April 18-20 , 2005
Presentations & Poster Session(pdf files)
Workshop Abstracts (pdf file)
Monday April 18, 2005
8:00 AM Welcome
and Opening Remarks (Paul Bayer, NABIR Program Manager)
8:10
AM BER
Programs (Ari Patrinos, Director, BER)
8:20 AM Environmental
Remediation Sciences Division (ERSD) Update
(Mike Kuperberg,
Acting Director, ERSD/BER)
Latest
Findings on Anaerobic Metal/Radionuclide Reoxidation
8:50 AM Biogeochemical
Coupling of Fe and Tc Speciation in Subsurface Sediments: Implications
to Long-Term Tc Immobilization (John Zachara, PNNL)
9:15
AM Stabilization
of Plutonium in Subsurface Environments via Microbial
Reduction and
Biofilm
Formation (Mary Neu, LANL)
9:40 AM Reoxidation
of Bioreduced Uranium under Reducing Conditions
(Tetsu
Tokunaga, LBNL)
10:05 AM Acceleration
of Field-scale Bioreduction of U(VI) in a Shallow Alluvial
Aquifer:
Temporal
and Spatial Evolution of Biogeochemistry (Phil Long, PNNL)
10:30 AM Break
Microbial
Communities at Metal/Radionuclide Contaminated Field
Sites
10:45 AM Linking
Biodiversity to the Assessment of Bioremediation Potential
in the Subsurface of
DOE
Sites (Joel Kostka, Florida State University)
11:10 AM Development
and Use of Integrated Microarray-Based Genomic Technologies
for
Assessing
Microbial Community Composition and Dynamics (Jizhong Zhou, ORNL)
11:35 AM Microbial
Communities in the Vadose Zone (Fred Brockman, PNNL)
12:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Breakout
Sessions
1) What
are the major research needs and approaches for evaluating
reoxidation
processes(John Zachara and Jon Lloyd)
2) How
distinct are microbial communities at different field
sites? (Tony Palumbo
and
Fred Brockman)
6:30 PM Poster
Session
Biogeochemistry,
Biotransformation, Assessment, Field Studies, Students
Tuesday April 19, 2005
8:00 AM Announcements
and Other Logistics (Paul Bayer, ERSD)
DOE
User Facility Resources
8:10 AM Overview
of Synchrotron Resources for ERSD scientists (Roland
Hirsch, BER)
8:15 AM Synchrotron-Based
Research at the ALS, APS, NSLS and SSRL (Ken Kemner,
ANL)
8:45 AM Overview
of Plans for the Genomics:GTL Facilities (Dan Drell,
BER)
Molecular and Genomics Techniques
for Tracking Microbial Community Changes
9:00
AM Integrated
Nucleic Acid System for In-Field Monitoring of Microbial
Community
Dnamics
and Metabolic Activity (Darrell Chandler, ANL)
9:25 AM U(VI)
Reduction Experiments and Environmental Genomics at the
Old Rifle UMTRA
Site
(Derek Lovely, University of Massachusetts) (see PI for
presentation)
9:50 AM In
Situ Community Control of the Stability of Bioreduced
Uranium
(David White, University of Tennessee)
10:15 AM Break
New
Directions for Field-Based Research at DOE Sites
10:30
AM Current
Opportunities and Future Research Directions at the FRC
(Dave
Watson, ORNL)
10:55 AM Characterization
of Coupled Hydrologic-Biogeochemical Processes using
Geophysical
Data (Ken Williams, LBNL)
11:20 AM Co-Precipitation
of Trace Metals in Groundwater and Vadose Zone Calcite:
In Situ
Containment and Stabilization of Strontium-90
and Other Divalent Metals and
Radionuclides
at Arid Western DOE Sites (Robert Smith, University of
Idaho)
11:45 AM Subsurface
Flow and Transport Modeling Research: Incorporating
Biologically
Mediated
Processes (Steve Yabusaki, PNNL)
12:10 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Breakout
Sessions
1) What changes in microbial community
structure can be expected during and after
biostimulation? (Terry
Hazen and Lee Krumholz)
2) Building
on NABIR research: What
are the next field research challenges?
(Derek
Lovley and Susan Hubbard)
6:30 PM Poster
Session
Community
Dynamics, Biomolecular, Integrative Studies, BASIC, Others
Wednesday April 20, 2005
8:00 AM Announcements
and Other Logistics (Paul Bayer, ERSD)
Electron
Transfer to Microbial Reduction
8:10 AM Composition,
Reactivity and Regulation of Extracellular Metal-Reducing
Structures
Produced
by Dissimilatory Metal-Reducing Bacteria (Yuri Gorby, PNNL)
8:35 AM Geobacter Electron Transfer Mechanisms (Gemma Reguera, University
of
Massachusetts)
(see PI for presentation)
9:00
AM Update
on the Biogeochemistry Grand Challenge at the Environmental
Molecular
Sciences
Laboratory (EMSL) (Jim Fredrickson, PNNL)
9:25 AM Dissimilatory
Metal Reduction by Anaeromyxobacter Species
(Frank
Loeffler, Georgia Tech)
9:50 AM Parallel
Proteomic Identification of Metal Reductases and Determination
of their
Relative
Abundance in a Series of Metal Reducing Bacteria (Mary Lipton, PNNL)
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM Comparative
Biochemistry and Physiology of Iron-Respiring Bacteria
from Acidic
and
Neutral pH Environments (Tim Magnuson, Idaho State University)
10:55 AM Field-Integrated
Studies of Long-Term Sustainability of Chromium Bioreduction
at
the
Hanford 100H Site (Terry Hazen, LBNL)
11:20 AM ERSD
Programs - Questions and Answers (Mike Kuperberg, ERSD)
11:50
PM Breakout
Session Summary Presentations (Breakout group leads)
1:30 PM UMTRA
Group and FRRP Meetings
