Geological Society of America

8:05 AM

AQUIFER VS. COAL-DERIVED METHANOGENS IN PALEOCENE FORT UNION FORMATION COALS – MOLECULAR TECHNIQUE-BASED INFORMATION AND ITS ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

D.A. Klein, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO and R.M. Flores, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, Denver, CO and C. Venot, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO and L.P. Pereyra, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO and A. Pruden, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO

114331 (Technical Sessions)

8:20 AM

16S RRNA GENE LIBRARIES TO CHARACTERIZE THE MICROBIAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AT PETROLEUM-CONTAMINATED AQUIFERS EXHIBITING ANOMALOUS HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES

Silvia Rossbach, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI and Jonathan P. Allen, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI and Estella A. Atekwana, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and Eliot A. Atekwana, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK

113009 (Technical Sessions)

8:35 AM

GROUNDWATER FILTRATES AS SAMPLES OF THE SUBSURFACE MICROBIAL COMMUNITY

Theodore M. Flynn, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL and Robert A. Sanford, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Paige L. Wallace, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL and Craig M. Bethke, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

110379 (Technical Sessions)

8:50 AM

DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF BACTERIAL ISOLATES EXPRESSING BLUE AND GREEN FLUORESCING PROTEINS (BFP AND GFP) AS ALTERNATIVES TO CONVENTIONAL DNA- AND PROTEIN-SPECIFIC FLUORESCENCE STAINING FOR STUDYING BACTERIAL TRANSPORT BEHAVIOR IN GRANULAR MEDIA

David W. Metge, Boulder, CO and Meng Wang, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and Roseanne M. Ford, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and J. Amanda Toepfer, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and Ronald W. Harvey, Boulder, CO

113473 (Technical Sessions)

9:05 AM

USING MICROBIAL COMMUNITY PROFILES FOR DELINEATION AND LONG-TERM MONITORING OF A LANDFILL LEACHATE-CONTAMINATED AQUIFER

Paula J. Mouser, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT and Donna M. Rizzo, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT and Patrick O'Grady, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA and Gregory Druschel, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT and Nancy Hayden, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT and Lori Stevens, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

110351 (Technical Sessions)

9:20 AM

THE USE OF QUANTITATIVE PCR TO EXAMINE CONTROLS ON BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AT AN AQUIFER CONTAMINATED WITH LANDFILL LEACHATE (NORMAN,OK)

Johanna V. Weiss, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Mary A. Voytek, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Julie D. Kirshtein, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Isabelle M. Cozzarelli, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA

114570 (Technical Sessions)

9:50 AM

MONITORING THE METABOLIC STATE OF GEOBACTERACEAE DURING IN SITU U(VI) BIOREMEDIATION

Dawn E. Holmes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA and Regina A. O'Neil, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA and Derek R. Lovley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA

112668 (Technical Sessions)

10:10 AM

METHODS FOR DETECTION OF ARSENIC METABOLIZING BACTERIA

John F. Stolz, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA and Edward Fisher, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA and Ganna Polshnya, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA and Mahmoud Berekaa, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, N/A and Antonio Garcia, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, N/A and Miru Thangavelum, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA and Partha Basu, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA

111192 (Technical Sessions)

10:30 AM

LINKING BACTERIAL ACTIVITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE SHALLOW AQUIFERS OF BANGLADESH

Brian Mailloux, Barnard College Environmental Science Dept, New York, NY and Nada Assaf-Anid, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY and A. van Geen, Palisades, NY and Yan Zheng, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, Flushing, NY and M. Stute, Palisades, NY and Saugata Datta, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA and A. Horneman, Columbia University, New York, NY and B.J. Mislowack, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ and Hailiang Dong, Miami University, Oxford, OH and Greg Freyer, Columbia University, New York, NY

114473 (Technical Sessions)

10:45 AM

THE SEARCH FOR LIFE IN THE DEEP SUBSURFACE: MEMBRANE LIPID BIOSIGNATURES

Susan M. Pfiffner, Unviersity of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and David C. White, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN and Tommy J. Phelps, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN and Lisa Pratt, Dept. of Geological Sciences, Bloomington, IN and T.C. Onstott, Dept. of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ and Esta van Heerden, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, N/A

113253 (Technical Sessions)

11:05 AM

LIPID CHARACTERIZATION OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES IN GROUNDWATER ADJACENT TO A FRESHWATER LAKE IN NORTH-CENTRAL IOWA

Jiasong Fang, Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA and William Simpkins, Iowa State University Dept Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA and Shamik Das Gupta, Iowa State University, Ames, IA and Josef Werne, Duluth, MN

114405 (Technical Sessions)

11:20 AM

VOLATILE ORGANIC CARBON METABOLITES AS INDICATORS OF SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY SHIFT IN MICROCOSM STUDIES

Karen S. McNeal, Texas A&M University, Houston, TX and Bruce E. Herbert, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX

108930 (Technical Sessions)

11:35 AM

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF GREAT SULPHUR SPRING, WESTERN LAKE ERIE, MICHIGAN

Sheridan Kidd Haack, US Geological Survey, Lansing, MI

114943 (Technical Sessions)

T7 The Use of Molecular Techniques to Assess Microbial Community Structure and Function in Aquifer Systems

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