Molecular Approaches to Subsurface Life: Potential and Pitfalls
Norm Pace, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Other Invited Presentations will include:

Integrating Engineered Bioremediation with the Natural Attenuation Capacity of Ground-Water Systems
Frank Chapelle, US Geological Survey, Columbia, SC

Tracing Pathogens in the Subsurface
Chuck Gerba, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ

Protists in the Saturated Subsurface: Who Are They and What Are They Doing?
Nancy Kinner, University of New Hamshire, Durham, NH

Engineered Remediation of Contaminated Aquifers
Perry McCarty, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Integration of Biogeochemical Processes in Subsurface Flow and Transport
Ellyn Murphy, Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab, Richland, WA

What Can Studies of Life on (and under the) Earth Tell Us of the Possibility of Life Elsewhere?
Ken Nealson, Jet Propulsion Lab/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Exploring the Sub-Seafloor Biosphere
John Parks, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

Microbial Life In Deep Hard Rock Aquifers
Karsten Pedersen, Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden

Beyond the Keyhole Approach: Understanding Virus Transport in Heterogeneous Aquifers Using Stochastics
Linda Rehmann, US Geological Survey, Trenton, NJ

Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment: Applications to Ground Water
Joan Rose, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL

Microbial Ecology of Landfill Plumes
Joel Sulfita, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Microbes of the Frozen Subsurface of Siberia
Jim Tiedje, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Biomineralization Processes Associated with Iron Reducing Bacteria and Implications to Trace Metal Cycling
John Zachara, Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab, Richland, Washington

Closing Remarks

Subterranean Life in Perspective
William Ghiorse, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY