Curriculum vitae k. J. Edwards katrina j. Edwards

Orals/Qualifiying Examination Committees

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  Ben Tully, USC MEB Ph.D. candidate
  
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  Tim Riedel, USC Earth Sciences Ph.D. candidate
  
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  Orion Johnson, ES Ph.D. candidate (withdrawn)
  
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  Anand Patel, USC Biological Sciences Ph.D. candidate (Ph.D. 2010)
  
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  Meghann Ribbens, USC Biological Sciences Ph.D. candidate
  

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  Colleen Hoffman 6/11 – present
  

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  Co-chief Scientist: R/V Maria S. Merian 2012 Mid Atlantic
  
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  Co-chief Scientist: R/V Joides Resolution 2011 Mid Atlantic
  
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  PI & Science Party: R/V Atlantis ROV Jason-II 2011 Juan de Fuca
  
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  Science Party: R/V Atlantis ROV Jason-II 2010 Juan de Fuca
  
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  Co-PI & Science party: R/V Maria S. Merian 2009, Mid-Atlantic
  
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  PI & Co-Chief Scientist: R/V Thompson with ROV Jason-II 2008 Loihi seamount, HA
  
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  PI & Science Party: R/V Kilo Moana with ROV Jason-II 2007 Loihi seamount, HA
  
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  PI & Chief Scientist: R/V Melville with ROV Jason-II 2006 Loihi seamount, HA
  
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  PI & Science Party: R/V Atlantis with submersible ALVIN 2004 East Pacific Rise
  
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  Field sampling: Falmouth MA 2000-2005 coastal water and salt marshes
  
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  Science Party: R/V Ka’imikai-o-Kanaloa submersible Pisces II 2003 Loihi seamount, HA
  
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  Science Party: R/V Atlantis submersible ALVIN 1999 Juan de Fuca
  
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  Field sampling: Clay City, KY 1999-2002
  
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  Field sampling: Iron Mountain acid mine drainage Superfund site, CA 1996-1998
  
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  Field sampling: Adirondacks Mountains, NY 1994-1995
  
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  Field sampling: Isle of Sky, Scotland 1995
  

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  Co-Principal Investigator: NASA Astrobiology Institute “Life Underground” (1/1/2012 – 12/31/2017; $ 1,700,000)
  
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  Co-Principal Investigator: Marine Science and Technology Foundation, “Dark Energy Biosphere Initiative - SubsurfacE LifE Characterization Tool (DEBI-SELECT)” (12/1/2012 – 11/31/2014; $ 1,600,000)
  
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  Co-Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation, “Collaborative Research: IODP Expedition 336 Objective Research: The deep biosphere of young and oxic oceanic crust” (8/1/2012 - 7/31/2014; $ 184,735).
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation, “Collaborative Research: The Basalt-Hosted Biosphere at North Pond - A Subseafloor Mid-Atlantic Ridge-Flank Microbial Observatory” (2/1/2011 – 1/31/2013; $ 66,610).
  
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  Principal Investigator: Consortium for Ocean Leadership, “IODP Renewal leadership Team” (8/1/10 – 7/31/11; $ 59,618).
  
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  Principal Investigator: Consortium for Ocean Leadership, “Integrated Ocean Drilling Project (IODP) Expedition 327: Juan de Fuca” (7/5/10 – 8/13/13; 7,407)
  
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  Principal Investigator: Consortium for Ocean Leadership, “Integrated Ocean Drilling Project (IODP) Expedition 330: Louisville Seamount Chain” (8/13/10 – 7/12/11; $8,551)
  
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  Principal Investigator: Consortium for Ocean Leadership, “Integrated Ocean Drilling Project (IODP) Expedition 330: Louisville Seamount Chain” (8/13/10 – 7/12/11; $14,245).
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation, “RAPID: DEBI-t: development of a Deep Exploration Biosphere Investigative Tool” (9/1/10 – 8/31/11; $162,045).
  
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  Principal Investigator: Sloan Foundation, “DEBI-t: development of a Deep Exploration Biosphere Investigative Tool” (9/1/10-8/31/11; $300,000).
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Center (J. Cowen, S. D’Hondt, A. Fisher, C.G. Wheat Co-PI’s) “Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations” (8/1/10 – 7/31/15; $25,000,000).
  
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  Co-Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation, MRI-R2: Acquisition of A Networked AUV Based Instrument for the Southern California Bight (PI Gaurav Sukhatme; 1/01/2010 - 12/31/12; 390,000)
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation, Research Coordination Networks in the Biological Sciences (J. Amend, Co-PI) “A Deep-Biosphere Research Coordination Network” (3/1/09 – 2/28/14; $492,416).
  
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  Principal Investigator: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation “The Deep Subsurface Biosphere at North Pond: A Mid-Atlantic Ridge Microbial Observatory”(10/1/07 – 12/31/12; $3,900,000)
  

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  Co-Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation Ocean Drilling Program; OCE- OCE-0728381 (A. Teske, PI, J. McManus, Co-PI) “Collaborative Proposal: Site survey and initial characterization of North Pond – Microbiology, Biogeochemistry, Seismic Profiles”; (09/01/2007-08/31/2011; $ 212,524
  
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  Co-Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation RIDGE Program; (C. German, PI, O. Rouxel, Co-PI) “Collaborative Research: Hydrothermal Fluxes and their Impact on Ocean Biogeochemistry: An Integrated pre-and post-eruption Study at the EPR, 9-10 degrees N” (4/1/07 to 3/31/11; $ 132,850).
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation; MCB- 0348425 (D. Emerson, C. Moyer, B. Tebo, H. Staudigel, Co-PIs) “Collaborative Research: Loihi Seamount as an Observatory for the Study of Neutraphilic Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria and the Microbial Iron Cycle” (9/15/04 – 8/31/10, 399,998; supp. 8/09/07-3/09/08 39,367; supp. 11/05/07-8/03/08 11,410).
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation Ocean Drilling Program; OCE-0526285 (J. Bernhard, Co-PI) “Development and Testing of Materials Methods for In-situ Incubations and Subsurface Microbial Observatories at North Pond” (04/1/07 to 3/31/09; $ 244,310).
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation RIDGE Program; OCE-0752594 “Linking genetics and mineralization of iron-oxidizing microbes at midocean ridges” (2/15/08 to 1/31/09; $39,953).
  
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  Co-Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation; OCE-0524994 (M. Charette PI, K. Casciotti, K. Kroeger, Co-PIs) “Mechanisms of Dinitrogen Production in Coastal Permeable Sediments” (09/01/2005-08/31/2008, $599,895).
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation RIDGE Program; OCE-0526285 “Linking genetics and mineralization of iron-oxidizing microbes at midocean ridges” (10/1/05 to 9/30/07; $139,510).
  
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  Co-Principal Investigator: NASA Astrobiology Institute (R. Gast & S. Sievert, Co-P.I.’s, M. Sogin, NAI team PI) “From Early Biospheric Metabolisms to the Evolution of Complex Systems” (11/01/03 – 10/31/08, $505,969)
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation; OCE-0425737 (J. Moffett, Co-PI) “Investigation of Fe(II) Coordination and Oxidation by Marine Bacteria” (9/01/04 – 8/31/07, 257,908)
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation; OCE- 0241791(W. Bach, Co-PI) “RIDGE Integrated Studies at 9°N East Pacific Rise: Establishing a Role for Fe and S Microbial Metabolism in Ocean Crust Weathering” (4/1/03 – 9/31/06, 385,757)
  
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  Principal Investigator: Texas A&M Research Foundation F001724; (Sub-contract with JOI for Ocean Drilling Project Post-cruise support) “Leg 205 Post-Cruise Science Support: Microbial Alteration of the Igneous Complex at the Costa Rica Margin” (08/21/03 – 09/05/05, 35,236).
  
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  Principal Investigator: Office of Naval Research; N00014-02-1-0505 “The Role of Surface Microtopography in Microbial Adhesion and Biofilm Formation” (5/1/02 – 4/31/05, 314,113)
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation; EAR-0106707 (Eglinton, T.I., Petsch, S.T., co-PI's) "Microbial Degradation of Refractory Organic Carbon During Rock Weathering” (7/1/01-7/31-04, 307,861)
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation; EAR-0073998 “Microbial Attachment to Minerals: Experimental Studies on Mineral-Driven Chemotaxis, & Role of Crystallography & Microtopography in Site-Specific, Oriented Cell Attachment on Surfaces” (7/1/00-6/30/03, 180,007)
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation; OCE-0096992 "Investigations of Microbial Fe and Sulfide Mineral Oxidation at Seafloor Hydrothermal Vents" (3/1/01-2/28/03, 130,666)=
  
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  Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation; EAR-0091716 (co-funded by OCE) “Acquisition of an Atomic Force Bioscope” (3/15/01-2/28/03, 92,607); EAR-0138378 NSF supplement to EAR-0091716 (17,653)
  

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  “Acidophile Archaeal Organism”. U.S. Patent No. 6589772, exp. 2/29/20. Banfield, J.F., Edwards, K.J., Bond, P.L., Gihring, T.M.
  

Cal Tech

University of Hawaii

Johns Hopkins
2011

Jet Propulsion Laboratories, California

Lamont-Doehrey Earth Observatory

AGU Fall Meeting

AGU Fall Meeting (2 lectures)

National Research Council: the Future of Ocean Drilling

Hopkins Microbiology Summer Course

NASA Astrobiology Institute Directors Seminar

ASM Annual Meeting

Rutgers University

Hood College

Converse College

Nebraska State University

Oklahoma State University

USC Water Retreat

Deep Life Workshop

NAS Committee on the Origin and Evolution of Life

UCLA

2009

SEA Labs, Redondo

East Carolina University

Penn State University

DEBI-RCN Workshop

InterRIDGE-IODP Workshop

ASM Round Table

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

AAAS Meeting

University of California

ECORD Deep Biosphere Summer School Lectures (3)

ISME

Carnegie Institution of Washington

European Geosciences Union

Ponoma College

Arizona State University

University of Santa Cruz

Interridge Workshop

Goldschmidt Conference

Cal Tech

Darwin Days, the Netherlands

University of California, Berkeley

Sanford University

Subseafloor Life Workshop, Vancouver

International Society for Microbial Ecology General Meeting

Marine Biological Laboratories, Microbial Diversity Course

University of Southern California, Geobiology Course

RIDGE Theoretical Institute

International Census of Marine Microbes, The Netherlands

American Society for Microbiology

Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Harvard University

University of Southern California

Goldschmidt Conference

Dartmouth

University of Vermont

ISME-10

MBL NASA Astrobiology Institute

North Eastern Microbiologists Meeting

Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry Gordon Conference

Cornell

Marine Biological Laboratories, NAI

Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting

Marine Biological Laboratories, Microbial Diversity Course

American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting

2002

University of Connecticut

Netherlands Institute of Ecology

University of Utrecht

Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Scripps Institute of Oceanography

ONR Coatings/Biofouling Program

Ohio State University

Marine Biological Laboratories Symposium

6th International symposium on the geochemistry of the Earth’s surface

University of Michigan

Washington University

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

University of Illinois

Marine Biological Laboratory

The 11th Annual Goldschmidt Conference

University of Connecticut

University of Texas

AGU Fall meeting

Dalhousie University

Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Harvard University

1998

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Geological Society of America conference

Barco, R.A., Edwards, K.J. 2011. In search of biomarkers for iron-oxidizing bacteria (FeOB).  AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.

Sylvan, JB, Edwards, KJ. 2012. Metagenomic analysis of inactive hydrothermal sulfides from Lau Basin.  2012 Goldschmidt Conference, Montreal, Canada.  Poster presentation.

Sylvan, J.B., Sia, T.Y., Haddad, A.G., Briscoe, L.M., Girguis, P.R., Edwards. K.J. 2012. Microbiology of low temperature seafloor deposits along a geochemical gradient in Lau Basin.  Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Ocean Sciences Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.  Poster presentation.

Sylvan, J.B., Sia, T.Y., Haddad, A.G., Briscoe, L.M., Girguis, P.R., Edwards. K.J. 2011. Microbiology of low temperature seafloor deposits along a geochemical gradient in Lau Basin.  General Meeting of American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.  Oral presentation.

Haddad, A.G., Fakra, S.C., Orcutt, B.N., Toner, B.M., Edwards, K.J. 2011. Mineralogy and inorganic chemistry of naturally-occurring biogenic iron oxyhydroxides. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.

Haddad, A.G., Baquiran, J., Edwards, K.J. 2012. Influences of hydrothermal plume fallout and mineralogy on microbial communities: insights from in situ experiments at the Lo'ihi Seamount, Hawaii. Ocean Sciences Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT. Poster presentation.

Haddad, A.G., Edwards, K.J., IODP Expedition 327 Science Party. 2012. Fe redox mapping of subseafloor basalt alteration. IODP Expedition Post-Cruise Meeting, Honolulu, HI. Oral Presentation.

Haddad, A.G., Hoffman, C.L., Klein, F., Bennett, S.A., Edwards, K.J. 2012. Investigating bioalteration products on seafloor rocks using synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence and spectroscopy. DEBI RCN Crustal Processes Meeting, Bremen, Germany. Poster Presentation.

Haddad, A.G., Hoffman, C.L., Klein, F., Bennett, S.A., Barco, R.A., Edwards, K.J. 2012. Investigating bioalteration products on seafloor basalts, Fe sulfides and Fe oxyhydroxides using scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM) and absorption spectroscopy. Goldschmidt Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. Oral Presentation.

Bennett, S.L., Hoffman, C.L., Moffett, J.W., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Siderophore production in high iron environments. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Oral Presentation.

Singer, E., Emerson, D.E., Webb, E.A., Nelson, W.C., Heidelberg, J.F., Kuenen, H., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Genomic Insights Into the First Cultured Member of the Zeta-Proteobacteria, the Fe-Oxidizing Mariprofundus Ferrooxydans PV-1. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Oral Presentation.

Turner, A., Turner, M., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Deep ocean research meets the special education classroom. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.

Orcutt, B., Bach, W., Becker, K., Fisher, A., Hulme, S., Toner, B.M., Wheat, G., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Microbial borehole observatories deployed within the oceanic crust: Design considerations and initial results from long-term colonization experiments. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Invited Oral Presentation.

Turner, A., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Bioalteration of seafloor basalt and sulfides: Using synchrotron x-ray radiation to investigate key microbe-mineral interactions. GSA Conference, Denver, CO. Oral Presentation.

Orcutt, B., Bach, W., Becker, K., Fisher, A., Wheat, G., Edwards, K.J. 2010. The subsurface ocean crust biosphere: using observatories to investigate life on the rocks. ISME Conference, Seattle, WA. Oral Presentation.

Singer, E., Emerson, D., Webb, E.A., Nelson, W.C., Heidelberg, J.F., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Genomic insights into the first Zetaproteobacterial genome - the iron oxidizing Mariprofundus ferrooxydans. ISME Conference, Seattle, WA. Oral Presentation.

Sylvan, J.B., Bennett, S.A., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Biogeochemical cycling and microbial composition in hydrothermal plumes from Loihi Seamount, Hawaii. ISME Conference, Seattle, WA. Poster Presentation.

Waite, J., Orcutt, B., Edwards, K., 2010. Methodological Approaches to Extract DNA from Marine Sediments and Basalt. ISME Conference, Seattle, WA. Poster Presentation.

Orcutt, B.N., Bach, W., Becker, K., Fisher, A.T., Hentscher, M., Toner, B.M., Wheat, C.G., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Life in Young Ocean Crust: Insights from Subsurface Microbial Observatories. Goldshmidt Conference, Knoxville, TN. Oral Presentation.

Knab, N.J., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Iron oxidation as energy generating metabolism for microorganisms in subsurface oceanic crust. ASM General Meeting, San Diego, CA. Poster Presentation.

Sylvan, J.B., Orcutt, B.N., Toner, B.M., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Massively parallel tag sequencing of bacterial communities on basalts and extinct sulfides reveals substrate endemic populations. ASM General Meeting, San Diego, CA., Poster Presentation.

Waite, J., Webb, E., Edwards, K., 2010 Characterization of Cytochrome C Peroxidase from Marinobacter aquaeolei by Site Directed Mutagenesis. ASM General Meeting, San Diego, CA. Poster Presentation.

Toner, B.M., Lesniewski, R.A., Marlow, J.J., Santelli, C.M., Bach, W., Orcutt, B.N., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Mineralogy Selects Microbial Community Characteristics at Low-Temperature along the Global Mid-Ocean Ridge. Goldshmidt Conference, Knoxville, TN. Oral Presentation.

Turner, A., Edwards, K.J. 2010. Hydrothermal vent influence on basalt-hosted communities: Insights from incubated basalt chips. ASLO Conference, Portland, Oregon. Oral Presentation.

Singer, E., Webb, E.A., Nelson, W.C., Heidelberg, J.F., Edwards, K.J. 2010. The genomic potential of Marinobacter aquaeolei - a biogeochemical opportunitroph. ASLO Conference, Portland, WA. Oral Presentation.

Ziebis, W., Ferdelman, T.G., McManus, J., Muratli, J., Picard, A., Schmidt-Schierhorn, F., Stephan, S., Villinger, H., Edwards, K.J. 2009. North Pond: A natural observatory for sub-seafloor oxidant supply and metabolic reactions. ASLO Conference, Portland, Oregon. Oral Presentation

Orcutt, B.N., Wheat, C.G., Fisher, A.F., Bach, W., Edwards, K.J. 2009. Colonization of subsurface microbial observatories deployed in young ocean crust. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Invited Oral Presentation.

Marziali, C., Edwards, K.J. 2009. Blogging from North Pond. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.

McManus, J., Ferdelman, T.G. Ziebis, W., Schmidt-Schierhorn, F., Stephan, S., Muratli, J.M., Edwards, K.J., Villinger, H.W. 2009. Influence of subsurface fluid flow on porewater chemical distributions at North Pond. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.

Singer, E., Webb, E.A., Nelson, B., Heildelberg, J., Edwards, K.J. 2009. The genomic potential of Marinobacter aquaeolei – A biogeochemical opportunitroph. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.

Sylvan, J.B., Toner, B.M., Girguis, P., Edwards K.J. 2009. Bacterial community composition in hydrothermal plume environments is heterogeneous and distinct. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.

Toner, B.M., Fakra, S.C., Sylvan, J.B., Marcus, M.A. Rouxel, O. Edwards, K.J., German, C.R. Breier J.A. 2009. Integrated biogeochemistry of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal plumes. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Oral Presentation.

Turner, A., Edwards, K.J., Toner, B.M. 2009. Fe redox mapping of basalt alteration. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.

Ziebis, W., Ferdelman, T.G., McManus, J., Schmidt-Schierhorn, F., Stephan, S., Edwards, K.J., Villinger, H.W. 2009. North Pond: Evidence of upward supply of oxygen to deeply buried sediments from the basaltic basement. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Oral Presentation.

Knab, N.J., Edwards, K.J. 2009. Energetic and kinetic limitations on the distribution of microbes in the deep subsurface oceanic crust. INVEST Conference, Bremen, Germany. Poster Presentation.

Orcutt, B.N., Wheat, C.G., Fisher, A.F., Bach, W., Edwards, K.J. 2009. Colonization of subsurface microbial observatories deployed in young ocean crust. INVEST Conference, Bremen, Germany. Poster Presentation.

Sylvan, J.B., Edwards, K.J. 2009. Bacterial community composition in hydrothermal plume environments is heterogeneous and distinct. INVEST Conference, Bremen, Germany. Poster Presentation.

Marcus, M.A., Fakra, S., Toner, B.M., Horn, G., Edwards, K.J. 2009. Trace element partitioning and redox states in a ferromanganese nodule from the SW Pacific. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland, Poster Presentation.

Torrento, C., Urmeneta, J, Edwards, K.J, Cama, J., Soler, A. 2009. Denitrification driven by pyrite oxidation and colonization of pyrite surface by Thiobacillus denitrificans. Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland, Poster Presentation.

Knab, N.J., Edwards, K.J. 2009. Energetic and kinetic limitations on the distribution of microbes in the deep subsurface oceanic crust. So. Cal. Geobiology Conference, Riverside, CA. Poster Presentation.

Orcutt, B.N., Edwards, K.J. 2009. Development of colonization chambers and evaluation of borehole materials for subsurface microbial observatories. So. Cal. Geobiology Conference, Riverside, CA. Poster Presentation.

Turner, A., Edwards, K.J. 2009. Spatially and temporally linking microbes to seafloor alteration. So. Cal. Geobiology Conference, Riverside, CA. Poster Presentation.

Sylvan, J.B., Orcutt, B.N., Toner, B.M., Edwards, K.J. 2009. Bacterial Diversity in Deep Sea Hydrothermal Environments as Determined by Massively Parallel Pyrosequencing. ICoMM Meeting, Woods Hole, MA. Poster Presentation.

Wisch, M., Rouxel, O.J., German, C.R., Toner, B.M.*, Edwards, K.J. 2008. Iron Isotope Systematics in Hydrothermal Plume Fall-out at EPR9°50’N. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.

German, C.R., Rouxel, O.J., Edwards, K.J. 2008. Time-Series Study of Post-Eruption Vent-Fluxes: EPR 9°50N. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Invited Oral Presentation.

Chan, C.S., Flemming, E.J., Emerson, D., Edwards, K.J. 2008. Linking microbial ultrastructure and physiology to iron depositional processes in deep sea hydrothermal environments. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.

Sylvan, J.B., Orcutt, B.N., Toner, B.M., Edwards, K.J. 2008. Bacterial Diversity in Deep Sea Hydrothermal Environments as Determined by Massively Parallel Pyrosequencing. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.

Knab, N.J., Edwards, K.J. 2008. Kinetic and energetic limitations on the distribution of microbes in the deep subsurface oceanic crust. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA. Poster Presentation.