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Activity

2024

• CARBON-, NITROGEN-, AND SULFUR-CYCLING CAPABILITIES OF ENIGMATIC MICROORGANISMS FROM ENERGY-LIMITED DESERT CAVES
  T134 New Frontiers in Cave and Karst Science
  Monday, 23 September 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  212B

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2023

• CHARACTERIZATION OF NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER (NOM) WITHIN VOLCANIC (LAVA TUBE) CAVES IN A POST-FIRE REGIME
  T52 Characteristics, Reactivity and Role of Natural Organic Matter (NOM) in Elemental Cycling in the Environment
  Sunday, 15 October 2023

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  333

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2022

• IMPACTS OF WILDFIRE ON VOLCANIC (LAVA TUBE) CAVE WATER CHEMISTRY
  T9 Characteristics, Reactivity, and the Role of Natural Organic Matter (NOM) in Mobilizing Trace Elements of Health Concern in the Environment
  Sunday, 9 October 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  506
• LIFE IN THE LAVA TUBES: PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC COMMUNITIES IN A MARS ANALOG ENVIRONMENT
  15 D4. Recent Advances in Paleontology, Paleoecology, and Paleoclimatology
  Wednesday, 16 March 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  WRI 148

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2021

• MICROBIAL DIVERSITY OF THE MINERAL-MICROBIAL CONTINUUM IN LAVA CAVES: IMPLICATIONS FOR NITROGEN CYCLING
  T72 New Frontiers in Cave and Karst Research: In Honor of the International Year of Caves and Karst
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  D136 (Hybrid Room)
• GENOMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF EXTREMELY ACIDOPHILIC BACTERIA IN ACIDIC CAVE WALL BIOFILMS
  T72 New Frontiers in Cave and Karst Research: In Honor of the International Year of Caves and Karst
  Monday, 11 October 2021

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  D136 (Hybrid Room)

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2020

• NEW CULTURE-BASED AND GENOMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF EXTREMELY ACIDOPHILIC ACIDITHIOBACILLUS SPP. FROM SULFIDIC CAVES
  T191 New Frontiers in Cave and Karst Research II
  Thursday, 29 October 2020

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Meeting Rooms

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2019

• MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES IN FERROMANGANESE DEPOSITS IN FORT STANTON CAVE, NM, USA ARE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT FROM SURFACE SOIL COMMUNITIES
  T16 Biogeochemical Interactions in Caves and Karst
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 224B, North Building
• GLOBAL BIOGEOGRAPHY AND DIVERSITY OF EXTREMELY ACIDIC CAVE-DWELLING ACIDOPHILIC COMMUNITIES
  T16 Biogeochemical Interactions in Caves and Karst
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 224B, North Building
• IN THE LAND OF BLACK AND WHITE, MICROBIAL DEPOSITION OF FERROMANGANESE ON THE WALLS OF SNOWY RIVER, FORT STANTON CAVE, NEW MEXICO
  T16 Biogeochemical Interactions in Caves and Karst
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 224B, North Building
• COMPARATIVE METAGENOMIC AND CULTURE-BASED ANALYSIS OF EXTREMELY ACIDOPHILIC ACIDITHIOBACILLUS SPP. FROM SULFIDIC CAVE BIOFILMS
  T16 Biogeochemical Interactions in Caves and Karst
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 224B, North Building

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2016

• MICROBIAL MAT COMMUNITIES IN HAWAIIAN LAVA CAVES
  31 Something for Everybody: The Many Faces of Karst Science in all its Multidisciplinary Glory
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 504
• THE SPECTACULAR MACROSCOPIC MICROBIAL BIOSIGNATURES OF LAVA TUBE CAVES
  31 Something for Everybody: The Many Faces of Karst Science in all its Multidisciplinary Glory
  Sunday, 25 September 2016

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 504

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2015

• GEOMICROBIOLOGY OF CAVE PEARLS: NEW EVIDENCE FROM CARLSBAD CAVERN
  T15 New Perspectives in Karst Geomicrobiology and Redox Geochemistry: Advances from 20 Years of Interdisciplinary Research and Exploring Our Future Frontiers
  Sunday, 1 November 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 340

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2014

• CLUES TO THE ORIGIN OF SUBAQUEOUS CAVE MICROBIALITES: THE LIVING POOL FINGERS OF THE HERBSTLABYRINTH/ADVENTHÖHLE CAVE SYSTEM, HESSE, GERMANY
  T281 New Developments in Microbialites
  Wednesday, 22 October 2014

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  304/305

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2012

• BACTERIAL ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF POOL FINGERS IN CARBONATE CAVE POOLS
  20 Terrestrial Carbonate Systems: Travertines, Lakes, Soils and Caves
  Thursday, 10 May 2012

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Alvarado C
• SPELEOGENETIC EFFECTS OF MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES IN CARBONATE SYSTEMS
  20 Terrestrial Carbonate Systems: Travertines, Lakes, Soils and Caves
  Thursday, 10 May 2012

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Alvarado C
• GEOCHEMISTRY OF CAVE POOLS IN THE CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK, NM: IMPLICATIONS FOR GEOMICROBIOLGY
  20 Terrestrial Carbonate Systems: Travertines, Lakes, Soils and Caves
  Thursday, 10 May 2012

  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Alvarado C

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2011

• MICROBIAL DIVERSITY AND GEOCHEMICAL CYCLING OF UNIQUE CARBONATE SPINGS IN NOTHERN NEW MEXICO:THE GEOMICROBIOLOGY OF TIERRA AMARILLA ANTICLINE
  242 Geobiology & Geomicrobiology (Posters)
  Wednesday, 12 October 2011

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall C
• STABLE ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FOR MICROBIAL PRECIPITATION OF CALCITE IN CAVE POOL FINGERS
  T129 Microbial Mediation of Authigenic Minerals: From Precipitation to Dissolution
  Monday, 10 October 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 211AB

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2010

• DIVERSITY OF CALCIUM CARBONATE PRECIPITATING BACTERIA IN FORT STANTON AND LECHUGUILLA CAVES
  51 Carbonates Sediments: From Microbes to Sequences: Insights into Processes Governing Carbonate Deposition
  Sunday, 31 October 2010

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 503
• OPTIMIZING CALCIUM CARBONATE PRECIPITATION BY MICROORGANISMS ISOLATED FROM CAVE POOLS
  29 Geomicrobiology (Posters)
  Sunday, 31 October 2010

  8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall D

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2009

• SNOWY RIVER: A NEW DISCOVERY FROM AN OLD CAVE
  T150 Toward Integrating Cave and Karst Science
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  D139/140
• STUDY OF CAVE POOLS IN CARLSBAD CAVERN, NEW MEXICO: CONTROLS ON BIOTHEM DISTRIBUTION
  T150 Toward Integrating Cave and Karst Science
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  D139/140
• EXTRATERRESTRIAL LAVATUBES AS REPOSITORIES OF SCIENCE, RESOURCES, AND HUMAN EXPLORATION
  T95 Comparative Planetary Volcanology in Research, Education, and Future Missions
  Monday, 19 October 2009

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  A106
• MICROBIAL DIVERSITY, GEOCHEMISTRY AND DIEL FLUCTUATIONS IN TRAVERTINE MOUNDS AT TIERRA AMARILLA ANTICLINE, NEW MEXICO
  T116 Diurnal Biogeochemical Processes in Rivers, Lakes, and Shallow Groundwater (Posters)
  Monday, 19 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A
• ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD: MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES THAT MASQUERADE AS MINERAL DEPOSITS
  T66 Volcanic Caves: Geological and Microbiological Terrestrial Analogs of Potential Extraterrestrial Conditions
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  A106
• THE GEOMICROBIAL LIFE OF LAVATUBES: BIOSIGNATURES ON EARTH AND BEYOND
  T66 Volcanic Caves: Geological and Microbiological Terrestrial Analogs of Potential Extraterrestrial Conditions
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  A106
• INVESTIGATION OF NITROGEN CYCLING AND NOVEL MICROBIAL DIVERSITY IN LAVA TUBES OF TERCEIRA, AZORES, PORTUGAL
  T66 Volcanic Caves: Geological and Microbiological Terrestrial Analogs of Potential Extraterrestrial Conditions
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  A106

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2008

• Role of Microbes in Hypogenic Karst Development and Modification
  T240 Hypogenic Karst: Shedding Light on Once Poorly Understood Hydrologic and Morphologic Features
  Tuesday, 7 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Extremophile Microorganism Communities In Sulfates and Other Sulfur Minerals: Models for Mars and Other Solar System Bodies
  T238 Sulfates in the Solar System
  Tuesday, 7 October 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Biofilm Central: The Wonderland of Textures and Bacterial and Archaeal Communities in Cueva De Villa Luz
  T215 Biofilms and Biomineralization: Evidence from Ancient and Modern Systems
  Monday, 6 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• Surface and Subsurface Manganese Biofilms: A Comparison of Biofilms from Desert Varnish and Caves
  T215 Biofilms and Biomineralization: Evidence from Ancient and Modern Systems
  Monday, 6 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• Identifying Fossil Biofilms In Carbonate Pool Speleothems Using the SEM: Criteria and Pitfalls
  T215 Biofilms and Biomineralization: Evidence from Ancient and Modern Systems
  Monday, 6 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• Biovermiculations: Mathematical Modeling of Complex Biological and Physical Processes In Mazelike Biomats
  T215 Biofilms and Biomineralization: Evidence from Ancient and Modern Systems
  Monday, 6 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• Quantification of Fossil Microbe Distribution In Pool Fingers from Cottonwood Cave, NM, USA
  T215 Biofilms and Biomineralization: Evidence from Ancient and Modern Systems
  Monday, 6 October 2008

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2007

• ENHANCING COMMUNICATION AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY AMONG KARST SCIENTISTS: THE ROLE OF THE KARST INFORMATION PORTAL - KIP
  T231 Growing the Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences: New Tools, New Research, New Partnerships
  Wednesday, 31 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• ON EARTH CAVES ARE WET, ON MARS CAVES ARE?
  T103 Wet Mars: Understanding The Red Planet's Aqueous History through Terrestrial Fieldwork
  Monday, 29 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• A BIOMARKER SUITE FROM CAVE POOL PRECIPITATES, COTTONWOOD CAVE, NEW MEXICO
  T47 The Solar Stew: The Search for Ingredients of Life and Biomarkers in Our Solar System: Past or Present
  Sunday, 28 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• A GEOMICROBIOLOGICAL AND GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BIOGENICITY OF MOONMILK CAVE FORMATIONS: POTENTIAL AS BIOSIGNATURES
  T47 The Solar Stew: The Search for Ingredients of Life and Biomarkers in Our Solar System: Past or Present
  Sunday, 28 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• GROWTH RATE OF ROCK VARNISH DETERMINED FROM HIGH LEAD CONCENTRATIONS ON ROCKS AT SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO
  T37 Sources, Transport, Fate, and Toxicology of Trace Elements in the Environment I
  Sunday, 28 October 2007

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2005

• SUBSURFACE SULFUR SYSTEMS FOR ASTROBIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
  T118 Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments for Microbial Survival II
  Monday, 17 October 2005

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE MANGANESE MICROBIAL ENVIRONMENTS
  T118 Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments for Microbial Survival II
  Monday, 17 October 2005

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2004

• WATER, GAS, AND PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES FROM SULFUR SPRINGS IN CUEVA DE VILLA LUZ, TABASCO, MEXICO
  T106 New Perspectives in Karst Geomicrobiology and Redox Geochemistry
  Monday, 8 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• POOL MERINGUE: A NEW SPELEOTHEM FROM CARLSBAD CAVERNS OF POSSIBLE BIOLOGIC ORIGIN
  T106 New Perspectives in Karst Geomicrobiology and Redox Geochemistry
  Monday, 8 November 2004

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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2002

• SUBTERRANEAN MANGANESE DEPOSITS IN CAVES: ANALOGIES TO ROCK VARNISH?
  216 Geomicrobiology (Posters)
  Wednesday, 30 October 2002

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• MICROBIAL SULFUR TRANSFORMATIONS IN A SULFIDE-RICH CAVE IN TABASCO, MEXICO
  5 Geomicrobiology
  Sunday, 27 October 2002

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2001

• UNIQUE EVAPORITES IN CAVES: COMPARISON TO SURFACE-DERIVED DEPOSITS
  T186 Evaporite Systems II: The Geology, Paleontology, and Biology of Evaporite and Near-Evaporite Systems in Both Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Environments
  Thursday, 8 November 2001

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
• ORIGIN OF POROUS LAYERS IN POOL FINGERS, HIDDEN CAVE, NEW MEXICO: RECRYSTALLIZED MOONMILK?
  107 Stratigraphy II: Carbonate Sedimentology and Diagenesis
  Wednesday, 7 November 2001

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• GEOMICROBIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS IN THE SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT OF LECHUGUILLA CAVE, NEW MEXICO
  54 Sedimentary Systems and Microbial Communities: Dynamic Interactions
  Thursday, 28 June 2001

  3:00 PM - 4:40 PM
• CAVE BIOSIGNATURES: MINERALS, MICROBES, AND MARS
  9 Environmental Hydrogeology and Geochemistry
  Tuesday, 1 May 2001

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Date Unknown

• MANGANESE FIBERS, TODOROKITE, AND THE MN-OXIDIZER CONNECTION
  55 Sedimentary Systems and Microbial Communities: Dynamic Interactions (Posters)
• PENDULOUS MICROBIAL/MINERAL FORMATIONS IN AN ACTIVE SULFIDE-DOMINATED CAVE AND POSSIBLE LITHIFIED SPELEOTHEM ANALOGS IN AN ANCIENT, INACTIVE CAVE
  55 Sedimentary Systems and Microbial Communities: Dynamic Interactions (Posters)
• THE GLOBAL KARST DIGITAL PORTAL: AN EMERGING COLLABORATORIUM
  T193 Water, Solute, and Sediment Fluxes through Carbonate and Karst Aquifers (Posters)
• EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION OF THE BIOGENICITY OF MOONMILK, AND THE CHARACTERIZATION OF MOONMILK AND ITS DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN SPIDER CAVE, CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK, NEW MEXICO
  151 Geomicrobiology (Posters): Microbe-Mineral Interactions, Life in Extreme Environments, and Early Microbial Life on Earth