| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Thinking Forward |
| Discussion Leader: TBA |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Katherine Freeman (Pennsylvania State University)
"How to Survive a Career in Organic Geochemistry, and Have Fun While Doing So"
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| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Biomarkers: Source and Application |
| Discussion Leaders: Cindy De Jonge (NIOZ) and Xingchen Wang (Princeton University) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Kate Osborne (Newcastle University)
"Methanotroph-Derived Bacteriohopanepolyol Signatures of Estuarine Sediment Microcosms - New Insights into Their Use as Biomarkers for Aerobic Methane Oxidation"
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| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Greg de Wet (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
"Paleotemperatures from Marine Isotope Stages 19 and 31 Based on Organic Molecular Proxies from Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia"
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| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Gordon Inglis (Bristol University)
"Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane (AOM) in an Early Eocene Ombrotrophic Bog: A Carbon Sink During Past Warm Climates?"
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| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Lisa Warden (NIOZ)
"Determining the Predominant Cause of Anoxia in the Baltic Sea Over the Holocene"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Analytical Advances and Novel Environments |
| Discussion Leaders: Charlotte Spencer-Jones (Newcastle University) and Rui Bao (ETH Zurich) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Amy Kelly (Shell)
"Kerogen Isolation Testing for Kinetics Evaluation"
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| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Miriam Sollich (MARUM, University of Bremen)
"Microbial Ecology of Marine, Shallow-Water Hydrothermal Sediments: The Role of Membrane Lipids in the Adaptation of Thermophilic Archaea to Temperature"
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Perry Mitchell (University of Toronto)
"Alteration of Native Soil Organic Matter Composition with Biochar Amendment in a Temperate Forest Soil"
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| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Hendrik Grotheer (Curtin University)
"The Role of Organics in Au Systems: Relationship Between Sedimentary Organic Matter, Black Carbon and Mineralisation"
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| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Career Panel |
| Panelists:
- Melissa Berke (University of Notre Dame)
- Robert Dias (US Geological Survey)
- Katherine Freeman (Pennsylvania State University)
- Erdem Idiz (Shell)
- Ann Pearson (Harvard)
- Johan Weijers (Shell)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
