DOE-ERSP Annual PI Meeting
April 7-9, 2008
Lansdowne, VA

[ERSP is now Subsurface Biogeochemical Research Program (SBR)]

Agenda with Links to Presentations

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

Funding
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Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program 2020 Solicitation 1
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: May 6, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
DE-FOA-0002230 – Earth System Model Development and Analysis
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DE-FOA-0002215-ESPCoR FOA 2215 Building EPSCOR-State/National Laboratory Partnerships
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: January 16, 2020, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
DE-FOA-0002173-Early Career Research Program
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: January 7, 2019, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
DE-FOA-0002184 – Environmental System Science
Now accepting applications. Pre-Application Due: December 5, 2019, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program
Now accepting applications for the 2019 Solicitation 2. Applications due 5:00pm Eastern November 14, 2019.
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