| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Icebreaker |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | The Base of the Deep Crustal Biosphere and The Biogenic/Thermogenic Interface |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Discussion Leader: John Parkes |
| 7:40 pm - 8:25 pm | Brian Horsfield
"Kinetics of thermal degradation reactions around the base of the deep biosphere in sedimentary systems" |
| 8:25 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:20 pm | Art Spivak
"Energy sources in the sub-seafloor biosphere" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 10:00 pm | Bar reception, posters and activities |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | The Interplay of Nature and Industry: Halogenated Organic Compounds in the Environment |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Christopher M. Reddy |
| 9:10 am - 9:55 am | Emma Teuten
"Using natural radiocarbon abundance to study sources of halogenated organic compounds" |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:20 am | Heather Stapleton
"Bioaccumulation potential of natural and anthropogenic brominated compounds in aquatic food webs: Friends or Foe?" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:20 pm | Sheryl Tittlemier
"It's a POPs talk, but I won't mention PCBs or dioxins - Stories on the emerging environmental contaminants of halogenated dimethyl bipyrroles and perfluorinated compounds" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Molecular Signatures of Archaea and Archaeal Processes |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Stuart G. Wakeham |
| 7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Christopher A. Francis
"New insights into the role of archaea in oceanic nitrogen cycling" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Beth Orcutt
"Diversity and function of Archaea in methane-rich habitats" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Andreas Gattinger
"Structure and function of archaeal communities in natural and agriculturally used soil ecosystems" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 10:00 pm | Posters and bar |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Soil Organic Carbon and Climate |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leaders: Gabriel Bowen & Thomas Wagner |
| 9:10 am - 9:55 am | David Manning
"Novel isotopic (13C, 15N, D/H, 14C) and molecular tracers of soil, plant and microbial processes" |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:20 am | Peter Raymond
"Source, fate and turnover of terrestrial organic matter in rivers and estuaries" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:20 pm | David Beerling
"Soil biogeochemistry, wetlands and the early Eocene greenhouse climate" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | From Exploration to the Unconventional: Petroleum Geochemistry in the 21st Century |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Artur Stankiewicz |
| 7:35 pm - 8:00 pm | Erdem Idiz, Andrew Bishop, Klaus Leischner, Andrew Murray, Peter Nederlof, Michael Nosiara, Paul Taylor, Erik Tegelaar, Johannes Wendebourg, Joe Westrich
"Integrated Charge Evaluation in exploration: Back to basics" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Clifford Walters, Lloyd Wenger, Cara Davis, Robert Pottorf, Paul Mankiewicz, Mark Richardson
"Exploitation Geochemistry: Using reservoir fluid analysis and modeling for improved development and production of petroleum resources" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Ian Head, Neil Gray, Steve Larter, Arlene Rowan, Jennifer Adams, Martin Jones, Caroline Aitken, Ian Gates, Barry Bennett, Haiping Huang, Thomas Oldenburg, Michael Erdmann
"Recovering the unrecoverable: Subsurface petroleum biodegradation and the exploitation of unconventional reserves" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 10:00 pm | Posters and bar |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Hydrogen in the Biogeosphere |
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Discussion Leader: Alex Sessions |
| 9:10 am - 9:55 am | David Valentine
"The A-B-C's of H2 Biogeochemistry: Archaea, Bacteria, and Cooperation" |
| 9:55 am - 10:05 am | Discussion |
| 10:05 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:20 am | Arndt Schimmelmann
"Organic D/H changes accompanying thermal maturation" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:20 pm | Barabara Sherwood-Lollar
"H2-rich fluids in the deep earth: Role of abiogenic water-rock interactions and potential for chemolithoautotrophy" |
| 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Free Time |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | The Geochemical Society Best Paper Award / Reception and Refreshments |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot Topics in Biogeochemistry |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Kai Hinrichs |
| Presentations chosen from poster abstracts
(20 minute talks + 9 minute discussion each) |
| Anthony Aufdenkampe
"Evolution of organic matter in the Amazon River system" |
| Johan Weijers
"Continental paleo pH and temperature reconstruction with membrane lipids from soil bacteria" |
| Rodger Harvey
"Applying Proteomics to Geochemistry: Tracking Individual Proteins and their Degradative Products by LC-MS" |
| Ann Pearson
"The environmental distribution of hopanoid cyclase genes" |
| 10:00 pm | Posters and bar |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Computational Chemical Advances and Applications to Petroleum Geochemistry |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Discussion Leader: Francois Lorant |
| 9:30 am - 10:20 am | Adri van Duin
"Development of a reactive force field (ReaxFF) for Ni-interactions with porphyrins and kerogen and applications to Ni-catalyzed kerogen breakdown" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:50 am | Elodie Salmon
"Molecular modeling of hydrocarbon generation from kerogen-like material - advanced results and limitations" |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot Topics in Energy and Natural Resource Related Organic Geochemistry |
| 7:30 pm - 7:35 pm | Discussion Leader: Francois Behar |
| Presentations chosen from poster abstracts
(20 minute talks + 9 minute discussion each) |
| Jennifer Adams
"Numerical simulation of deep subsurface biodegradation: insights from petroleum compositional variations in the Albertan tar sands" |
| Jean-Luc Duplan
"Biofuels by Biomass Pyrolysis" |
| Dariusz Strapoc
"Compositional and isotopic characterization of coalbed gases and associated waters in the Illinois Basin, Indiana" |
| Zhibin Wei
"The fate of diamondoids in the geosphere: their birth, generation, and demise" |
| 10:00 pm | Posters and bar |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |