DEEP LIFE WORKSHOP – 14-15 MAY 2013
DEEP LIFE STEERING COMMITTEE – 16 MAY 2013
PORTLAND, OREGON USA
MCMENAMINS-EDGEFIELD, TROUTDALE, OREGON USA
Workshop Goals
Review progress since the beginning of the Census of Deep Life and Rock-Hosted
Community projects
Determine how various research efforts within the projects complement each other.
Explore continuing and new directions for the DCO's next Deep Life Directorate proposal.
DRAFT AGENDA
Monday
13 May 2013
Arrive at McMenamins. Eat on your own at a McMenamins restaurant. No
workshop activities are planned.
Tuesday
14 May 2013
DEEP LIFE WORKSHOP: Day 1
Room: Theater
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07:30
Breakfast
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08:30
Welcome and introductions – Mitch Sogin
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Rock-Hosted Communities Presentations
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08:45
Rock-Hosted Communities overview – Matt Schrenk
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09:00
The Coast Range Ophiolite as an experimental field site for exploring
the serpentinite-hosted subsurface biosphere – Billy Brazelton
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09:20
Where Deep Life Meets Deep Energy in Precambrian Shield
Environments – TC Onstott
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09:40
Subseafloor microbial life in venting fluids from the Mid-Cayman Rise –
Julie Huber
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10:00
Break
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10:30
Biophysics of high pressure microorganisms – Fabrizia Foglia
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10:50
Concluding remarks – Matt
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11:05
Plenary Discussion of Rock – Hosted Communities
Discussion led by Kai Uwe-Hinrichs
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11:35
Linkages between Deep Life and Reservoir and Fluxes – Isabelle Daniel
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12:00
Lunch
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Census of Deep Life Presentations
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13:00
Census of Deep Life overview – Rick Colwell
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13:15
Mud volcanoes as windows to the deep biosphere: Temporal and
spatial dynamics of microbial communities in surfacing mud flows –
Antje Boetius
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13:35
Sulphate-induced diversity transition of subterranean microbial
communities in methane-rich, sulphate-poor granitic groundwater –
Karsten Pedersen
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13:55
Ice-Covered Icelandic Crater Lake Ecosystem Studies (ICICLES) – Eric
Gaidos
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14:15
Break, Poster Session
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14:45
Sequence through the artifacts - detecting low abundance in situ
microbes in the subsurface of seamounts along the Louisville
Seamount Chain – Jason Sylvan
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15:05
Deep brine waters host low diversity microbial communities at Soudan
Iron Mine – Cody Sheik
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15:25
Concluding remarks – Rick
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15:40
Plenary Discussion of Census of Deep Life
Discussion led by Kai
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16:10
Open mike session 1 - Chair: Antje
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16:30
Adjourn
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19:00
Dinner – Barley Room – Chaired: Matt
Roundtable:
Real-time ocean observing: The potential for studying deep carbon
using NSF-OOI's cabled observatory in the NE Pacific - Giora
Proskurowski (Ocean Observatories Initiative)
The NSF and NASA go underground…to search for life – Jan Amend (CDEBI)
Opportunities for DCO to collaborate with EMSL – Nancy Washton and
Robby Robinson (EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
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Wednesday
15 May 2013
DEEP LIFE WORKSHOP: Day 2
Room: Theater
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07:30
Breakfast
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08:00
Evidence of microbial carbon and sulfur cycling in buried ridge flank
basalt and general implications for life within Earth’s oceanic crust –
Mark Lever
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08:30
Breakout session organization and guidance – Mitch
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Breakout Sessions in Theatre, Vintner’s Room and Red Fox Room
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08:45
Session 1: Round 1, concurrent with four topics considered (1 hr)
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09:45
Break, Poster session
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10:15
Session 2: Round 1, concurrent with four topics considered (30 min)
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10:45
Session 3: Round 1, concurrent with four topics considered (30 min)
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11:15
Session 4: Round 1, concurrent with four topics considered (30 min)
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11:45
Key issues that arose during first round of breakout sessions (15 min) -
Mitch
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12:00
Lunch
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13:00
Session 5: Round 2, concurrent with four topics considered (30 min)
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13:30
Session 6: Round 2, concurrent with four topics considered (30 min)
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14:00
Session 7: Round 2, concurrent with four topics considered (30 min)
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14:30
Session 8: Round 2, concurrent with four topics considered (30 min)
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15:00
Break, Poster session
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15:30
Breakout session reports (10 min per topic) - Chair: Mitch
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16:10
Open mike session 2 – Chair: Antje
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16:30
Adjourn
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19:00
Dinner – Barley Room – Chair: Tom Kieft
Evening talks
Exploration of the deep submarine mud-volcano biosphere in the
Nankai accretionary prism – Fumio Inagaki
The Future of Lipids as Tools to Study Microbes and Biogeochemical
Processes in the Deep Biosphere – Kai