B009
A new look at an old problem: microbial methane cycling across systems and scales

Session ID#: 161478

Session Description:
Atmospheric methane is a potent greenhouse gas that plays a major role in controlling the Earth’s climate. Microorganisms across a range of ecosystems, spanning natural to human-made environments, can govern methane emission to the atmosphere. Recent methodological advances have cracked the window on the methane cycle, offering us new views on the microorganisms, substrates, conditions, and other factors that modulate the production and consumption of biogenic methane. The goal of this session is to report insights into microbial methane cycling to outline new perspectives or generalizable rules derived from disparate ecosystems. In this session we hope to illuminate the factors influencing microbial methane cycling, thereby offering directions for increased realism in predictive, process-oriented models of methane flux. We encourage submissions using any approach (laboratory, field, modeling) that emphasizes microbial contributions to methane biogeochemistry. 
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ESA: Ecological Society of America -
  • GSA: Geological Society of America -
  • SSSA: Soil Science Society of America -
  • WCRP: World Climate Research Programme -
Index Terms:

0404 Anoxic and hypoxic environments [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0465 Microbiology: ecology, physiology and genomics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Primary Convener:  Kelly C Wrighton, Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Mikayla Borton, Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States and Kelly C Wrighton, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Mikayla Borton, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States; Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
An Insight into Microbial Methane Production in Wetlands Using 13CH3D and 12CH2D2Clumped Isotopes (1079545)
Mojhgan A Haghnegahdar1, Nora David Hamovit1, Amaury Bouyon2, Jiayang Sun3, Stephanie Yarwood4, Nicole Hultquist1, Taniya RoyChowdhury1 and James Farquhar5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, United States, (4)University of Maryland, Environment Science and Technology, College Park, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology and ESSIC, College Park, United States
 
Strong Sensitivity of Wetland CH4 emissions to Genome-inferred Microbial Trait Distribution (Invited) (1081941)
Zhen Li1,2, William J Riley2, Gianna Marschmann3, Ulas Karaoz4, Ian Shirley5,6, Qiong Wu6, Jinyun Tang2, Nicholas Bouskill4, Kuang-Yu Chang3, Robert F Grant7, Scott R Saleska1, Ruth K Varner8, Virginia Isabel Rich9, Ben J. Woodcroft10, Kelly Wrighton11, Jeff Chanton12, Patrick M Crill13, Eric King2,14, Gene W. Tyson15 and Eoin Brodie16,17, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (6)University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (7)University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (8)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (9)The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States, (10)University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, (11)Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (12)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (13)Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, (14)Consumnes River College, Department of Biology, Sacramento, United States, (15)University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia, (16)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (17)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
Microbial activity at different types of mud volcanos in Japan: an insight from methane clumped isotope signatures (1086031)
Naizhong Zhang1, Alexis Gilbert2, Mayuko Nakagawa1, Koudai Taguchi1 and Keita Yamada3, (1)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo, United States, (3)Tokyo Institute of Technology, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo, Japan
 
Variable Distribution and Diversity of Methanogens in Soil Explains Spatial Heterogeneity of Wetland CH4 Fluxes (1094425)
Wyatt Arnold1, Meghan Taylor2, Mark Bradford2, Peter A Raymond2 and Jordan Peccia1, (1)Yale University, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, New Haven, United States, (2)Yale University, Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, United States
 
Methane Emissions During Biochar Co-composting Are Driven by Biochar Application Rate and Aggregate Formation (1094541)
Brendan Harrison1, Si Gao2, Touyee Thao1, Melinda Gonzales1, Kennedy Williams3, Lauren Hale4, Teamrat A Ghezzehei2, Gerardo Diaz5 and Rebecca Ryals6, (1)University of California Merced, Environmental Systems, Merced, United States, (2)University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, United States, (3)Howard University, Environmental Studies, Washington, D.C., United States, (4)USDA-ARS, Parlier, United States, (5)University of California Merced, Mechanical Engineering, Merced, United States, (6)University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States
 
Groundwater Methane Influenced by Surface Topography and Potential Sulfate-mediated Biogeochemical Processes in Shale Gas Development and Coal Mining Regions across Northern Appalachia (1111681)
Yunpo Li1, Helen Siegel2, Nathalie Thelemaque1, Kathleen Bailey3, Priya Moncrieffe3, Timothy Nguyen3, Cassandra Clark4, Nicholaus P. Johnson5, Emma Ryan4, Kristina M Gutchess2, Rebecca Brenneis1, Mario Soriano Jr.2, Boya Xiong1, Nicole C Deziel4, James E Saiers2 and Desiree L Plata1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States, (2)Yale University, the School of the Environment, New Haven, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (4)Yale University, School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States, (5)Yale University, School of Public Health, New Haven, United States
 
Methylotrophic Metabolism in the Mire: Unearthing Direct and Indirect Routes for Methane Production in a Model Permafrost Thaw Peatland (1116469)
Jared Ellenbogen1, Mikayla Borton1, Bridget B McGivern2, David W Hoyt3, Viviana Freire Zapata4, Dylan R Cronin5, Rebecca Daly2, Adrienne B Narrowe1, Elizabeth K Eder3, Jeff Chanton6, Virginia Isabel Rich7, Malak M Tfaily4, Gene W. Tyson8 and Kelly Wrighton2, (1)Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Department of Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States, (6)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (7)The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States, (8)University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia
 
Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer May Complicate Use of Stable Isotopes to Trace the Pathway of Methanogenesis (1122109)
Matthew F Kirk, Kansas State University, Department of Geology, Manhattan, KS, United States, Javil Hansen, Kansas State University, Department of Geology, Manhattan, United States, Brett Nave, Kansas State University, Division of Biology, Manhattan, United States, Keith C Hackley, Isotech Laboratories Inc., Champaign, United States, Lydia Zeglin, Kansas State University, Division of Biology, Manhattan, KS, United States, Janet M Paper, Benedictine College, Department of Biology, Atchison, United States, David S Vinson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, United States and Qusheng Jin, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States
 
Below-ground Geochemistry Underlying Within-Site Variation of Methane Emissions in a Northern Boreal Fen (1145387)
Lukas Kohl1, Salla Tenhovirta1, Iikka Haikarainen2, Annalea Lohila3 and Mari Pihlatie4, (1)University of Helsinki, Department of Agricultural Science and Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Helsinki, Finland, (2)University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Department of Agricultural Science and Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Helsinki, Finland, (3)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Climate System Research, Helsinki, Finland, (4)University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, Helsinki, Finland
 
Evaluating the Effect of Increasing Temperature in the Production of Methane from Modern to Millennial Carbon Pools using Incubations of Canadian Thermokarst Lake Sediments (1157157)
Regina Gonzalez Moguel, McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, Canada, Peter Munroe Douglas, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Nagissa Mahmoudi, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
 
Understanding Deep Subsurface Microbial Ecosystems across distinct aquifers of the Paradox Basin (1160472)
Jackson Watkins1, Bradley S. Stevenson1, Ji-Hyun Kim2, Jennifer C McIntosh3 and Magdalena R Osburn4, (1)Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, United States, (2)University of Calgary, Department of Geosciences, Calgary, Canada, (3)University of Arizona, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, IL, United States
 
Redox Profiles Across Thawing Permafrost in Stordalen Mire (1162262)
Parker Stoddard1, Hannah Holland Moritz2, Jared Ellenbogen3, Torin Scalora-Riley4, Tallulah Biletzskov5, Maria Florencia Fahnestock2, Ruth K Varner6, Rebecca Daly7 and Kelly Wrighton7, (1)University of Science and Arts Oklahoma, Chickasha, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (5)Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Crystalline Iron Oxides Stimulate Methanogenesis Under Sulfate Reducing Conditions (1192226)
Brandon Enalls1, Mon Oo Yee1, Amrita Bhattacharyya2,3, Kristine Grace Cabugao1, Sara Gushgari-Doyle1 and Romy Chakraborty1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Ecology, Berkeley, United States, (2)University of San Francisco, Chemistry, San Francisco, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Geochemistry, Berkeley, United States
 
Vertical Hydrological Exchange Flows Control Methane Emissions From Riverbed Sediments (1192659)
Kewei Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology, Richland, United States, Eric E Roden, University of Wisconsin, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Madison, WI, United States, Xingyuan Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, James Stegen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and Chunmiao Zheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China
 
Diversity, function, and cultivation of the first methanogens outside the Euryarchaeota (Invited) (1199452)
Roland Hatzenpichler, Montana State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bozeman, MT, United States
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