55 Mineral Transformations in the Environment: Geobiological and Geochemical Aspects

Tuesday, 19 March 2013
4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Gifford Room

Presentations

• 4:10 PM
  MICROBES IN THE WEATHERING ENVIRONMENT
  Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY and C.K. Keller, Washington State University, Pullman, WA and S.L.S. Stipp, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen
  215893 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  ORGANIC MATTER MATTERS: PREDICTING PH, ALKALINITY AND MINERAL SATURATION FOR MICROBIAL METABOLISM OF DIFFERENT ELECTRON DONOR COMPOUNDS
  Kim Gallagher, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT and Tristan Kading, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA and Olivier Braissant, University of Basel, Basel, N/A and Christophe Dupraz, Stockholm University, Stockholm, N/A and Pieter T. Visscher, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  215453 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  MINERAL RECORDS OF HABITABILITY: LESSONS LEARNED FROM CONTINENTAL SERPENTINITES
  Dawn Cardace, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
  215607 (Theme Sessions)
• 4:55 PM
  BIOGEOCHEMICAL WEATHERING OF SERPENTINITE IN BATCH AND FLOW-THROUGH DISSOLUTION EXPERIMENTS
  Kimberly Negrich, University of Maine, Orono, ME and Amanda A. Olsen, University of Maine, Orono, ME and Jean MacRae, University of Maine, Orono, ME and Elisabeth M. Hausrath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
  216110 (Theme Sessions)
• 5:10 PM
  ASSESSING THE APPLICABILITY OF PORTABLE XRF ANALYSIS TO THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL BONES
  Yukiko Tonoike, Yale University, New Haven, CT
  215393 (Theme Sessions)