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Award Abstract #0455606
MO: The Alpine Microbial Observatory-- Changes in Microbial Diversity and Function Across Extreme Environmental Gradients
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MCB
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
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| Initial Amendment Date: |
August 8, 2005 |
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| Latest Amendment Date: |
July 25, 2009 |
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| Award Number: |
0455606 |
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| Award Instrument: |
Continuing grant |
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| Program Manager: |
Matthew Kane
MCB Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
BIO Directorate for Biological Sciences
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| Start Date: |
September 1, 2005 |
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| Expires: |
August 31, 2010 (Estimated) |
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| Awarded Amount to Date: |
$1750000 |
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| Investigator(s): |
Steven Schmidt steve.schmidt@colorado.edu (Principal Investigator)
Andrew Martin (Co-Principal Investigator)
Jason Neff (Co-Principal Investigator)
Robert Guralnick (Co-Principal Investigator)
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| Sponsor: |
University of Colorado at Boulder
3100 Marine Street, Room 481
Boulder, CO 80309 303/492-6221
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| NSF Program(s): |
BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH,
MICRO OBS & MICRO INTER & PRO
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| Field Application(s): |
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| Program Reference Code(s): |
BIOT, 9104, 7187
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| Program Element Code(s): |
1629, 1089
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ABSTRACT
About 35% of Earth's land surface is covered with snow for varying lengths of time each year. It is often assumed that biological activity mostly ceases in the winter, however recent research at the Alpine Microbial Observatory (AMO) shows that novel soil microorganisms are active under snow where they contribute significantly to greenhouse gas fluxes to the atmosphere. Work at the AMO is focused on identifying never-before cultured microbes and discovering ways to grow them in the laboratory so that they can be studied using modern physiological and genomic methods. Such studies will help the researchers at the AMO discover new forms of life and to understand how they perform important biological functions (e.g. nutrient cycling and gas production) under extremely cold conditions. In addition, an interactive, Internet database will be further developed to explore the evolutionary relationships, distribution and functioning of novel microbes in alpine environments.
This project will help researchers to understand how colder regions of the earth function as part of the biosphere and how they will respond to future climate change. Such work can only be accomplished via interdisciplinary research, involving researchers with expertise in microbiology, biogeochemistry, evolutionary biology, and bioinformatics. In addition, the research could lead to the discovery of useful products such as antibiotics and industrial enzymes that function at cold temperatures. The development of a web-based public access system expands the educational and out-reach value of the research and will allow scientists and the public to use the knowledge generated at the AMO. This research also will promote training through its support of two undergraduate students, two graduate students and two post-doctoral fellows. PI Schmidt will participate in the Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training program at CU Boulder and co-PI Martin will work with the Boulder School District mentoring program to provide AMO research projects for secondary school students.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
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Bardgett, R.D., W.D. Bowman, R. Kaufmann and S.K. Schmidt. "Linking aboveground and belowground ecology: A temporal approach," Trends in Ecology and Evolution, v.20, 2005, p. 534.
Costello, E.K. and S.K. Schmidt. "Microbial diversity in alpine tundra wet meadow soil: novel Chloroflexi from a cold, water-," Environmental Microbiology, v.8, 2006, p. 1471.
Costello, E.K., S.R.P. Halloy, S.C. Reed, P. Sowell, S.K. Schmidt. "Fumarole-supported islands of biodiversity in a hyper-arid, high-elevation landscape on Socompa Volcano, Puna de Atacama, Andes," Applied and Environmental Microbiology, v.75, 2009, p. 735.
Field, D., G. Garrity, T. Gray, N. Morrison and 66 other co-authors (P. Goldstein & R. Guralnick 27th & 28th of 70 co-authors). "Towards a richer description of our complete collection of genomes and metagenomes: the ?Minimum Information about a Genome Sequence? (MIGS) specification," Nature Biotechnology, v.26, 2008, p. 541.
Flemons, P., R. Guralnick, J. Krieger, A. Ranipeta, and D. Neufeld. "A Web based GIS Tool for Exploring the World's Biodiversity: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility Mapping and Analysis Portal Application (GBIF MAPA)," Ecological Informatics, v.2, 2007, p. 49.
Freeman, K.R., M.Y. Pescador, S.C. Reed, E.K. Costello, M.S. Robeson and S.K. Schmidt. "Soil CO2 flux and photoautotrophic community composition in high-elevation, â??barrenâ?? soils," Environmental Microbiology, v.11, 2009, p. 674.
Grandy, A.S. & Neff, J.C. "Soil C dynamics: the biochemical decomposition sequence and its effects on soil organic matter structure and function," Science Total Environ., 2008.
Grandy, A.S., J.C. Neff and M.N. Weintraub. "Carbon structure and enzyme activities in alpine and forest ecosystems," Soil Biology and Biochemistry, v.39, 2007.
Guralnick, R.P., A.W. Hill and M. Lane. "Towards a collaborative, global infrastructure for biodiversity assessment," Ecology Letters, v.10, 2007, p. 663.
Inigo S. G., W. Sheldon, T. Schmidt, M. Servilla, R. Aguilar, C. Gries, T. Gray, D. Field, J. Cole, J. Yun Pan, G. Palanisamy, D. Henshaw, M. O'Brien , L. Kinkel, K. McMahon, R. Kottman, L. Amaral-Zettler, J. Hobbie, P. Goldstein, R. Guralnick, J. Brunt a. "Defining linkages between the GSC and NSF's LTER program: How the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) relates to GCDML and other outcomes," OMICS, v.12, 2008, p. 151.
Jones, R.T, M.S. Robeson, C.L. Lauber, M. Hamady, R. Knight and N. Fierer. "A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses," ISME J, v.3, 2009, p. 4.
Jones, R.T. and A.P. Martin. "Testing for differentiation of microbial communities using phylogenetic methods: accounting," Microbial Ecology, v.52, 2006, p. 408.
King, A.J., A.F. Meyer and S.K. Schmidt. "High levels of microbial biomass and activity in unvegetated tropical and temperate alpine soils," Soil Biology and Biochemistry, v.40, 2008, p. 2605.
Monson, R.K., D.L. Lipson, S.P. Burns, A.A. Turnipseed, A.C. Delany, M.W. Williams and S.K. Schmidt. "Winter forest soil respiration controlled by climate and microbial community composition," Nature, v.439, 2006, p. 711.
Nemergut, D.R., A.R. Townsend S.R. Sattin, K. Freeman, N. Fierer, J.C. Neff, W.D. Bowman, C.W. Schadt, M. Weintraub and S.K. Schmidt. "The effects of chronic nitrogen fertilization on alpine tundra soil microbial communities: implications for carbon and nitrogen cycling," Environmental Microbiology, v.10, 2008, p. 3093.
Nemergut, D.R., E. Costello, A.F. Meyer, M.Y. Pescador, M.N. Weintraub and S.K. Schmidt. "Structure and function of alpine and arctic soil microbial communities," Research in Microbiology, v.156, 2005, p. 775.
Nemergut, D.R., M.S. Robeson, R.F. Kysela, A.P. Martin, S.K Schmidt and R. Knight. "Insights and inferences about integron evolution from genomic data," BMC Genomics, v.9, 2008, p. 261.
Nemergut, D.R., S.P. Anderson, C.C. Cleveland1, A.P. Martin, A.E. Miller, A. Seimon, S.K. Schmidt. "Microbial community succession in an unvegetated, recently-deglaciated soil," Microbial Ecology, v.53, 2007, p. 110.
Oline, D.K., Schmidt, S.K., and M.C. Grant. "Biogeography and landscape-scale diversity of the dominant Crenarchaeota of soil," Microbial Ecology, v.52, 2006, p. 480.
Porter, T.M., C.W. Schadt, L. Rizvi, A.P. Martin, S.K. Schmidt, L. Scott-Denton, R. Vilgalys & J.-M. Moncalvo.. "Widespread occurrence and phylogenetic placement of a soil clone group adds a prominent new branch to the fungal tree of life.," Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, v.46, 2007, p. 635.
Porter, T.M., C.W. Schadt, L. Rizvi, A.P. Martin, S.K. Schmidt, L. Scott-Denton, R. Vilgalys & J.-M. Moncalvo.. "Widespread occurrence and phylogenetic placement of a soil clone group adds a prominent new branch to the fungal tree of life.," Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, v.46, 2008, p. 635.
Schmidt, S.K., E.K. Costello, D.R. Nemergut, C.C. Cleveland, S.C. Reed, M.N. Weintraub, A.F. Meyer and A.M. Martin. 2007.. "Biogeochemical consequences of rapid microbial turnover and seasonal succession in soil.," Ecology, v.88, 2007, p. 1379.
Schmidt, S.K., K.L. Wilson, M.M. Gebauer, A.F. Meyer and A.J. King. "Phylogeny and ecophysiology of opportunistic "snow molds" from a sub-alpine forest ecosystem," Microbial Ecology, 2008.
Schmidt, S.K., K.L. Wilson, M.M. Gebauer, A.F. Meyer and A.J. King. "Phylogeny and ecophysiology of opportunistic "snow molds" from a sub-alpine forest ecosystem," Microbial Ecology, v.56, 2008, p. 681.
Schmidt, S.K., L.C. Sobieniak-Wiseman, S.A. Kageyama, S.R.P. Halloy and C.W. Schadt. "Mycorrhizal and dark-septate fungi in plant roots above 4270 meters elevation in the Andes and Rocky Mountains," Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Res., v.40, 2008, p. 576.
Schmidt, S.K., S.C. Reed, D.R. Nemergut, A.S. Grandy, C.C. Cleveland, E.K. Costello, M.N. Weintraub, A.W. Hill, A.F. Meyer, A.M. Martin and J.C. Neff. "The earliest stages of microbial ecosystem succession in high-elevation, recently de-," Proc. Roy. Soc, B, v.275, 2008, p. 2793.
Weintraub, M.N., L.E. Scott-Denton, S.K. Schmidt, and R.K. Monson. "The effects of tree rhizodeposition on soil exoenzyme activity, dissolved organic carbon, and," Oecologia, v.154, 2007, p. 327.
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