| Sunday PM | Ocean Chemistry, Dynamics and Climate |
Session Chair: Scott Doney, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Bolder, CO
- Nicolas Gruber, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
"The influence of NAO on the carbon cycle in the North Atlantic Ocean"
- Richard Matear, CSIRO, Hobart, Australia
"Changes in ocean biogeochemistry caused by protracted global warming"
| Monday AM | Rapid Climate Change |
Session Chair: Thomas Stocker, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Richard Alley, Penn State University, University Park, PA
"Causes of abrupt climate changes: insights from timing"
- Olivier Marchal, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
"Atmospheric radiocarbon during the Younger Dryas: Production, ventilation, or both"
- Paul Baker, Duke University, Durham, NC
"Climatic variability of tropical South America at annual to orbital time scales"
| Monday PM | Chemical Proxies of Past Climate Change |
Session Chair: Adina Paytan, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- Howard Spero, University of California, Davis, CA
"Carbon isotopes and the marine record: from enigma to maturity"
- Mark Pagani, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
"An examination of the boron isotope proxy"
| Tuesday AM | The Nitrogen Cycle |
Session Chair: Bess Ward, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
- Daniel Sigman and Karen Casciotti, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
"Coupled measurements of nitrogen and oxygen isotopes in oceanic nitrate: A new
tool for the study of the marine nitrogen cycle"
- Bess Ward, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
"Functional diversity in microbially mediated nitrogen cycling"
- Stefan Hulth, University of Goteborg, Goteborg, Sweden
"Nitrogen transformations in marine sedimentary environments - alternative pathways
of anoxic oxidations"
| Tuesday PM | Sediment Geochemistry |
Session Chair: Robert Anderson, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY
- Derek Lovley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
"Novel microbially catalyzed redox reactions in marine sediments"
- Philip Froelich, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Reverse weathering, authigenic aluminosilicate formation and early silica diagenesis
in marine sediments"
Session Chair: Erwin Suess, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany
- Gregor Rehder, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA
"Experimental tests of mechanisms for rapid transfer of methane from the sea floor to the
atmosphere"
- Mariam Kastner, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
"Environmental implications of methane venting across the sediment-water interface:
Results of a one year in situ experiment at Hydrate Ridge, Cascadia"
- Matthias Haeckel , GEOMAR, Keil, Germany
"Gas hydrate dynamics in surface sediments of Hydrate Ridge: Geochemistry,
isotopes, biomarker and modeling studies"
| Wednesday PM | Molecular Organic Chemistry |
Session Chair: Tim Eglinton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole MA
- Dan Repeta, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
"New concepts on the composition and cycling of dissolved organic matter in
seawater"
- Stefan Schouten, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, den Burg, The Netherlands
"Molecular isotope biogeochemistry: applications in determining processes in
contemporary and past oceans"
| Thursday AM | Inorganic Chemistry - Metals |
Session Chair: James Moffett, Woods Hole Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA
- Edward Boyle, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
"New insights into iron geochemistry through high resolution automated sampling and
ICP-MS analytical methods"
- Katherine Barbeau, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
"Photochemical cycling of iron in the surface ocean mediated by iron (III)-siderophore
complexes: mechanistic insights from molecular structure"
- Ariel Anbar, University of Rochester, NY
"Metal isotope fractionation in chemical oceanography: Promise and progress"
| Thursday PM | Remote Measurements |
Session Chair: Ken Johnson, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA
- Charlie Eriksen, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"Gliders: Platforms for biogeochemical measurements"
- Ken Smith, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, CA
"Benthic Rovers as platforms for biogeochemical measurements"
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