Participants Dr. John Paul Balmonte (website)- interested in microbial communities and organic matter utilization in marine and freshwater environments.(Balmonte et al., 2018) Professor Eva Lindström (website) - interested in the role of microbial community composition and the utilisation of organic matter. Professor Michael Schmidt (website) University of Zurich, Switzerland. Title: "We need to talk! Experimentalists and modelers need to join forces because the next generation of Earth system models needs new experiments to inform soil modules." Professor Karsten Kalbitz (website); Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Title: "Organic matter reactivity at the interface of soil and water - mineral surfaces as hot spots of carbon retention and turnover." Dr. Bertrand Guenet (website) French National Centre for Scientific Research, France. Title: "Representing the organic matter mineralization: why freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems models are so different?" Professor Irena Creed (website) University of Saskatoon, Canada. Title: "Moving beyond the catchment boundaries." (Abstract) Dr. Núria Catalán (website) Freshwater Research Institute (ICRA), Girona, Spain. Title: "Organic carbon reactivity across (aquatic) ecosystems and scales.” Dr. Anne Kellerman (website) Florida State University, United States of America. Title: "DOM composition across the aquatic continuum." Professor Chris Evans (website) Center of Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor, United Kingdom. Title: "DOM processing from headwaters to estuaries" Professor Carol Arnosti (website) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States. Title: "Contrasting actors and factors control carbon cycling in seawater and sediments". Dr. Jeff Hawkes (website) - interested in the detailed molecular characterization of DOM with a focus on marine and freshwater systems. Professor Lars Tranvik (website) - biogeochemist with several directly relevant manuscripts contributing to this discussion (Kellerman et al., 2014,and 2015; Catalan et al., 2016). Associate Professor Martyn Futter (website) - co-author of Evans et al., 2016 with expertise in processes based modelling. Associate Professor Rafa Marcé (website) - ICRA, Spain, co-author of Catalan et al., 2015 with expertise in global upscaling. |
PI & Conference Organizer Dr. Dolly Kothawala (website) - freshwater and soil biogeochemist interested in all aspects of DOM reactivity; PI of conference grant. Funding This conference is funded by a 'conference grant' and 'starting grant' from the Swedish National Science Foundation, vetenskapsrådet (vr.se) (2016-04108) and The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW 2013.0091) |