| SATURDAY |
| 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Welcome to the future |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Ann Pearson (Harvard)
"The future of organic geochemistry, or why you need a good 'elevator speech'"
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| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Analytical Advances |
| Discussion Leaders: Lindsay Hays (Harvard) and Stephanie Kusch (Harvard) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Christiane Eiserbeck (Curtin)
"Separation successes for angiosperm biomarkers using GCxGC-TOFMS and their application to high resolution age estimation"
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| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Svenja Germerott (Leibniz University Hannover)
"The solid interface: Effect of minerals on thermochemical sulfate reduction? - An experimental study"
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| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Darci Rush (Royal NIOZ)
"Fate of ladderanes and other lipids of the anammox bacteria"
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| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Kevin Becker (Bremen University)
"Improved analytical methods for analysis of isomers of bacterial and archaeal ether lipids"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Biomarker revelations |
| Discussion Leaders: Isla Castañeda (UMASS) and Julius Lipp (MARUM) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Ryan Pereira (Newcastle University)
"'Invisible' DOM in hourly-resolved headwater river records from Northern Amazonia: a possible new carbon-nutrient relationship?"
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| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Peter Douglas (Yale)
"Plant-wax radiocarbon ages in tropical lake sediments and their utility for inferring past climate change and soil carbon dynamics"
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Angela Sherry (Newcaste University)
"Variations in methanotroph communities, aerobic methane oxidation and bacteriohopanepolyol distributions in River Tyne estuarine sediments"
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| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Andreas Basse (MARUM)
"Changes in the biomarker signatures of suspended organic matter caused by microbial activity and sediment resuspension and its impact on the deep sea"
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| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Career Panel |
| Panelists: Timothy Eglinton (ETH Zürich), Erdem Idiz (Shell International), Ann Pearson (Harvard) and Isla Castañeda (UMASS) |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |
