemson Univ	Radionuclide	SBR
Powell	Brian	Radionuclide Waste Disposal: Development of Multi-scale Experimental and Modeling Capabilities	Clemson Univ	Radionuclide	SBR
Powell	Thomas	How Does Variation In Rainfall Or A Drier Climate Affect Aboveground Biomass And Tree Mortality Of A Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest In Panama?	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	NGEE Tropics	TES
Powers	Jennifer	Extrapolating carbon dynamics of seasonally dry tropical forests across geographic scales and into future climates: improving simulation models with empirical observations	Univ of Minnesota	Tropical	TES
Raczka	Brett	Does Vapor Pressure Deficit Drive the Seasonality of d13C of the Net Land- Atmosphere CO2 Exchange Across the United States?	Univ of Utah	Flux	TES
Raff	Jonathan	Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Land-Atmosphere Interactions of Reactive Oxides of Nitrogen	Indiana Univ	Watershed	SBR
Reed	Sasha	Carbon and energy: Climate-induced community shifts and dryland feedbacks to future climate	U.S. Geological Survey	Soils/BGC	TES
Reich	Peter	Eight years of lessons from B4WarmED: tree responses to warming and rainfall manipulation in a boreal ecotone	Univ of Minnesota	SPRUCE Boreal	TES
Ricciuto	Daniel	Methods and Initial Results for A Model Intercomparison Study in A Northern Peatland	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Richardson	Andrew	Measuring and Modeling the Size and Temporal Dynamics of Nonstructural Carbohydrate Reserves in Temperate Forest Trees	Harvard Univ	SPRUCE Boreal	TES
Richardson	Curtis	The Role of Phenolic Compounds, Aromatics and Black Carbon Controls on Decomposition, GHG losses in Peatlands Along a Latitudinal Gradient from Minnesota to Peru	Duke Univ Wetland Center	SPRUCE Boreal	TES
Riley	William	Modeled Nitrogen Dynamics in the NGEE-Arctic Polygonal Tundra Landscape at Barrow, Alaska	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Riley	William	Modeling the response of soil carbon decomposition and stocks to warming with a focus on minerals and microbes	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL TES SFA	TES
Rogers	Alistair	Low Temperature Photosynthesis. Light Response Curves from the High Arctic	Brookhaven Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Rowland	Joel	Hydrologic and geomorphic controls on floodplain erosion and carbon dynamics in a mountainous headwater catchment	Los Alamos Natl Lab	Watershed	SBR
Ryken	Anna	Identifying Controls on Carbon Exchanges in High Altitude Headwaters to Improve Representation in Earth System Models
Saifuddin	Mustafa	Bacterial carbon-use-efficiency predicted from genome-specific metabolic models varies phylogenetically and correlates with genome traits	Boston Univ	TES Student	TES
Salmon	Verity	Plant Traits Across an Arctic Landscape: Above Versus Belowground	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Santschi	Peter	Natural Organic Matter and Microbial Controls on Mobilization/Immobilization of I, Pu and other Radionuclides	Texas A&M Univ	Radionuclide	SBR
Schadt	Christopher	Microbial Responses of Deep Catotelm Peat to In Situ Experimental Warming and Ex Situ Amendments of Temperature, pH, Nitrogen and Phosphorus	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Scheibe	Tim	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab SFA: Influences of Hydrologic Exchange Flows on River Corridor and Watershed Biogeochemical Function	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	PNNL SBR SFA	SBR
Schuur	Edward	Direct measurements of permafrost soil carbon loss in an experimentally warmed tundra ecosystem	Northern Arizona Univ	Arctic	TES
Serbin	Shawn	Capturing Plant Trait Variation in the Arctic with Remote Sensing	Brookhaven Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Sharp	Jonathan	Mechanistic and predictive understanding of needle litter decay in semi-arid mountain ecosystems experiencing unprecedented vegetation mortality	Colorado School of Mines	Watershed	SBR
Shi	Xiaoying	Representing Northern Peatland Hydrology and Biogeochemistry with ALM	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Silver	Whendee	Hot spots and hot moments: Investigating the relationship between soil redox dynamics and greenhouse gas fluxes in a wet tropical forest	Univ of California, Berkeley	Tropical	TES
Smith	Jeremy	From Atomic Scale to Macroscopic Modeling: A Multi-Scale Framework for Mercury Biogeochemistry	Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville	Mercury	SBR
Song	Hyun-Seob	Functional Enzyme-Based Approach for Modeling Aerobic Respiration Processes in Hyporheic	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	PNNL SBR SFA	SBR
Steefel	Carl	Scale-Adaptive Watershed Simulation of Watershed Function	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Stegen	James	Processes Governing the Biogeochemical Consequences of Inundation History and the Character of Dissolved Organic Carbon	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	PNNL SBR SFA	SBR
Strand	Allan	Inducing senescence of fine root branches under root windows by steam girdling	College of Charleston	Soils/BGC	TES
Tas	Neslihan	Metagenomic Insights into Microbial Communities and Functions across Arctic Polygonal Grounds	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Tas	Neslihan	LBNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science SFA - Impact of warming on microbiology and carbon cycling in deep soils.	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL TES SFA	TES
Thornton	Peter	Migrating Knowledge Across Scales to Improve Simulations of Arctic Tundra Processes in an Earth System Model	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Tokunaga	Tetsu	Hillslope Characterization, Measurements, and Modeling	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Torn	Margaret	The AmeriFlux Management Project: overview, outreach, and online activities.	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	AmeriFlux	TES
Torn	Margaret	Berkeley Lab Terrestrial Ecosystem Science SFA: Belowground carbon cycling	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL TES SFA	TES
Trettin	Carl	Wood Decomposition: Understanding Processes Regulating Carbon Transfer to Soil Carbon Pools Using FACE Wood at Multiple Scales	USDA Forest Service	Soils/BGC	TES
Vargas	German	Understanding the effects of drought and nutrient deposition on tree growth in tropical dry forests	Univ of Minnesota	TES Student	TES
Versteeg	Roelof	PAF: a cloud based framework for site monitoring	Subsurface Insights	Watershed	SBR
Wainwright	Haruko	Digital Watershed: Advanced Watershed Characterization across Scales	Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab	LBNL SBR SFA	SBR
Walker	Anthony	Synthesis of Four Forest CO2 Enrichment Experiments Demonstrates a Strong and Sustained Decadal Carbon Sink in Aggrading Temperate Forest Biomass	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Wallenstein	Matthew	Tracking the fate of C inputs to Arctic tundra soils from roots to rivers	Colorado State Univ	Arctic	TES
Wang	Dali	Computational Experiment Design Within A Functional Unit Testing Framework	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Wang	Gangsheng	Migrating FLOTRAN Reaction Network From NGEE Arctic into ACME Through a Generic Biogeochemistry Interface	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Wang	Gangsheng	Soil Moisture Drives Microbial Controls on Carbon Decomposition in Two Subtropical Forests	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Wanty	Richard	Characterization of groundwater flow and associated geochemical fluxes in mineralized and unmineralized bedrock in the upper East River and adjacent watersheds, Colorado	US Geological Survey	Watershed	SBR
Ward	Eric	Ecophysiology at SPRUCE: Impacts of Whole Ecosystem Warming and Elevated CO2 in A Northern Peatland	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Weston	David	Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling By Sphagnum in the SPRUCE Experiment	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	SPRUCE SFA	TES
Wieder	Will	Benchmarking and improving microbial-explicit soil biogeochemistry models	Univ of Colorado	Soils/BGC	TES
Wilkins	Michael	Hyporheic mixing as a strong controller of riverbed biogeochemistry in low-order river networks	Ohio State Univ	Watershed	SBR
Wilson	Cathy	Snow-Vegetation-Topography-Permafrost Interactions in the Seward Peninsula, Alaska	Los Alamos Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Wilson	Rachel	Organic Carbon Decomposition Under Elevated Peat Warming and CO2 Conditions at SPRUCE.	Florida State Univ	SPRUCE Boreal	TES
Wolfe	Brett	Seasonal Fluxes in the Contribution of Stored Water to the Transpiration Stream: Testing a Hydraulic Transport Model Against Measurements	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute - NGEE Tropics	NGEE Tropics	TES
Woodburn	Erica	IDEAS Use Case I: Improved process representation in watershed models across scales through software interoperability and productivity
Wu	Jin	Advancing The Mechanistic Understanding And Model Representation Of Photosynthesis And Transpiration Processes Of Tropical Evergreen Forests	Brookhaven Natl Lab	NGEE Tropics	TES
Wullschleger	Stan	Next-Generation Ecosystems Experiment (NGEE Arctic): Progress and Plans	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Yaffar	Daniela	Root Traits of the Most Common Tree Species in El Verde, Puerto Rico	Univ de Puerto Rico - NGEE-Tropics	TES Student	TES
Yang	Xi	Solar-Induced Fluorescence Reveals the Water Stress in the Amazon Basin	Univ of Virginia	Tropical	TES
Yang	Yu	Biogeochemical release and reactions of iron-bound organic carbon during the redox processes	Univ of Nevada, Reno	Mercury	SBR
Yang	Yu	Investigating greenhouse gas fluxes in tundra soils in situ in the field and under controlled laboratory conditions	Univ of Nevada, Reno	Mercury	SBR
Ye	Ming	Computational Bayesian Framework for Quantification of Predictive Uncertainty in Environmental Modeling	Florida State Univ	Watershed	SBR
Zhang	Xuesong	Cumulative Effects of River Corridor Hydrobiogeochemical Processes on Watershed Functioning	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	PNNL SBR SFA	SBR
Zheng	Jianqiu	The Importance of Soil pH in Controlling Organic Carbon Transformations in Arctic Polygon Tundra	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	NGEE Arctic	TES
Zhi	Wei	Understanding Hydrobiogeochemical Drivers of Metal Export from Coal Creek, Colorado	Penn State Univ	Watershed	SBR
Zhi	Wei	Developing Predictive Understanding of Metal Export from Coal Creek, CO	Penn State Univ	SBR Student	Student
Zhou	Tian	Influences of Hydromorphic and Hydrogeologic Structure and Variable River Discharge on Hydrologic Exchange Flows and Biogeochemical Transformations in the River Corridor	Pacific Northwest Natl Lab	PNNL SBR SFA	SBR
Zhuang	Qianlai	A peatland biogeochemistry model development and application to quantify peatland methane emissions and carbon accumulation	Purdue Univ	SPRUCE Boreal	TES

Time	Program	Speaker
8:00 am - 5:30 pm	ESS Working Group Meeting (Franklin Building: Room 17A/B, 18, 19)
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Meeting Check In (Franklin Building)
	Team Meetings (Franklin Building)
7:00 pm	NGEE-Tropics (Room 4)	J. Chambers

Time	Program	Speaker
7:00 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast (Franklin Building)
7:00 am -8:30 am	Meeting Check-In (Franklin Building)
8:30 am - 9:55 am	Overview of Programs & Updates (Ben Franklin Hall)	R. Hirsch
8:30 am -8:35 am	Welcome and Introductory Comments	R. Hirsch
8:35 am - 8:45 am	BER Programs	S. Weatherwax
8:45 am - 8:55 am	CESD Programs & Strategic Directions	G. Geernaert
8:55 am - 9:05 am	SBR Program Update	P. Bayer
9:05 am - 9:15 am	TES Program Update	D. Stover
9:15 am - 9:30 am	ESS Working Group Update	D. Lesmes
9:30 am - 9:45 am	ESS Data Archive Update	J. Hnilo
9:45 am - 10:10 am	Break
10:10 am - 12:15 pm	Plenary Session I – Understanding Microbial Complexity and Functioning in Environmental Systems (Ben Franklin Hall)	D. Lesmes
10:10 am - 10:35 am	The Biogeochemistry of Microbial Communities	B. Hungate
10:35 am - 11:00 am	Microbes, Meta-analysis, Mountains, Models, and Mechanics: Exploring Ecosystem Function under Global Change	A. Classen
11:00 am - 11:25 am	ENIGMA Project: Lab to Field and Back - Environmental System Microbiomes	T. Hazen
11:25 am - 11:50 am	Transitioning Genome-Resolved Metagenomic Analysis of Diversity and Microbial Metabolism from the Aquifer to the Watershed Scale	J. Banfield
11:50 am - 12:15 pm	Microbes to the Environment: Capturing Microbial Complexity and Functioning in Environmental System Models	T. Scheibe
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch (Osgood Building)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch Discussion on FICUS and Research Opportunities with the Scientific User Facilities. (Room 3)	EMSL, JGI and Synchrotron User Facility POCs
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Poster Session I (Franklin Building: Rooms 1, 21, 22, and 23)
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Poster Subsession A
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Poster Subsession B
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm	Dinner (Osgood Building)
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm	Concurrent Sessions - I (Franklin Building)
	Concurrent Session 1: SBR Team Meeting/Town Hall (Room: Ben Franklin Hall)	D. Lesmes/P. Bayer
	Concurrent Session 2: TES Breakout: Terrestrial-Soils and Biogeochemical Interactions Ignite Session (Room 18/19)	K. Todd Brown and V. Salmon
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm	Ignite Session Introduction and Discussion
	1. A Dispatch from the Dry Side:Data-Model Dialogues from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest	J. Powers
	2. Resolving Conflicting Physical and Biochemical Feedbacks to Climate in Response to Long-Term Warming	K. DeAngelis
	3. Knowledge-Model Integration: The Importance of Ecological Insight in Earth system models	W. Wieder
	4. How Soil Depth Affects Decomposition	C. Hicks-Pries
	5. Processes Governing the Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Carbon Stocks	U. Mishra
	6. Pore- to Core-Scale Research to Inform Ecosystem-Scale Soil C Biogeochemistry: Drought and Wetting Events Alter Soil Carbon Dynamics	V. Bailey
	7. Rapid Changes in the Permafrost Soil Carbon Pool in Response to Warming	T. Schuur
	8. Otherwise Decomposable Substrates Exhibit Apparent Recalcitrance When Sorbed to Minerals: A Study of Glucose and Organo-Mineral Complexes in Soil	R. Porras
	9. Decoding the Secrets of Carbon Preservation in Low-latitude Peatlands	C. Richardson
	10. Modeling Soil Organic Carbon Transformations in Anoxic Arctic soil microcosm	J. Zheng
	11. Discussion
	Concurrent Session 3: TES Breakout: Biogeochemistry at the Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface (Room 17A/B)	N. Griffith and G. Noyce
7:00 pm - 7:15 pm	From Roots to Rivers: Tracking the Fate of Dissolved Organic Matter Through Arctic Tundra Soils	L. Lynch
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm	Macrotopographic and Microtopographic Controls on Surface Water and Active Layer Chemistry in the Arctic Coastal Plain of Northern Alaska	J. Heikoop
7:30 am - 7:45 pm	Molecular Changes in Dissolved Organic Matter with Increasing Humification at the Spruce and Peatlands Response Under Climate and Environmental Change Site	R. Wilson
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm	Confronting Earth System Models with Observations in the SPRUCE Peatland: Challenges and Opportunities	D. Ricciuto
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm	Carbon Dynamics Across the Terrestrial-Aquatic Landscape of Subtropical Florida	R. Hinkle
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm	Hot Spots and Hot Moments: Investigating the Relationship Between Soil Redox Dynamics and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes Along a Catena Gradient in a Wet Tropical Forest	C. O’Connell
	Concurrent Session 4: TES Breakout: Terrestrial-Atmosphere Interface (Room 15/16)	E. Campbell and S. Dengel
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm	Best Practices and Pitfalls when Managing, Sharing, and Archiving ESS Data Research	T. Killeffer and D. Christianson
7:20 pm - 7:40 pm	Using Stable Carbon Isotopes of CO₂ to Better Characterize Poorly Represented Terrestrial Ecosystem Processes	B. Raczka
7:40 am - 8:00 pm	Is Carbonyl Sulfide a Tracer of Both Stomatal Conductance and Gross Primary Production?	E. Campbell
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm	Discussion
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Poster Subsession A
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Poster Subsession B
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm	Dinner (Osgood Building)
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm	Concurrent Sessions - I (Franklin Building)
	Concurrent Session 1: SBR Team Meeting/Town Hall (Room: Ben Franklin Hall)	D. Lesmes/P. Bayer
	Concurrent Session 2: TES Breakout: Terrestrial-Soils and Biogeochemical Interactions Ignite Session (Room 18/19)	K. Todd Brown and V. Salmon
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm	Ignite Session Introduction and Discussion
	1. A Dispatch from the Dry Side:Data-Model Dialogues from Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest	J. Powers
	2. Resolving Conflicting Physical and Biochemical Feedbacks to Climate in Response to Long-Term Warming	K. DeAngelis
	3. Knowledge-Model Integration: The Importance of Ecological Insight in Earth system models	W. Wieder
	4. How Soil Depth Affects Decomposition	C. Hicks-Pries
	5. Processes Governing the Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Carbon Stocks	U. Mishra
	6. Pore- to Core-Scale Research to Inform Ecosystem-Scale Soil C Biogeochemistry: Drought and Wetting Events Alter Soil Carbon Dynamics	V. Bailey
	7. Rapid Changes in the Permafrost Soil Carbon Pool in Response to Warming	T. Schuur
	8. Otherwise Decomposable Substrates Exhibit Apparent Recalcitrance When Sorbed to Minerals: A Study of Glucose and Organo-Mineral Complexes in Soil	R. Porras
	9. Decoding the Secrets of Carbon Preservation in Low-latitude Peatlands	C. Richardson
	10. Modeling Soil Organic Carbon Transformations in Anoxic Arctic soil microcosm	J. Zheng
	11. Discussion
	Concurrent Session 3: TES Breakout: Biogeochemistry at the Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface (Room 17A/B)	N. Griffith and G. Noyce
7:00 pm - 7:15 pm	From Roots to Rivers: Tracking the Fate of Dissolved Organic Matter Through Arctic Tundra Soils	L. Lynch
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm	Macrotopographic and Microtopographic Controls on Surface Water and Active Layer Chemistry in the Arctic Coastal Plain of Northern Alaska	J. Heikoop
7:30 am - 7:45 pm	Molecular Changes in Dissolved Organic Matter with Increasing Humification at the Spruce and Peatlands Response Under Climate and Environmental Change Site	R. Wilson
7:45 pm - 8:00 pm	Confronting Earth System Models with Observations in the SPRUCE Peatland: Challenges and Opportunities	D. Ricciuto
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm	Carbon Dynamics Across the Terrestrial-Aquatic Landscape of Subtropical Florida	R. Hinkle
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm	Hot Spots and Hot Moments: Investigating the Relationship Between Soil Redox Dynamics and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes Along a Catena Gradient in a Wet Tropical Forest	C. O’Connell
	Concurrent Session 4: TES Breakout: Terrestrial-Atmosphere Interface (Room 15/16)	E. Campbell and S. Dengel
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm	Best Practices and Pitfalls when Managing, Sharing, and Archiving ESS Data Research	T. Killeffer and D. Christianson
7:20 pm - 7:40 pm	Using Stable Carbon Isotopes of CO₂ to Better Characterize Poorly Represented Terrestrial Ecosystem Processes	B. Raczka
7:40 am - 8:00 pm	Is Carbonyl Sulfide a Tracer of Both Stomatal Conductance and Gross Primary Production?	E. Campbell
8:00 pm - 8:30 pm	Discussion

Time	Program	Speaker
7:00 am - 8:00 am	Breakfast (Franklin Building)
7:30 am – 8:30 am	Breakfast with the User Facilities (Learn about capabilities and updates from each of the Scientific User Facilities & Community Resources Facilities – ARM, EMSL, JGI, ESSDA, Synchrotrons) Open discussion at tables in the cafeteria. Osgood Building
8:30 am – 12:00 pm	Concurrent Sessions – IIA: SBR Town Hall Breakouts
	Concurrent Session 5: SBR Town Hall Breakout - Topic: Watershed Systems (Room 4)	D. Lesmes
	Concurrent Session 6: SBR Town Hall Breakout - Topic: Hydro-Biogeochemistry (Room 17A/B)	P. Bayer
9:00 am – 12:00 pm	Concurrent Sessions – IIB: TES Town Hall and Updates
	Concurrent Session 7: TES Town Hall and updates (Room: Ben Franklin Hall)	D. Stover
12:00 pm - 1:30pm	Lunch (Osgood Building)	D. Stover
12:00 pm - 1:30pm	Lunch (Osgood Building)
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm	Sage Advice for Students and Post-Docs (Room 4)
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Poster Session II (Franklin Building: Rooms 1, 21, 22, and 23)
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Poster Subsession C
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Poster Subsession D
4:30 pm - 4:40 pm	Break
4:40 pm - 5:20 pm	Plenary Session III – Community Updates (Ben Franklin Hall)	D. Stover
4:40 pm - 4:55 pm	Outbrief of the Research Priorities to Incorporate Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces in Earth System Models Workshop	P. Megonigal
4:55 pm - 5:20 pm	Outbrief of the SBR Town Hall and Associated Breakouts	D. Lesmes
5:20 pm - 5:30 pm	Closeout/Announcements
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm	Dinner (Osgood Building)
7:00 pm	Adjourn

Individual Abstracts

Overview Presentations

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