Office of Biological and Environmental Research
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
[ERSP is now Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Program (SBR)]
| Monday April 7, 2008 | |
| 1:00 PM | ERSP
Programmatic Overview and Outlook for the Future David Lesmes, Acting Division Director, ERSD (now CESD) |
| 1:30 PM | Welcome Back Anna Palmisano, Associate Director of Science for Biological and Environmental Research |
| 2:00 PM | A Geologic Framework
for Reactive Solute Transport Properties in Sedimentary Aquifers Richelle M. Allen-King, University at Buffalo (SUNY) |
| 2:30 PM | Significance
of Microporosity to Reactive Transport Modeling at DOE Sites James A. Davis, U.S. Geological Survey |
| 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:30 PM | Coupled Biogeochemical
Processes in the Soil and Soil-Plant Systems Responsible for Enhanced
Transport of Plutonium in the Vadose Zone Daniel Kaplan, Savannah River National Laboratory |
| 4:00 PM | Terry Beveridge Memorial
Lecture Grant Ferris, University of Toronto |
| 5:00 PM | Dinner |
| 6:30 PM | Poster Session 1 |
| Tuesday April 8, 2008 | |
| Morning Session | |
| Integrated Field-Scale Subsurface Research Challenge (IFRC) Presentations | |
| 8:30 AM | Oak Ridge Site Phil Jardine, ORNL, and Co-PI’s |
| 9:30 AM | Old Rifle UMTRA Site Phil Long, PNNL, and Co-PI’s |
| 10:30 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | Hanford
300 Site John Zachara, PNNL, and Co-PI’s |
| 12:00 | A Roadmap for Practical Deployment of Models for Microbially Mediated
Remediation of Metals and Radionuclides at DOE Sites Jack Parker, University of Tennessee |
| 12:15 PM | LUNCH and FREE TIME (Working Lunch with FREC and IFRC teams) |
| Afternoon Session | |
| 3:00 PM | Nitrite Enhanced Chromium Reduction in Three Model Organisms:
Geobacter metallireducens, Sulfurospirillum barnesii, and Desulfovibrio
desulfuricans 27774 John F. Stolz, Duquesne University |
| 3:30 PM | Structure and Function of Subsurface Microbial Communities Affecting
Radionuclide Transport and Bioimmobilization Joel E. Kostka, Florida State University |
| 4:00 PM | Metagenomics-Enabled Understanding of Metal-Reducing Communities
at the ORNL-FRC James M. Tiedje, Michigan State University |
| 4:30 PM | From
Community Structure to Functions: GeoChip Development and Its Applications
to Bioremediation Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma |
| 5:00 PM | Dinner |
| 6:30 PM | Poster Session 2 |
| Wednesday April 9, 2008 | |
| Morning Session | |
| 8:30 AM | Integrated
Hydrogeophysical and Hydrogeologic Driven Parameter Upscaling for Dual-Domain
Transport Modeling John M. Shafer, University of South Carolina |
| 9:00 AM | Hyphenated Techniques for Determining pH-Dependent Pore-Scale
Uranium (VI) Speciation James F. Ranville, Colorado School of Mines |
| 9:30 AM | Development
of Modeling and Scaling Methods for Predicting Coupled Reactive Transport
Processes T. Prabhakar Clement, Auburn University |
| 10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:30 AM | The Role
of Microbial Phosphates on Uranium Mobility in the Subsurface Patty Sobecky/Martial Taillefert. Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 11:00 AM | Effects
of Fermentative Activity on Fate and Transport of U and Cr Brent Peyton, Montana State University |
| 11:30 AM | Biochemical Mechanisms
and Energy Strategies of Geobacter sulfurreducens Ming Tien, Pennsylvania State University |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch (SFA Panel Working Lunch—Orientation and Charge) |
| Afternoon Session | |
| Scientific Focus Area (SFA) Presentations—DOE National Laboratories | |
| 1:30 PM | SFA Overview
and Background (ERSD (now CESD)) R. Todd Anderson, Program Manager, ERSD (now CESD) |
| 2:00 PM | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Susan Hubbard |
| 2:30 PM | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Harvey Bolton |
| 3:00 PM | Oak Ridge National
Laboratory Liyuan Liang |
| 3:30 PM | Break |
| 3:45 PM | Stanford
Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory John Bargar |
| 4:05 PM | Argonne
National Laboratory Carol Giometti |
| 4:25 PM | Los
Alamos National Laboratory Michael Ebinger |
| 4:45 PM | Idaho National Laboratory Mark Ankeny |
| 5:05 PM | Dinner |
| 6:30 PM | SFA Poster Session |
| 9:00 PM | Adjourn |
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