ESS Highlight: ESS Faculty & Student Presentations at 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting

Posters and talks for the 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting will be held 21-26 February 2016 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, located at 900 Convention Center Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70130. 

MONDAY 2/22/16

10:30AM - 10:45AM

• Leif Thomas, PO12D-01: Rapid Energy Exchange Between Balanced Eddies and Near-Inertial Waves at Fronts. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 231-232

02:30 PM - 02:45 PM

• Ryan Holmes, PO13B-03: Evidence for Seafloor-Intensified Mixing by Surface-Generated Equatorial Waves. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 207

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM 

• Karen Casciotti,  B14A-0273: Nitrite isotopes as tracers for marine N cycle processes (Invited). Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Julian Damashek, B14A-0282: Nitrification from the Pacific Ocean to the Sacramento River: Do Distinct Microbial Communities Affect Biogeochemical Nitrogen Cycling in the Waters of a Large Urban Estuary? Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Matthew Forbes, B14A-0275: Nitrous Oxide (N2O) cycling in the Equatorial Tropical South Pacific (ETSP) Oxygen Deficient Zone (ODZ) - evidence for production, consumption and N2O transport. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Taylor Martin, B14A-0274: Investigating N cycle processes in the Arabian Sea oxygen deficient zone using paired N and O isotope measurements of nitrate and nitrite. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Linta Reji, B14A-0283: Nitrite Reductase (nirK) as an Alternative Molecular Marker for Ammonia-oxidizing Archaea: Quantification and Characterization of Thaumarchaeal nirK Genes in Estuarine Sediments from San Francisco Bay. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Bradley Tolar, B14A-0287: Combining Molecular, Genomic, and Isotopic Techniques to Examine the Metabolism of Marine Thaumarchaeota in Monterey Bay and the California Current System. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Nicole Travis, B14A-0291: Effects of Ammonium-rich Wastewater Effluent on Phytoplankton Productivity in Experimental Mesocosms from the northern San Francisco Estuary. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Gert van Dijken, B14A-0282: B14A-0292: Observations of a summertime phytoplankton bloom in the northeastern subtropical Pacific. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

TUESDAY 2/23/16

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM 

• Anne Dekas, MM24A-0426: Single-cell measurement of archaeal and bacterial carbon assimilation in dark Pacific Ocean waters. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

WEDNESDAY 2/24/16

02:15 PM - 02:30 PM

• Kate Lowry, HE33A-02: Does active convection within leads in sea ice delay phytoplankton blooms? Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - 217-219

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM 

• Kevin Arrigo, HE34A-1452: Improved Estimates of Primary Production in the Chukchi Sea. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Kate Lewis, HE34A-1453: Photophysiological adaptations of polar phytoplankton and the impact on satellite-derived primary production estimates. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Matthew Mills, B34B-0355: Differential Effects of Nitrate (NO3-), Ammonium (NH4+) and Urea on Phytoplankton Communities in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Brian Peters, B34B-0364: Estimating δ15N of remineralized NO3- in water masses of the eastern tropical south Pacific using NO3- isotope measurements from the GEOTRACES Eastern Pacific Zonal Transect. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Virginia Selz, HE34A-1467: Ice Algal Contributions to Pelagic Production. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

THURSDAY 2/25/16

FRIDAY 2/26/16

10:30am - 10:45am

• Casey Schine, HE52B-01: Detailed Spatial Analysis of Trends in Primary Productivity in the Ross Sea, Antarctica (1997-2013). Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

• Heidi Hirsh, EC54A-1302: Coupled Biogeochemical and Hydrodynamic Measurements over a Palauan Seagrass Bed: Can Seagrasses Mitigate Local Acidification Stress. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• Hannah Joy-Warren, HE54C-1598: Photoinhibition of phytoplankton and ice algae in the West Antarctic Peninsula. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall

• David Koweek, EC54B-1314: Bubble Stripping as a Tool to Reduce High Dissolved CO2 in Coastal Marine Ecosystems. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center - Poster Hall