Ninth International Symposium on
Geochemistry of the Earth’s Surface
Glenn Miller Ballroom, University Memorial Center
University of Colorado Boulder
Symposium schedule
Thursday, June 2
4:30-7 pm
Registration University Memorial Center, South Terrace
5-7 pm
Ice-breaker reception University Memorial Center, South Terrace
(rain backup: UMC Room 265)
Friday, June 3
7:00 am
Glenn Miller Ballroom open for setting up Poster session 1
7:30-9:30 am
Registration University Memorial Center, Ballroom foyer
8:00 am
Coffee
8:30-9:00 am
Sigurdur Gislason, Suzanne Anderson
Welcome & introduction
Theme 1: Rivers— Landscape Integration (chair: Sigurdur Gislason)
9:00-9:45 am
James Syvitski Global sediment fluxes to the Earth’s coastal ocean
9:45-10:30 am Poster session 1 and morning refreshments
10:30-11:15 am Eric Oelkers The role of riverine particulate material on the global
cycles of the elements
11:15-12:00
Jean-Dominique Meunier Importance of weathering and human
perturbations on the riverine transport of Si
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch- on your own
1:30-2:15 pm
Jérôme Gaillardet The Lesser Antilles, a natural laboratory for
erosion studies
Theme 2: Critical Zone Processes (chairs: Steve Banwart and Suzanne Anderson)
2:15-3:00 pm
Sue Brantley What controls the transformation of bedrock to soil?
3:00-5:00 pm
Poster session 1 and afternoon refreshments
Saturday, June 4
8:00 am
Coffee
8:30-9:00 am
GES Senior Keynote: Bob Berner
Theme 2: Critical Zone Processes (continues)
9:00-9:45 am
François Chabaux U-series isotopes and weathering
9:45-10:30 am Poster session 1 and morning refreshments
10:30-11:15 am Kyungsoo Yoo Evolution of hillslope soils: The geomorphic theater
and the geochemical play
11:15-12:00
Mark Hodson Carbon sequestration, dating and palaeoenvironmental
reconstruction - the potential of earthworm secreted calcium
carbonate
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch- on your own
Theme 3: Organic Contaminants (chair: Stefano Bernasconi)
1:30-2:15 pm
Mark Chappell Solid-phase considerations for the environmental fate
of nitrobenzene and triazine munition constituents in soils
2:15-3:00 pm
Thomas Hofstetter Tracking transformation processes of organic
micropollutants in aquatic environments
3:00-5:00 pm
Poster session 1 and afternoon refreshments
Sunday, June 5
7:00 am
Glenn Miller Ballroom open for setting up Poster session 2
8:00-9:00 am
Posters and coffee
Theme 3: Organic Contaminants (continues)
9:00-9:45 am
Kristin Schirmer Identifying biological effects of organic
contaminants in surface- and groundwater
9:45-10:30 am Poster session 2 and morning refreshments
Theme 4: Microbial Geochemistry (chair: Alexis Templeton)
10:30-11:15 am Lesley Warren By design: the architecture of microbial redox cycling
11:15-12:00
Andreas Kappler Arsenic redox transformation by humic substances
and Fe minerals
12:00-1:30 pm Buffet lunch in Glenn Miller Ballroom
1:30-2:15 pm
Nathan Yee Geomicrobiology of selenium: Life and death by selenite
Theme 5: Environmental Geochemistry (chairs: Marty Goldhaber and Vala
Ragnarsdottir)
2:15-3:00 pm
Harald Sverdrup Assessing the sustainable global population and
phosphate supply, using a systems dynamics assessment model
3:00-5:00 pm
Poster session 2 and afternoon refreshments
Monday, June 6
Morning- optional field trips or time on your own
Theme 5: Environmental Geochemistry (continues)
1:30-3:30 pm
Poster session 2
3:00 pm
Afternoon refreshments
3:30-4:15 pm
Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis Human impacts on soils: Tipping points and
knowledge gaps
4:15-5:00 pm
Eric Sundquist Historical influence of soil and water management on
sediment and carbon budgets in the United States
6:00 pm
Conference Banquet, Millennium Hotel
Buses will take conferees to and from banquet
Tuesday, June 7
8:00-9:00 am
Poster session 2 and coffee
Theme 6: Special session in honor of Bob Berner: Global Geochemical Cycles (chair:
Jérôme Gaillardet)
9:00-9:45 am
Fred Mackenzie Land-sea C and nutrient fluxes and coastal ocean
CO2 exchange and acidification: Past, present and future
9:45-10:30 am Baerbel Hönisch Ocean acidification during the Cenozoic
10:30-12:00
Poster session 2 and morning refreshments
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch- on your own; GES business meeting in Ballroom
1:00-1:45 pm
Niels Hovius Erosion-driven drawdown of atmospheric carbon
dioxide: the organic pathway
1:45-2:30 pm
Derek Vance Isotopic tracers of chemical weathering and
consequences for marine geochemical budgets
2:30 pm
Closing