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The Characteristics and Origins of Biogenic Caliches In Texas

Jie Zhou; Henry S. Chafetz, University of Houston

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Carbonate Precipitation In Artificial Soils as a Plant-Driven Carbon Capture Process

David A.C. Manning, Newcastle University; Phil Renforth, Newcastle University; Elisa Lopez-Capel, Newcastle University

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To Eat or Not to Eat: A Thermodynamic Model of Free and Calcite-Bound Organic Matter Respiration by Karst Microbes

Ariel F. Bennett, University of Florida; Andrew R. Zimmerman, University of Florida; Philip S. Neuhoff, University of Florida

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Calcium Oxalate Biomineralization by Piloderma Fallax in Response to Calcium and Phosphorus in Solid Medium

Melissa Marie S. Tuason, Univ. of Northern British Columbia; Joselito M. Arocena, Univ of Northern British Columbia

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Bacterial and Mineral Associations at the Saprolite Interface with Quartz Diorite Bedrock, Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico

Morgan L. Minyard, The Pennsylvania State University; Mary Ann Bruns, Pennsylvania State Univ; Laura Liermann, Penn State; Susan Brantley, The Pennsylvania State University; Heather Buss

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Effect of Poultry Manure Amendment on Soil Phosphatase Activity

Heidi Waldrip-Dail, USDA-ARS; Zhongqi He, USDA-ARS; C. Wayne Honeycutt, USDA-ARS; M. Susan Erich, The University of Maine

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A Two-Dimensional Alternative to IRIS Tubes

Paula Gale, University of Tennessee at Martin; Steve Monteith, NRCS

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Organic Acid and Dissolved Oxygen Effects on Rare Earth Element and Yttrium Release from Phosphate Minerals

Keith W. Goyne, University of Missouri; Jon Chorover, University of Arizona; Susan L. Brantley, Pennsylvania State University

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Alternative Nitrogen Fixation and Its Role In Nutrient Cycling

Brendan P. Hodkinson, Duke University; Telisa M. Loveless, USDA Agricultural Research Service and North Carolina State University; Paul E. Bishop, USDA Agricultural Research Service and North Carolina State University; François Lutzoni, Duke University

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Diversity of Microbial Communities Associated with Rhizosphere Soils of Selected Rice Varieties Grown In Sri Lanka

Warshi Shamila Dandeniya, Cornell University; R.M.C.P. Rajapaksha, Faculty of Agriculture

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How Do Prokaryotes Survive In Fluid Inclusions In Halite for 30,000 Years?

Tim K. Lowenstein, Binghamton University; Brian A. Schubert, Binghamton University; Michael N. Timofeeff, Binghamton University

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Microbe – Erionite Intimacy or How to Survive When Things Get Tough

Robert E. Janusz, Univ of Texas at San Antonio; Stuart J. Birnbaum, The Univ of Texas at San Antonio

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Ni2+ Sorption on Biogenic Manganese Oxides Formed at Various Phs

Mengqiang Zhu, University of Delaware; Donald Sparks, University of Delaware

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Continuous Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction of the Biological Reduction of Mn Oxides and Secondary Phase Precipitation

Timothy B. Fischer, Pennsylvania State University; Peter J. Heaney, Pennsylvania State University; Susan L. Brantley, Pennsylvania State University; Jeffrey E. Post, Smithsonian Institution; Ming Tien, Pennsylvania State University

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Quantum Chemical Modeling of Biologically-Mediated Fe(III) Reduction

Brendan W. Puls, The Pennsylvania State University; Ming Tien, Pennsylvania State University; James D. Kubicki, The Pennsylvania State University

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Evidence for Microbial Precipitation of Iron Nodules In a California Marine Terrace Soil Chronosequence

Marjorie Schulz, US Geological Survey

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Microbially Mediated Massive Iron Hydroxide Deposits Associated with Net Alkaline Coal Mine Drainage

Rosemary C. Capo, University of Pittsburgh; H.M. Edenborn, National Energy Technology Lab; U.S. Department of Energy; Candace Kairies Beatty, Winona State University; Elizabeth C. Chapman, University of Pittsburgh

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Biodegradability of Drilling Fluids Used for Deep Subsurface Core Recovery in Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Ryan M. Cumpston, Northern Illinois University; Melissa Lenczewski, Northern Illinois University; S.M.O S.M.S. Science Project Team

2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008): Biologically Induced Dissolution and Precipitation of Minerals in Soils and Sediments (Posters)

57 Biologically Induced Dissolution and Precipitation of Minerals in Soils and Sediments (Posters)