B003
Advances in Aerobiology: Investigations and Techniques for Atmospheric Microbiology
Session ID#: 83725
Session Description:
Aerobiology is the science of life in the atmosphere. Beyond animals capable of flight, the atmosphere is host to significant microbial life, as spores, on dust particles, and within fog and cloud water. These airborne microbes have substantial regional and global impacts, affecting aerosol composition, ice and cloud nucleation, health and agriculture, and biodiversity. Advances in aerobiology are enabled by innovation in areas including sample capture (balloons, aircraft, rocketry, drones, fog collectors); sample analysis (low-biomass detection, nucleation studies, phylogenetic classification, functional genomics); and integration with remote sensing and climate and ecosystem modeling (dust trajectories, aerosol lifetimes, biodiversity, habitability). This session seeks diverse contributions covering all areas of aerobiology, including new field observations, sampling platforms or strategies, laboratory experiments, theoretical modeling, and Earth's atmosphere as an analogue for other worlds. Studies that integrate multiple types of data, or observations across spatial and temporal scales, are particularly encouraged.
Index Terms:
0305 Aerosols and particles [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0452 Instruments and techniques [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0465 Microbiology: ecology, physiology and genomics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener: Diana Gentry, NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Conveners: Samantha Waters, Universities Space Research Association, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and David Joseph Smith, NASA Ames, Mountain View, United States
Primary Liaison: Diana Gentry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Impacts of Freshwater Salinization on Aerosolized Bacteria (499070)
Charbel Harb1, Kaisen Lin1, Brian Badgley2, Linsey C Marr1, David G Schmale III2 and Hosein Foroutan1, (1)Virginia Tech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Virginia Tech, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Modelling the Spread of Wheat Stem Rust Fungus (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici) through Atmospheric Spore Transport (508260)
Marje Prank1, Shawn C Kenaley2, Gary C Bergstrom3, Maricelis Acevedo4 and Natalie M Mahowald1, (1)Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, (4)Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Ithaca, NY, United States
PM2.5 Chemical and Microbial Community Composition and Structure at Suburban and Urban Sites in the Greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Region (508714)
Justin Stewart1, Kabindra M Shakya1, Sujith Ravi2, James Wilson3 and Chong Seok Choi4, (1)Villanova University, Geography and the environment, Villanova, PA, United States, (2)Temple University, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (3)Villanova University, Villanova, United States, (4)Temple University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Sampling Strategy Concerns for Atmospheric Microbiology (588820)
Diana Gentry, NASA Ames Research Center, Biospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Anton Navazo, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, Amber Wong, Reedley College, Reedley, CA, United States, Dillon Arismendi, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States and Robert P. Dahlgren, California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States
Development of Stable Isotope Probing to Monitor Activity of Airborne Bacteria (592761)
Donna Fennell1, Kevin P. Dillon2, Valdis Krumins2, Lora R McGuinness3, Gediminas E Mainelis2 and Lee J Kerkhof3, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Environmental Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (3)Rutgers University, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Forecasting Pollen in the Continental U.S.: Developing a Machine Learning Random Forest Model (596741)
Fiona Lo, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Atmospherics Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Jeremy J Hess, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, United States and Cecilia M Bitz, University of Washington, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Daily Changes in Atmospheric Microbiology Demonstrated in the Variability of Lipids in Particulate Matter (611930)
James M Fulton1, Pierre Herckes2, Matthew P Fraser2, James R Collins3 and Benjamin AS Van Mooy4, (1)Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Picocyanobacterial cells aerosolize from terrestrial and freshwater substrates in Greenland and Antarctica (628034)
Jessica Trout-Haney, Dartmouth College, Biological Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, Ruth Chaves Heindel, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States and Ross A Virginia, Dartmouth College, Environmental Studies Program, Hanover, NH, United States