Friday April 17th, 2026
6:00-9:00pm Optional Mixer and registration
Saturday April 18th, 2026
8am Registration Open, Breakfast served
9-9:10am Introduction/Welcome
9:10-9:15am Keynote speaker introduction
9:15-10am Keynote Address, Andrea Grottoli
10-11:30am Oral Session
Erica Strope, “Inorganic nitrogen and carbon uptake along Line P in the subarctic Northeast Pacific”
Archana Venkatachari, “Dual-Isotope Mixing Reveals Wastewater Effluent as the Dominant NO₃⁻ Source to Lake Wateree, SC, USA”
Caroline Warden, “Sources and Fluxes of Nitrogen in Zooplankton of the Western Tropical North Atlantic”
Annabel Schreiber, “Stream warming drives biofilm functional recovery following drought”
Nina Keck, “High and dry: Stream microbial community structure and function in response to warming and drought”
Jacqueline Todd, “Unraveling warming’s compensatory effects on stream recovery after intense drought”
11:30am-1:00pm Break
1:00-2:30pm Oral Session
Katherine Slenker, “Values of oxygen-18 isotope enrichment of North American megaherbivore body water reflect a spectrum of evaporation sensitivity”
Neda Mobasher, “A multiple genera assessment of Sr-U paleothermometry in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador”
Eli Renner and Dana Mills, “Bioaccumulation of Low-Level Contaminant Exposure in Corbicula fluminea“
Cayden Samuels, “Characterization of PET and Aromatic Hydrocarbon degradation by novel anaerobic bacterium Sporomusaceae sp. strain BFN5″
Jacob Clements, “Determining a Carbon Mass Balance and Active Degraders of Isotopically Labeled Polylactic Acid (PLA) in Soil”
Qiao Yan, “Structural Properties of Fe(II)-Ni(II) Hydroxides under Anoxic Conditions: Implications for Hydrogen Production”
2:30-2:45pm Break
2:45-4pm Oral Session
Tz-Chian Chen, “The subsurface expression of marine heatwaves drives biological community responses”
Hannah Budroe, “Containerized industrial waste in a deep-sea basin is linked to potential extreme microbial eukaryote communities”
Min Khant Han, “Metabolic potential of Marinifilaceae as a novel co-symbiont of Stilbonematinae nematodes”
Madeleine Thompson, “Quantitative multi-omics reveal active and functionally diverse marine fungi in the eastern tropical South Pacific oxygen minimum zone”
Seongwook Woo, “Expression of Nitrosopumilus nirK and a few clade II nosZ genes correlates strongly with nitrous oxide flux in a coastal marine oxygen minimum zone”
4:00-5:30pm Poster Session I
5:30-7:00pm Poster Session II
Sunday, April 19th, 2026
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00-10:15am Oral Session
Paul Okrah, “Thermal dynamics of salt marsh sediments and the impact of sea-level rise (SLR)”
Britany Guo, “Effects of root exudates on decomposition under oxic and anoxic conditions in contrasting salt marshes”
Eric Wang, “A Modeling Framework for Continuous Soil GHG Flux Estimation Combining Manual and Automated Chamber Data with Environmental Predictors”
Maruf Agbaje, “Coupled Redox and Carbonate Dynamics in River-Influenced Sediments of the Northern Gulf of Mexico”
Zacharie Loveless, “Using the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) aquatic sites to explore the drivers of stream particulate quantity and quality across the United States and Puerto Rico”