The abstract booklet can be viewed online or downloaded (PDF). To save paper, the abstracts will not be printed for delegates, only the schedule of the conference. The delegate list is here.
TUESDAY 9th JULY
18:00 Icebreaker
The Salutation Pub, 12 Higher Chatham St, M15 6ED
WEDNESDAY 10th JULY
Geoffrey Manton Building, Oxford Road, M15 6EB
09:00 Registration
Coffee and pastries
09:30 Opening remarks
Welcome, health and safety, logistics
Session 1: The Carbon Cycle
09:40 Sara Trojahn
The role of seasonal trends and rain events in carbon export of Scottish peat-dominated headwater streams
10:00 Saule Akmetkaliyeva
Carbon release during 21st century glacier recession: A positive feedback in the global carbon cycle
10:20 Sevda Norouzi
Constraining the Gas Transfer between Atmosphere and Water Alibabalou Streams of Tropical Rainforests of Guyana
10:40 Coleen Murty
Molecular characterization of Sphagnum-derived phenolics and their role in peatland carbon cycling
11:00 Break
Coffee and biscuits
Session 2: Palaeo (climate and ontology)
11:30 Emily Dearing Crampton-Flood
Towards reliable reconstructions of Pliocene terrestrial temperatures using branched tetraether membrane lipids
11:50 Caitlyn Witkowski
Decline of PCO2 from the Miocene based on the δ13C of algal biomarkers
12:10 Bart van Dongen
Mapping of pigment remnants in fossils
12:30 Break
Hot buffet lunch
Session 3: Pollution Monitoring and Remediation
13:30 Katrina Cullen
The impact of environmental parameters on the adsorption of azo dyes on Nyex™
13:50 Daniel Niepsch
Lichen biomonitoring to assess spatial variability of airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Manchester, UK
14:10 Rakiya Muhammad
Assessing the impacts of oil contamination on soil microbial community/diversity in the Niger Delta (Nigeria)
14:30 Poster talks
One minute slide by each poster presenter
14:50 Break
Coffee and pastries
Session 4: Posters and Keynote
15:00 Poster Session
Beer, wine and soft drinks
16:30 Jaime Toney
Biomarker development and deciphering environmental signals
17:30 Break
Walk / transfer to conference dinner
18:30 Conference Dinner
Croma Restaurant, 3 Clarence St, M2 4DE
21:30 Drinks and Discussion
Brewdog, 35 Peter St, M2 5BG
THURSDAY 11th JULY
Geoffrey Manton Building, Oxford Road, M15 6EB
Session 4: Advances in Geochemical Techniques
09:00 Arrival
Coffee
09:20 Jan Peter Meyser
Innovative solutions to extend selectivity and sensitivity of VOC analysis in soils
09:40 Nathan Hawkins
Metabolic Phenotyping of the Soil Microbiome: High Throughput Phospholipid Fatty Acid Analysis of Soils and Sediments
10:00 Elizabeth Marsden
Investigating the role of mineral ratio in organic matter preservation in marine sediments
10:20 Mike Zwick
Exploring alkenone calibration and micrometre scale molecular stratigraphy in the Northern Great Plains, Canada
10:40 Break
Coffee and biscuits
Session 5: Microbial biomarkers and carbon cycles
11:10 Sophie Nixon
Microbial carbon cycling in the deep terrestrial subsurface
11:30 Rachel Schwartz-Narbonne
Hydrous pyrolysis transformation of methyl-bacteriohopanepolyols to methyl-hopanes and implications for environmental reconstructions
11:50 Gordon Inglis
δ13C values of bacterial hopanoids and leaf waxes as tracers for methanotrophy in peatlands
12:10 Awards
Best student poster presentation, best student oral presentation, location of BOGS 2020 meeting
12:30 Close
Hot buffet lunch
LIST OF POSTERS
Abigail Savage
GDGTs and BHPs in glacial lakes from Northeastern Greenland
Alexander Mutshow
Effect of Weathering on Markers used in Oil Fingerprinting
Alice Hardman
The Development of 3-Hydroxy Fatty Acid-Based Palaeoclimate Proxies
Bridget Warren
Development and application of novel ecological and environmental proxies from leaf wax lipids
David Jones
Assessing organic and heavy metal pollution in post-industrial Manchester
Emma Burns
Fate of Terrigenous Nitrogen in Arctic Shelf Sediments – An update
James Bendle
Biomarkers in Stalagmites: Reconstructing Temperature, Hydrology, Vegetation and Bacterial Responses to Climate Change.
Jonathan Hall
Mid-Pliocene North Atlantic warming: an insight from marine and terrestrial records
Martina Conti
A New Approach for Studying Past Sea-level Changes Using Molecular Fossils
Matthew Carney
brGDGT Lipid Biomarkers as a Post-Glacial Environmental Proxy
Mingda Wang
What does lacustrine sedimentary n-alkane average chain length from the Tibetan Plateau tell us?
Natta Wiriyakun
Alternative Approach to the Measurement of Cholesterol and Cholestanols as Signatures of Human Activity in Archaeological Contexts
Sharon Fraser
Resinous Coating of Takabuti – the Belfast Mummy
Yvette Eley
OPTiMAL: A new machine learning approach for GDGT-based palaeothermometry