Friday, April 1, 2005 - The opening keynote talk will be in the Earth-Engineering Sciences Building (EESB) Room 114 and posters will be in the EESB lobby

 

4:00-4:45         Diane McKnight, general keynote talk: Morning, Noon and Night:   Dissolved Organic Material,  Photochemistry and River Ecosystems

 

4:45-5:00         Break

 

5:00-7:00         Poster sessions accompanied by a buffet

 

            5:00-6:00         Session I:          Agriculture and Soil Sciences and Ecology

                                    Session II:        Biochemistry and Microbiology

                                    Session III:       Biogeochemistry

 

            6:00-7:00         Session IV:       Chemistry and Materials Science

                                    Session V:        Environmental Engineering

                                    Session VI:       Earth Sciences

 

 

Saturday, April 2, 2005 - The oral presentations, the closing keynote talk, and the awards ceremony will be in the Earth-Engineering Sciences Building (EESB) Room 114 and posters will be in the EESB lobby

 

9:00-9:45         Breakfast

 

9:45-10:00       Opening remarks

 

10:00-11:15     Oral Session I:  Biochemistry and Biogeochemistry

            10:00 - John Hanley Jr, Metabolomic Investigation of Plant-Insect and Plant-Pathogen Interactions

            10:15 - Michele A. Mansfield, Analysis of two classes of sphinganine analog mycotoxins in Pennsylvania corn silage

            10:30 - Shawn D. Goldman, Modeling Fe Isotope Fractionation by Organic Ligands in Solution

            10:45 - Courtney H. Turich, A relationship between the archaeal lipids and salinity

            11:00 - Aubrey L. Zerkle, Metal limitation of cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation and implications for nutrient limitation in modern and ancient environments

 

11:15-11:30     Break

 

11:30-12:45     Oral Session II: Environmental Engineering

            11:30 - Matt Bachmann, A New Method for Quantifying Rates of Groundwater Pollution Remediation by Subsurface Microbes

            11:45 - Morgan Minyard, Reaction-based reactive transport modeling of biological iron(III) reduction in natural sediments

            12:00 - Yun Bao, Nature’s Waste Form

            12:15 - Mary Parent, Engineered biofilm adhesion forces and development

            12:30 - Steven Van Ginkel, Improving Methanogenic Granular Sludge at Extreme Conditions & Life and Times at Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands:  A BRIE International Experience

 

12:45-1:30       Lunch

 

1:30-2:45         Oral Session III:  Geochemistry

            1:30 - Geoffrey M. Bowers, Local electromagnetic environments of strontium nuclei in strontianite and celestine

            1:45 - R. Kramer Campen, Second harmonic generation as a probe of adsorption at colloidal particle surfaces

            2:00 - Daniel Hummer, A time-resolved synchrotron XRD study of TiO2 crystallization

            2:15 - Heather L. Buss, Field Weathering Rates and the Importance of Fracturing

            2:30 - Elisabeth Hausrath, Basalt Weathering in a Mars Analog Environment: Clues to the Duration of Water on Mars? 

 

2:45-3:00         Break

 

3:00-4:00         Diane McKnight, technical keynote talk:  Humic Quinones and Environmental Redox Processes

 

4:00-4:30         Awards

 

6:00 onward     Party at Ming's