2018 ESS PI Meeting Research Summary

Last Name	First Name	Poster Title	Institution	Program Area	Project
Abolt	Charles	Investigations of Topographic Control on Thermokarst Development and the Ground Thermal Regime in Ice Wedge Polygons using the Advanced Terrestrial Simulator	University of Texas at Austin	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Abramoff	Roser	Steady State Gradients versus Microbe-Mineral Modeling Predict Different Temperature Responses of Upland Soils: Model Evaluation in the LBNL TES SFA	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL TES SFA
Agarwal	Deb	Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) - A New U.S. DOE Data Archive	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Both	User Facilities
Andersen	Christian	Characterization of Permafrost Landscapes Using an Unmanned Aerial System: LiDAR Mapping the NGEE Teller Site	Los Alamos National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Araujo	Alessandro	Carbon, Water, and Energy Land-Atmosphere Exchanges in Wet and Seasonally Dry Forests in the Amazon	Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Arellano	Gabriel	Preliminary Results from Intensive Annual Surveys of Tree Mortality and Damage in Tropical Forests	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Balboni	Enrica	Desorption of Plutonium from Altered Nuclear Melt Glass Colloids	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	SBR	LLNL SBR SFA
Bailey	Vanessa	Drought and Flood Alter Soil Pore Connectivities and Local Ionic Strengths to Regulate C Bioavailability	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	TES	PNNL TES
Baldocchi	Dennis	Aerodynamic Canopy Height: A Simple Metric for Temporal Dynamics of Canopy Heights Derived with Eddy Covariance Momentum Data Collected Across North American Flux Networks	University of California, Berkeley	TES	University Award
Ball	Lyndsay	Geologic Structure of the East River Watershed, Elk Mountains, Colorado: A Preliminary View from New Airborne Geophysical Survey Data	US Geological Survey	SBR	University Award
Bao	Jie	Three-Dimensional OpenFOAM-PFLOTRAN Coupled Model for Mechanistic Simulation of Hydrologic Exchange Flows in Varied Hydromorphic Settings	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL SBR SFA
Bargar	John	SLAC Groundwater Quality SFA: Hydrologically Driven Biogeochemical Processes Controlling Water Quality	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	SBR	SLAC SBR SFA
Barger	John	DOE Synchrotron Capabilities and Structural Biology Resources for Environmental Research	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	Both	User Facilities
Battiato	Ilenia	From universal scaling for flow resistance in vegetated channels to predicting algal bloom and the evolution of benthic algae in riverine systems at the reach scale	Stanford University	SBR	University Award
Berry	Joe	Near Surface Measurement of Solar Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Amazonia	Carnegie Institution for Science	TES	University Award

Bobb	Callum	SLAC Groundwater Quality SFA: Biogeochemical-Hydrologic Coupling in the Capillary Fringe at the Riverton, WY Site	Stanford University	SBR	SLAC SBR SFA
Bond-Lamberty	Ben	Pore to Core: Linking Soil Organic Carbon Protection Mechanisms to Ecosystem CO2 Fluxes in Response to Varying Antecedent Soil Moisture Conditions	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	TES	PNNL TES
Bouskill	Nicholas	Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Nitrogen in a Mountainous Watershed	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Boyanov	Maxim	Redox Transformations of U, Hg, and As in Iron Oxide and Clay Systems	Argonne National Laboratory	SBR	ANL SBR SFA
Breen	Amy	Controls and Rates of Change of Shrub Cover in the Arctic: How do Arctic Dynamic Vegetation Models Differ in Their Results for Future Scenarios?	University of Alaska, Fairbanks	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Briggs	Martin	A Last Line of Defense: Understanding Unique Coupled Abiotic/Biotic Processes at Upwelling Groundwater Interfaces	US Geological Survey	SBR	University Award
Brodie	Eoin	Vegetation and Soil Biogeochemistry Feedbacks as Impacted by Snowmelt Regime and Landscape Topography	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Brooks	Scott	Kinetics of Mercury Methylation Revisited	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL SBR SFA
Burge	Scott	Microbial Sensor for Characterizing and Monitoring Watersheds and Terrestrial Environments Including the Rhizosphere	Burge Environmental, Inc.	SBR	SBIR
Cabugao	Kristine	Root Phosphatase Response to Elevated CO2 is Tree Species Dependent	University of Tennessee	TES	Student
Campbell	Elliott	Amazon Gross Primary Production Inferred at Regional Scale from Satellite Carbonyl Sulfide Retrievals	University of California, Santa Cruz	TES	University Award
Cardarelli	Emily	SLAC Groundwater Quality SFA: Microbial Niche Partitioning at the Soil- Groundwater Interface in Transiently Reduced Floodplains	Stanford University	SBR	SLAC SBR SFA
Cardenas	Bayani	Respiration in Hyporheic Zones: Connecting Mechanics, Microbial Biogeochemistry, and Models	University of Texas at Austin	SBR	University Award
Carroll	Rosemary	Quantifying Magnitude and Age of Groundwater Flux from Topographically Complex Watersheds Using a MODEX Approach	Desert Research Institute	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Cavaleri	Molly	Tropical Response to Altered Climate Experiment (TRACE): How Plant-Soil Interactions Both Respond To and Help Dictate Lowland Tropical Forest Responses To Warming	Michigan Technological University	TES	University Award
Chambers	Jeffrey	The Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE)-Tropics Overview	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Chen	Xingyuan	Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of km- to Reach-Scale Hydrological Exchange Flows along a Large Dam-Regulated River Corridor	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL SBR SFA
Christianson	Danielle	AmeriFlux Data Processing and Interface Improvements	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	AmeriFlux
Classen	Aimee	Theoretical and Empirical Support that Plant Roots Stimulate the Decomposition of Protected, But Not Unprotected, Soil Carbon	University of Vermont	TES	University Award
Colwell	Frederick	Quantifying Subsurface Biogeochemical Variability in a High Altitude Watershed During Winter Isolation	Oregon State University	SBR	University Award
Coon	Ethan	Simulating the Impact of Regional Subsidence and Polygonal Ground Degradation on Arctic Permafrost Hydrology	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Cottingham	Robert	KBase: An Integrated Systems Biology Knowledgebase for Predictive Biological and Environmental Research	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Both	User Facilities
Cusack	Daniela	Characterization of Soil Carbon Cycling Across a Tropical Forest Rainfall Gradient for a Dry Down Experiment	University of Los Angeles	TES	Early Career
Dafflon	Baptiste	Quantifying the Interactions between Soil Thermal and Physical Characteristics, Hydro- geomorphological Conditions and Vegetation Distribution in an Arctic Watershed	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Date	Swapneeta	Unraveling the Cellular Biochemistry of Mercury Methylation	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL SBR SFA
DeAngelis	Kristen	Resolving Conflicting Physical and Biochemical Feedbacks to Climate in Response to Long- Term Warming	University of Massachusetts- Amherst	TES	University Award
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	University of Michigan	SBR	University Award
Dengel	Sigrid	Complexity of CO2, CH4 and Energy Exchange Measurements at NGEE Arctic Sites, Alaska	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Dickman	Turin	Drought Impacts on Non-structural Carbohydrate Dynamics in Tropical Forests	Los Alamos National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Dupuis	Julia	High Speed VNIR/SWIR Hyperspectral Imager for Quantifying Terrestrial Ecosystems	Physical Sciences, Inc.	TES	SBIR
Eissenstat	David	Using a Spatially-Distributed Hydrologic Biogeochemistry Model with Nitrogen Transport to Study the Spatial Variation of Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in a Critical Zone Observatory	Pennsylvania State University	TES	University Award
Falco	Nicola	Integrated Imaging of Above and Below Ground Properties and their Interactions	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Fang	Yilin	Improving Modeling of Water Table Dynamics by Incorporating Plant Hydraulics and Hillslope Based Drainage Function	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Fendorf	Scott	Metabolic Constraints of Organic Matter Mineralization and Metal Cycling During Flood Plain Evolution	Stanford University	SBR	University Award
Finstad	Kari	Soil Carbon Storage and Turnover in Tropical Forests Along a Precipitation Gradient in Panama	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	TES	Early Career
Finzi	Adrien	Effects of Experimental Warming & Elevated CO2 on Trace Gas Emissions from a Northern Minnesota Black Spruce Peatland	Boston University	TES	University Award
Fisher	Joshua	Carbon?Nutrient Economy of the Rhizosphere: Improving Biogeochemical Prediction and Scaling Feedbacks From Ecosystem to Regional Scales	University of Los Angeles	TES	University Award
Flynn	Theodore	Effects of Fe(III) Inputs on the Rate of Methanogenesis in Wetland Sediment Microcosms	Argonne National Laboratory	SBR	ANL SBR SFA
Foster	Lauren	Nonlinear Scaling of Climate Change Impacts in Headwater Catchments: Contribution to Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area	Colorado School of Mines	SBR	Student
Fox	Patricia	Floodplain Processes Impacting Water Quality and Nutrient and Metal Export	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Fraterrigo	Jennifer	Arctic Shrub Expansion, Plant Functional Trait Variation, and Effects on Belowground Carbon Cycling	University of Illinois	TES	University Award
Fung	Inez	On Sub-grid Scale Variations of Transpiration	University of California, Berkeley	SBR	University Award
Georgiou	Katerina	Representing Organo-Mineral Associations in Soil Carbon Models: Implications for Carbon Storage and Vulnerability	University of California, Berkeley	TES	Student
Ghosh	Ruby	Monitoring Sediment Oxygen Demand in a Coastal Ecosystem with a Robust, In-situ Oxygen Probe	Opti O2	SBR	SBIR
Ghosh	Ruby	Dissolved Oxygen Sensor System for Real-time, In-situ Subsurface Monitoring of the East River Hyporheic Zone in Crested Butte, CO	Opti O2	SBR	SBIR
Ginder-Vogel	Matthew	Transport and Transformation of Particulate Organic Matter in Permeable Riverbed Sediments	University of Wisconsin, Madison	SBR	University Award
Gionfriddo	Caitlin	Molecular, Genomic and Physiological Studies of Mercury Methylation	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL SBR SFA
Gooseff	Michael	Quantifying Distributed Exchanges of Groundwater with the Columbia River ? Preliminary Results	University of Colorado, Boulder	SBR	University Award
Graham	David	Modeling Anaerobic Soil Organic Carbon Decomposition in Arctic Polygon Tundra: Insights into Soil Geochemical Influences on Carbon Mineralization	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Graham	Emily	Interactions Between Organic Carbon Concentration, Chemistry, and Thermodynamics Govern Elevated Metabolism in the Columbia River Hyporheic Zone	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL SBR SFA
Griffiths	Natalie	Initial Effects of Warming and Elevated CO2 on Organic-Matter Decomposition in a Black Spruce-Sphagnum Bog	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Gu	Baohua	Biogeochemical Mechanisms Affecting Mercury Species Transformation and Methylmercury Production or Degradation	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL SBR SFA
Gu	Lianhong	A System for Long-Term Continuous Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measurements for Synergy with Eddy Covariance Flux Networks	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Hanson	Paul	ORNL?s Terrestrial Ecosystem Science ? Scientific Focus Area (TES SFA): a 2018 Overview	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Hayes	Daniel	Contributions of wildland fire to terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics in Arctic- Boreal North America from 1990 ? 2012	University of Maine	TES	Early Career
Heikoop	Jeffrey	Nitrate in a Changing Terrestrial Arctic	Los Alamos National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Hess	Nancy	EMSL: A DOE Scientific User Facility for Earth System Science Research	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Both	User Facilities
Hess	Nancy	Microbial Stabilization and Destabilization of Soil Organic Carbon Across Scales	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Both	User Facilities
Hinkle	Ross	Carbon Dynamics Across the Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface of Subtropical Ecosystems in Central Florida	University of Central Florida	TES	University Award
Hoffman	Forrest	Mapping Arctic Representativeness and Vegetation using Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Holman	Hoi-Ying	Research in Biogeochemical Sciences at the Berkeley Synchrotron Infrared Structural Biology (BSISB) Imaging Program	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Both	User Facilities
Hook	Les	ORNL?s TES SFA Data Acquisition, Archiving, and Sharing to Support Publications, Synthesis, and Modeling Tasks	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Hopple	Anya	How Does Whole Ecosystem Warming of a Peatland Affect Methane Production and Consumption?	University of Oregon	TES	University Award
Huang	Maoyi	Assessing Impacts of Selective Logging on Water, Energy, and Carbon Budgets and Ecosystem Dynamics in Amazon Forests Using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Hubbard	Susan	Watershed Function SFA: Hydrological and Biogeochemical Dynamics from Genomes to Watershed Scales	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Hunter	Maria	Quantifying Forest Degradation Using GLAS Lidar	Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Ivanov	Valeriy	Understanding the Response of Photosynthetic Metabolism in Tropical Forests to Seasonal Climate Variations	University of Michigan	TES	University Award
Iversen	Colleen	Warming Increases Plant-Available Nutrients in the SPRUCE Bog	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Jafarov	Elchin	Modeling Drivers of Discontinuous Permafrost on a Hillslope Transect	Los Alamos National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Jardine	Kolby	Optimal Crown Temperature of Basal Stem CO2 Efflux in Canopy Dominant Trees in the Central Amazon	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Jastrow	Julie	Degradation State of Soil Organic Matter in Arctic Coastal Plain Ice-Wedge Polygons	Argonne National Laboratory	TES	ANL TES SFA
Keenan	Trevor	Developing New Partitioning Methods for AmeriFlux, to Detect and Account for the Inhibition of Day-Time Ecosystem Respiration	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	AmeriFlux
Kemner	Kenneth	The Argonne National Laboratory Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Program SFA: Wetland Hydrobiogeochemistry	Argonne National Laboratory	SBR	ANL SBR SFA
Kersting	Annie	Sorption Kinetics of Plutonium (V) to Three Montmorillonite Clays	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	SBR	LLNL SBR SFA
Knox	Ryan	Advancements in the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES): Functional Hypotheses, Software and Testbeds	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Kostka	Joel	Toward the Predictive Understanding of Greenhouse Gas Production in High Latitude Peatlands	Georgia Institute of Technology	TES	University Award
Koven	Charlie	Applying the FATES Dynamic Vegetation Model to the Western US	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	Early Career
Ladd	Mallory	Digging Deeper: Exometabolomics Reveals Biogeochemical Hotspots with Depth and by Vegetation Type in Arctic Tundra Soils	University of Tennessee	TES	Student
Lavy	Adi	Meander-Associated Riparian Zone and Hillslope Floodplain Sites Share Similar Microbial Community Structure and Metabolic Potential	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Li	Li	Controls of Hydrological Connectivity on Dissolved Organic Carbon Export in a Seasonally Snow-Covered Watershed	Pennsylvania State University	SBR	University Award
Liang	Junyi	Nonlinear Response of Soil Microbial Respiration to Moisture Variations	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Longo	Marcos	Representing the Long-term Impacts of Forest Degradation in Amazon Forests in Dynamic Ecosystem Models	Embrapa Agricultural Informatics	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Maher	Kate	Subsurface Carbon Inventories, Transformations and Fluxes Across Gradients in Elevation and Moisture Within an Alpine Watershed	Stanford University	SBR	University Award
Malhotra	Avni	Peatland Respiration: A Global Quantitative Review	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Manning	Andrew	Preliminary Results of 2017 Drilling, Geophysical Logging, Geologic Mapping, and Geochemical Sampling Activities in Redwell Basin, Elk Mountains, Colorado	US Geological Survey	SBR	University Award
Mao	Jiafu	Predictability of Tropical Vegetation Growth	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Matamala	Roser	Determining Soil Organic Matter Composition and Decomposability across the Permafrost Region Using Mid-infrared Spectroscopy	Argonne National Laboratory	TES	ANL TES SFA
Maxwell	Reed	Advances in Hyper-Resolution Integrated Modeling of the Continental US and Connections to the National Water Model	Colorado School of Mines	SBR	IDEAS
Maxwell	Reed	Towards a Better Understanding of Water Stores and Fluxes: Model Observation Synthesis in a Snowmelt Dominated Research Watershed	Colorado School of Mines	SBR	University Award
Mayes	Melanie	Phosphorus Sorption to Tropical Soils with Relevance to Earth System Model Needs	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Mayes	Melanie	Controls over Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Puerto Rican Tropical Rainforest Soils	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	Early Career
McDowell	Nate	Drivers and Mechanisms of Tree Mortality in Moist Tropical Forests	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
McFarlane	Karis	Tropical Forest Response to a Drier Future: Measurement and Modeling of Soil Organic Matter Stocks and Turnover	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	TES	Early Career
McFarlane	Sally	The DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility	BER	Both	User Facilities
Medvigy	David	Variation in the Soil Template Drives Large Variation in Forest Functioning, Composition, and Structure During Tropical Dry Forest Secondary Succession	Notre Dame University	TES	University Award
Megonigal	Pat	Coastal Wetland Carbon Sequestration in a Warmer Climate	Smithsonian Environmental Research Center	TES	University Award
Mekonnen	Zelalem	Modeling the Impacts of Fire on Surface Energy and Land-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange Across Alaska	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Mishra	Umakant	Spatial Heterogeneity and Environmental Controllers of Permafrost SOC Stocks	Argonne National Laboratory	TES	ANL TES SFA
Molton	David	Interoperable Design of Extreme-scale Application Software (IDEAS): A Family of Synergistic Projects Focused on Improving Scientific Productivity	Los Alamos National Laboratory	SBR	IDEAS
Morton	Douglas	Distribution and Dynamics of Aboveground Biomass in Second Growth Tropical Forests of Puerto Rico	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Muller-Landau	Helene	The Panama Tropical Forest Model Testbed: Comprehensive, Integrated Datasets on Abiotic Drivers, Plant Functional Traits, Tree Demography, and Stand-Level Carbon and Water Pools and Fluxes	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Negron-Juarez	Robinson	Forest Dynamics and Severe Convection in Amazonia	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Neumann	Rebecca	Rain Increases Methane Production and Methane Oxidation in a Boreal Thermokarst Bog	University of Washington	TES	Early Career
Noel	Vincent	SLAC Groundwater Quality SFA: Contaminant Response to Hydrologic Transitions in Transiently-Reduced Zones	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	SBR	SLAC SBR SFA
Norby	Richard	Sphagnum Production, Nutrient Content, and Community Composition in the SPRUCE Experiment	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Nuzzio	Donald	Analytical Instrumentation for in-situ Biogeochemical Research	Analytical Instrument Systems, Inc.	SBR	SBIR
O'Day	Peggy	Phosphorus Speciation in Atmospherically Deposited Particulate Matter and Potential Impact on Terrestrial Soil Nutrient Cycling and Ecosystem Productivity	University of California, Merced	SBR	University Award
O'Loughlin	Edward	Elemental Content, U Redox Dynamics, and Microbial Communities in Wetland Sediment Cores from Tims Branch, Savannah River Site	Argonne National Laboratory	SBR	ANL SBR SFA
Painter	Scott	Modeling Across Scales while Maintaining Links to Laboratory and Fine-scale Field Investigations: Cases Studies using the Advanced Terrestrial Simulator	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	IDEAS
Parks	Jerry	Biomolecular Insights into Mercury Transformations	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL SBR SFA
Pastorello	Gilberto	The Data Processing Pipelines and Synthesis Dataset Releases for AmeriFlux and FLUXNET	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	AmeriFlux
Payne	Zachary	Effect of Ground Cover on Surface Fluxes of Reactive Nitrogen Oxides at a Disturbed Forest Edge	Indiana University	SBR	Student
Philben	Michael	Stimulation of Anaerobic Organic Matter Degradation by Nitrogen Addition in Tundra Soils	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Phillips	Michala	Remote Sensing of Mycorrhizal Distributions	University of California, Riverside	TES	Student
Pierce	Eric	Biogeochemical Transformations at Critical Interfaces Scientific Focus Area	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL SBR SFA
Polonik	P	Side-by-side Evaluation of Eddy Covariance Gas Analyzers for the AmeriFlux Network: Effects of Analyzer Type and Spectral Corrections on Turbulent Fluxes	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	AmeriFlux
Powell	Brian	Long-term Aging of Actinide Solid Sources Exposed to Environmental Conditions	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	SBR	LLNL SBR SFA
Powell	Brian	Characterizing Radionuclide Subsurface Transport from Lab to Field Scales Using Multidimensional, Real-Time Imaging Techniques	Clemson University	SBR	University Award
Powell	Brian	Visualizing Macropore Flow Mechanisms using 4D X-ray Computed Tomography	Clemson University	SBR	University Award
Powell	Thomas	Using a Process-Based Model to Disentangle Hydraulic Trait Relationships in Observations of Tropical Trees	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Powers	Jennifer	Extrapolating Ecosystem Processes of Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests Across Geographic Scales and into Future Climates	University of Minnesota	TES	University Award
Primka	Edward	How Topography and its Effects on Fine Root Production Impact Soil Respiration in the Susquehanna-Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory	Pennsylvania State University	TES	Student
Raff	Jonathan	Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea are the Dominate Nitrifiers in Two Midwestern (USA) Forest Types, But Do Not Contribute to Nitric Oxide Production	Indiana University	SBR	Early Career
Reed	Sasha	Improving our Understanding, Quantification, and Contextualization of Dryland Feedbacks to Climate Change	US Geological Survey	TES	University Award
Rempe	Daniella	Quantifying Dynamic Water Storage in Weathered Bedrock from the Pore to Landscape Scale	University of Texas at Austin	SBR	University Award
Ricciuto	Daniel	Sensitivity of Simulated Peatland Carbon and Energy Flux Warming Responses to Biogeochemistry Process Uncertainty	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Richardson	Curtis	Plant?microbe Symbioses Preserve Carbon in Peatlands Along a Latitudinal Gradient from Minnesota to Peru	Duke University	TES	University Award
Riley	William	Non-Growing Season Plant and Soil Biogeochemistry in High-Latitude Tundra have Large Effects on Plant Nutritional Status and Carbon Budgets	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Riley	William	LBNL TES SFA Development and Application of Explicit Biotic and Abiotic Models for Soil Organic Matter Dynamics	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL TES SFA
Rogers	Alistair	Variation in the Representation of Photosynthesis in CMIP5 Terrestrial Biosphere Models	Brookhaven National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Rowland	Joel	Hydrology, Sediment or Permafrost:Why Do High Latitude Rivers Move So Slowly?	Los Alamos National Laboratory	SBR	Early Career
Rungee	Joseph	Combining Patch-Scale Modeled Output with Spatial Statistics to Estimate Evapotranspiration Across the Landscape	University of California, Merced	SBR	Student
Sabin	Gerald	HDTomoGPR: Ground Penetrating Radar System and Algorithms for Fine Root Analysis	RNET Technologies	TES	SBIR
Salmon	Verity	Symbiotic N-fixation by Alder Impacts Nitrogen Availability on a Landscape Scale	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Santschi	Peter	Collaborative Research: Natural Organic Matter and Microbial Matter and Microbial Controls on Mobilization/Immobilization of I and Pu in Soil and Water Affected by Radionuclide Release in USA and Japan	Texas A&M University	SBR	University Award
Scheibe	Tim	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory SFA: Influences of Hydrologic Exchange Flows on River Corridor and Watershed Biogeochemical Function	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL SBR SFA
Scheibe	Tim	Hydromorphic Classification of the Hanford Reach through Integration of Field Observations and Hydrodynamic Models	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL SBR SFA
Schuur	Edward	Coupled Long-Term Experiment and Model Investigation of The Differential Response of Plants and Soil Microbes in a Changing Permafrost Tundra Ecosystem	Northern Arizona University	TES	University Award
Semrau	Jeremy	Methylmercury Uptake and Degradation by Methanotrophs: A Hitherto Unknown, but Potentially Important Environmental Process	University of Michigan	SBR	University Award
Serbin	Shawn	Remote Sensing of the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Arctic Plant Traits and Ecosystem Function	Brookhaven National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Sharp	J	Mechanistic and Predictive Understanding of Needle Litter Decay in Semi-Arid Mountain Ecosystems Experiencing Unprecedented Vegetation Mortality	Colorado School of Mines	SBR	University Award
Sharrar	Allison	Nutrient and Metal Release from Shale Weathering Processes Occurring Across Multiple Scales	University of California, Berkeley	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Shi	Xiaoying	Representing Northern Peatland Hydrology and Biogeochemistry with the ELM Land Surface Model	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Smith	Jeremy	AQUA-MER Aqueous Speciation Database: A Web Resource for Multi-Scale Modeling of Mercury Biogeochemistry	University of Tennessee	SBR	University Award

Song	Hyun-Seob	Modeling Microbial Control of Historical Contingencies and Priming Effects in Biogeochemical Reactions	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL SBR SFA
Song	Yang	Incorporation Of ?Omics? Information into a Soil Biogeochemical Model: A Novel Model Scheme to Regulate Microbial Functions and Soil Carbon Dynamics in Response to Environmental Change	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	Early Career
Soong	Jennifer	Four Years of Warming the Whole Soil Profile in a Conifer Forest: LBNL TES SFA	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL TES SFA
Steefel	Carl	Leveraging Software Interoperability and Benchmarking to Accelerate Model Development of Terrestrial Ecosystems - IDEAS Use Case 1	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	IDEAS
Steefel	Carl	Watershed Function Simulation and Aggregation	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Stegen	James	Local to Global Hydrobiogeochemical Impacts of High-Frequency Stage Fluctuations	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL SBR SFA
Steltzer	Heidi	Perturbing Nature: Will a Small Change in the Timing of Snowmelt Lead to Big Shifts in Soil-Plants-Microbes and Watershed Behavior?	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Swanson	Rand	A Compact, Broad-Band Hyperspectral SpectroRadiometer	Resonon	TES	SBIR
Tas	Neslihan	Deep Look into Deep Permafrost: Impact of Warming on Microbial Functions	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Tas	Neslihan	Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Multi-omics Enabled Quantification of Microbial Controls on Biogeochemical Cycles in Permafrost Ecosystems	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	Early Career
Thomas	Alex	Linking Soil Metabolic Potential to Vegetation Type Across Landscape Positions in the East River Watershed, Colorado	University of California, Berkeley	SBR	Student
Tokunaga	Tetsu	Hillslope to Watershed Subsurface Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Exchanges with the Atmosphere and River	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Torn	Margaret	Berkeley Lab Terrestrial Ecosystem Science SFA (LBNL TES SFA) on Belowground Carbon Cycling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL TES SFA
Trettin	Carl	Wood Decomposition: Understanding Processes Regulating Carbon Transfer to Soil Carbon Pools Using FACE Wood at Multiple Scales	US Forest Service	TES	University Award
Tringe	Susannah	The DOE Joint Genome Institute: A User Facility for Environmental & Energy Genomics	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Both	User Facilities
Varadharajan	Charuleka	ESS-DIVE Publishing Life Cycle and Community Outreach	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Both	User Facilities
Varadharajan	Charuleka	NGEE-Tropics Data Management and Products	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Versteeg	Roelof	Predictive Assimilation Framework: Cloud based System for Site Monitoring	Subsurface Insights	SBR	SBIR
Wainwright	Haruko	Spatiotemporal Variability of Ecohydrological Responses to Climate Perturbations in Headwater Watersheds	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL SBR SFA
Wainwright	Haruko	Multiscale Data Integration for Scaling Land-atmosphere Carbon Exchange and Soil Properties in Ice-wedge Polygon Tundra	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Wales	Nathan	Flow and Transport Characteristics of Ice-wedge Polygons	Los Alamos National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Walker	Anthony	The FACE-MDS Dataset	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Walker	Anthony	A Multi-Hypothesis Modeling Approach to Study Sub-Canopy Carbon Balance	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Wang	Chen	A Last Line of defense: Understanding Unique Coupled Abiotic/Biotic Processes at Upwelling Groundwater Interface	Rutgers University	SBR	Student
Wang	Dali	Parallel Computing for Module-based Computational Experiment: A Case Study of Carbon Decomposition using ELM Modules	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Wang	Gangsheng	Coupling PFLOTRAN into E3SM through a Collaboration between the CMDV and NGEE Arctic Projects	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Ward	Eric	Impacts of Elevated CO2 and Whole Ecosystem Warming on Photosynthesis and Respiration of Two Ericaceous Shrubs in a Northern Peatland	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Warren	Jeffrey	Divergent Morphological and Hydrological Responses of Dominant Woody Bog Species to Whole Ecosystem Warming and Elevated CO2 at SPRUCE	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Weston	David	Insights into Sphagnum Peat Moss Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics from CO2 Flux Analysis and Modeling to Microbiome Analysis	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Wilkins	Michael	Snowmelt Dynamics Influence the Distribution of Microbial Communities and Carbon Pools in a Riverbed Ecosystem	Ohio State University	SBR	University Award
Wilson	Cathy	Factors Affecting the Spatial Pattern of Snow Distribution at the NGEE Arctic Teller and Kougarok Watersheds	Los Alamos National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Wood	Jeffrey	Forest Ecosystem-scale Responses and Resilience to Drought	University of Missouri	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Wrighton	Kelly	Microbial Ammonium Cycling is Critical to Nitrogen Transformations in Columbia River Sediments	Ohio State University	SBR	University Award
Wu	Jin	A Convergent Spectroscopy-based Approach for Vcmax across Leaf Age and Growth Environments	Brookhaven National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Wullschleger	Stan	Next-Generation Ecosystems Experiment (NGEE Arctic): Progress and Plans	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Xu	Chonggang	Understanding the Control of Hydraulic Traits in Tropical Forests Using a Hydrodynamic Model within a Demographic Vegetation Model	Los Alamos National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Yang	Xiaojuan	Modeling Nitrogen and Phosphorus Cycling Dynamics and the Interactions with Carbon Cycling in Peatland Ecosystems	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL TES SFA
Yang	Yu	Organic Carbon Stability During Fe Redox Reactions: Coupling Geochemistry, Microbiology and Field Monitoring	University of Nevada, Reno	SBR	University Award
Ye	Ming	Computational Bayesian Framework for Quantification of Predictive Uncertainty in Environmental Modeling	Florida State University	SBR	Early Career
Zavarin	Mavrik	The LLNL Subsurface Biogeochemistry of Actinides SFA	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	SBR	LLNL SBR SFA
Zhang	Xuesong	Influence of Hydrologic Exchange Flow on Nutrient Dynamics in Managed Watersheds	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL SBR SFA
Zhao	Linduo	Effects of Natural Organic Matter and Minerals on Mercury Methylation	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL SBR SFA

Time	Program
8:00 am - 5:30 pm	ESS Working Group Meeting
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Meeting Check In
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm	E3SM Land Modeling Meeting

Time	Program	Speaker
7:00 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast
7:00 am -8:30 am	Meeting Check-In
8:30 am - 9:55 am	Overview of Programs & Updates	Organizer: P. Bayer
8:30 am -8:35 am	Welcome and Introductory Comments	P. Bayer
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	D. Lesmes
9:05 am - 9:15 am	TES Program Update	D. Stover
9:15 am - 9:25 am	User Facilities and BER Resources Update	A. Swain
9:25 am - 9:40 am	ESS Data Archive Update	D. Agarwal
9:40 am - 9:55 am	ESS Working Group Update	D. Moulton
9:55 am - 10:10 am	Break
10:10 am - 12:15 pm	Plenary Session I – Complexity and Innovation: Overcoming Community Challenges and Roadblocks	Organizer: D. Lesmes
10:10 am - 10:35 am	Building Community Models of Disturbance and Vegetation Dynamics	L. Kueppers (LBNL)
10:35 am - 11:00 am	Complexity and Innovation: Advancing Watershed System Science	T. Scheibe (PNNL)
11:00 am - 11:25 am	Complexity and Innovation: Advancing Environmental Remote Sensing	C. Miller (NASA-JPL)
11:25 am - 11:50 am	Complexity and Innovation: Advancing CZ Science	S. Brantley (Pennsylvania State University)
11:50 am - 12:15 pm	Conflict, Coordination & Control: How Can We Discover the Risks and Resilience of Land-Energy-Water Systems?	P. Reed (Cornell University)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Sage Advice for Students and Post-Docs	D. Stover
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Poster Session I
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
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm	Concurrent Sessions - I
	Session 1: Linking Above and Belowground Processes and Traits	Organizers: C. Iversen and T. Powell
	Session 2: Impact of Natural Organic Matter on Water Quality and Biogeochemical Processes (summary PDF)	Organizers: J. Barger and P Santschi
	Session 3: Building Community Test Beds for Modeling Watershed Systems (summary PDF)	Organizers: L. Condon and X. Chen
	Session 4: Emerging Technologies for Characterizing & Monitoring Watershed & Terrestrial Systems (summary PDF)	Organizers: R. Versteeg and S. Serbin
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Team Meetings NGEE-Arctic Leadership Team Meeting NGEE-Tropics Team Meeting

Time	Program	Speaker
7:00 am - 8:00 am	Breakfast
8:30 am – 9:45 am	Plenary Session II – Complexity and Innovation: The Human Dimension	Organizer: D. Stover
8:30 am – 9:45 am	Complexity and Innovation: Human Dimensions, Ethics, Integrity, and Diversity	L. Gundersen
9:45 am - 10:00 am	Break
10:00 am – 11:30 am	Concurrent Sessions – II
	Session 5: Coupled C/N/P Cycles Across Scales	Organizers: J. Powers and F. Yang
	Session 6: Water: Its Roles and Feedbacks on Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Land Surface Dynamics and Disturbance	Organizers: J. Rowland and M. Newcomer
	Session 7: Modeling Microbial Processes - Advances, Challenges and Opportunities (summary PDF)	Organizers: N. Hess and E. Brodie
	Session 8: ESS-DIVE	Organizers: C. Varadharajan and D. Agarwal
11:30 am - 1:00pm	Lunch
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Research Opportunities with the Scientific User Facilities and Related Resources.	EMSL, JGI, KBase and Synchrotron User Facility POCs
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Ethics, Integrity, and Diversity Breakout	L. Gunderson
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Poster Session II
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Poster Subsession C
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Poster Subsession D
4:00 pm - 4:20 pm	Break
4:20 pm - 5:40 pm	Plenary Session III – Complexity and Innovation: Overcoming Community Challenges and Roadblocks - “Doing Together What Would be Difficult or Impossible to Do Alone”	Organizer: D. Lesmes
4:20 pm - 5:05 pm	Early Career Lightning Talks (3 min each)	14 Presenters
5:05 pm - 5:35 pm	Discussion
5:35 pm - 5:40 pm	Closeout/Announcements
5:40 pm - 7:00 pm	Dinner
7:00 pm	Adjourn

Individual Abstracts

Plenary Presentations

Breakout Session Summaries

Meeting agenda

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Wednesday, May 2, 2018