| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Thermogenic Hydrocarbons in the Contemporary Environment |
| Discussion Leader: Dave Hollander (Univ. South Florida) |
| 7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Introductory comments |
| 7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Rich Camilli (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
"Observational facets: emerging and re-merging technologies for marine hydrocarbon characterization"
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| 8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
| 8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Chris Reddy (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
"Arithmetic with chromatograms: New insights on the fate of spilled oil following the Deepwater Horizon disaster"
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| 8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
| 8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Florence Schubotz (Massachusetts Inst. Technol.)
"Biodegradation of heavy oils at an asphalt seep: Insights from combined intact polar lipid and stable carbon isotope analysis"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Carbon Source-to-Sink Systems through Time |
| Discussion Leader: Thomas Wagner (Newcastle Univ.) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Niels Hovius (Cambridge Univ.)
"Mobilization, transfer and burial of terrestrial particulate organic carbon"
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| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Guillmette Menot (CEREGE)
"A biomarker view on European river inputs over glacial abrupt climate changes"
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| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Jorien Vonk (ETH Zürich)
"Heading north: Molecular and isotopic views on carbon cycling in Arctic rivers and coastal areas"
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| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Valier Galy (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
"Tropical permafrosts and arctic forests: towards a global understanding of terrestrial organic carbon dynamics"
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| 12:15 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 | Organic-Inorganic Associations and Interactions |
| Discussion Leader: Erdem Idiz (Shell International B.V.) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Yves Gelinas (Concordia Univ.)
"The Rusty Sink: Iron Promotes the Preservation of Organic Matter in Sediments"
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| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Martin Kennedy (Univ. Adelaide)
"Terrestrial control of carbon enrichment in Cretaceous oceanic anoxic event intervals by mineral surface preservation"
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| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Andrew Aplin (Newcastle Univ.)
"Pore systems of organic-rich shales: implications for fluid storage and flow"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Isotopes of Geomolecules |
| Discussion Leader: Kate Freeman (Penn. State Univ.) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Alex Sessions (Caltech)
"The emerging picture of S isotopes in individual organic compounds"
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| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | John Eiler (Caltech)
"Determining the isotopic anatomy of organic molecules using high resolution gas source mass spectrometry"
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| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Anitra Ingalls (Univ. Washington)
"Looking through the glass: isotopic stories from organic compounds preserved in siliceous skeletons"
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| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Richard Robins (Univ. Nantes)
"Hidden secrets revealed: intra-molecular isotope distributions accessed by quantitative isotopic NMR"
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| 12:15 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 | Organic Hydrogeochemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Nick Drenzek (Statoil) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Everett Salas (Photon Systems, Inc)
"Smoke and Mirrors: In-situ methods for the non-contact detection of trace organics and life"
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| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Yongchun Tang (Power, Environmental and Energy Research Inst.)
"Quantifing Original Gas in Place through Gas Isotope Geochemistry"
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| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbial Lifestyles & Molecular Legacies |
| Discussion Leader: Jaap Sinninghe Damsté (Royal Netherlands Institute for Oceanographic Research, NIOZ) |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Laura Villanueva (NIOZ)
"Mining metabolic and biomarker lipid biosynthesis genes from the environment: Next challenge in organic biogeochemistry?"
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| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Discussion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Helen Talbot (Newcastle Univ.)
"Biohopanoid proxies in modern environments and the sedimentary record: sources, controls and fate"
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| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Nao Ohkouchi (JAMSTEC)
"Who eats what? An ecological application of organic geochemistry"
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| 11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Richard Pancost (Univ. Bristol)
"An enhanced methane cycle during ancient greenhouse climates?"
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| 12:15 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 | Spatially-resolved Mass Spectrometry |
| Discussion Leader: Thorsten Dittmar (Univ. Oldenburg) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Jutta Niggemann (Univ. Oldenburg)
"Molecular microstratigraphy via laser-desorption ionization Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (LDI-FT-ICR-MS)"
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| 8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Sandra Siljeström (SP Technical Research Inst.)
"Microanalysis of organic phases in geological samples using ToF-SIMS: Fluid inclusions and beyond"
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| 8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
| 8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Erik Tegelaar (Shell International B.V.)
"Novel data processing techniques: digitally filtering detailed structural information from complex GCGC-HR ToFMS data sets"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Gas in the Bowels (of the Earth) |
| Discussion Leader: Barbara Sherwood Lollar (Univ. Toronto) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Dave DesMarais (NASA AMES)
"Carbon chemistry in the context of planetary (bio)geochemical cycles"
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| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Chris Ballentine (Univ. Manchester)
"Hydrocarbon tracers with a Noble pedigree: Rare and inert quantification of water interaction; fluid ages; microbial gas production rates; and multiphase processing"
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| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Anna Martini (Amherst College)
"Unraveling the geochemical and isotopic "fingerprint" of mixed microbial/thermogenic natural gas deposits"
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| 12:10 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 | Frontiers in Organic Geochemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Francien Peterse (ETH Zürich) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | TBA (Selected from GRS Presentations) |
| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Ahmed Chaouche (Anadarko Petroleum Corporation)
"The Paradox of Low CO2 Production in Shale Gas Plays"
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| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Katherine Dawson (Caltech)
"Anaerobic biodegradation of the isoprenoid biomarker analogues pristane and phytane"
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| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Marta Rodrigo-Gamiz (NIOZ)
"Testing the novel paleotemperature proxy based on long-chain 1,13- and 1,15-diol distributions"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |