Sunday |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Past Climates, Analogues for Future Change |
| Discussion Leader: Sarah Feakins (University of Southern California, USA) |
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
7:45 pm - 8:10 pm | Philip Meyers (University of Michigan, USA) "An
Organic Geochemical Perspective on Peatlands and Paleoclimate" |
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:45 pm | Isla Castañeda (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) "Branched
GDGTs Reveal the Plio-Pleistocene Temperature History of the Terrestrial
Arctic at Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russia" |
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:20 pm | Daniel Stoddart (Shell, The Netherlands) "Do Glaciations Have an Impact on Oil Exploration?" |
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 | Old Stuff Doing Good: Soils and Recalcitrant Organic Matter |
| Discussion Leader: Nagissa Mahmoudi (Harvard University, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:35 am | Myrna Simpson (University of Toronto, Canada) "To Be or Not to Be Recalcitrant? Soil Organic Matter Responses to Climate Change Impacts and Ecosystem Manipulation" |
9:35 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:20 am | Caroline Masiello (Rice University, USA) "The Biochar Design Cycle: Coupling Theory and Applications" |
10:20 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
10:35 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Bart Van Dongen (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) "Source, Transport and Fate of Terrestrial Organic Matter on the East
Siberian Arctic Shelf" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Nicholas Ward (University of Florida, USA) "Fate of Terrestrial DOM: Priming in Aquatic Ecosystems" |
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 | High Tech Analytical Tools Come of Age |
| Discussion Leader: Clifford Walters (Exxonmobil Research & Engineering Company, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Marcel Kuypers (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany) "Determining Activity of Single Microbial Cells" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Bruno Schuler (IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland) "High-Resolution Atomic Force Microscopy on Single Molecules and Its Applications in Analytical Chemistry" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Richard Camilli (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA) "A Robot for Tracking Subsea Carbon Fronts Across a Megatransect" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Tuesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | The Hot and Cold of Organic-Inorganic Interactions |
| Discussion Leader: Svenja Erdmann (Baker Hughes, Germany) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:35 am | Paul Greenwood (University of Western Australia, Australia) "Organic Geochemical Trends with Au and U Downunder" |
9:35 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:20 am | Jill McDermott (University of Toronto, USA) "Origins
of Organic Compounds in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fluids" |
10:20 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
10:35 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Hilairy Hartnett (Arizona State University, USA) "Geomimicry
– Exploring Mechanisms for Mineral-Catalyzed Hydrothermal Organic Reactions" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Renzo Silva (University of Calgary, Canada) "From Recent Sediments to Oil Reservoirs: Organic Matter Compositional Alterations Under New Analytical Lenses" |
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 | Advances in Modeling |
| Discussion Leader: Lloyd Snowdon (University of Calgary, Canada) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Maowen Li (Sinopec Exploration & Production Research Institute, China) "Modeling Hydrocarbon Retention in Tight and Leaky Lacustrine Shales: Considerations
and Observations" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Jessica Tierney (University of Arizona, USA) "Statistical Approaches Towards Biomarker-Based Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Chris Cornford (IGI: Integrated Geochemical Interpretation, United Kingdom) "Model Calibration, Initial Yields, Kinetics, and Expulsion from Multi-Myria Sample Databases" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Wednesday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Microbial Interactions and Processes |
| Discussion Leader: Roger Summons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:35 am | Shuhei Ono (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) "Origin
of C-H Bonds in Methane" |
9:35 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:20 am | Sabine Lengger (University of Plymouth / University of Bristol, United Kingdom) "High Temperature GC for Analysis of Large, Polar Biolipids in Environmental Samples" |
10:20 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
10:35 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Yuki Weber (University of Basel, Switzerland) "Differential
Sources of Bacterial Tetraether Lipids in Lacustrine Environments: Novel
Branched GDGT Isomers, Their Stable C-Isotope Composition, and Implications
for Paleothermometry" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Roland Hatzenpichler (California Institute of Technology, USA) "In-Situ Protein Synthesis and Cell-Cell Interactions of Slow-Growing Methanotrophs from Deep Sea Sediments" |
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 |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | The Future of Unconventionals |
| Discussion Leader: Kenneth Peters (Schlumberger, USA) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Anna Martini (Amherst College, USA) "The Hydrogeochemistry of Microbial and Mixed Microbial/Thermogenic Unconventional Gas Fields" |
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm | Discussion |
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm | Dariusz Strapoc (Geoservices, a Schlumberger Company, France) "Biogenic Methane Revamp" |
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm | Discussion |
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm | Eric Michael (Conoco Phillips, USA) "Determination
of In-Situ Hydrocarbon Volumes in Liquid-Rich Shale (Unconventional) Plays" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Thursday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | The Anthropocene |
| Discussion Leader: Christopher Reddy (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:05 am | Introduction by Discussion Leader |
9:05 am - 9:35 am | Mark Yunker (Independent Research Scientist, Canada) "PAH
Source Apportionment in Sediments: The Challenge of Identifying Anthropogenic
Sources in the Context of Varying Natural Inputs" |
9:35 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:20 am | Jordi Dachs (Spanish National Research Council, Spain) "High Atmosphere-Ocean Exchange of Semivolatile Aromatic Hydrocarbons" |
10:20 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
10:35 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:30 am | Elsie Sunderland (Harvard University, USA) "Methylation: The Mad Hatter of the Global
Mercury Cycle" |
11:30 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Blandine Courel (University of Strasbourg, France) "Deciphering
the Origin of Vegetal Sources in Archaeology: A Combined Molecular and 14C Dating Approach" |
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 | Late-Breaking Topics |
| Discussion Leader: Ryan Pereira (Lyell Centre, United Kingdom) |
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Patrick Hatcher (Old Dominion University, USA) "Fate of Lignin in Oxic Environments: Implications for the Nature and Maturation of Type II Kerogen" |
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm | Shuchai Gan (University of Bremen, Germany) "Impact of Redox Conditions on the Quality of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) During Incubation of Sediments from the Rhône River Delta" |
8:30 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
8:35 pm - 8:50 pm | Laura Schreuder (NIOZ, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, The Netherlands) "Markers for Biomass Burning in Saharan Dust and Marine Sinking Particles" |
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm | Reto Wijker (California Institute of Technology, USA) "D/H Ratios in Lipids as a Tool to Elucidate Microbial Metabolism" |
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm | Discussion |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Closing Remarks |
Friday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |