Session No. 40
	Monday, 20 March 2017: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
	Frick, Conference Level (Omni William Penn Hotel)
	
	T26.  Biogeochemical Cycling and Biomineralization: Observations at the Microscale
	
	
	
	
	
 
	
	
	
		
	
    
	
		
			Dawn Cardace, Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad and Amanda Albright Olsen, Advocates
		
 
	 
  
	
	
	
	
	 
	
		
		
	
		
		
	
		
	
	
		2:10 PM 
		
		
	
	
		
			
				ION CHROMATOGRAPHY ANALYSIS OF GROUNDWATERS FROM THE COAST RANGE OPHIOLITE MICROBIAL OBSERVATORY (CROMO) WATER MONITORING WELLS. 
			
			
				
					SHAIKH, Mahrukh, Geosciences, University of Rhode Island, 9 E. Alumni Ave, Woodward Hall,, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881-0816 and CARDACE, Dawn, Geosciences, University of Rhode Island, 9 East Alumni Avenue, Woodward Hall, Kingston, RI 02881, mahrukhshaikh@my.uri.edu, mahrukhshaikh@my.uri.edu
 
			
			
				
			
		
	 
 
		
	
		
	
	
		2:30 PM 
		
		
	
	
		
			
				SERPENTINIZATION-RELATED MICROBE-MINERAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH µFTIR-SPECTROSCOPY
			
			
				
					SOUSA, Alexander, Geoscience, University Of Rhode Island, 45 Upper College Rd,, Kingston, RI 02281 and CARDACE, Dawn, Geosciences, University of Rhode Island, 9 East Alumni Avenue, Woodward Hall, Kingston, RI 02881, alexander_sousa@uri.edu, alexander_sousa@uri.edu
 
			
			
				
			
		
	 
 
		
	
		
	
	
		2:50 PM 
		
		
	
	
		
			
				GETTING TO THE ROOT OF NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION IN ABANDONED MINE LANDS: BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING OF MANGANESE IN FORESTED COAL MINE SPOIL
			
			
				
					YARGER, Brianne1, FREDERICK, Hannah
2, ZEMANEK, Laura
1, SINGER, David M.
1 and HERNDON, Elizabeth
3, (1)Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, (2)Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, (3)Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240, byarger@kent.edu, byarger@kent.edu
 
			
			
				
			
		
	 
 
		
	
		
	
	
		3:10 PM 
		
		
	
	
		
			
				IRON REDOX CYCLING AND IMPACTS ON PHOSPHORUS SOLUBILITY IN TUNDRA AND BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS
			
			
				
					DUROE, Kiersten1, MILLS, Jonathan
1, KINSMAN-COSTELLO, Lauren E.
2 and HERNDON, Elizabeth
1, (1)Department of Geology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240, (2)Biological Sciences, Kent State University, 256 Cunningham Hall, Kent, OH 44242, kduroe@kent.edu, kduroe@kent.edu