The Effect of the Chemical and Microbiological Structure of Biofilms on Oyster Spat Growth in the Hudson River
10:30 AM – 10:50 AM
Coffee and Snack Break
Time
Presenter
Presentation Title
10:50 AM – 11:05 AM
Boontharee (Mind) Chomhom
How Amino Acids Improve Physical Properties of Precipitated Aragonite: Implications for Coral Skeletons
11:05 AM – 11:20 AM
Sajjad Akam
Carbon and Methane Cycling in Archean Ocean, Lessons from Modern Lake Analogs
11:20 AM – 11:35 AM
Michael D’Antonio
Carbon Cycle Constraints on the Rock Cycle
11:35 AM – 11:50 AM
Joseph Deckhut
Modern Avian Morphospace Plots to Predict Fossil Avian Lifestyle
11:50 AM – 12:05 PM
Ilya Buynevich
New Tools for Old Burrows: Ichnological Research of K-Pg Sections in Central New Jersey, USA
12:05 PM – 12:25 PM
Coffee and Snack Break
Time
Presenter
Presentation Title
12:25 PM – 12:40 PM
Zachary Boles
Current Research and Discoveries at the Edelman Fossil Park
12:40 PM – 12:55 PM
Alejandra Martinez-Melo
Reawakening a Legacy: Reviving the First Invertebrate Paleontology Collection in the US
12:55 PM – 1:10 PM
Samuel T. Neagley
Introducing Bone Wars The Musical
1:10 PM – 1:30 PM
Introduction to Fossil Park from Veranda
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Lunch and Self-Guided Museum Tour
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Poster Session
Scientific Sampler: Biogeochemistry
Presenting Author
Presentation Title
Poster Location
Adami-Sampson, Sophia
A Physiological Record of Ancient CO2 Preserved in Microbial Metabolism
A-1
Block, Kaleigh
Methyl Matters: Unraveling the Details of how Carbon Substrate Type Influences Methane Production in Salt Marshes
A-2
Chavez, Vivian
Investigating the Role of Nutrient Limitation on Prochlorococcus Carbon Export in the Sargasso Sea
A-3
Foster, Kayla
A Tale of Two Fluids: Burial Diagenetic Overprinting of the Shuram Carbon Isotope Excursion (Windermere Supergroup, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwestern Canada)
A-4
Gray, Katelyn E.
Phosphorus Speciation and Phosphate Oxygen Isotopes (δ18Op) from Sediments Deposited During Ocean Anoxic Events Indicates Phosphate Limitation May Play a Key Role in Organic Matter Preservation
A-5
He, Ran
Investigating the Role of Water-rock Alteration and Solid-State Bond Reordering on Siderite Clumped Isotopes (∆47)
A-6
Irizarry, Kayla
Anoxic Conditions Recorded in Shallow Water Environments During the Cambrian Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion Ocean Anoxic Event (SPICE-OAE) in Eastern Nevada
A-7
Leapaldt, Hanna
Signatures of Microbial Carbon Cycling in Magnesium Carbonate Minerals
A-8
Mohammed, Kabir A.
Organic Matter Variability and Sulfur Isotope Signals in a Mixed Community
A-9
Otto, Nathan B.
How Much Does Organic Matter Matter? Examining the Impact of Biomass Source on Microbial Community Composition, Sulfate Reduction Rates, and Sulfur Isotope Signals in Natural Systems
A-10
Pan, Amanda
Investigating Potential Changes in Alkenones’ Chemical Properties
A-11
Zautcke, Kira
Fresh Flows, Microbial Mats, and Copious Collapses: A Visual Analysis of Post-Eruption Video Footage from the East Pacific Rise
A-12
Minerals with Mitochondria: Geomicrobiology
Presenting Author
Presentation Title
Poster Location
Awoyemi, Olushola
Iron Oxidation Pathways and Metabolisms of the Mixotrophic Leptothrix cholodnii SP-6
B-1
Biddle, Jennifer
A Novel Bacterial Phylum from the Deep Subsurface
B-2
Dodd, Jacqueline
Time-Series 16S rRNA Analyses Reveal Environmental Setting Mediates Microbial Mat Ecosystem Response to Hurricane Disturbances on a Carbonate Platform
B-3
Keffer, Jessica
Switching Between Iron Oxidation and Iron Reduction Enabled by Porin-Cytochrome Complexes in Arctic Rhodoferax sp.
B-4
Moore, Eli
Metaproteomes of Antrim Shale Natural Gas Wells Along a Salinity Transect Indicates the Potential for Stimulation of Natural Gas Production in Different Geochemical Conditions
B-5
Phan, Jonathan
Evolutionary Origins of Bacterial Selenate Respiration: Insights from Enterobacter cloacae SLD1a-1
B-6
Saidniyozova, Diyora
Effects of Exopolysaccharide Production on εp in Cyanobacteria
B-7
Wang-Polendo, Ricardo
Temperature-Based Metabolic Behaviors by a Chemosynthetic Bacterium in Steady-State
B-8
Williams, Jacob R.A.
Salt Marsh Sediments Inhibit the Ability of Mitomycin C to Induce Lysogenic Bacteriophages
B-9
Wood, Leland J.
Microbial Consumption and Production of Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Carbon in the North Pond Subsurface Aquifer
B-10
Paleontologist’s Dig-gest
Presenting Author
Presentation Title
Poster Location
Chen, Xiao Li
Dendroarchaeological Analysis of New York City
C-1
Cohen, Phoebe A
Reef of Doubt: Filamentous Structures in the Early Neoproterozoic Little Dal Group
C-2
Horton, Annabelle
Comparison of the Environmental DNA Signatures of the Overwash Deposits from the 1962 Ash Wednesday Nor’easter and the Hurricane of 1821
C-3
Lechki, Stephanie
Evolutionary Drivers of Reproductive Output Variation Among Amniotes, and Origins of Large Offspring in Birds
C-4
Pugliese, Andre D.
Analyzing the Impact of Increased Species Diversity on Machine Learning-Based Image Classification within the Megatoothed Sharks
C-5
Scott, Maximilian James
Microscopic Bioerosion on a Tylosaurus proriger from the Niobrara Formation of South Dakota
C-6
Smierciak, Krisley
Preliminary High-Resolution Subsurface Imaging (2.3 GHz GPR) of Emplaced Fossil Targets within Heavily Bioturbated Glauconite-Rich K/Pg Boundary Strata, New Jersey, USA
C-7
Tingle, Kelly E.
Formation of Early Eukaryotic Microfossil-Bearing Iron Carbonate Nodules in the Neoproterozoic Chuar Group
