C-DEBI Newsletter – July 15, 2019

Publications & Press

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Science Friday: Why We Need To Talk About Microbes And Climate – NEW!
We may refer to Earth as “our planet,” but it really belongs to the microbes. All the plants and animals on Earth are relatively new additions to the planetary ecosystem. But despite living basically everywhere on the planet, and playing a role in many of the processes that affect the climate, the connection between microbes and the climate is often ignored. That needs to change, says a consensus statement published by researchers in the journal Nature Reviews: Microbiology.

 

Meetings & Activities

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AGU: 2019 Fall Meeting Call for Abstracts – UPDATED!
Attending the AGU Fall Meeting, December 9-13, 2019? Consider submitting your abstracts (due July 31, 2019) to these deep biosphere-related Session Proposals:

• B036 Creating Data Synchronicity Across Earth Microbiome Research 
  Elisha M Wood-Charlson¹, Bonnie L Hurwitz², Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh³ and Kjiersten Fagnan³, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States(2)University of Arizona, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States(3)Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, United States
• B046 Exploring microbial ecosystems using cutting edge advances in isotope and omics analyses 
  James Moran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Paul Dijkstra, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Steven Blazewicz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
• B047 Exploring the Biotic Fringe 
  Everett Shock¹, Marshall Wayne Bowles^2,3, Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert¹ and Mark Alexander Lever⁴, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States(2)MARUM – University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany(3)Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin, LA, United States(4)ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Biogeochemistry & Pollutant Dynamics, Zürich, Switzerland
• B074 Microbial contributions to methane cycling 
  Christopher Abin, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant BIology, Norman, OK, United States, Ellen Grace Lauchnor, Montana State University, Civil Engineering, Bozeman, MT, United States and Erika Espinosa-Ortiz, Montana State University, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Bozeman, MT, United States
• B076 Microbial Metabolisms and Biogeochemical Processes in Earth’s Subsurface 
  James Bradley, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Cara Magnabosco, Simons Foundation, Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Biology, New York, NY, United States and Nagissa Mahmoudi, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• B085 Omics-Informed Models of Microbial Dynamics and Processes from Cells to Ecosystems 
  Timothy D Scheibe, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Romy Chakraborty, Lawrence Berkeley Nat’l Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, Pamela Weisenhorn, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States and John D Moulton, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
• ED021 Curating the creative: Science, art, and public engagement 
  Katie Pratt, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, Darlene Trew Crist, Deep Carbon Observatory, Narragansett, RI, United States and Emma Liu, University of Cambridge, Earth Sciences, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• ED024 Efforts to improve and support REU Internship Programs 
  Valerie Sloan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Education & Outreach, Boulder, CO, United States, Gabriela Noriega, Southern California Earthquake Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Diane Y Kim, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Kenneth Voglesonger, Northeastern Illinois University, Earth Science and Environmental Science Program, Chicago, IL, United States
• EP018 – Earth 4D – a Deep Dive into the Habitability of the Blue Planet – NEW!
  John F Mustard, Brown University, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto, Magdalena R Osburn, Northwestern University
• H034 Characterizing Spatial and Temporal Variability of Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes across Scales 
  Bhavna Arora, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Haruko Murakami Wainwright, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
• OS001 Advancements in Understanding Seafloor Volcanism and Life: Axial Seamount  – A Wired Submarine Volcano Observatory 
  Deborah S Kelley, University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and William W. Chadwick Jr, Oregon State University, CIMRS, and NOAA/PMEL, Newport, WA, United States
• OS004 Beyond Hydrography: Seafloor Mapping as Critical Data for Understanding Our Oceans 
  Nicole Raineault, Ocean Exploration Trust, Narragansett, RI, United States, Vicki Lynn Ferrini, LDEO, Palisades, NY, United States, Rachel Medley, NOAA Office of Exploration and Research, Silver Spring, United States and Maria T Judge, Geological Survey of Ireland, Marine Geology, Dublin, Ireland
• OS014 General topics in biological or chemical oceanography in poster format 
  John Crusius, USGS Alaska Science Center at UW School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Zackary I Johnson, Duke University, Beaufort, NC, United States
• P038 – The New Mars Underground 2.0: Towards a 3D Understanding of the Martian Crustal Subsurface – NEW!
  Vlada Stamenkovic, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Kris Zacny, Honeybee Robotics, John F Mustard, Brown University
• V027 Izu-Bonin-Mariana arc system:  synthesis and remaining questions 
  Susan DeBari, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, Julie Prytulak, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Charles Geoffrey Wheat, NURP/ Univ Alaska, Moss Landing, CA, United States and Shuichi Kodaira, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan

UCSD: Guaymas Science Symposium, September 16, 2019, Scripps Forum – NEW!
Within the scope of an IODP Day at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the “Expedition to Guaymas” Science Symposium will be held the afternoon of September 16, 2019 at the Scripps Forum, UC San Diego.  Hear from Guaymas Basin researchers including the team on IODP Expedition 385: Guaymas Basin Tectonics and Biosphere before they set sail. More information to follow.

ISSM: Submit your abstracts to the 11th ISSM conference, June 14-19, 2020, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Abstracts due in September 2019.

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Best, 

 

Matt

 

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Matthew Janicak

Data Manager

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