Dear Colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to Ocean Sciences 2018 Session 28465: Integrative Approaches and Emerging Techniques to Study the Sources and Cycling of Organic Matter Through Isotope Ecology and Geochemistry.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/os18/preliminaryview.cgi/Session28465 Abstract Submission is now open. The submission deadline is 6 September 2017, 11:59 P.M. EDT Session Description: The sources and cycling of organic matter play a major role in the structure and function of life on Earth. These processes influence everything from individual consumer-resource relationships to ecosystem responses to climate change. Recent advances in the stable and radio-isotope analysis of individual compounds (e.g., amino acids, fatty acids, etc.) have opened new doors to studying a wide range of interconnected topics, including: physiology, diet and trophic dynamics, animal migration and reproduction, biogeochemical cycling, and the processing of organic matter. This session focuses on the development and integrative application of novel techniques for isotope geochemistry (both compound-specific and cutting edge bulk) to study these ecological and biogeochemical dynamics in marine systems. We encourage submissions across a range of isotopes, compounds, and scales of biological organization (e.g., molecular, organismal, and ecosystem). This session seeks to open new discussions about current and emerging tools, their benefits and limitations, and applications to new questions and systems that push the evolution of this field. Primary Chair: Kelton McMahon, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States Co-chairs: Yasuhiko T Yamaguchi, The University of Tokyo, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, Yoshito Chikaraishi, Hokkaido University, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Sapporo, Japan and Michael J Polito, Louisiana State University, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States Cheers Kelton McMahon, Yasu Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Chikaraishi, and Mike Polito ************************************************** Kelton W. McMahon, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Graduate School of Oceanography University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882 USA Office: (401) 874-6944 Mobile: (860) 460-7367 Email: [email protected] Webpage: http://keltonmcmahon.sites.ucsc.edu/ **************************************************
