The Genomes-to-Watershed Scientific Focus Area (SFA) 2.0 aims to develop a predictive
understanding of how climate or land-use induced changes can affect overall watershed
biogeochemical functioning. More...
The Genomes-to-Watershed Scientific Focus Area (SFA) 2.0 aims to develop a predictive
understanding of how climate or land-use induced changes can affect overall watershed
biogeochemical functioning. At the Rifle (CO) study site, this scope includes influx of dissolved
oxygen or nitrate into a perennially suboxic/anoxic aquifer containing a large reservoir of
reduced Fe- and S-containing compounds. The role of the "Metabolic Potential" component of
SFA 2.0 is to characterize prevalent metabolic pathways in subsurface microbes and to use these
data to inform the next generation of trait-based microbial models (GEWaSC). Less...