BIOBEOMON 2024 Book of Abstracts

Edited by James B. Shanley, Miguel Leon, Willam H. McDowell, Amanda A. Olsen, Thomas
Korstanje, Juan G. Garcia-Cancel and Pavel Kram

Cover artwork of Ava Shanley shows Rio Mameyes flowing through the Luquillo
Experimental Forest (destination of the BIOGEOMON field trip) and into the Atlantic Ocean
in northeastern Puerto Rico.

Organizers and sponsors:
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
International Institute for Tropical Forestry, Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research (LUQ-LTER), Puerto Rico, USA
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
Czech Geological Survey, Prague, Czech Republic

Session 1: Tropical biogeochemistry – Monday January 8th starting at 1:45 PM in Auditorium 3

• S1.T1 – Rebecca Barnes – The Amazon and Tropical Forests: Its Global Implications and Needed Urgent Actions
• S1.T2 – Amanda Albright Olsen – Chemical Weathering of Ultramafic Rocks at the Rio Cupeyes NEON Site in Southwestern Puerto Rico
• S1.T3 – Emma Aronson – Geomicrobiology Trends with Depth Across Varied Sites: Initial Results from the CZNet GeoMicro Project
• S1.T4 – Tanner Beckstrom – From Volcanic Ash to Abundant Earth: Understanding Andisol Soil Health and Organic Matter Dynamics Across an Environmental Gradient on Hawaii Island
• S1.T6 – William McDowell – Effects of Hydrologic Connectivity on Greenhouse Gas Evasion from Small Tropical Rivers
• S1.T7 – Jamie Shanley – Attributing Changes in Streamflow Response to Transpiration and Canopy Interception Changes after Defoliation from 2017 Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
• S1.T8 – Kaido Soosaar – Assessing Methane and Nitrous Oxide Fluxes in Soil and Stems of Malaysian Tropical Peat Swamp Forests
• S1.T9 – Kuno Kasak (presented by Kaido Soosaar) – Assessing Carbon Emissions from Drainage Ditches in Oil Palm Plantations on Peat Soil: A Case Study in Borneo, Malaysia
• S1.T10 – Gerhard Gebauer – Partial Mycoheterotrophy in the Understory of a Tropical Forest in Panama: A Multi-element Stable Isotope Natural Abundance Approach
• S1.T12 – Daniela Cusack – Seasonal and Experimental Drying Effects on Soil Carbon and Nutrient Cycling across Four Distinct Panamanian Forests 

• S1.P1 – Bez Warren – Temporal and Spatial Precipitation Chemistry of Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands
• S1.P2 – Thomas Korstanje – Temporal Chemical Weathering in the Río Yahuecas Watershed
• S1.P3 – Marcela Canon – Nutrient and Streamflow Fluxes in the Espiritu Santo River, a Tropical Watershed in the Luquillo Mountains
• S1.P4 – Kristina Estrada – How Disturbing: The Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbance on Soil Health, Productivity, and Plant Community Makeup in Tropical and Subtropical Systems
• S1.P5 – Susana Bernal – Is My Teaching Gender-Fair? A Self-Assessment Questionnaire

Session 2: Aquatic Carbon Cycling in the Anthropocene: from Molecules to Meta-Analyses – Tuesday January 9th starting at 9:30 AM in Auditorium 3

• S2.T1 – Kelly Aho – Building a Processed-based Understanding of Discharge-driven Variability in CO2 and CH4 Emissions
• S2.T2 – David Fazio – Methane Dynamics in the Illinois Waterway from Lake Michigan to the Confluence of the Mississippi River: Contrasting Seasonal Patterns of Methane in Urban and Agricultural Environments
• S2.T3 – Rachel Pillia – Contributions of Hydropower Reservoirs to Global Carbon Emissions:  Breaking Down Sources of Uncertainties
• S2.T4 – Rachel Gabor – Seasonal Drivers of the Carbon Budget in the Western Basin of Lake Erie
• S2.T5 – Katie Gaffney – Spatial and Seasonal Variability of Dissolved Organic Matter and Nitrogen in Lake Erie Tributaries
• S2.T6 – Carsten Meyer-Jacob – Impacts of Acid Deposition and Lake Browning on Organic Carbon Storage in Canadian Northern Forest Lakes
• S2.T7 – Jakub Hruska – The Increase in Streamwater DOC Concentrations may not Necessarily Imply the Increase of DOC Fluxes, an Example from Central European Catchments.
• S2.T8 – Pavel Kram – Long-term Patters of DOC Concentrations in Soil Water at Catchments with Contrasting Acid-base Chemistry
• S2.T9 – Vanessa Garayburu-Caruso – Drying and Rewetting of Riverbed Sediment Shifts DOM Thermodynamics and Influences Sediment Respiration Rates
• S2.T10 – Katherine Wardinski – Dissolved Organic Matter Release at the Soil-water Interface in Isolated Wetlands
• S2.T11 – Kimberly Wickland – Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics in the Upper Mississippi River Basin
• S2.T12 – Anna Bergstrom – The Changing Climate and Landscape Mosaic Means More but Less Labile Organic Carbon Exports from Glacierized Watersheds

• S2.P1 – Megan Greige – Dissolved Organic Matter Composition in Three Urbanized Streams
• S2.P2 – Kevin Ryan – Drivers of Riverine Organic Matter Diversity Vary Across Catchments of the Contiguous United States
• S2.P3 – Paige Kehoe – Beavers as Arctic Carbon Cycle Engineers: The Impacts of Beavers on Organic Matter Cycling in Permafrost Landscapes

Session 3: Soil carbon stabilization and C sequestration – Monday January 8th starting at 1:45 PM in Auditorium 2

• S3.T1 – Debjani Sihi – Modeling Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Carbon Loss from a Lowland Tropical Forest
• S3.T2 – Jan Frouz – Broadleaf and Conifers and Their Interaction with Soil Biota Play Contrasting Role in Soil C Sequestration at Various Stages of Pedogenesis
• S3.T3 – Lubos Boruvka – Principal Drivers of Organic Carbon Stocks in Forest Soils of the Czech Republic
• S3.T4 – Justin Richardson – Does Climate or Tree Roots Control C and Nutrient Sequestration in Temperate Forests? A Soil Translocation Approach
• S3.T5 – Liisa Ukonmaanaho – Mitigation and Adaptation of Carbon Sequestration in Multi Objective Forest Management Through Co-creation with Stakeholders (CARBONPATH)
• S7.T6 – Jennifer Holm – Coupled biogeochemistry modeling in the ELM-FATES modeling for understanding tropical forest regrowth dynamics
• S3.T7 – Daniel Liptzin – The Role of Soil Health Practices on Soil Organic Carbon in Managed Systems
• S3.T8 – Christine Goodale – Soil Carbon Stock Surprises Over Three Decades After Liming
• S3.T9 – Sophie von Froom – Understanding Soil Organic Carbon Abundance and Persistence at Continental to Global Scales

• S3.P1 – Lenka Pavlu – The Effect of Agricultural Practices on Stabilization of Organic Matter in Various Soil Types.
• S3.P2 – Murray Sternberg – Evaluation of Soil Carbon Dynamics and Microbial Proxies Under Different Climate-smart Agriculture Practices
• S3.P3 – Frantisek Buzek – Tracing Carbonaceous Emission in an Industrial Conurbation in Central Europe using 13C Data
• S3.P4 – Joshua Landis – Age Dating Soil Organomineral Complexation from Both Sides: A Comparison of 14C and Fallout Radionuclide (FRN) Chronometers
• S3.P5 – Marie Plasova – The Variable Sensitivity of Soil Respiration to Temperature is Determined by the Climatic Gradient Along the GEOMON Catchments.

Session 4: Change in the Anthropocene: Nutrient cycling  — Eutrophication to Oligotrophication – Tuesday January 9th starting at 1:30 PM in Auditorium 2

• S4.T1 – Marjo Palvianinen – Catchment Scale Nutrient Balance as a Tool in Precision Forestry
• S4.T2 – Bernhard Mayer – Occurrence, Sources and Fate of Nitrate in Groundwater of Agricultural Watersheds in Southern Alberta, Canada
• S4.T3 – Bianca Rodriguez-Cardona – Nutrient and Organic Carbon Dynamics of a Boreal Hydroelectric Reservoir Complex Over the Initial Years after Flooding
• S4.T4 – David Frey – Disentangling Nitrogen’s Role as a Limiting Nutrient and Acidifier: How Does Nitrogen Availability Affect Soil Respiration?
• S4.T5 – Tomas Chuman – The Bedrock and Dominant Tree Species Control the Torest Response to Nitrogen Deposition
• S4.T6 – Michael Mirtl – Putting a Whole System Approach for ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological research into praxis at the European scale: From triggering long-term N impact studies to interoperable standards and sustainable eLTER research services.

• S4.P1 – Nikola Derková – The Mass Balance of Base Cations (Mg, Ca and K) and P at 14 Small Catchments, Czech Republic
• S4.P2 – Emily Elliott – Biogeochemical Implications of Drinking Water Lead Abatement in Legacy Urban Streams
• S4.P3 – Abby Yancy – Assessment of Change in the Upper Ohio River Basin: Impacts of River Regulation and Climate Change on Streamflow and Nutrient Cycling
• S4.P4 – Lillian Labus – The Response of Lake Nutrients During Treatment of a Harmful Algal Bloom by Nanobubble Ozone Technology
• S4.P5 – Marketa Stepanova – Contribution of Rime to Atmospheric Sulfur and Nitrogen Deposition in Central Europe

Session 5: Wetland hydrology and biogeochemistry – Thursday January 11th starting at 10:45 AM in Auditorium 3

• S5.T1 – Nancy Dise – Effects of Experimental Warming and Drought on Gaseous Carbon Fluxes and the Carbon Balance of a Welsh Raised Bog
• S5.T2 – Sandeep Thayamkottu (presented by Ulo Mander) – Carbon Sink Strength in an Arctic Rich Fen is Driven by Primary Production and Leaf Area.
• S5.T3 – Annamari Laurén – Water and Nutrient Management in Peatland Forests under Changing Climate
• S5.T4 – Ulo Mander – Drainage and Drought Increase Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Global Peatlands
• S5.T5 – Natalie Griffiths – Warming Alters Solute Concentrations and Fluxes from Peatland Streams
• S5.T6 – Jessica Tipton (presented by Stefanie Whitmire) – Assessing the Impacts of Sargassum Brown Tide to Nearshore Water Quality and Seagrass Beds in Jobos Bay, Puerto Rico
• S5.T7 – Mikk Espenberg – Microbial Community Dynamics and N2O-related Genes Responses to Short-term Flooding in Riparian Forest Soil
• S5.T8 – Mohit Masta (presented by Mikk Espenberg) – Using 15N Isotope Analysis to Understand N2O Production and Consumption Processes.
• S5.T9 – John White – Changes in Biogeochemical Cycling of N in a Wetland-Dominated Coastal Basin with River Reconnection
• S5.T10 – Malgorzata Suska Malawska – Understanding the Function of Macrophytes in Nitrogen and Phosphorous Management in Small Water Bodies

• S5.P1 – Liisa Ukonmaanaho – Wetland Restoration for the Future – ALFAwetlands
• S5.P2- Victoria Niedzinski – Modelling the Influence of Subsurface Geology on Northern Peatland Hydrology
• S5.P3 – Nicholas Corline – Wood Frog Tadpoles (Lithobates sylvaticus) Significantly Contribute to Nutrient Cycling and Enhance Litter Breakdown in Wetland Ecosystems

Session 6: Metal and biogeochemical cycling on geological and historical timescales — Paleoreconstructions – Tuesday January 9th starting at 9:30 AM in Auditorium 5

• S6.T1 – Justin Richardson – Importance of inherited Fe oxides on toxic (As, Cd, Pb) and potentially toxic metals (Cu, Ni, Zn) from grey shale-derived soils on geologic timescales
• S6.T2 – Joshua Landis – Unraveling processes of atmospheric Hg sequestration by soils over annual to centennial timescales
• S6.T3 – Tomas Navratil (presented by Filip Oelehle) – Mercury cycling during acid rain recovery at the 14 forested catchments of the GEOMON monitoring network, Czech Republic
• S6.T4 – Dawn Cardace – Elemental Cycling Recorded in Fracture Zone Minerals in Metal Rich Bedrock
• S6.T5 – Petr Porcal – Solar radiation as the likely cause of acid-soluble rare-earth elements in sediments of fresh water humic lakes

• S6.P1 – Leona Bohdalkova – Recent Pb soil pools and comparison of long-term Pb mass balances in headwater catchments with different pollution loads
• S6.P2 – Alexandre Andronikov – Elemental and Mg-Cu-Zn isotopic features of bay bolete (Imleria badia) mushrooms collected over the extended period from the contrasting substrates
• S6.P3 – Daniel Petrash – Episodic carbonate cementation in Eger Graben claystone: insights into metal cycling and biogeochemical dynamics in Early Miocene lake systems

Session 7: Modeling and synthesis for scaling biogeochemical cycling across space and time – Posters only

• S7.P1 – Andrew Reeve – Monitoring groundwater levels and simulating groundwater flow near the Ring of Cenotes, northeastern Yucatan, Mexico.
• S7.P2 – Frantisek Buzek – Greenhouse gases production in open-pit mines
• S7.P3 – Vanessa Garayburu-Caruso – Revealing basin-scale metabolism drivers via model-experiment integration

Session 8: Biogeochemical response to extreme events – Thursday January 11th starting at 10:45 AM in Auditorium 2

• S8.T1 – Susana Bernal – Living on the edge: Mediterranean streams as natural laboratories for understanding the impact of extreme hydrological events on biogeochemical transport and cycling.
• S8.T2 – YueHan Lu – Wildfires Linked to Oceanic Anoxic Events in Geological History
• S8.T3 – Carla López-Lloreda – Disturbances drive stream greenhouse gas changes and increased heterogeneity at the reach-scale
• S8.T4 – Jiri Kopacek – Increasing frequency of heavy rains accelerates recovery of the Tatra Mountain lakes from acidification
• S8.T5 – Sujay Kaushal – Extreme Events Alter the Future of Freshwater Salinization Syndrome
• S8.T6 – Stephen Norton – Adsorption to Al-, Fe-, and Mn-oxyhydroxides dominates rare earth element (REE) and P mobility in a headwater stream in Vermont, USA
• S8.T7 – Jonathan Halama – Scenarios assessing the effects of land-use change, forest management, and climate change on Puget Sound hydrologic regimes and freshwater habitat quality.
• S8.T8 – Meghan Midgley – Recovery of plant communities and soil biogeochemistry following high-intensity fire
• S8.T9 – Urmila Mallick – The importance of disturbance: hurricanes modify the biotic and abiotic drivers of herbaceous understory plant dynamics in a tropical rain forest
• S8.T10 – Paul Mayer – Centuries-old land-use changes influence contemporary biogeochemical groundwater behavior in headwater streams

• S8.P1 – Anna Lamacova – The Climate Change Imprint: Dynamic Shifts in Spring Yields and Water Quality in the Czech Republic
• S8.P2 – Emily Elliott – Geochemical fingerprints of flood dynamics from an artificial extreme event on the Allegheny River
• S8.P3 – Eva Martinkova – The origin of atmospheric lead in urban air of three European cities: Lead isotope approach
• S8.P4 – Martin Novak – Controls on 26Mg/24Mg, 44Ca/40Ca and 87Sr/86Sr isotope variability in two industrially polluted forested catchments in Central Europe: Insights into nutrient imbalances

Session 9: Solute and sediment generation across watersheds and scales – Tuesday January 9th starting at 1:30 PM in Auditorium 5

• S9.T1 – Sydney Shelton – Chemical Cocktails from Coast to Coast: Is there a Universal Water Quality Signature of Urbanization in Streams?
• S9.T2 – Stefanie Whitmire – Microplastic distribution in Puerto Rico streams
• S9.T3 – Stephen Hughes – Sedimentation from widespread mass wasting events in Puerto Rico
• S9.T4 – Martin Novak – Calcium, magnesium and strontium isotope dynamics in Central European headwater catchments along lithological and pollution gradients: Atmospheric vs. geogenic sources for runoff
• S9.T5 – Jan Frouz – Using FALCON an array of artificial catchments to study the role of surface heterogeneity on erosion and other ecosystem procese in early stages of ecosystem development
• S9.T6 – Jack Brookshire – Scaling of stream organic matter stoichiometry across forest biomes

• S9.P1 – Jon Duncan – Exploring Multiscale Variation in Concentration-Discharge Patterns
• S9.P2 – Colin Fuss – Patterns of stream water N and P concentrations during a high-flow event in northern hardwood forested headwater catchments
• S9.P3 – Mirae Guenther – Differences in watershed-level event scale dynamics of stormwater nutrient concentrations with changes in urban forest of Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
• S9.P4 – Diana Karwan – Multiple Lines of Evidence Elucidate Sediment and Phosphorus Dynamics in Midwestern USA Watershed
• S9.P5 – Ondrej Drabek – Potential mobility of Cr from heavily contaminated soil

Session 10: Plant-soil-microbe interactions as drivers of ecosystem processes – Tuesday January 9th starting at 9:30 AM in Auditorium 2

• S10.T1 – Nanette Raczka – Nutrient acquisition strategies and fine root dynamics determine differences in soil carbon between intact and disturbed tropical peat swamp forests
• S10.T2 Edward Brzostek – Unlocking plant-microbial interactions in deep soils: Linking depth gradients in roots, microbial activity, and soil carbon
• S10.T3 – Iwona Jasser – Composition and molecular structure of microorganisms in biological soil crusts from a dry, high-altitude glacier foreland in the eastern Pamir (Tajikistan)
• S10.T4 – Caitlin Pries – Mycorrhizal associations mediate rhizodeposition but not soil C storage in response to nitrogen availability
• S10.T5 – Reti Ranniku – Stem CH4 and N2O fluxes from Downy Birch during the spring sap-run period and dependence on dissolved gas concentrations in xylem sap
• S10.T6 – Ember Morrissey – Ruckus in the rhizosphere: connecting exudation, microbial growth, and carbon cycling in forest soils
• S10.T7 – Filip Oulehle – Ecosystem d15N signature consistently integrates dissolved and gaseous N losses with microbial potential for nitrification and denitrification
• S10.T8 – Jennifer Kane – Bioenergy crop Miscanthus x giganteus acts as an ecosystem engineer to increase bacterial diversity and soil organic matter on marginal land

• S10.P1 – Fahad Ali Kazmi (presented by Ulo Mander) – Microbial nitrogen cycle in sub-tropical peatland cloud forest and wetland ecosystems of Reunion Island
• S10.P2 – Courtney Mathers – Investigating mycorrhizal type impacts on coupled C and N cycling at the soil aggregate scale in an experimental reforestation site