A persistent challenge to understanding carbon and nutrient cycling is the identification and quantification of microbial activities and resultant interactions that drive environmental biogeochemistry. To address this challenge, emerging molecular, isotopic, and imaging tools are helping provide unprecedented resolution into microbial processes in natural and synthetic environments. These technologies are being leveraged to derive mechanistic, transferable understanding central to improve predictions of environmental biogeochemistry including changes in response to system perturbations like climate forcing. We seek submissions that apply innovative techniques to better understand biogeochemical processes and we welcome both methodological and application-based presentations. Pertinent topics include coupling of isotopic and omics approaches, field deployable instruments/measurements, spatial profiling using advanced imaging, advanced omics analysis, isotope tracing including clumped and intramolecular techniques, temporal profiling using sensors or real-time molecular assays, and/or use of lab-based synthetic environments. We especially encourage submissions that translate high resolution observations into an ecological framework.

• ESA: Ecological Society of America -
• GS: Geochemical Society -
• GSA: Geological Society of America -
• SSSA: Soil Science Society of America -