Montana Smith | Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Prediction of soil microbiome phenotypic responses to changing moisture conditions

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Jason McDermott

The goal of this project is to attain a systems level understanding of the soil microbiome and its phenotypic response to changing moisture through a tractable, spatially explicit examination of the…

Centralized Metabolomics Molecular Reference Database

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Yuri Eberlim de Corilo

Reference databases, both in-silico and molecular standard-based, are vital components in all metabolomics data annotation workflows. However, these databases are often decentralized or have…

1000 Soils Research Campaign

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Nancy Hess

Project type

MONet

To more fully understand the cycling of carbon, carbon-based nutrients and key elements from the molecular to basin scale across variations in soil chemistry, the Environmental Molecular Sciences…

The National Microbiome Data Collaborative: improving metaproteomics methods and processing capabilities

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Lee Ann McCue

We will improve and streamline the metaproteomics analysis workflow used by both EMSL and the NMDC. Generating gold-standard proteomics data will support algorithmic improvements for the inference of…

MONet Data Management and Access Gateway

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Yuri Eberlim de Corilo

We will develop, implement, and deploy the backend software necessary to manage, store, and serve as the gateway to make the MONet data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). In…

Development of novel approaches to target microbial drivers of C cycling in soil aggregates

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kirsten Hofmockel

Project type

FICUS Research

We propose to develop approaches that target metabolically active microorganisms and functions that drive carbon cycling in soils from bioenergy cropping systems. Albeit critically important, soil…

Development of novel approaches to target microbial drivers of C cycling in soil aggregates

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kirsten Hofmockel

We propose to develop approaches that target metabolically active microorganisms and functions that drive carbon cycling in soils from bioenergy cropping systems. Albeit critically important, soil…

Can Microbial Ecology and Mycorrhizal Functioning Inform Climate Change Models?

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kirsten Hofmockel

EMSL Staff Proposal: Using archived samples from forest Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiments, field measurements from the Marcell Experimental Forest (MEF) and the Spruce and Peatland Response…

Development of Novel Approaches to Target Microbial Drivers of C Cycling in Soil Aggregates

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kirsten Hofmockel

This proposal seeks to provide much needed insight into the microbial controls of terrestrial C cycling through the development of a novel research approach that integrates multiple technologies, and…

The Influence of Crop Selection and Soil Properties on the Accumulation and Stabilization of Microbial Residues in Soil

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kirsten Hofmockel

EMSL Staff Proposal: The proposed research confronts the emerging paradigm that dead microbial cells, or necromass, are a major source of organic carbon in soil. Microbial necromass accumulation may…

Elucidating unifying principles of soil C-N coupling using a continental scale grassland experimental network

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kirsten Hofmockel

EMSL capabilities will be utilized for analysis of samples acquired from a continental-scale network of replicated, long-term grassland nutrient addition experiments, the Nutrient Network, to enhance…

Molecular Phenotyping of Plants & Microbes (MolPheno) for the PRedicting Ecosystem Resilience through Multiscale and Integrative Science (PREMIS) initiative

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kim Hixson

This proposal aims to provide the fundamental molecular characterization necessary to develop a model which ultimately links phenotypic measurements to the soil biogeochemistry associated with…

Understanding ice nucleating particles from agricultural dusts

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Susannah Burrows

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The atmospheric concentration of ice-nucleating particles (INPs) impacts the formation and development of cloud ice crystals, affecting cloud radiative properties and precipitation. However,…

Can Microbial Ecology and Mycorrhizal Functioning Inform Climate Change Models?

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Kirsten Hofmockel

Using archived samples from forest Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiments, field measurements from the Marcell Experimental Forest (MEF) and the Spruce and Peatland Response Under Climatic and…

Real-Time Mass Spectrometry (RT-MS) Instrument Upgrade and Development

Lead Institution

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Principal Investigator

Karl Weitz

EMSL currently houses the only Battelle patented real-time atmospheric sampling manifold technology that is used for monitoring in situ living systems in real-time. However, using this technology…

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