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Nitrogen fixation and cycling in a mixture of young red alder and Douglas-fir

Creator:: Tang, James Y.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF James Y. Tana for the degree of

Interactions between microbial dynamics and transport processes in soils

Creator:: Rockhold, Mark L.
Abstract:: An experimental and numerical modeling investigation was conducted to study interactions between microbial dynamics and transport processes in variably saturated porous media. These interactions are important in a variety of applied problems such as water and wastewater treatment, bioremediation, and oil-field recovery operations. These processes and interactions also have great...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank John Selker for serving as my advisor, and Peter Bottomley, Roy Haggerty, Jack Istok

Ammonia-oxidizer and denitrifier populations in boreal forest soils of differing nitrogen availability

Creator:: Burton, Marci S.
Abstract:: Nitrification and denitrification are major biological processes transforming nitrogen (N) in soils to plant available N, highly leachable nitrate (NO₃⁻) and gaseous N oxides. Although many studies in the past have studied N cycling communities, the effect of increased N inputs on ammonia-oxidizer and denitrifier population dynamics is still under...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Soils of Differing Nitrogen Availability AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Marci S. Burton

Mineral Surfaces as Agents of Environmental Proteolysis: Mechanisms and Controls

Creator:: Chacon, Stephany S.
Abstract:: The bottleneck in the turnover of soil organic matter (SOM) is the conversion of large molecular compounds into smaller compounds that can be transported through a cell membrane of a microbe for processing. Once inside the cell, organic compounds can be converted into biomass or be respired. The microbial depolymerization...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Stephany S. Chacon for

Geomicrobiology of marine sediment containing methane

Creator:: Briggs, Brandon R.
Abstract:: Marine sediments contain an abundance of methane that is biologically produced and plays a significant role in the global carbon cycle. Microbes responsible for the carbon cycle in marine sediments, and the processes that they carry out, need to be characterized in order to fully understand the role of this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: approved: Frederick S. Colwell Marine sediments contain an abundance of methane that is

Serpentine and non-serpentine edaphic ecology and the recovery of Lomatium cookii (Apiaceae), an endangered endemic of southwest Oregon

Creator:: Silvernail, Ian S.
Abstract:: The role of unusual geologies in plant distribution and form is well-known. Serpentine (ultramafic) soils exert a particularly strong influence on plants, as evidenced by a high level of endemism and the morphological and physiological traits displayed in adaptation to the extraordinary chemistry of these substrates. Adaptation may lead to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Ian S. Silvernail for the degree of Master of Science in Botany and Plant Pathology presented on

Inhibition, kinetic and modeling studies of acetylene and 1-chloro-1-fluoroethene on reductive dechlorination of TCE and vinyl chloride

Creator:: Pon, George
Abstract:: Laboratory and modeling studies were performed with a mixed-anaerobic-culture obtained from the Evanite site in Corvallis, Oregon. The culture completely transforms trichloroethene (TCE) to cis-dichloroethene (c-DCE), vinyl chloride (VC), and finally to ethene. Acetylene inhibition studies were used to examine the culture's microbial activities. Kinetic studies determined the half-saturated constant...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: !. 1999, 33, 1100. 19. XavierM. G.; Chien, Y. T.; Gossett, J. M.; Zinder S. H. Science 1997, 276, 1568

Mycobacterium avium genes upregulated upon infection of Acanthamoeba castellanii demonstrate a common response to the intracellular environment

Creator:: Tennant, Rachel C.
Abstract:: Mycobacterium avium is a ubiquitous environmental organism found in both water and soil. It can cause disease in patients with previous pulmonary conditions, as well as immunosupressed patients, with the most prevalent being AIDS patients. Studies have indicated that passage through amoeba, a common environmental protozoa, increases virulence of M....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: thesis committee, Dr. Dan Rockey, Dr. Peter Bottomley, and Dr. Bruce Coblentz. Dr. Lia Danelishvili for

Analysis of Bacteroidales 16S rRNA gene sequences from a geographically isolated human population

Creator:: Petersen, Carolyn A.
Abstract:: Standard methods of measuring fecal pollution in water do not distinguish between human and non-human sources. Molecular technology enabled the development of host-specific markers that distinguish fecal sources. Human specific PCR primers, HF183F and HF134F, were designed based on phylogenetic analyses of partial 16S rRNA gene sequences from the Bacteroidales...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: pursued my degree. I would also like to thank my committee members, Drs. Peter Bottomley, Stephen

Characterization of novel marine oligotrophic bacteria isolated from the Pacific Ocean : description of Marinivirgula fluito gen. nov., sp. nov., Marinivirgula obesa gen. nov., sp. nov. and Litincola parvulus gen. nov., sp. nov.

Creator:: Shin, Eun Jung
Abstract:: A new high-throughput culturing (HTC) method using a low nutrient heterotrophic medium (LNHM) has led to the isolation of many novel strains of oligotrophic bacteria from marine ecosystems. Four strains belonging to a single dade, HTCC2151, HTCC218OT, HTCC2178T and HTCC2188T, were isolated from the coast of Oregon by the HTC...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: acknowledge my committee members, Dr. Peter Bottomley, Dr. Daniel Rockey, and Dr. Julia Jones for their

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Nitrogen fixation and cycling in a mixture of young red alder and Douglas-fir

Interactions between microbial dynamics and transport processes in soils

Ammonia-oxidizer and denitrifier populations in boreal forest soils of differing nitrogen availability

Mineral Surfaces as Agents of Environmental Proteolysis: Mechanisms and Controls

Geomicrobiology of marine sediment containing methane

Serpentine and non-serpentine edaphic ecology and the recovery of Lomatium cookii (Apiaceae), an endangered endemic of southwest Oregon

Inhibition, kinetic and modeling studies of acetylene and 1-chloro-1-fluoroethene on reductive dechlorination of TCE and vinyl chloride

Mycobacterium avium genes upregulated upon infection of Acanthamoeba castellanii demonstrate a common response to the intracellular environment

Analysis of Bacteroidales 16S rRNA gene sequences from a geographically isolated human population

Characterization of novel marine oligotrophic bacteria isolated from the Pacific Ocean : description of Marinivirgula fluito gen. nov., sp. nov., Marinivirgula obesa gen. nov., sp. nov. and Litincola parvulus gen. nov., sp. nov.

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