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Argonne at AGU25
Argonne National Laboratory researchers will present at AGU25 Monday, December 15 through Friday, December 19, 2025.
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AGU25 will bring over 30,000 attendees together for a week of groundbreaking research and resource sharing. Scientists from across the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory will present on exciting research results as well as new scientific insights in the atmospheric science community.  

 

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 15

Water Resource Challenges in CO2-Based Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
May M Wu, Kwang Hoon Baek, and Hannah Kim

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Cluster-Based Site Selection for Representative Wetland Studies in the Prairie Pothole Region

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Roser Matamala, Michael Paul Ricketts, Pamela Weisenhorn, Maxim Boyanov, Ken M Kemner, Edward J O'Loughlin, Joshua Minai, and Richard T Mills

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Open Science Summer Schools: ARM’s Newest Capability

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Scott M Collis and Joseph Robert O'Brien

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Intensifying Flood Occurrence in the Nile Basin Under 21st-Century Climate Variability

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Eugene Yan and Hugo E. Torres-Uribe

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Expanding Nuclear Resonant Scattering Capabilities to Extreme Conditions: A New Laser Heating Diamond Anvil Cell System at 3-ID, APS

08:42 — 08:52 a.m., 348-349 (NOLA CC)
Cijin Zhou, Thomas Toellner, and Jiyong Zhao

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Soil Health and Ecosystem Services in Utility-Scale Solar Landscapes: Toward Standardized Assessment and Scalable Co-Benefits

09:50 — 10:00 a.m., 278-279 (NOLA CC)
Michael Paul Ricketts, Laura Fox, Audrey Hunt, Leroy J Walston, and Heidi M. Hartmann

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Glen Canyon Dam and the Post-2026 EIS: Navigating Operational Uncertainty and Hydropower Impacts

10:30 — 10:45 a.m., 217-219 (NOLA CC)
Quentin Maximilien Ploussard, Matija Pavicevic, and Ao Yu

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The Effect of Temporal Resolution in Model Output on Extreme Precipitation and Its Apparent Intensification Under Climate Change

10:45 — 10:50 a.m., New Orleans Theater A (NOLA CC)
Chunyong Jung, Jiali Wang, and Rao Kotamarthi

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Bees, and Birds, and Bats – Oh My! Biodiversity Responses to Ecovoltaic Solar Energy Development in the Midwestern United States

11:30 — 11:40 a.m., 278-279 (NOLA CC)
Katherine Szoldatits, Leroy J Walston, Heidi M. Hartmann, and Laura Fox

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New Capabilities and Emerging Priorities for the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility

01:00 — 2:00 p.m., 261-262 (NOLA CC),
Nicki Linn Hickmon

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Integrating Deep Learning and MILP for Efficient CPWL Function Fitting in Hydropower Optimization Models

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC),
Quentin Maximilien Ploussard, Matija Pavicevic, and Ao Yu

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The Alaska Soil Data Bank Project: A Statewide Harmonized Dataset Enabling High-Resolution Predictions of Soil Properties for Arctic-Boreal Ecosystem Research

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC),
Julie D Jastrow, Roser Matamala, and Joshua Minai

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Integrating Deep Learning and MILP for Efficient CPWL Function Fitting in Hydropower Optimization Models

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC),
Quentin Maximilien Ploussard, Matija Pavicevic, and Ao Yu

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Self-Organizing Maps to define Wet Season Onset over the Amazon Rainforest and Analyze Long-term Trends in Atmospheric Radiation and Precipitation

02:35 — 02:45 p.m., New Orleans Theater B (NOLA CC),
Siddhant Gupta

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Evaluating Future Hydrologic Drought Projections Through Ensemble Modeling of Structurally Distinct RCMs

04:35 — 04:45 p.m., 228-230 (NOLA CC),
Connor Aghili and Neal Mann

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16

Advances in Flood Prediction and Risk Assessment in Coastal, Inland, and Transition Zones I Oral

08:30 — 10:00 a.m., 215-216 (NOLA CC)
William Pringle and Coleman Blakely

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Advances in Flood Prediction and Risk Assessment in Coastal, Inland, and Transition Zones II Poster

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
William Pringle and Coleman Blakely

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Where Flood Connects Us: Integrating Physical Models, Social Dimensions, and AI Innovations I Poster

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Scott M Collis

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Understanding and Modeling of Mesoscale and Severe Local Convective Storm Processes I Poster

08:30 a.m — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Jiwen Fan

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A subgrid scale parameterization for resolving coastal flooding in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Steven Brus and Mary Titterton

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Changes in Violent Precipitation and Severe Winds under Temperature Rising and Urban Expansion Scenarios

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Jiwen Fan and Domenic Brooks

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Variable resolution spatial mode-splitting in MPAS-Ocean

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Coleman Blakely, Steven Brus, Vijay Mahadevan, and Iulian Grindeanu

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Microphysical Effects of Wildfire Smoke on Pyrocumulonimbus Development: Sensitivity to Aerosol Activation and Vapor Diffusion Parameterizations

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Jiwen Fan

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Scientific Insights from Novel Radar Scan Strategies and Deep Convection Tracking over Houston, Texas

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Siddhant Gupta, Adam Theisen, and Nicki Linn Hickmon

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Probabilistic Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Driven Coastal Flood Extent and Timing

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
William Pringle

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Observation and Model Studies of Cloud Properties and Associated Processes I Poster

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Xiaojian Zheng

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A Performance Assessment of STOFS 2D Global using Direct Lunar-Solar Traction Forcing and In-Line Self Attraction and Loading Terms (Invited)

08:32 — 08:47 a.m., 215-216 (NOLA CC)
Steven R Brus

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Surface Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (SQUIRE) from ARM’s Scanning Precipitation Radars

08:50 — 08:55 a.m., 242 (NOLA CC)
Joseph Robert O'Brien, Robert Clyde Jackson, Scott M Collis, Adam Theisen, Zachary Sherman, and Bhupendra Raut

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In Situ Ground-Based Fog Droplet Measurements for Cloud Water Interception Prediction in a Hawaiian Tropical Montane Cloud Forest

09:05 — 09:10 a.m., 270 (NOLA CC)
Rajesh Sankaran

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Biogenic and Anthropogenic Carbon, Water, and Energy Fluxes in Urban Systems Using COS, SIF, Net Ecosystem Exchange, and Multiscale Ecosystem Observations

09:10 — 09:20 a.m., 238-239 (NOLA CC)
Paytsar Muradyan, Bhupendra Raut, Sujan Pal, Roser Matamala, and Cristina Negri

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Where Flood Connects Us: Integrating Physical Models, Social Dimensions, and AI Innovations II Oral

02:15 — 02:45 p.m., 231-232 (NOLA CC)
Scott M Collis

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In Situ Ground-Based Fog Droplet Measurements for Cloud Water Interception Prediction in a Hawaiian Tropical Montane Cloud Forest

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Rajesh Sankaran

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Surface Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (SQUIRE) from ARM’s Scanning Precipitation Radars

02:15 — 02:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Joseph Robert O'Brien, Robert Clyde Jackson, Scott M Collis, Adam Theisen, Zachary Sherman, and Bhupendra Raut

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Tracing Drought Propagation across Transboundary River systems in the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Case Study of the Nile River Basin

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Eugene Yan

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Quantifying Uncertainty in Nitrogen Leaching Simulations of the E3SM Land Model

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Beth Drewniak

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Understanding and Modeling of Mesoscale and Severe Local Convective Storm Processes II Oral

04:15 — 05:45 p.m., 270 (NOLA CC)
Jiwen Fan

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How Environmental Changes Shape Severe Convective Storms (Invited)

04:40 — 04:55 p.m., New Orleans Theater A (NOLA CC)
Jiwen Fan

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Assessing the Role of Isobaric Mixing in Boundary-Layer Cloud Formation

04:45 — 04:55 p.m., 267-268 (NOLA CC)
Virendra P Ghate

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High-Resolution Climate Projections Using Diffusion-Based Downscaling of a Lightweight Climate Emulator

04:55 — 05:05 p.m., 298-299 (NOLA CC)
Romit Maulik

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Aerosols and Deep Convection in the Amazon Basin: A Spectrum of Possible Updraft Responses

05:35 — 05:45 p.m., 267-268 (NOLA CC)
Siddhant Gupta

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17

Enhancing the representation of cropland management practices in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Beth Drewniak

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Lossy Data Compression for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Robert L Jacob, Danqing Wu, and Jayesh Krishna

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Advancing Earth System Predictability: AI-Enhanced Integration of Models, Experiments, and Biogeochemical Processes I Poster

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Pamela Weisenhorn

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Contrasting Patterns of Redox and Oxygen Dynamics at Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Edward J O'Loughlin and Ken M Kemner

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My Connection to Weather, the Environment, and Solar Energy — A case study through SkyScouts

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Jiali Wang and Ashish Sharma

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Sky Scouts: Cultivating climate curiosity through wonder, storytelling, and backyard science

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Jiali Wang and Ashish Sharma

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Assessing Historical Wildfire Risk Indices in Midwest U.S. to Inform Electricity Resilience Planning

10:54 — 11:06 a.m., 207 (NOLA CC)
Jiali Wang

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Block-Scale Flood Depth Simulations During Hurricane Irma

11:30 — 11:40 a.m., New Orleans Theater B (NOLA CC)
William Pringle

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Advances in Understanding Natural Aerosols and Gases in the Earth System I Oral

02:15 — 03:45 p.m., 271 (NOLA CC)
Yan Feng

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Advancing Earth System Predictability: AI-Enhanced Integration of Models, Experiments, and Biogeochemical Processes II Oral

02:15 — 03:45 p.m., 265-266 (NOLA CC)
Pamela Weisenhorn

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Solidus and Phase Relations of Fe0.8Ni0.1Si0.1 at Earth’s Core conditions

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Jiyong Zhao and Thomas Toellner

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Extreme Weather and Climate in Urban Areas: Physical Modeling, AI/ML Approaches, and Digital Twins for Social Impacts and Mitigation II Oral

04:15 — 05:45 p.m., 270 (NOLA CC)
Jiali Wang and Ashish Sharma

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A multiscale model-driven experimental (ModEx) framework for urban areas – a CROCUS approach (Invited)

05:25 — 05:45 p.m., 203-205 (NOLA CC)
Ashish Sharma, Cristina Negri, Rao Kotamarthi, Scott M Collis, Jiali Wang, Paytsar Muradyan, Jason Stock, Haochen Tan, Joseph Robert O'Brien, Matthew Tuftedal, Bhupendra Raut, and Robert L Jacob

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The U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility in the Southeastern United States for Studies of Land-Aerosol-Cloud Interactions: Facility Highlights, Coordination of Intensive Operational Periods, and Opportunities

06:00 — 07:00 p.m., 288-290 (NOLA CC)
Mark Spychala

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17

Advances in Atmospheric Chemistry Driven by Laboratory Studies II Oral

08:30 — 10:00 a.m., 278-279 (NOLA CC)
Rebecca Caravan

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Aerosol Radiative Forcing: A Case Study of Biomass Burning and Mineral Dust Aerosols Over Puerto Rico

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Yan Feng and Maria P Cadeddu

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Microbial Resilience in Coastal Ecosystems: Insights from the TEMPEST Experiment

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Pamela Weisenhorn and Edward J O'Loughlin

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Impact of Salinity on DOM Release from Soils Following Seawater Inundation

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Edward J O'Loughlin, Coralys Caraballo, Natalie Keltner, Ken M Kemner, Mya Reyes, and Lucie Stetten

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Mobilization of Dissolved Organic Matter in Response to Experimental Flooding in a Coastal Upland Forest

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Edward J O'Loughlin and Ken M Kemner

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Global Dust Cycle in the DOE’s Earth System Model:Improvement in Emissions, Transport and Direct Radiative Forcing

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Yan Feng

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Advances in Understanding Natural Aerosols and Gases in the Earth System II Poster

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Yan Feng

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An update on UXarray: A Python package for the analysis of kilometer-scale model outputs

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Robert L Jacob and Rajeev Jain

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Life Cycle Analysis of Geologic Hydrogen Production

09:50 — 10:00 a.m., 348-349 (NOLA CC)
Hao Cai, Yu Gan, Amgad Elgowainy, and Michael Wang

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Uncovering the Unexpected Tropospheric Impacts of Select Oxygenated Reactive Intermediates via Direct Laboratory Studies of Reaction Mechanisms

02:15 — 03:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Rebecca Caravan, Ahren Jasper, and Stephen Klippenstein

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UNet-based methods for identifying Chicago lake breeze fronts from NEXRAD

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Robert Clyde Jackson, Seongha Park, Bhupendra Raut, Scott M Collis, Joseph Robert O'Brien, Matthew Tuftedal, Paytsar Muradyan, Rajesh Sankaran, Nicola Ferrier, and Yongho Kim

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Geophysical Retrievals in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Framework

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Virendra P Ghate, Nesar Ramchandra, Michael Buehlmann, Azton Wells, and Salman Habib

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Advances in Atmospheric Chemistry Driven by Laboratory Studies I Poster

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Rebecca Caravan

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Decadal-Scale Dynamics of Measurable Soil Organic Matter Pools in Deciduous Forest Exposed to Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Julie D Jastrow, Kelly Sturner, Roser Matamala, and R. Michael Miller

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Rapid rebound of aggregate pore structure precedes organic matter recovery in a restored prairie

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
James O'Sullivan, Kelly Sturner, Ken M Kemner, Maxim Boyanov, and Julie D Jastrow

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Harmonized life-cycle and techno-economic analyses for disparate CO2-to-fuels pathways

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Udayan Singh, Troy Hawkins, Farah Naaz, Jingyi Zhang, Doris Oke, and Katherine Hull

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Switchgrass genotype-by-environment interactive effects on soil organic matter composition and microbial functional capacity

02:45 — 02:55 p.m., 260 (NOLA CC)
Michael Paul Ricketts, Roser Matamala, and Julie D Jastrow

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Mineralogical Controls on Soil Organic Matter Formation and Destabilization in the Rhizosphere

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
James O'Sullivan and Tiffany Kinnibrugh

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LUCIE-3D: A three-dimensional atmosphere climate emulator under forced responses

02:15 — 05:45 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Romit Maulik

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Overview for algorithms for Unstructured Grids on the Sphere: Regridding, Averaging and Integration

03:05 — 03:15 p.m., 242 (NOLA CC)
Rajeev Jain and Robert L Jacob

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Peeking Beneath Clouds: An Investigation of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions over the Southeast Atlantic

04:30 — 04:40 p.m., 271 (NOLA CC)
Siddhant Gupta

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18

Cryo-Focused Pyrolysis GC/MS as a Tool for Tracing Organic Matter Sources and Chemical Diversity in Soils from Varied Ecosystems

08:30 a.m — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Edward J O'Loughlin and Roser Matamala

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Water–Energy-Token Nexus: Emerging Sustainability Questions in the Age of Large Language Models and Agentic AI

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Huihuo Zheng

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Costs and greenhouse gas implications of seaweed-based carbon removal and conversion pathways

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Udayan Singh, Troy Hawkins, Farah Naaz, and Jingyi Zhang

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Tracing the effects of a deep-rooted grass, Panicum virgatum L., on soil organic carbon cycling in a range of environments across the USA

08:30 a.m. — 12:00 p.m., Hall EFG (Poster Hall) (NOLA CC)
Julie D Jastrow

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Hydrogen at the core-mantle boundary of Mars (Invited)

09:10 — 09:20 a.m., 348-349 (NOLA CC)
Dean Smith and Rostislav Hrubiak

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Unveiling aerosol impacts on deep convective clouds: scientific concept, modeling, observational analysis, and future direction

09:15 — 09:25 a.m., 245 (NOLA CC)
Jiwen Fan

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Trends in Reactivity of β-hydroxy Radicals Derived from Volatile Organic Compounds With Molecular Oxygen (Invited)

09:30 — 09:45 a.m., 278-279 (NOLA CC)
Rebecca Caravan

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Advancing Great Lakes Modeling: Harnessing 3D Hydrodynamics and Deep Learning for Future Insights into Coupled Lake–Atmosphere Systems (Invited)

10:53 — 11:03 a.m., 217-219 (NOLA CC)
Jiali Wang and William Pringle

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Flow Structure and Momentum Transport in a Flat-Bed Sinusoidal Meandering Channel with and without a Chute Cutoff: a Numerical Study with Various Channel Width-Depth Ratios

11:20 — 11:28 a.m., 252-254 (NOLA CC)
Dimitrios K. Fytanidis

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