126 Geomicrobiology

Wednesday, 7 November 2001
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  CONTROLS ON THE RATE OF MICROBIAL RESPIRATION IN THE GEOCHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT
  Qusheng Jin, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Craig M. Bethke, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL
  24213 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  COMPARISON OF ORGANIC MATTER PRESERVATION TECHNIQUES FOR SEM STUDY OF GEOLOGIC SAMPLES
  S. E. Fratesi, Mississippi State Univ, Mississippi State, MS and F. Leo Lynch, Mississippi State Univ, Mississippi State, MS
  25584 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  UNDERMAT MINING IN CYANOBACTERIAL MATS
  Carmela Cuomo, Yale Univ, New Haven, CT
  26536 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE EFFECT OF PROTOZOA ON THE REDUCTION OF SOLID PHASE FE(III)
  Brian Mailloux, Princeton, Princeton, NJ and T. C. Onstott, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ and Keun-Hyung Choi, Old Dominion Univ, Norfolk, VA
  27050 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE ORGANIZATION OF MICROBIAL MN-OXIDE PRECIPITATES INTO MINERAL PHASES: A COMPARISON STUDY OF CULTURED AND NATURAL MATERIALS
  Michael N. Spilde, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Penelope J. Boston, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and Adrian J. Brearley, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and R. T. Schelble, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM and J. J. Papike, Univ of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
  27475 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  BIOCONCENTRATION OF SELENIUM IN UPPER CRETACEOUS MARINE VERTEBRATES
  Thomas R. Kulp, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Lisa M. Pratt, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN and Melissa A. Gibson, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  27528 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  DESERT VARNISH: PRESERVATION OF MICROFOSSILS AND BIOFABRIC (EARTH AND MARS?)
  Luke Probst, Bemidji State Univ, Bemidji, MN and Kathie Thomas-Keprta, Lockheed Martin, Houston, TX and Carlton Allen, NASA Johnson Space Ctr, Houston, TX
  27826 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS AND THE DISSOLUTION OF CALCITE AT NEUTRAL PH
  Pamela Gales Conrad, Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech, Pasadena, CA and Andreas Lüttge, Rice Univ, Houston, TX
  28022 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  CATABOLIC ACTIVITY OF THE SUBSURFACE BIOSPHERE IN DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS
  Steven D'Hondt, Univ of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI and Scott Rutherford, Univ of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI and Arthur J. Spivack, Univ of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI
  28279 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  USING COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY FOR DETECTION LIFE IN ROCKS, PERMAFROST, AND ICE. APPLICATION FOR ASTROBIOLOGY
  Alexandre I. Tsapin, Jet Propulsion Lab/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA and Kenneth H. Nealson, N/A
  28488 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR MICROBIAL CONTROL OF HYDROGEN CONCENTRATIONS IN DEEPLY BURIED OCEANIC SEDIMENTS
  Arthur J. Spivack, Univ of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI and David C. Smith, Univ of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI
  28621 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  OXYGEN AND IRON ISOTOPIC ANALYSES OF BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC IRON OXIDES
  Kerstin Witte, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Kevin W. Mandernack, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Thomas D. Bullen, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Wayne C. Shanks, US Geol Survey, Denver, CO and David Emerson, American Type Culture Collection, Manassas, VA and Nurgul Balci, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
  28761 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:30 PM
  THE PRESENCE OF BACTERIA IN EXTREMELY ALKALINE (PH>12) GROUNDWATER
  George Roadcap, Illinois State Water Survey - Univ of Illinois, Champaign, IL
  29046 (Technical Sessions)