2016 ESS PI Meeting Research Summary

Last Name	First name	Title	Activity /Group
Abramoff	Rose	Minerals control soil decomposition and organic carbon accumulation over decadal timescales: A modeling analysis	TES SFA
Agarwal	Deb	AmeriFlux Carbon Flux Data System	AmeriFlux
Andres	Robert	Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil Fuel Combustion: Highlights of the Last Year of TES Funding	TES SFA
Andresen	Christian	Wetter or drier? A model intercomparison of soil moisture and runoff predictions in permafrost landscapes	NGEE Arctic
Arora	Bhavna	Flood Plain Modeling: Hydrological, Biogeochemical, and Microbial Controls on Carbon and Nitrogen Fluxes	LBNL SBR SFA
Bailey	Vanessa	Pore- to Core-Scale Research to Inform Ecosystem-Scale Soil C Biogeochemistry	DOE Lab
Bargar	John	SLAC SFA: Coupled cycling of organic matter, uranium, and biogeochemical critical elements in subsurface systems	SLAC SBR SFA
Bargar	John	SLAC SFA: Mechanistic linkages between floodplain critical element and contaminant redox cycles	SLAC SBR SFA
Beller	Harry	Using strain-resolved metatranscriptomic analysis to highlight active biogeochemical processes in the subsurface	LBNL SBR SFA
Belnap	Jayne	Dryland feedbacks to future climate: Strong interactions among climate, biota, carbon cycling, and energy balance	TES University Award
Biraud	Sebastien	AmeriFlux Management Project Tech Team	AmeriFlux
Bolton	W. Robert	Conceptualization of Intermediate- to Large-scale Parameter Estimation of Landscape Transitions Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) Techniques	NGEE Arctic
Boyanov	Maxim	The effect of surfaces and ligands on the reduction and reoxidation reactions of U studied in mixed-batch reactors and flow-through columns	ANL SBR SFA
Breen	Amy	The Alaska Arctic Vegetation Archive: A report on the status of the Arctic Vegetation Archive and an application in northern Alaska	NGEE Arctic
Brodie	Eoin	Genome-enabled modeling of microbial biogeochemistry using a trait-based approach. Does increasing metabolic complexity increase predictive capabilities?	LBNL SBR SFA
Brodie	Eoin	LBNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science SFA - Impact of warming on microbiology and carbon cycling in deep soils.	TES SFA
Brooks	Scott	Periphyton Biofilms Generate Methylmercury in a Contaminated Creek System	ORNL SBR SFA
Cabugao	Kristine Grace	Tree species influences phosphatase activity and microbial community composition	Student
Cardon	Zoe	Modeling the impact of hydraulic redistribution on carbon fluxes and storage using CLM4.5 at four AmeriFlux Sites	TES University Award
Carroll	Rosemary	Building Observational Networks for Hydrologic Characterization of the Snow-Dominated SFA East River Watershed Study Site	LBNL SBR SFA
Catalano	Jeffrey	Evaluating Trace Metal Limitations on Methane Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems	SBR University Award
Cavaleri	Molly	Tropical Response to Altered Climate Experiment (TRACE): adventures in warming a wet tropical forest in Puerto Rico	TES University Award
Chambers	Jeff	Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments Tropics Project Overview	NGEE Tropics
Chen	Hongmei	High-Resolution Mass Spectrometric Analyses of Mercury-DOM Complexation and Cellular Response of Geobacter sulfurreducens PCA Following its hgcAB Gene Deletion	ORNL SBR SFA
Chen	Xingyuan	Field-scale Modeling of Hydrologic and Biogeochemical Dynamics in the Hyporheic Zone of the Columbia River along the Hanford Reach	PNNL SBR SFA
Condon	Laura	Assessing groundwater surface water interactions using an integrated hydrologic model of the Continental US	IDEAS
Danczak	Robert	Snowmelt-induced hydrologic shifts drive biogeochemical and ecological processes in hyporheic zone environments	Student
Davies	Stuart	From leaf to ecosystem level: controls of transpiration in seasonal tropical forests across a rainfall gradient	NGEE Tropics
Dong	Wenming	Subsurface carbon inventories and fluxes in a semi-arid region floodplain, Rifle Colorado	LBNL SBR SFA
Dwivedi	Dipankar	Testing Code Interoperability and Productivity on Modeling Integrated Surface- Subsurface Water Flow and Biogeochemical Cycling in the Hyporheic Zone IDEAS Use Case 1	IDEAS
Dye	Dennis	Understanding the Response of Photosynthetic Metabolism in Tropical Forests to Seasonal Climate Variations	TES University Award
Eissenstat	David	Topographic Controls on Soil Respiration and Fine Root Distribution at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory	TES University Award
Fan	Zhaosheng	Characterizing Organic Matter Lability In Alaskan Tundra Soils Using Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy	TES SFA
Fendorf	Scott	SLAC SFA: Molecular controls over uranium mobility in organic-rich sediments	SLAC SBR SFA
Fendorf	Scott	Spatial Variation in Microbial Processes Controlling Carbon Mineralization within Soils and Sediments	TES University Award
Finzi	Adrien C.	Measuring and modeling CO2 and CH4 flux in response to experimental manipulations of temperature and atmospheric CO2 in a black SPRUCE peatland	TES University Award
Fisher	Rosie	Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: Capturing tropical forest response to novel disturbance regimes	NGEE Tropics
Foster	Lauren	Development of multiple simulation capabilities to model hydrologic partitioning and biogeochemical cycling at the Berkeley Labs East River Field Site	Student
Fox	Patricia	Chemical Characterization and Release Dynamics of Sediment Associated Organic Matter at the Rifle, Co Field Site	LBNL SBR SFA
Francis	Christopher	SLAC SFA: Diversity and biogeography of subsurface nitrogen-cycling communities at uranium-contaminated DOE legacy sites in the upper Colorado River Basin	SLAC SBR SFA
Genereux	David	Regional groundwater systems convey deep crustal carbon into rainforest water, air, and plants in Costa Rica	TES University Award
Gill	Allison	Effect of belowground warming on surface methane and CO2 fluxes from a boreal black spruce peatland	Student
Graham	David	Biogeochemical Controls on Microbial CO2 and CH4 Production Across Polygonal Arctic Soils and Permafrost	NGEE Arctic
Griffiths	Natalie	Peatland porewater chemistry responses to deep peat and whole-ecosystem warming	TES SFA
Grossiord		Effects of atmospheric warming and precipitation reduction on the interaction between carbon and nitrogen in forest ecosystems	DOE Lab
Gu	Baohua	Anaerobic Mercury Methylation and Demethylation by Geobacter bemidjiensis Bem, and factors affecting methylmercury export and distribution	ORNL SBR SFA
Gu	Lianhong	Testing a land model in ecosystem functional space via a comparison of observed and modeled ecosystem flux responses to precipitation regimes and associated stresses in a central USA forest	TES SFA
Hanson	Paul	ORNL Terrestrial Ecosystem Science Scientific Focus Area (TES SFA) A 2016 Overview	TES SFA
Harp	Dylan	Fine-scale modeling of permafrost using the Arctic Terrestrial Simulator	NGEE Arctic
Heinz	Susan	Implementing a Shared Project Management Strategy across NGEE-Arctic and NGEE-Tropics	NGEE Arctic
Hess	Nancy	EMSL: A DOE Scientific User Facility for Terrestrial and Subsurface Science Research	EMSL
Hicks Pries	Caitlin	Soil depths respond differently to in situ warming	TES SFA
Hinkle	Ross	Carbon Dynamics of the Greater Everglades Watershed and Implications of Climate Change	TES University Award
Hodgkins	Suzanne	Latitudinal Differences in Peatland Organic Chemistry observed by FTIR, UV/Vis Absorption, and Fluorescence Spectroscopies	Student
Hoffman	Forrest	Forecasting Pan-Tropical Ecological Impacts of the 2015 El NiÃ±o Southern Oscillation (ENSO)	NGEE Tropics
Hofmockel	Kirsten	Microbial Response to Deep Peat Heating	TES University Award
Holm	Jennifer	Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: Capturing tropical forest response to novel disturbance regimes	NGEE Tropics
Hook	Les	ORNL TES SFA Data Acquisition, Quality Assurance, and Archiving to Support Modeling and Synthesis Tasks	TES SFA
Hopple	Anya	How does deep warming of a peatland affect methane production?	Student
Hou	Zhangshuan (Jason)	Facies Delineation at Local and Reach Scales	PNNL SBR SFA
Hsu-Kim	Heileen	Nanoscale Mercury Sulfide-Organic Matter Interactions: Practical Applications for Environmental Risk Assessment	Early Career
Huang	Maoyi	Quantifying Reach-scale Dynamics of Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange and Land-Atmosphere Interactions along the Columbia River Shoreline through Model-Data Integration	PNNL SBR SFA
Hubbard	Susan	Berkely Lab Watershed Function SFA: Biogeochemical Dynamics from Genome to Watershed Scales	LBNL SBR SFA
Iversen	Colleen	Introducing FRED: A growing Fine-Root Ecology Database	TES SFA
Jardine	Kolby	Disentangling temperature-driven influences to water and carbon plant physiological processes in the Central Amazon during the 2015/16 El NiÃ±o	NGEE Tropics
Jastrow	Julie	Bioavailable Carbon and the Relative Degradation State of Organic Matter in Active Layer and Permafrost Soils	TES SFA
Johnson	Jeffrey	Interoperable software for integrated watershed scale models	IDEAS
Johnson	Tim	Model-driven hydro-geophysical characterization of the groundwater-surface water interaction zone	PNNL SBR SFA
Johs	Alexander	Insights into the Biochemistry of Microbial Mercury Methylation	ORNL SBR SFA
Keeling	Ralph	Atmospheric signatures of large-scale variations in the isotopic fractionation of terrestrial photosynthesis	TES University Award
Keiluweit	Marco	Functional Aerobic-Anaerobic Metabolic Heterogeneity within Soils	TES University Award
Keller	Jason	Warming effects on peat column CH4 dynamics in a Minnesota bog	TES University Award
Kemner	Ken	The Argonne National Laboratory Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Program SFA: Fe and S Biogeochemistry in Redox Dynamic Environments	ANL SBR SFA
Kersting	Annie	LLNL's Subsurface Biogeochemistry of Actinides SFA	LLNL SBR SFA
Killeffer	Terri	The NGEE Arctic Data Archive: Data Sharing, DOI Services, and Modeling Archive	NGEE Arctic
King	Anthony	Functional Unit Testing in the Investigation of Black Spruce Foliar Dark Respiration	TES SFA
Kluber	Laurel	Microbial Response to the SPRUCE Deep Peat Heating Experiment	TES SFA
Kostka	Joel	The response of belowground carbon turnover and heterotrophic microbial communities to warming in peatlands at the ecosystem scale.	TES University Award
Kumar	Jitendra	Characterizing biotic and abiotic properties of landscape and their implications for ecohydrological processes across scales	NGEE Arctic
Lee	Jung-Eun	Collaborative Research on Ecophysiological controls on Amazonian precipitation seasonality and variability	TES University Award
Leung	L. Ruby	Modeling hydrologic processes in the Amazon: Comparison of hydrologic variability in a hierarchy of model simulations	NGEE Tropics
Lin	John	Scaling biospheric CO2 fluxes in the Western U.S. from site to region using the Community Land Model	TES University Award
Litvak	Marcy	Determining the Impact of Forest Mortality in Semi-Arid Woodlands on Local and Regional Carbon Dynamics	TES University Award
Liu	Chongxuan	Functional Enzyme-based Metabolic Models for Simulating Biogeochemical Processes	PNNL SBR SFA
Liu	Yuanyuan	Fine Scale Biogeochemical Processes in Hyporheic Zone Sediments	PNNL SBR SFA
Lu	Meng	Shrinking stems of marsh plant under elevated carbon dioxide	TES University Award
Leger	Emmanuel	Quantifying the Distribution of Soil and Permafrost Properties and Their Linkage with Landscape Properties in Arctic Tundra Ecosystem	NGEE Arctic
Maher	Kate	A multiscale approach to modeling carbon cycling within a high-elevation watershed	SBR University Award
Mao	Jiafu	A framework for the detection and attribution of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics	TES SFA
Matamala	Roser	Mid infrared spectral properties of northern soils across a latitudinal transect in Alaska	TES SFA
Matheus Carnevali	Paula	Variability in microbial community structure and function across and among meanders in the East River SFA Watershed Study Site	LBNL SBR SFA
Mayes	Melanie	Improving Soil C Dynamic Models Through the Incorporation of Microbial Processes	TES SFA
Mcclellan	Matthew	Carbon Dynamics of the Greater Everglades Watershed and Implications of Climate Change	Student
Mcdowell	Nate	NGEE-Tropics El Nino and drought impacts research	NGEE Tropics
Mcfarlane	Karis	Terrestrial Carbon Cycling: Insights Gained through Radiocarbon Analysis and Interpretation at SPRUCE, NGEE-Arctic, and AmeriFlux	DOE Lab
Mcinnes	Lois	Interoperable Design of Extreme-scale Application Software (IDEAS): Software development methodologies that enhance scientific productivity	IDEAS
Megonigal	Pat	Coastal Wetland Carbon Sequestration in a Warmer Climate	TES University Award
Mishra	Bhoopesh	Abiotic redox dynamics between Hg and Mn	ANL SBR SFA
Moore	Jessica	Roots stimulate carbon cycling while mycorrhizae stimulate nitrogen cycling in a boreal upland forest	Student
Neumann	Rebecca	Methane Flux and Oxidation in a Thermokarst Bog in Interior Alaska: The Role of Plants	Early Career
Newcomer	Michelle	Exploring climate controls on hyporheic zone dynamics and feedbacks between sediment distribution, riverbed bioclogging, infiltration, and microbial CO2 production	LBNL SBR SFA
Newman	Brent	Understanding Lateral Hydrological Flow Paths in the Arctic Coastal Plain	NGEE Arctic
Norby	Richard	Photosynthetic parameters of diverse woody species in Panama are correlated with foliar nitrogen and phosphorus content	NGEE Tropics
O'Loughlin	Edward	Effects of soluble electron shuttles on microbial Fe(III) reduction and methanogenesis in wetland sediments	ANL SBR SFA
Painter	Scott	A multiscale strategy for process-rich, microtopography-aware simulations of thermal hydrology in polygonal tundra	IDEAS
Painter	Scott	Exposure-time based approach for modeling mercury transport and transformation in low-order streams	ORNL SBR SFA
Parks	Jerry	Probing Electrochemistry and Chemical Equilibria with Computational Chemistry: Corrinoids Related to Mercury Methylation	ORNL SBR SFA
Pasa-Tolic	Ljiljana	Exploring the Soil Microbiome and Elemental Cycling via Advanced Mass Spectrometry at EMSL	EMSL
Pierce	Eric	Biogeochemical Transformations at Critical Interfaces Science Focus Area: An Overview	ORNL SBR SFA
Porras	Rachel	Synthetic Mineral-Organo Associations in Soil: Vulnerability of Mineral Associated Carbon to Microbial Decomposition with Depth	TES SFA
Powell	Brian	Development of a Self-Consistent Model of Plutonium Sorption: Quantification of Sorption Enthalpy and Ligand-Promoted Dissolution	SBR University Award
Powell	Brian	The influence of plant and microbial exudates on radionuclide mobility in subsurface environments	SBR University Award
Powell	Brian	Understanding Technetium Transport in Porous Media with Batch Geochemical Tests, 4D Emission Imaging Experiments and Modeling Studies	SBR University Award
Powers	Jennifer	Extrapolating carbon dynamics of seasonally dry tropical forests across geographic scales and into future climates: improving simulation models with empirical observations	TES University Award
Raczka	Brett	An observational constraint on stomatal function in forests: evaluating coupled carbon and water vapor exchange with carbon isotopes in the Community Land Model (CLM 4.5)	TES University Award
Raff	Jonathan	Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Land-Atmosphere Interactions of Reactive Oxides of Nitrogen	Early Career
Ricciuto	Daniel	A new model intercomparison at SPRUCE	TES SFA
Richardson	Curtis	The Role of Phenolic Compounds, Aromatics and Black Carbon Controls on Decomposition, GHG losses in Peatlands Along a Latitudinal Gradient from Minnesota to Panama	TES University Award
Rivers	Adam	The DOE Joint Genome Institute: A dedicated user facility for environmental & energy genomics	Early Career
Roden	Eric	Composition and Metabolic Activity of Columbia River SIZ Microbial Communities in Relation to Habitat and DOC Source	PNNL SBR SFA
Rowland	Joel	The flux of soil organic carbon into arctic rivers from river bank erosion	Early Career
Santschi	Peter H	Collaborative Research: Natural Organic Matter And Microbial Controls On Mobilization/Immobilization Of I And Pu In Soils And Waters Affected By Radionuclide Releases In USA And Japan	SBR University Award
Schafer	Karina	Canopy water use efficiency before, during and after gypsy moth attack in an upland forest in the New Jersey Pine Barrens	TES University Award
Scheibe	Timothy	Hybrid Multiscale Simulation of Hydro-Biogeochemical Processes in the Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction Zone	PNNL SBR SFA
Schmidt	Andres	Project title: Carbon cycle dynamics in Oregon's urban-suburban-forested-agricultural landscapes	TES University Award
Schuur	Ted	The impact of permafrost carbon loss on the carbon balance of an experimentally warmed tundra ecosystem	TES University Award
Shi	Xiaoying	Representing northern peatland hydrology and biogeochemistry with the Community Land Model	TES SFA
Shi	Yuning	Using a spatially-distributed hydrologic biogeochemistry model to study the spatial variation of carbon processes in a Critical Zone Observatory	TES University Award
Slette	Ingrid	Characterizing rooting depth distribution and nitrogen acquisition by dominant tundra plant species	NGEE Arctic
Stegen	James	Linkages among Geophysical Facies, Microbial Composition, Biogeochemical Rates, and Seasonal Hydrology in the Hyporheic Zone	PNNL SBR SFA
Strand	Allan	Inducing and characterizing root senescence through anatomical, chemical, and transcriptional approaches.	TES University Award
Tokunaga	Tetsu	Deep vadose zone respiration contributions to CO2 fluxes from a semi-arid floodplain	LBNL SBR SFA
Torn	Margaret	Berkeley Lab Terrestrial Ecosystem Science SFA: Belowground carbon cycling	TES SFA
Torn	Margaret	The AmeriFlux Management Project	AmeriFlux
Trowbridge	Amy	Net bVOC emissions from a mixed hardwood forest floor: Importance of species composition and belowground processes in driving seasonal dynamics	TES University Award
Varadharajan	Charuleka	Agile data management and synthesis for heterogeneous, multiscale watershed datasets	LBNL SBR SFA
Varadharajan	Charuleka	Development and management of tropical forest datasets for model simulation and benchmarking	NGEE Tropics
Vaughn	Lydia	Soil carbon inputs and ecosystem respiration: a field priming experiment in Arctic coastal tundra	Student
Versteeg		Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) abstract	SBIR
Visser	Ate	Applications of Isotope and Noble Gas Analyses for Water Resources Management	SBR University Award
Wainwright	Haruko	Above and Below-Ground Geophysical Characterization of Watershed Structure and Functioning	LBNL SBR SFA
Waldo	Nicholas	Using Optical Oxygen Sensors and Targeted Microbial Analyses to Examine Methane Dynamics in the Boreal Rhizosphere	Student
Walker	Anthony	Global sensitivity analysis of a leaf photosynthesis model composed of multiple competing hypotheses	TES SFA
Wallenstein	Matthew	Tracking the fate of Arctic carbon: will shrub expansion result in a loss of soil carbon?	TES University Award
Wang	Dali	Building A Virtual Ecosystem Dynamic Model for Root Research	TES SFA
Warren	Jeff	Ecophysiology and water relations of woody plants within an Picea-Sphagnum ombrotrophic bog	TES SFA
Weston	David	Insights into Sphagnum physiology and the associated microbiome at SPRUCE	TES SFA
Wieder	Will	Benchmarking and improving microbial-explicit soil biogeochemistry models	TES University Award
Williams	Kenneth	From Rifle to RMBL: MODEX activities at Berkeley Labâs East River Watershed Study Site	LBNL SBR SFA
Wullschleger	Stan	Next-Generation Ecosystems Experiment (NGEE Arctic): Progress and Plans	NGEE Arctic
Xu	Chonggang	Toward a better prediction of water stress on vegetation dynamics in Earth System Models	DOE Lab
Yabusaki	Steve	Rifle Floodplain Water Table Dynamics: Biogeochemical Cycling and Uranium Mobility	LBNL SBR SFA
Yang	Xiaojuan	Improve the representation of phosphorus availability and uptake in land surface models	TES SFA
Yang	Yu	Systematic Investigation of the Biogeochemical Stability of Iron Oxide-Bound Organic Carbon: Linking Redox Cycles and Carbon Persistence	SBR University Award
Yang	Ziming	Influences of climate warming on labile organic carbon transformation and mercury methylation in saturated tundra from Barrow, Alaska	NGEE Arctic
Ye	Ming	Computational Bayesian Framework for Quantification of Predictive Uncertainty in Environmental Modeling	Early Career
Zachara	John	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory SFA: Hydro-Biogeochemical Process Dynamics in the Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction Zone	PNNL SBR SFA
Zhu	Qing	Linkage between root competitive traits and tundra nitrogen uptake patterns	NGEE Arctic

Time	Program	Speaker
7:00-8:00 am	Breakfast (Franklin Building)
7:00-8:00 am	Meeting Check In (Franklin Building)
8:00-9:55 am	Overview of Programs and Strategic Directions (Ben Franklin Hall)	D. Stover
8:00-8:05 am	Welcome and Introductory Comments	D. Stover
8:05-8:10 am	BER Programs	S. Weatherwax
8:10-8:20 am	CESD Programs & Strategic Directions	G. Geernaert
8:20-8:25 am	Science Highlights	J. DeForest
8:25-8:45 am	TES Program Goals, Objectives, Activities and Highlights	J. DeForest
8:45-9:05 am	SBR Program Goals, Objectives, Activities and Highlights	D. Lesmes
9:05-9:15 am	ESS Working Group	D. Lesmes
9:15-9:25 am	Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME) Update	D. Koch
9:25-9:35 am	Regional and Global Climate Modeling and Analyses	R. Joseph
9:35-9:45 am	Integrated Assessment Activities	B. Vallario
9:45-10:10 am	Break
10:10-12:10 pm	Plenary Session I ?Building Community Infrastructure: Observations, Data, & Models (Ben Franklin Hall)	J. Hnilo and D. Lesmes
10:10-10:25 am	AmeriFlux's Role in Building Community Infrastructure: Observations, Data and Models	D. Baldocchi
10:25-10:40 am	Large-Scale Remote Autonomous Data Collection: Philosophy, Methods, Accessibility and Quality Control	P. Hanson
10:40-10:55 am	Streamlining data flows & tool development	D. Agarwal
10:55-11:10 am	Federated Data Management	D. Williams
11:10-11:15 am	Interoperable Design of Extreme-scale Application Software (IDEAS)	L. Curfman McInnes
11:15-11:30 am	Interoperability and Productivity in Modeling Watershed-Scale Integrated Surface-Subsurface Water Flow and Biogeochemical Cycling	C. Steefel
11:30-11:45 am	A Multiscale Strategy for Process-Rich, Microtopography-Aware Simulations of Thermal Hydrology in Polygonal Tundra	S. Painter
11:45-12:00 pm	Towards a High Resolution, Integrated Hydrology Model of North America: Diagnosis of Feedbacks between Groundwater and Land Energy Fluxes at Continental Scales	R. Maxwell
12:00-12:10 pm	Realizing the Virtual Laboratory through Community Supported Cyberinfrastructure: Leveraging IDEAS and beyond	D. Moulton
12:10-2:00 pm	Lunch (Osgood Building)
1:00-2:00 pm	Lunch with Facilities & Community Resources Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) ? ARM, EMSL, JGI (Room 3)	N. Hickmon, K. Hofmockel, A. Rivers
1:00-2:00 pm	DOE Computational Activities and Programs, including How to Access HPC and Leadership Resources (Room 4)	L. Nowell, C. Lauzon, T. Ndousse-Fetter
2:00-5:00 pm	Poster Session I (Franklin Building: Rooms 9A/B, and 21)
2:00-3:30 pm	Poster Subsession A
3:30-5:00 pm	Poster Subsession B
5:30-7:00 pm	Dinner (Osgood Building)
7:00-8:30 pm	Concurrent Sessions - I (Franklin Building)
Concurrent Session 1: 20th Anniversary of AmeriFlux (Room: Ben Franklin Hall)	Stover
7:00-7:20 pm	History of the AmeriFlux network	D. Hollinger
7:20-7:40 pm	Harnessing Site Clusters to Strengthen Earth System Models.	A. Noormets
7:40-8:00 pm	The future of the AmeriFlux network	T. Keenon
8:00-8:30 pm	Discussion
8:30 PM	Adjourn
Concurrent Session 2: Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces (Room 3)	DeForest
7:00-7:20 pm	Elevated CO2 Effects on Estuaries: Ocean Acidification versus Wetland Alkalization	P. Megonigal
7:20-7:40 pm	Pan-arctic estimates of carbon exports across floodplain-river interfaces	J. Rowland
7:40-8:00 pm	Differences in the Complexity of Soluble Organic Carbon Sampled from Different Pore Size Domains: Physical Protection as a Mechanism for the Persistence of C in Soils	V. Bailey
8:00-8:20 pm	Warming effects on peat column CH4 dynamics in a Minnesota bog	J. Keller
8:20 PM	Discussion
8:30 PM	Adjourn
Concurrent Session 3: Community Modeling of Soil Systems: A Discussion (Room 4)	Lesmes
7:00-7:05	Session Introduction	D. Lesmes
7:05-7:15 pm	Formation of an International Soil Modeling Consortium (Community)	M. Young
7:15-8:00 pm	Discussion with panelists: Yakov Pachepsky (USDA), Xingyuan Chen (PNNL), Scott Painter (ORNL), Boris Faybishenko (LBNL), Kate Maher (Stanford U.).
8:00-8:30 pm	Open Discussion and Paths Forward	All
8:30 PM	Adjourn
Concurrent Session 4: Biogeochemical Interactions in the Surface Water - Groundwater Interaction Zone (Room 17A/17B)	Bayer
7:00-7:20	Coupled spatiotemporal dynamics of hydrology, biogeochemistry, and microbial ecology	J. Steegan
7:20-7:40 pm	Field and laboratory scale investigations of biogeochemical gradients across the surface water groundwater interface	S. Brooks
7:40-8:00 pm	Climate and hydrological controls on riverbed bioclogging and implications for water resources and quality	M. Newcomer
8:00-8:20 pm	Evaluating trace metal limitations on methane fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems	J. Catalano
8:20-8:20 pm	Discussion
8:30 PM	Adjourn

Time	Program	Speaker
7:00-8:00 am	Breakfast (Osgood Building)
8:00-9:00 am	Plenary Session II: Model Development and Testing ? Managing Complexity (Ben Franklin Hall)	Lesmes
8:00-8:15 am	Traits modeling approaches	L. Kueppers
8:15-8:30 am	The challenges and opportunities of growing FRED: a global Fine-Root Ecology Database	C. Iversen
8:30-8:45 am	Advancing systems-level understanding through data-constrained modeling at the Rifle field site	S. Yabusaki
8:45-9:00 am	Reactive transport modeling in the era of genomics	E. Brodie
9:00-12:00 pm	Poster Session II (Franklin Building: Rooms 1, 9A/9B, and 21)
9:00-10:30 am	Poster Subsession C
10:30-12:00 pm	Poster Subsession D
12:00-1:30 pm	Lunch (Osgood Building)
Sage Advice for Students and Post-Docs (Room 17A/17B)	D. Stover
1:30-3:00 pm	Concurrent Sessions ? II (Franklin Building)
1:30-3:00 pm	Concurrent Session 5: Recent Advances in Belowground Ecology (Room 3)	DeForest
1:30-1:50 pm	Topographic Controls on Root Length Density and Soil Respiration	D. Eissenstat
1:50-2:10 pm	Turning uncertainty into opportunity by advancing theory and models	W. Wieder
2:10-2:30 pm	Model-inspired measurements of phosphorus at the root-soil interface	R. Norby
2:30-2:50 pm	Carbon Partitioning from Foliage to Fungi: a Model-Experiment Case Study	J. Warren
2:50-3:00 pm	Discussion
3:00 PM	Adjourn
1:30-3:00 pm	Concurrent Session 6: Arctic Ecosystem Ecology (Room 4)	Stover
1:30-1:50 pm	The impact of permafrost carbon loss on the carbon balance of an experimentally warmed tundra ecosystem	T. Schuur
1:50-2:10p am	Quantifying the distribution and composition of soil carbon stocks in polygonal landscapes of the Alaskan coastal plain	J. Jastrow
2:10-2:30 pm	NGEE Arctic: Making the Move to Phase 2	S. Wullschleger
2:30-2:50 pm	Understanding snow-vegetation-permafrost interactions for land modeling	C. Wilson
2:50-3:00 pm	Discussion
3:00 PM	Adjourn
Concurrent Session 7: Watershed Function and Dynamics: Understanding Disturbed and Managed Systems (Room: Ben Franklin Hall)	Lesmes
1:30-1:50 pm	Potential impacts of projected hydro-climatic changes on groundwater and surface water interactions along the Columbia River Corridor	M. Tfaily
1:50-2:10 pm	Effect of damming on nutrient fluxes in rivers	M. Torn
2:10-2:30 pm	Critical watersheds: Multiscale impacts of drought and fire	B. Gu
2:30-2:50 pm	Effects of drought on agroecosystems and watersheds	A. Finzi
2:50pm	Discussion
3:00 PM	Adjourn
Concurrent Session 8: Redox Cycling and Organomineral Interactions (Room 17A/17B)	Hirsch
1:30-1:50 pm	Aquifer anaerobic heterogeneities: molecular controls over carbon fate and
radionuclide cycling	J. Bargar
1:50-2:10 pm	Subsurface reactive oxygen species and implications	P. Nico
2:10-2:30 pm	Fe/Mn/S redox dynamics and effects on U/Hg transformations	K. Kemner
2:30-2:50 pm	Coupled biogeochemical cycles of Fe and C during redox reactions	F. Yang
2:50 PM	Discussion
3:00pm	Adjourn
3:00-3:20 pm	Break
3:20-5:30 pm	Plenary Session III ? Broad Federal Agency Perspective (Ben Franklin Hall)	Geernaert
3:20-3:30 pm	Introduction	G. Geernaert
Coordinating Climate Science Research
3:30-3:45-pm	Global Change Research: Perspectives from the science-policy interface	M. Kuperberg
3:45-4:55 pm	2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2)	M. Mayes
4:55-5:05 pm	Questions	M. Kuperberg and M. Mayes
Water-Energy-Land Nexus: Understanding and Managing System Complexity and Dynamics
4:05-4:15 pm	The Energy-Water Nexus ? Research Challenges and Opportunities	B. Vallario
4:15-4:25 pm	Planning for the Future ? Hydropower	H. Battey
4:25-4:35 pm	Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems	T. Torgersen
4:35-4:45 pm	Research, Monitoring, and Assessment of the Nation's Water Resources	D. Cline
4:45-4:55 pm	Planning for the Future ? Overview of the National Water Model	E. Clark
4:55-5:20 pm	Discussion: Building Community Infrastructure for Research and Operations David Lesmes (moderator): Hoyt Battey, Edward Clark, Donald Cline, Thomas Torgersen, Bob Vallario
5:20-5:30 pm	Closeout/Announcements	T. Torgersen
5:30-7:00 pm	Dinner (Osgood Building)
7:00 PM	Adjourn
Team Meetings (Franklin Building)
7:00 PM	NGEE-Tropics (Room 3)	J. Chambers
7:00 PM	NGEE-Arctic (Room 4)	S. Wullschleger
7:00 PM	SPRUCE (Room 17A/17B)	P. Hanson

Presentations

Individual Abstracts

Meeting agenda

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Wednesday, April 27, 2016