2022 ESS PI Meeting Research Summary

The ESS PI Meeting was held virtually, May 24-26, 2022.

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Last Name	First Name	Poster Title	Institution	Program Area	Project
Jastrow	Julie	Investigating Soil Organic Matter Composition and Degradation State Across Hillslope Positions in the Arctic Foothills of Alaska	Argonne National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: National Laboratory Soil Carbon Response to Environmental Change
Jastrow	Julie	Improving Long-Term Modeling of Soil Carbon and Permafrost Response to Wildfire through Observational Evidence in the Southernmost Permafrost Region of Alaska	University of Minnesota	ESS	SFA: National Laboratory Soil Carbon Response to Environmental Change
Jastrow	Julie	Quantifying Variations in Soil C:N Relationships for the Permafrost Region	Argonne National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: National Laboratory Soil Carbon Response to Environmental Change
Cusack	Daniela	Effects of Partial Throughfall Exclusion on Soil Dynamics in Lowland Tropical Forests Across Rainfall and Soil Fertility Gradients	Colorado State University	ESS	Early Career
Raff	Jonathan	Laboratory and Field Studies of Processes Impacting Reactive Nitrogen Oxide Fluxes to and from Soil	Indiana University	ESS	University Project, Early Career
Kang	Yanghui	Machine learning upscaling of land-atmosphere exchanges across North America to capture extreme impacts	University of California Berkeley	ESS-EESM	DOE Early Career: Drought, heat and wildfire impacts on coastal water relations
Larsen	Isaac	Soil production and chemical weathering rates along a vegetation gradient in the East River Watershed, Colorado	University of Massachusetts	SBR	Early Career
McFarlane	Karis	Experimental Warming and Drying Increase the Age of Soil Respired Carbon and Alter Respiration Flux Rates in Lowland Tropical Forests in Panama	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	ESS	Early Career
Wainwright	Haruko	ML-enabled assimilation of community geochemical datasets into reactive transport models	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	DOE Lab-led
Stegen	James	Impacts of Drying on Hyporheic Zone Biogeochemistry	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory		Early Career
Varadharajan	Charuleka	Understanding the Effects of Hydrometeorological Disturbances on River Water Temperature and Salinity at Regional to Continental Scales	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	Early Career
Brzostek	Edward	Quantitative, Trait-Based Microbial Ecology to Accurately Model the Impacts of Nitrogen Deposition on Soil Carbon Cycling in the Anthropocene	West Virginia University	ESS	EPSCOR, University Award
Parashar	Rishi	Flow Hydrodynamics and Transport Characteristics in Presence of Permeable Biofilms	Desert Research Institute	ESS	EPSCOR
Biraud	Biraud	The AmeriFlux Rapid Response System	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	AmeriFlux Management
Keller	Michael	Catastrophic Forest Disturbance and Subsequent Regrowth in Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria	International Institute of Tropical Forestry	ESS	Other Institution
Forbrich	Inke	From tides to seasons: How cyclic tidal drivers and plant physiology interact to affect carbon cycling at the terrestrial-estuarine boundary	Marine Biological Laboratory	ESS	Other Institution
Keenan	Trevor	AmeriFlux Community Initiatives	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	DOE Lab-led, AmeriFlux Management
Buechner	Christin	Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiatives for a Coalition of the Willing	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	DOE Lab-led, AmeriFlux Management
Agarwal	Deb	Making AmeriFlux Data More Open and Cite-able	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	DOE Lab-led, AmeriFlux Management
Bailey	Vanessa	Multiscale Data Synthesis and Analysis for Understanding Coastal Ecosystems	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	ESS	COMPASS-FME
O’Meara	Teri	Multiscale Observations and Modeling for Improved Prediction of Coastal Wetland Processes	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	COMPASS-FME
Myers-Pigg	Allison	The Exploration of Coastal Hydro-biogeochemistry Across a Network of Gradients and Experiments Consortium (EXCHANGE)	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	ESS	COMPASS-FME
Hopple	Anya	The Terrestrial Ecosystem Manipulation to Probe the Effects of Storm Treatments Experiment	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	ESS	COMPASS-FME
Walker	Anthony	Simulations of Duke and Oak Ridge FACE Experiments with ELM-FATES-CNP	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	DOE Lab-led
Chen	Xingyuan	Linking Molecular Characterization with Continuum Reactive Transport Modeling	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	ESS	IDEAS-Watersheds
Painter	Scott	Progress Toward Scale-consistent Watershed Reactive Transport Models	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	IDEAS-Watersheds
Condon	Laura	National datasets and workflows for integrated hydrologic modeling across the US	University of Arizona,	ESS	IDEAS-Watersheds
Abolt	Charles	Topography Drives Variability in Circumpolar Permafrost Thaw Pond Expansion	Los Alamos National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Bennett	Katrina	Spatial Patterns of Snow Distribution in the Sub-Arctic	Los Alamos National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Berns	Erin	Dynamic Soil Columns Simulate Arctic Redox Biogeochemistry	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Conroy	Nathan	Environmental Controls on Observed Spatial Variability of Soil Pore Water Geochemistry in Small Headwater Catchments Underlain with Permafrost	Los Alamos National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Euskirchen	Eugénie	Assessing Dynamic Vegetation Model Parameter Uncertainty Across Alaskan Arctic Tundra Plant Communities	University of Alaska Fairbanks	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Kholodov	Alexander	Effect of Slope Topography on the Above- and Below-ground Traits in Tundra Biome: Case Study at the Seward Peninsula	University of Alaska, Fairbanks	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Liu	Yanlan	Dispersal and Fire Limit Arctic Shrub Expansion	The Ohio State University	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Mekonnen	Zelalem	Climatic and Environmental Controls on Recent Arctic Tundra Shrubification	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Salmon	Verity	Impact of Short-term Warming on Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling Along the Plant-Soil Continuum	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Serbin	Shawn	Fine-scale Vegetation Composition and Structure Drives Variation in Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Surface Albedo in Low Arctic Tundra	Brookhaven National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Shirley	Ian	Near-Surface Hydrology and Soil Properties Drive Heterogeneity in Permafrost Distribution, Vegetation Dynamics, and Carbon Cycling in a Sub-Arctic Watershed	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Sulman	Benjamin	Integrating Arctic Vegetation and Biogeochemical Processes into the E3SM Land Model	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Tas	Neslihan	Arctic Alder Nodule Microbe: Insights into Nitrogen Fixation	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Yang	Daryl	Integrating Field Observations and Multi-scale Remote Sensing to Understand Tall Shrub Distribution in Arctic Tundra	Brookhaven National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE Arctic
Wright	Cynthia	Do tropical forest trees have limited water sources? Plant water sourcing depth across the neotropics	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Pivovaroff	Alexandria	Relationships between plant hydraulic traits, gas exchange, and species demography in Panama	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Glendale Community College	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Davidson	Kenneth	Survey Derived Gas Exchange Data Identify Diurnal Patterns in Leaf Level Water Use Efficiency and Improve Model Representation of Stomatal Function in Tropical Forests	Brookhaven National Laboratory; Stony Brook University	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Jardine	Kolby	Stem Respiration and Growth in a Central Amazon Rainforest	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; 2National Institute for Amazon Research	ESS	NGEE_Tropics
Zuleta	Daniel	Overlooked Aboveground Biomass Losses in Tropical Forests	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Hanbury-Brown	Adam	Simulating Environmentally Sensitive Tree Recruitment in Vegetation Demographic Models	University of California Berkeley	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Medina-Vega	José	The Distribution of EcM Trees in Lowland Tropical Forests	Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panama	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Feng	Yanlei	Climate Warming Projected to Cause a Large Increase in Amazon Windthrow Disturbance This Century	University of California, Berkeley	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Wei	Xinyuan	Key Parameters under Varying Phosphorus Supply in the Nutrient-enabled ELM-FATES	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Chambers	Jeffrey	Coupled Modeling of Hillslope Hydrology and Ecosystem Dynamics at Manaus and BCI	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Chambers	Jeffrey	Soil moisture thresholds explain a shift from light-limited to water-limited sap velocity in the Central Amazon during the 2015-16 El Niño drought	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Chambers	Jeffrey	Importance of fire for functional biogeography across tropics	National Center for Atmospheric Research	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Chambers	Jeffrey	A Nutrient Enabled Demographic Ecosystem Model - FATES-ELM-CNP - Evaluation and Parametric Sensitivity at a Tropical Testbed	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Chambers	Jeffrey	The NGEE-Tropics Data Archive and Data Curation Activities	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Solander	Kurt	The impact of soil hydrological parameters on vegetation dynamics	Los Alamos National Laboratory	ESS	NGEE-Tropics
Steefel	Carl	Using Machine Learning to Extend High-resolution Integrated Hydrology Models to River Basin Scales	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Other (Data Management)	ExaSheds
Bailey	Vanessa	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	ESS	PNNL
Mayes	Melanie	The Influence of Soil Moisture and Tree Evapotranspiration on an Urban Microclimate	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	Biogeochemical cycling along the urban interface
Kemner	Kenneth	The Argonne National Laboratory Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Program SFA: Wetland Hydrobiogeochemistry	Argonne National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Argonne Wetland Hydrobiogeochemistry
Kemner	Kenneth	Biogeochemical Dynamics of Fe and U in Fe Flocs in Tims Branch, Savannah River Site under Oxic/Anoxic Cycling	Argonne National Laboratory	SBR	SFA: Argonne Wetland Hydrobiogeochemistry
Kemner	Kenneth	Watershed-Scale Hydrobiogeochemical Properties that Cause Contaminant Hot Spots	Savannah River National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Argonne Wetland Hydrobiogeochemistry
Kemner	Kenneth	Effect of Organic Ligands on U and Fe Biogeochemistry in Wetland Sediments	Argonne National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Argonne Wetland Hydrobiogeochemistry
Torn	Margaret	Microbial Response to Root Substrate Addition is Depth Dependent	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Belowground Biogeochemistry
Torn	Margaret	Linking microbial functional traits and organic matter chemistry to identify the pathways of carbon loss in response to warming through the soil profile	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Belowground Biogeochemistry
Torn	Margaret	Association Between Soil Organic Carbon and Calcium in Acidic Grassland Soils from Point Reyes National Seashore, CA	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Belowground Biogeochemistry
Brodie	Eoin	An Integrated Measurement and Modeling Approach to Improve Estimates of Water Exports within the East River Watershed	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Berkeley Lab Watershed Function
Brodie	Eoin	How Do Geology and Biology Determine Watershed Nitrogen Export? A Paired Catchment Study	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Berkeley Lab Watershed Function
Brodie	Eoin	Fossil Carbon Release and Exports from Subsurface Sedimentary Bedrock Weathering in Mountainous Watersheds	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Berkeley Lab Watershed Function
Brodie	Eoin	Coupled River Corridor Processes across Scale	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Berkeley Lab Watershed Function
Brodie	Eoin	Machine Learning-Based Multi-Scale Multi-Compartment Watershed Characterization across Scales	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Berkeley Lab Watershed Function
Brodie	Eoin	High Performance Computing for Understanding Aggregate C-Q Relationships in Watersheds	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Berkeley Lab Watershed Function and IDEAS-Watershed
Brodie	Eoin	Remote Sensing to Scale Plant, Soil and Microbial Traits and to Infer Watershed Temporal Responses to Disturbance such as Forest Decline	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Berkeley Lab Watershed Function and IDEAS-Watershed
Brodie	Eoin	Shale Weathering in a Mountainous Watershed: Impact of Water Table Fluctuations and Implications for Nitrogen Cycling	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Berkeley Lab Watershed Function and IDEAS-Watershed
Brodie	Eoin	A Showcase of Integrated Atmosphere-to-Bedrock Science Activities in the East River Watershed to Advance Mountainous Hydrology	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Berkeley Lab Watershed Function and IDEAS-Watershed
Brodie	Eoin	Toward Integrated BioEPIC, Data Management and Assimilation Capabilities Supporting Watershed Research	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Berkeley Lab Watershed Function and IDEAS-Watershed
Zavarin	Mavrik	Biogeochemistry of the Pond B Water Column, Savannah River Site, South Carolina	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	ESS	LLNL DOE SFA: BioGeoChemistry at Interfaces
Zavarin	Mavrik	Factors Controlling Pu-239 and Cs-137 Mobility in Contaminated Isolated Pond Sediments, Savannah River Site, South Carolina	Clemson University	ESS	LLNL DOE SFA: BioGeoChemistry at Interfaces
Zavarin	Mavrik	Plutonium Distribution among Acidic Processing Waste at the Hanford Site, USA: Implications to Long-Term Subsurface Migration	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	ESS	LLNL DOE SFA: BioGeoChemistry at Interfaces
Pierce	Eric M.	Effects of Coupled Biogeochemical Processes on Soil Organic Carbon Storge and Fluxes	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Critical Interfaces
Pierce	Eric M.	Linking Trace Metal Biogeochemistry and Carbon-Nutrient Cycling: The Role of Metallophores	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Critical Interfaces
Pierce	Eric M.	Machine Learning Model Prediction of Streamflow in Walker Branch Watershed	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Critical Interfaces
Pierce	Eric M.	Elucidating Coupled Solute Transport, Transformation, and Ecosystem Processes in River Corridors using Stream Tracers	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Critical Interfaces
Pierce	Eric M.	Understanding Environmental Controls on the Composition, Function, and Cycling of Mercury within Fluvial Periphyton	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: Critical Interfaces
Hanson	Paul J.	Taming fine-root systems complexity to reduce Earth System Model uncertainty	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: ORNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science
Hanson	Paul J.	ORNL’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Science – Scientific Focus Area (TES SFA): a 2022 Overview	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: ORNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science
Hanson	Paul J.	An alternative to adapt, migrate or die: insights into microbial enhanced plants resilience to warming	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: ORNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science
Hanson	Paul J.	Microbial Community Responses to Elevated Temperature and CO₂ in Peat Decomposition Ladders	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: ORNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science
Hanson	Paul J.	Coupling Photophysics, Photochemistry, and Biochemistry for a Complete Mechanistic Modeling and Remote Sensing of Photosynthesis	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: ORNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science
Hanson	Paul J.	From Below- to Aboveground, and Integrated Ecosystem Drought Responses	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: ORNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science
Hanson	Paul J.	Modeling Climate Sensitivity of Above and Below Ground Processes at MOFLUX	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: ORNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science
Hanson	Paul J.	Dynamic Imaging of Root and Rhizosphere Processes	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: ORNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science
Hanson	Paul J.	Evaluating and Modeling the Alternative Hypotheses that Connect Organic Inputs to Soil Carbon	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	ESS	SFA: ORNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science
Scheibe	Tim	Integrated Modeling of Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in River Corridors Across the Yakima River Basin	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	ESS	PNNL River Corridor SFA
Scheibe	Tim	Hydrobiogeochemical Variability: Mechanisms Governing Reaction- to Basin-Scale Hydrobiogeochemical Regimes	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	ESS	PNNL River Corridor SFA
Scheibe	Tim	The Influence of Wildfire Disturbance on River Corridor Hydrobiogeochemical Function	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	ESS	PNNL River Corridor SFA
Scheibe	Tim	Hydrobiogeochemical Features and Function Across Basins	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	ESS	PNNL River Corridor SFA
Scheibe	Tim	Mechanisms Governing Spatial Variability in River Corridor Hydrobiogeochemistry	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	ESS	PNNL River Corridor SFA
Scheibe	Tim	Improving Knowledge and Predictions of Hyporheic Zone Respiration via Continental-Scale Iterative ICON-ModEx Science	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	ESS	PNNL River Corridor SFA
Boye	Kristin	SLAC Floodplain Hydro-Biogeochemistry SFA: Spatiotemporal Response of Soil-Gravel Bed Connectivity to Hydrological Transitions in an Intermountain Floodplain Aquifer	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	ESS	SLAC Floodplain Hydro-Biogeochemistry SFA
Boye	Kristin	SLAC Floodplain Hydro-Biogeochemistry SFA: Colloid Dynamics at Floodplain Soil-Gravel Bed Interfaces	SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	ESS	DOE SLAC-SFA Program
Boye	Kristin	SLAC Floodplain Hydro-Biogeochemistry SFA: Hydrological and microbiome dynamics drive shifts in subsurface geochemistry and oxic-anoxic interfaces in floodplain soils	Stanford University	ESS	SLAC Floodplain Hydro-Biogeochemistry SFA
Matheny	Ashley	A Novel Halophyte-Capable Plant Hydraulics Model for Mangrove Forest Function	University of Texas at Austin	ESS	University Project
Smith	Melinda	Droughts and Deluges in Semi-Arid Grassland Ecosystems: Implications of Co-occurring Extremes for C Cycling	Colorado State University	ESS	University Project
Bhatnagar	Jennifer	Linking root and soil microbial stress metabolism to watershed biogeochemistry under rapid, year-round environmental change	Boston University	ESS	University Project
Berkelhammer	Max	Root Dynamics and Ecosystem Legacy, Exploring Responses and Dynamics at Three Midwestern United States AmeriFlux Sites	University of Illinois Chicago	ESS	University Project
Cardenas	M. Bayani	Instream and Hyporheic Zone Contributions to River Corridor Oxygen and CO₂ Dynamics During Particulate Organic Matter Additions	The University of Texas at Austin	ESS	University Project
Deems	Jeffrey S.	Snow pattern evolution in the East River SFA simulated with a distributed snow model and Airborne Snow Observatory data	University of Colorado	SBR	University Project
Carbone	Mariah	Ecohydrological Controls on Root and Microbial Respiration in the East River Watershed of Colorado	Northern Arizona University	ESS	University Project
Cardon	Zoe	“Sticky Roots” – Rhizodeposition and the fate of mineral-associated soil carbon	Marine Biological Laboratory	ESS	University Project
Catalano	Jeffrey	Trace Metal Dynamics and Limitations on Biogeochemical Cycling in Wetland Soils and Hyporheic Zones	Washington University	SBR	University Project
Cavaleri	Molly A.	Tropical Rain Forests, Drought, Hurricanes and Heat: Results from the TRACE Experiment to Date	Michigan Technological University	ESS	University Project
Chan	Clara	Microbial contributions to environmental iron oxidation at the Savannah River Site	Univeristy of Delaware	ESS	University Project
Coleman	James	How does mercury methylation respond to intensive forest management and the creation of anoxia in floodplain soils?	University of North Carolina	ESS	University project
Comas	Xavier	Predicting hot spots and hot moments of biogenic gas accumulation and release in a subtropical ecosystem using airborne ground-penetrating radar (GPR)	Florida Atlantic University	ESS	University Project
Demers	Jason D.	Using Mercury Stable Isotopes to Identify Sources of Methylmercury to Aquatic Food Webs	University of Michigan	ESS	University-Led Research
Fendorf	Scott	Deciphering Controls on Nutrient and Contaminant Migration Within Floodplains: The Critical Role of Redox Environments and Hydrologic Extremes	Stanford University	ESS	University Project
Dukes	Jeffrey	Sap Flux-scaled Transpiration, Canopy Conductance and Gross Primary Productivity in Response to Throughfall Manipulation in Three Co-occurring Species	Purdue University	ESS	University project
El Masri	Bassil	Methane Dynamics of Vegetation-Soil Interactions in Bald Cypress and Other Bottomland Hardwood Forests	Murray State University	ESS	University Project
Feng	Xue	Peatland hydrology across scales: wintertime controls of spring water table and streamflow	University of Minnesota	TES	University Award
Flores	Alejandro N.	Model-Data Fusion to Examine Multiscale Dynamical Controls on Snow Cover and Critical Zone Moisture Inputs	Boise State University	ESS	University Project
Francis	Christopher	Remarkable diversity of metagenome-assembled genomes from key ammonia- and nitrite oxidizing organisms recovered from hydrologically-variable floodplain sediments	Stanford University	ESS	University project
Fraterrigo	Jennifer	Remote Sensing of Plant Functional Traits for Modeling Arctic Tundra Carbon Dynamics	University of Illinois	ESS	University-Led Research
Ginder-Vogel	Matthew	Particulate Organic Matter (POM) Transport and Transformation at the terrestrial-aquatic interface	University of Wisconsin – Madison	ESS	University Project
Gooseff	Michael	Where Do Inflows Occur Along Western Rivers? Using Water Quality Profiles and Geophysics to Identify Inputs to Rivers	University of Colorado	ESS	University Project
Hester	Erich	Effects of Microbial Growth and Death and Sediment Movement on Hyporheic Zone Biogeochemistry	Virgina Tech	ESS	University Project
Whitman	Thea	Modelling Microbes to Predict Post-fire Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest across Burn Severities	University of Wisconsin	ESS	University Project
Hicks Pries	Caitlin	Testing Mechanisms of How Mycorrhizal Associations Affect Forest Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling	Dartmouth College	ESS	University-Led Research
Kannenberg	Steven	What Drives Variability in Carbon-Water Dynamics? The Value of Soil Moisture for Predicting Plant Water Potential and Ecosystem Fluxes	University of Utah	ESS	University Project
Schuur	Ted	The Impact of a Changing Permafrost Tundra Ecosystem on Dissolved Organic Carbon Age and Concentration in Surface and Groundwater in a Long-Term Experiment	Northern Arizona University	TES	University Project
Li	Li	Carbon transformation and transport in a high elevation mountain catchment	Penn State University	ESS	University Project
Kinsman-Costello	Lauren	Rewriting the Redox Paradigm: Dynamic hydrology shapes nutrient and element transformations in a Great Lakes coastal estuary	Kent State University	ESS	University-led
Kivlin	Stephanie N.	Fungal Response to Multiple Global Change Stressors: Evidence from Long-Term Manipulations and Environmental Gradients	University of Tennessee	ESS	University Project
Kostka	Joel E.	Toward a predictive understanding of environmental perturbations in regulating greenhouse gas release in northern peatlands	Florida State University	ESS	University Project
Maher	Kate	Development of a molecularly informed biogeochemical framework for reactive transport modeling of subsurface carbon inventories, transformations and fluxes	Stanford University	ESS	University Project
Marlow	Jeffrey	Identifying Hot Spots and Hot Moments of Metabolic Activity in Salt Marsh Sediments Through BONCAT-FISH Microscale Mapping	Boston University	ESS	University Project
Medvigy	David	Unraveling the Mechanisms of Below- and Aboveground Liana-Tree Competition in Tropical Forests	University of Notre Dame	ESS	University Project
Neumann	Rebecca B.	Advective Heat Transport in Permafrost Landscapes: Biogeochemical Consequences	University of Washington	TES	University Project
Noyce	Genevieve	High-Frequency Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Coastal Wetland	Smithsonian Environmental Research Center	ESS	University Project
Maher	Kate	Development of a molecularly informed biogeochemical framework for reactive transport modeling of subsurface carbon inventories, transformations and fluxes	Stanford University	ESS	University Project
Megonigal	Pat	Temperature and Elevated CO₂Effects on Coastal Wetland Resilience and Carbon Accumulation	Smithsonian Environmental Research Center	ESS	University Project
Rawlins	Michael A.	Investigating Riverine Freshwater and Dissolved Organic Carbon Exports Across the Western Arctic Through Integration of Measurements and Modeling	University of Massachusetts	ESS	University Project
Sala	Anna	Plant Carbohydrate Depletion, Mycorrhizal Networks and Vulnerability to Drought: Experimental Tests in the Field	University of Montana	ESS	University Project
Saleska	Scott	Tropical trees as Conduits for Connecting Belowground Microbial Processes to Aboveground Methane Emissions at the Terrestrial Aquatic Interface	University of Arizona	ESS	University Project
Santelli	Cara	Influence of Hyporheic Exchange on Coupled S-Fe-C biogeochemical cycling and Microbial Community Function in Riparian Wetlands at the Savannah River Site	University of Minnesota	ESS	University Project
Santschi	Peter	Watershed Controls on Uranium Concentrations tied into Natural Organic Matter and Iron Interactions in Streambeds and Wetlands	Texas A&M University at Galveston	ESS	Collaborative Research
Sihi	Debjani	Developing a probabilistic framework to capture redox heterogeneity and greenhouse gas predictions in Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces	Emory University	ESS	University project
Stuart-Haëntjens	Ellen	Tidal Wetland Flux Network: Plans and Progress	California Water Science Center	ESS	University Project
Taillefert	Martial	Effect of Hydrological Forcing on the Biogeochemical Transformation of Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Riparian and Streambed Sediments	Georgia Institute of Technology	ESS	University Project
Thurber	Andrew	Applying “R-Osmos” To Quantify Hot-Moments in a High Mountain Watershed: Co-Development of Novel Methodology To Advance Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface Models	Oregon State University	ESS	University Project
Druhan	Jennifer L.	In-situ Observations of Organic Carbon Oxidation in Shale Regolith and Implications for Bedrock Weathering	University of Texas at Austin	ESS	University Project
Bohrer	Gil	Effects of ecohydrological patches on methane emissions and carbon sequestration in coastal wetlands	University of Louisiana at Lafayette	ESS	University Project
Weber	Karrie A.	Influx of Oxidants into Reduced Zones: Microbiological Controls Governing Metal Oxidation and Reduction	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	ESS	University Led
Nippert	Jesse	Integrating data and models to enhance our understanding of the effects and drivers of shrub encroachment in US tallgrass prairie	University of Wyoming	TES	University Project
Yager	Elowyn	Impacts of streambed dynamics on nutrient and fine sediment transport in mountain rivers	University of Idaho	ESS	University Project
Griffis	Timothy	Biophysical Processes and Feedback Mechanisms Controlling the Methane Budget of an Amazonian Peatland	University of Minnesota	TES	University Project Award
Zimmer	Margaret	Seasonal Hydrologic Forcings Drive Salt Marsh Function	University of California	ESS	University Award