PI Meeting 2020 Abstracts

Time	Program	Speaker
2:00 pm - 2:05 pm	Opening Logistics/Introduction	Jennifer Arrigo
2:05 pm - 2:10 pm	Welcome and BER Update	Sharlene Weatherwax
2:10 pm - 2:15 pm	EESSD Update	Gary Geernaert
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm	SBR Update [PDF]	P. Bayer
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm	TES Update [PDF]	D. Stover
2:45 pm - 2:55 pm	Update of TES/SBR Combining to 1 ESS Program [PDF}	D. Stover
2:55 pm - 3:05 pm	ESS-DIVE: Updates on New Features, Standards, and Community Activities [PDF]	Charu Varadharajan
3:05 pm - 3:15 pm	ARM Mobile Facility Deployments: SAIL and Southeastern United States [PDF]	Dan Feldman and Chongai Kuang
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm	Community Discussion/Q&A	All

Time	Program	Speaker
2:00 pm - 2:05 pm	Opening Logistics/Introduction	Jennifer Arrigo
2:05 pm - 2:15 pm	Cyberinfrastructure Working Groups Update	David Moulton
2:15 pm - 2:25 pm	IHTM Workshop Report and Next Steps[PDF]	Tim Scheibe
2:25 pm - 2:40 pm	TES Science Talk : An Historical Perspective on Elevated CO₂ Research: Early Insights Guiding Today Research Agenda [PDF]	Rich Norby
2:40 pm - 2:55 pm	SBR Science Talk: IDEAS-Watersheds [PDF]	David Moulton
2:55 pm - 3:10 pm	Amplifying Science Insights Synergistic partnerships between EMSL and Light Sources[PDF]	Douglas Mans, Ken Kemner"
3:10 pm - 3:30 pm	Primer on the Federal Budget Process	Gary Geernaert
3:30 pm	Closing

Last Name	First Name	Poster Title	Institution	Program Area	Project
Wullschleger	Stan	21^st Century Tundra Shrubification Controlled by Non-Growing Season Plant Nutrient Uptake	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Versteeg	Roelof	A cloud based cyberinfrastructure for automated model/data integration	Subsurface Insights	SBR	SBIR
Larsen	Isaac	Abiotic versus Biotic Influences on Chemical Weathering and Solute Generation in the East River Watershed	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	SBR	Early Career
Hubbard	Susan	Aggregated Watershed Modeling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Hanson	Paul	An Investigation of the Role of Methoxylated Aromatic Compounds in Methanogenesis from Peatand an Update on Ongoing SPRUCE Metagenomic Analyses	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Kostka	Joel	Ancient peat carbon is released as greenhouse gases following whole ecosystem warming in a northern Minnesota bog	Georgia Institute of Technology	TES	University Award
Torn	Margaret	Applying the ELM Microbial-explicit Soil Biogeochemical Model to Analyze Carbon Responses to Whole Soil Profile Warming	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL-SFA
Chambers	Jeff	Benchmarking and Parameter Sensitivity of Physiological and Vegetation Dynamics using the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) at Barro Colorado Island, Panama	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Nuzzio	Donald	Biogeochemical Characterization of Redox Species in Real time	Analytical Instrument Systems, Inc.	SBR	SBIR
Scheibe	Tim	Biogeochemical Consequences of DOM Chemistry, Microbial Gene Expression, and Nutrient Concentrations: Integration and Substrate/Microbially-Explicit Models Linked to Reactive Transport	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL-SFA
Wullschleger	Stan	Biogeochemical Sources and Exports in a Small Headwater Catchment Underlain with Discontinuous Permafrost	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Pierce	Eric	Biogeochemical transformations at critical interfaces in a mercury perturbed watershed scientific focus area	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL-SFA
Pierce	Eric	Biomolecular processes contributing to Hg transformations at critical interfaces	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL-SFA
Druhan	Jennifer	Carbon Dioxide Production in Bedrock beneath Soils Substantially Contributes to Forest Carbon Cycling	The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	SBR	University Award
Jardine	Kolby	Cell Wall O-Acetyl and Methyl Esterification Patterns of Leaves Reflected in Atmospheric Emission Signatures of Acetic Acid and Methanol	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	BER	Early Career
Hubbard	Susan	Characterization and Quantification of Plant Traits and Species at Watershed Scale: Analysis and Results from the NEON AOP Campaign at the East River watershed, Colorado	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Feng	Xue	Climate sensitivity of peatland methane emissions mediated by seasonal hydrologic dynamics	University of Minnesota	TES	University Award
Smith	Jeremy	Computational Models of Dissolved Organic Matter	University of Tennessee	SBR	University Award
Fendorf	Scott	Deciphering controls on metal migration within floodplains: The critical role of redox environments on metal-organic complexes	Stanford University	SBR	University Award
Li	Li	Distinct Source Water chemistry Shapes Constrasting Concentration	Pennsylvania State University	SBR	University Award
Wullschleger	Stan	Distributed Temperature Profiling System for Improved Quantification of Soil Thermal and Physical	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Hanson	Paul	Effects of Photosynthesis on the Timing of Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Respiration Fluxes	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Jastrow	Julie	Ensemble Machine Learning Improves Predicted Spatial Heterogeneity of Surface Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in the Data-Limited Northern Circumpolar Permafrost Region	Argonne National Laboratory	TES	ANL-SFA
Agarwal	Deborah	ESS-DIVE Standards for 16S Amplicon Data Products, Comma-Separated Data Files and File- level Metadata	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	BER	ESS-DIVE
Chambers	Jeff	Examining Hydraulic Safety Margins in the Context of Drought Mortality Rates	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Hubbard	Susan	Exploring Climate and Bedrock Controls on Baseflow Age Distributions in a Snow- Dominated Mountainous Watershed	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Wullschleger	Stan	Factors Influencing Soil Moisture at Field Sites on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Berkelhammer	Max	Global patterns of ecosystem legacy associated with dynamic roots and extended root turnover times in E3SM	University of Illinois at Chicago	BER	University Award
Wullschleger	Stan	High-Resolution Mapping of Ice Wedge Polygons for Environmental Applications	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Hubbard	Susan	Hillslope factors that influence the mobilization and retention of nutrients and other elements	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Chambers	Jeff	Increasing Impacts of Extreme Droughts on Vegetation Productivity under Climate Change	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Santelli	Cara	Influence of hyporheic exchange on coupled S-Fe-C biogeochemical cycling in riparian wetland sediments	University of Minnesota	SBR	University Award
Wullschleger	Stan	Influence of Topography of Slope Terraces on the Seward Peninsula on Ground Thermal Regime, Hydrology and Development of Biogeochemical Processes	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Kang	Yuhong	Integrated ChemFET Sensors for Real time Monitoring of Redox Sensitive Metals in Natural Water	NanoSonic, Inc.	BER	SBIR
Torn	Margaret	Integrating the ONEFlux Pipeline into AmeriFlux Data Processing Workflows	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL-SFA
Taillefert	Martial	Integration of Omics into a New Comprehensive Rate Law for Competitive	Georgia Institute of Technology	SBR	University Award
Pierce	Eric	Investigating the Dynamics of hgcAB and the Effect of Syntrophic Interactions on Hg-methylation	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL-SFA
Varadharajan	Charuleka	Investigating the Impacts of Streamflow Disturbances on Water Quality using a Data-driven Framework	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	Early Career
Torn	Margaret	Kinetic Properties and Temperature Sensitivity of Microbial Exoenzymes Through the Soil Profile.	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL-SFA
Chambers	Jeff	Landscape controls of biomass accumulation in second growth tropical forests after agricultural abandonment	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Hubbard	Susan	Landscape processes controlling nitrogen loss from mountainous systems.	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Wullschleger	Stan	Leveraging Multi-Scale Remote Sensing to Improve our Understanding of Arctic Vegetation Diversity, Structure and Function	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Hubbard	Susan	Linking River Corridor Processes and Watershed Zonation through Concentration- Discharge (C-Q) Analysis	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Fraterrigo	Jennifer	Local and Regional Drivers of Shrub Traits in Northern Alaska	University of Illinois, Urbana	TES	University Award
Wullschleger	Stan	Mapping Arctic Vegetation using Hyperspectral Airborne Remote Sensing Data	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Mayes	Melanie	Measuring and Modeling Greenhouse Gas Dynamics from Wet Tropical Forest Soils under Contrasting Redox Treatments	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	Early Career
Francis	Christopher	Metagenomic Insights into Key Nitrogen-Cycling Microbial Taxa within the Terrestrial Subsurface at Riverton, WY	Stanford University	SBR	University Award
Megonigal	J. Patrick	Methane Fluxes from the Salt Marsh Accretion Response to Temperature eXperiment (SMARTX)	Smithsonian Environmental Research Center	TES	University Award
Hsu-Kim	Heileen	Methylation Potential of Mercury for Different Groups of the Methylating Microbial Community	Duke University	SBR	University Award
Hanson	Paul	Microbial Control Over Soil Carbon Saturation	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Tas	Neslihan	Microbial Controls on Biogeochemical Cycles in Permafrost Ecosystems	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	BER	Early Career
Brzostek	Edward	Microbial diversity drives specialization in litter decomposition and metabolic products	West Virginia University	TES	University Award
Bouskill	Nick	Microbial environmental feedbacks and the evolution of soil organic matter	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory		Early Career
Kemner	Kenneth	Microtopographic controls on microbial community structure	Argonne National Laboratory	SBR	ANL-SFA
Hanson	Paul	Modeling the Hydrology and Physiology of Sphagnum Moss in a Northern Temperate Bog	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Wullschleger	Stan	Modeling the Impacts of Tundra Fire on Shrub Expansion	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Rawlins	Michael	Modeling the Loading of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Carbon to Rivers Across the Western Arctic	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	TES	University Award
Chambers	Jeff	Modeling water available to plants to improve understanding of tropical forest response to drought and land use land cover change	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Wullschleger	Stan	MODEX Approach to Diagnose and Improve Snow Processes and Phenology in E3SM Land Model (ELM) in Northern High-Latitude Regions	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Hanson	Paul	Modification and Evaluation of ELM Seasonal Deciduous Phenology Against the SPRUCE Observations	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Burge	Scott	Monitoring Saturated and Unsaturated Environments Using Microbial Potentiometric Sensors (MPS)	Burge Environmental Inc.	BER	SBIR
Stegen	James	Multi-Watershed Perturbation-Response Traits Derived Through Ecological Theory	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	BER	Early Career
Chambers	Jeff	Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE)-Tropics Phase 2 Overview	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Wullschleger	Stan	Next-Generation Ecosystems Experiment (NGEE Arctic): Progress and Plans	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Wullschleger	Stan	NGEE Arctic Phase 3 Project Management Priorities	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Scheibe	Tim	Novel Insights into Reaction-Scale Biogeochemistry in River Corridors and its Response to Wildfire	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL-SFA
Fung	Inez	On Drought Resilience among Tree Species	University of California, Berkeley	TES	University Award
Jastrow	Julie	Organic Matter Composition and Decomposability of Ice-Wedge Polygon Soils on the Coastal Plain of Northern Alaskan	Argonne National Laboratory	TES	ANL-SFA
Pierce	Eric	Overlooked Mercury Isotope Exchange Reactions in Environmental Systems	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	sBR	ORNL-SFA
Steefel	Carl	Overview of Exasheds Project	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	BER	ExaSheds
Chambers	Jeff	Pantropical Patterns of Tropical Tree Damage and Death	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Wullschleger	Stan	Patterns and Drivers of Alder Distribution Across a Tundra Landscape at Seward Peninsula	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Chambers	Jeff	Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Gonzalez-Pinzon	Ricardo	Physical, Biological and Resource Supply as Key Factors Driving Nutrient Uptake Along a Fluvial Network	University of New Mexico	SBR	University Award
Pierce	Eric	Predicting Methylmercury Production Kinetics in Sediment with a Transient Availability Model	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL-SFA
Chambers	Jeff	Process-Based Model Predictions of Tropical Forest Function Across a Precipitation Gradient in Panama.	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Scheibe	Tim	Quantifying Basin-Scale Hydrological, Biogeochemical and Thermal Inputs to River Corridors Under Baseline and Disturbance Conditions	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL-SFA
Scheibe	Tim	Quantifying Cumulative Effects of Coupled Organic Matter and Nitrogen Cycling in River Corridors across the Columbia River Basin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL-SFA
Chambers	Jeff	Quantifying Phenological Variations in Tropical Forests Across Scales Using High Spatio-Temporal Satellite Remote sensing	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Chambers	Jeff	Quantifying Soil Percolation Dynamics & Biogeochemical Transport in Tropical Soils near Manaus, Brazil	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Hanson	Paul	Quantifying Terrestrial Drivers of Uncertainty in Earth System Model Predictions Using Machine Learning	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Wullschleger	Stan	Quantifying the Controls of Permafrost-Dominated Hillslope Processes on both Gradual and Catastrophic Soil Movement	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Wullschleger	Stan	Quantifying the Influence of Bedrock, Soil, Snowpack, Topography and Vegetation Properties on Subsurface Thermal Regimes across an Arctic Watershed in a Discontinuous Permafrost Environment,	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Brzostek	Edward	Quantitative, Trait-Based Microbial Ecology to Accurately Model the Impacts of N Deposition on Soil C Cycling in the Anthropocene	West Virginia University	TES	University Award
Chambers	Jeff	Representing Subsurface Lateral Groundwater Flow in Earth System Models	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Gooseff	Michael	Resolving Aquifer Controls on Larger River-Groundwater Exchanges of Mass and Energy	University of Colorado	SBR	University Award
Deangelis	Kristen	Resolving Conflicting Physical and Biochemical Feedbacks to Climate in Response to Long-Term Warming	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	TES	University Award
Scheibe	Tim	River Corridor Hydrobiogeochemistry Across Basins	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL-SFA
Scheibe	Tim	River Corridor Hydrobiogeochemistry from Reaction to Basin Scale	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL-SFA
Hubbard	Susan	River Corridor Redox Heterogeneity and Cycling: Impacts on Water Chemistry	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Hanson	Paul	Root Function - Process-Level Studies Focused on Mycorrhizae, Drought, Temperature and Neutron Imaging	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Keiluweit	Marco	Root Influences on Mobilization and Export of Mineral-bound Soil Organic Matter	University of Massachusetts	SBR	University Award
Torn	Margaret	Scaling AmeriFlux Data Activities to Support Network Growth	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL-SFA
Berkelhammer	Max	Seasonal origins of tree water-use along a hillslope in the East River Watershed	University of Illinois at Chicago	BER	University Award
Fendorf	Scott	Seasonal Shifts in Mineral and Metabolic Constraints Regulate Carbon Export from Floodplain Soils	Stanford University	SBR	University Award
Hanson	Paul	Seeking the best-fit microbial-relevant parameters via model calibrations: site-specific single dataset or cross-site multiple datasets?	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	Student
Chambers	Jeff	Should Terrestrial Biosphere Models Remove Triose Phosphate Utilization Limitation from Their Representation of Photosynthesis_	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Wullschleger	Stan	Simulating Iron Reduction and Methanogenesis in Arctic Soils Using PFLOTRAN and ELM	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Deems	Jeffrey	Simulating Snow Patterns and Evolution in the East River SFA with a Distributed Snow Dynamics Model	University of Colorado	SBR	University Award
Bargar	John	SLAC Groundwater Quality SFA Program Overview	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	SLAC
Bargar	John	SLAC Groundwater Quality SFA-Describing and Quantifying Anaerobic Microsites: Impact on BGC Nutrient Cycling in Soils	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	SLAC
Bargar	John	SLAC Groundwater Quality SFA: Host Recalcitrance Protects Against Pb Mobilization in Floodplain Sediments During Seasonal Redox Cycles	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	SLAC
Bargar	John	SLAC Groundwater Quality SFA: Linking Riparian Microbial Communities and Biogeochemical Cycling to Vertical Groundwater Flow Across Oxic-Anoxic Interfaces at Slate River, CO	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	SLAC
Bargar	John	SLAC Groundwater Quality SFA: Preferential Mobilization of Nutrients Driven by Distinct Forms of Inundation on a Semi-Arid Floodplain	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	SLAC
Bargar	John	SLAC Groundwater Quality SFA: Simulations of Anoxic Lenses as Exporters of Reactivity in Alluvial Sediments	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	SLAC
Nippert	Jesse	Soil Carbon Cycling Changes at Depth Due to Woody Encroachment of Tallgrass Prairie	Kansas State University	TES	University Award
Pierce	Eric	Spectroscopic Investigations of Late Transition Metal Complexes by Methanobactin Chromophores	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL-SFA
Torn	Margaret	Stabilization of Mineral Associate Simple Organic Molecules Under Varying Temperature and Moisture Conditions-- LBNL, TES, SFA	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL-SFA
Agarwal	Deborah	Standardizing sample information to support efficient tracking, data integration, and reuse in Environmental Systems Science	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	BER	ESS-DIVE
Cardon	Zoe	Sticky Roots--Implications of Widespread Viral Infection of Plants for Soil Carbon Processing in the Rhizosphere	Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory	TES	University Award
Pierce	Eric	Structural and mechanistic characterization of Hg transformations	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL-SFA
Covino	Tim	Subalpine forest regeneration decreases DOM exports, but increases DOM reactivity to head water streams	U.S. Forest Service	SBR	University Award
Pierce	Eric	Synergistic effects of a chalkophore, methanobactin, on microbial methylation of mercury	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	SBR	ORNL-SFA
Scheibe	Tim	Temporal Trajectories of Wildfire Effects and their Relationship to Precipitation in the Columbia River Basin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL-SFA
Torn	Margaret	The AmeriFlux Management Project: Overview and the Year of Methane	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL-SFA
Torn	Margaret	The AmeriFlux Rapid Response System	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL-SFA
Kemner	Kenneth	The Argonne National Laboratory Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Program SFA: Wetland Hydrobiogeochemistry	Argonne National Laboratory	SBR	ANL-SFA
Torn	Margaret	The Berkeley Lab Terrestrial Ecosystem Science SFA on Belowground Biogeochemistry: Five years of deep soil warming	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	LBNL-SFA
Mouncey	Nigel	The DOE Joint Genome Institute: A User Facility for Environmental & Energy Genomics	JGI	BER	User Facility
Cardenas	M. Bayani	The Effects of Stream Organic Matter on Respiration in Hyporheic Zones: Combined Insights from Flume and Computational Experiments	The University of Texas at Austin	SBR	University Award
Wullschleger	Stan	The Effects of Talik Formation on Non-Growing Season Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling Permafrost Ecosystems	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Bianchi	Thomas	The Hydro-bio-geochemistry of the Columbia River - Tributary Confluences	University of Florida	SBR	University Award
Chambers	Jeff	The LBA : NGEE-Tropics data collaboration and water dynamics impacts of the 2015 drought in Central Amazon	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Hubbard	Susan	The Resilience of Mountain Plants and their Role in Sustaining Ecosystem Services	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Kostka	Joel	The response of greenhouse gas production (GHG) pathways to elevated temperature in the SPRUCE peatland	Georgia Institute of Technology	TES	University Award
Feldman	Daniel	The Surface Atmosphere Integrated field Laboratory (SAIL) ARM Mobile Facility Campaign	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	BER	ARM
Hubbard	Susan	The Watershed Function SFA: Mountainous System Hydrobiogeochemical Response to Disturbance across Genome to Watershed Scales	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Neumann	Rebecca	Thermal Transport by Rain: A Mechanism for Warming and Thawing Frozen Soil	University of Washington	TES	University Award
Stegen	James	Toward watershed simulations combining machine learning and high-resolution process-based models: Initial results from the ExaSheds project	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	BER	Early Career
Painter	Scott	Toward watershed simulations combining machine learning and high-resolution process-based models: Initial results from the ExaSheds project	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	BER	ExaSheds
Catalano	Jeffrey	Trace Metal Dynamics and Limitations on Biogeochemical Cycling in Wetland Soils and HyporheicZones	Washington University	SBR	University Award
Keller	Michael	Tracking the Structural Reassembly of Puerto Rican Tropical Forests Following Hurricane Maria	NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory	TES	Federal Agency
Parashar	Rishi	Transport and Retention of Metal Reducing Motile Bacteria in Idealized Pore Geometries	Desert Research Institute	SBR	University Award
Mcfarlane	Karis	Tropical Forest Response to a Drier Future: Synthesis and Modeling of Soil Carbon Stocks and Age	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	TES	Early Career
Wullschleger	Stan	Understanding Snow Patterns for Improved Earth System Modeling in the Arctic	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Scheibe	Tim	Understanding Spatial Patterns and Impacts of Hydrologic Exchange and Microbial Community Function from Reaction to Basin Scales	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL-SFA
Hanson	Paul	Understanding Taxonomic, Environmental, and Mycorrhizal Influences on Fine-Root Trait Variation Using the Global Fine-Root Ecology Database (FRED)	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Koven	Charlie	Understanding the interplay of rooting strategy and plant hydraulic traits on the response of forest stands of CZ2 to climate variation of Southern Sierra California	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	BER	Early Career
Hanson	Paul	Understanding the Relative Importance of Nitrogen Versus Phosphorus Cycling in an Undisturbed Ombrotrophic Bog: Insight into Ecosystem Response to SPRUCE Manipulations	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Moulton	David	Unleashing Modeler Creativity: IDEAS on How Flexible Software can Further Process Understanding	Los Alamos National Laboratory	SBR	IDEAS-Watersheds
Medvigy	David	Unraveling the Mechanisms of Below- and Aboveground Liana-Tree Competition in Tropical Forests	University of Notre Dame	TES	University Award
Bailey	Vanessa	Updating and applying the global soil respiration database (SRDB) for carbon cycling research	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	TES	PNNL 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	University of Michigan	SBR	University Award
Ye	Ming	Using Global Sensitivity Analysis to Identify Controlling Processes of Complex Systems	Florida State University	SBR	University Award
Chambers	Jeff	Vertical and horizontal distributions of tree density, tree size, crown size and crown packing over the Brazilian Amazon from airborne lidar data	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Hanson	Paul	Warming Increases Plant-Available Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the SPRUCE Bog	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Bailey	Vanessa	Water and Hysteretic Controls on Soil Carbon Biogeochemistry	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	TES	PNNL TES
Hubbard	Susan	Watershed Functional Zonation: Advancing Bedrock-to-Canopy Characterization across Watersheds	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Liberty	Lee	Watershed scale seismic imaging and porosity estimation with the seismic land streamer in the Upper East River, Colorado	Boise State University	SBR	University Award
Hanson	Paul	What is the Effect of Climate Change on Belowground Resource Acquisition Strategies in a Boreal Peatland?	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Scheibe	Tim	Worldwide Hydrobiogeochemical Observation Network for Dynamic River Systems (WHONDRS)	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL-SFA
Hanson	Paul	A Closed Model of Light Reactions of Photosynthesis for General Applications	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Mayes	Melanie	Accounting for carbon and energy edge effects in forest boundaries: A collaboration with ORNL,NIST, and Boston University	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Wanty	Richard	Active Groundwater Circulation and Permeability Observations Defined By Interdisciplinary Characterization of Geologic Controls in a Mineralized Headwater Catchment	U.S. Geological Survey	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Hubbard	Susan	An End-End Pipeline for Watershed Data Management and Assimilation	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Hubbard	Susan	Approaches to Identify and Predict Water Exports across and within Subsystems in the East River Watershed	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	SBR	LBNL-SFA
Nippert	Jesse	Benchmarking and developing demographic models with long-term shrub encroachment data in US tallgrass prairie	Kansas State University	TES	University Award
Wullschleger	Stan	Biogeochemical Redox Interactions Modulate Soil Organic Matter Mineralization in Wet Arctic Tundra	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Kemner	Kenneth	Biogeochemistry and Contaminant Speciation in Savannah River Site Sediments	Argonne National Laboratory	SBR	ANL-SFA
Fisher	Joshua	Carbon–Nutrient Economy of the Rhizosphere: Improving Biogeochemical Prediction and Scaling Feedbacks from Ecosystem to Regional Scales	University of California, Los Angeles	TES	University Award
Skiles	S. Mckenzie	Constraining Physical Understanding of Aerosol Loading, Biogeochemistry, and Snowmelt Hydrology from Hillslope to Watershed Scale in the East River Scientific Focus Area	University of Utah	SBR	University Award
Kemner	Kenneth	Coupled Iron and Uranium Biogeochemistry in Tims Branch, Savannah River Site	Argonne National Laboratory	SBR	ANL-SFA
Schuur	Edward (Ted)	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
Weber	Karrie	Decrease in Aqueous U(VI) Following an Influx of Oxidants into Organic-Rich Reduced Sediments	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	SBR	University Award
Cusack	Daniela	Depth Distribution of Fine Roots and Organic Carbon Across Fertility and Rainfall Gradients in Lowland Tropical Forests of Panama	Colorado State University	TES	Early Career
Agarwal	Deborah	Designing the ESS-DIVE Repository to be Trusted by the Community and FAIR	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	BER	ESS-DIVE
Chambers	Jeff	Determining the Best-Fit Model for Tropical Soil Phosphorus Sorption with Relevance to Earth System Models	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Maher	Kate	Development of a molecularly informed biogeochemical framework for reactive transport modeling of subsurface carbon inventories, transformations and fluxes	Stanford University	SBR	University Award
Waring	Bonnie	Development of Artificial Roots and Synthetic Soils to Probe Mechanisms of Soil Organic Matte Cycling	Utah State University	TES	University Award
Jastrow	Julie	Digital Tools for Advanced Analysis and Comparison of Irregular Carbon Distributions in Cryoturbated Soil Profiles	Argonne National Laboratory	TES	ANL-SFA
Hanson	Paul	Ecosystem Warming Accelerates Peatland Carbon Loss: Findings from the First Three Years of SPRUCE	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Hess	Nancy	EMSL: A DOE Office of Science User Facility for Environmental System Science Research	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	BER	User Facility
Agarwal	Deborah	ESS-DIVE Standards: Hydrologic Monitoring and Geochemical Concentration Data and Metadata	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	BER	ESS-DIVE
Agarwal	Deborah	ESS-DIVE Standards: Leaf Physiology and Continuous Soil Respiration Data and Metadata	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	BER	ESS-DIVE
Hanson	Paul	Evaluating ELM-SPRUCE Using Carbon Isotope Measurements	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Powers	Jennifer	Extrapolating Ecosystem Processes of Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests Across Geographic Scales and into Future Climates	University of Minnesota, St. Paul	TES	University Award
Chambers	Jeff	FATES-SPITFIRE: Dynamic Ecosystem Assembly Through Interaction of Disturbance, Vegetation Strategies and Structure in the Tropics	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Chambers	Jeff	First soil-specific calibrated measurements of soil moisture in a Central Amazonian tropical forest	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Briggs	Martin	Geophysical characterization of iron oxide precipitation in anoxic groundwater discharge zones	U.S. Geological Survey	SBR	University Award
Walker	Anthony	Help Wanted: Defining an Extensible, Understandable, and General (?) Naming Convention for Ecological and Environmental Data	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	FACE
Nippert	Jesse	Hydraulic responses of Cornus drummondii to fire frequency and drought in a tallgrass prairie	Kansas State University	TES	University Award
Scheibe	Tim	Hydrobiogeochemical Variability: Mechanisms Governing Reaction- to Basin-Scale Hydrobiogeochemical Regimes	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	SBR	PNNL-SFA
Griffis	Tim	Hydrometeorological sensitivities of net ecosystem carbon dioxide and methane exchange of an Amazonian palm swamp peatland	University of Minnesota, Saint Paul	TES	University Award
Moulton	David	IDEAS-Watersheds Continental Modeling Platform and Simulations	Los Alamos National Laboratory	SBR	IDEAS-Watersheds
Moulton	David	IDEAS-Watersheds PNNL SFA Partnership: Multi-Scale River Corridor Hydrobiogeochemical Modeling	Los Alamos National Laboratory	SBR	IDEAS-Watersheds
Moulton	David	IDEAS-Watersheds: Accelerating watershed science through a community-driven software ecosystem	Los Alamos National Laboratory	SBR	IDEAS-Watersheds
Moulton	David	IDEAS-Watersheds: Cross-cutting view and Integration– Workflows and Fine-scale activities	Los Alamos National Laboratory	SBR	IDEAS-Watersheds
Moulton	David	IDEAS-Watersheds_ Partnership with the Watershed Function SFA	Los Alamos National Laboratory	SBR	IDEAS-Watersheds
Chambers	Jeff	Identifying plant resource acquisition and allocation strategies for nutrient-enabled ELM-FATES	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Matheny	Ashley	Incorporating Halophyte Hydrodynamics in Plant Hydraulics Models to Capture Mangrove Forest Responses to a Changing Climate	University of Texas at Austin	TES	University Award
Wullschleger	Stan	Integrating New Knowledge of Arctic Tundra Processes into DOE’s E3SM Land Model	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic
Hanson	Paul	Plant Physiological Response to Whole Ecosystem Warming and Elevated CO₂– Can Bog Plants Be Water Stressed?	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	ORNL-SFA
Chambers	Jeff	Plant water sourcing in the neotropics—effects of topography and rainfall	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Kuang	Chongai	The Third ARM Mobile Facility: Coupled Observational-Modeling Studies of Land-Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in the Southeastern United States	Brookhaven National Laboratory	BER	ARM
Agarwal	Deborah	ESS-DIVE Publication Workflow_ Publishing High Quality Data Packages with ESS-DIVE	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	BER	ESS-DIVE
Chambers	Jeff	Where do trees’ source water during drought? Inverse modeling reveals drought strategies coordinating water-uptake depths with above ground traits	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Tropics
Wullschleger	Stan	A Mechanistic Model of Climate Sensitivity Hysteresis of Soil Organic Matter Dynamics	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	TES	NGEE-Arctic

PI Meeting 2020 Abstracts

Research Summary from the 2020 Environmental System Science (ESS) PI Meeting

Agenda

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Wednesday, May 20, 2020