158 Links Between Geological Processes, Microbial Activities, and Evolution of Life

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  CRITICALLY TESTING THE EARLIEST SIGNS OF LIFE
  Martin D. Brasier, Oxford University, Oxford, N/A and Nicola McLoughlin, Oxford Univ, Oxford, N/A and David Wacey, Oxford University, Oxford, N/A
  113846 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  CARBONACEOUS CHERTS OF THE EARLY ARCHEAN; THE USE OF IN SITU TECHNIQUES FOR TRACING EARLY LIFE
  Mark A. van Zuilen, IPGP, Paris, N/A
  112358 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:10 PM
  ABRUPT RISE IN PALEOPROTEROZOIC O2 AND GLOBAL MICROBIAL SULFATE REDUCTION
  Boswell A. Wing, University of Maryland/McGill University, Montreal, QC and Margaret A. Baker, University of Maryland, College Park, MD and Andrey Bekker, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC and Alan J. Kaufman, University of Maryland, College Park, MD and James Farquhar, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
  116580 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  FROM VOLCANIC WINTER TO SNOWBALL EARTH: AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION FOR NEOPROTEROZOIC BIOSPHERE STRESS
  Robert Stern, U Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX and Dov Avigad, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, N/A and Nathan R. Miller, U Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX and Michael Beyth, Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, N/A
  107686 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  OCEANIC PILLOW LAVAS AS A HABITAT FOR MICROBIAL LIFE THROUGH TIME
  Harald Furnes, University of Bergen, Bergen, N/A and Neil R. Banerjee, London, ON and Hubert Staudigel, Univ of California, La Jolla, CA and Karlis Muehlenbachs, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB and Maarten de Wit, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, N/A and Yildirim Dilek, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  116864 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:10 PM
  A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ONTO EARLY LIFE: SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES RISING FROM PHYSICAL-MICROBIAL INTERACTION IN SILICICLASTIC TIDAL FLATS
  Nora Noffke, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
  108528 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  REPEATED FORMATION OF FAVORABLE NEW SUBSTRATES DETERMINES ABUNDANCE AND POPULATION STRUCTURE OF BAHAMIAN STROMATOLITES
  Robert N. Ginsburg, Univ of Miami, Miami, FL and Noah J. Planavsky, Univ of Miami, Miami, FL and Henning Peters, University of Bremen, Research Center for Ocean Margins (RCOM), Bremen, N/A
  113936 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:50 PM
  BIOSPHERE:GEOSPHERE INTERACTIONS IN THE SUB-SEAFLOOR BIOSPHERE
  R. John Parkes, Cardiff University, Cardiff, N/A
  112246 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  RATES AND GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CONSEQUENCES OF MICROBIAL ACTIVITY IN SUBSEAFLOOR SEDIMENTS
  Steven D'Hondt, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI and Arthur J. Spivack, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI and Guizhi Wang, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI
  113265 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  MIF-S RECORD IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS: AN INDICATOR OF ATMOSPHERIC OR BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION?
  Yumiko Watanabe, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Hiroshi Ohmoto, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Hiroshi Naraoka, Okayama Univeristy, Okayama, N/A
  113550 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:50 PM
  THE ANAEROBIC OXIDATION OF METHANE - A REEF-FORMING PROCESS IN THE BLACK SEA
  Martin Blumenberg, Univ Hamburg, Hamburg, N/A and Richard Seifert, Univ Hamburg, Hamburg, N/A and Martin Krüger, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Resources, Hannover, N/A and Walter Michaelis, Univ Hamburg, Hamburg, N/A
  109557 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:10 PM
  GEOMICROBIOLOGY IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS: LINKING GEOLOGICAL PROCESSES WITH MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES
  Hailiang Dong, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  113869 (Technical Sessions)