Organismal contribution and community interaction drive soil organic matter breakdown by microbes.

The amount of radiation in a system influences how fast aggregated boehmite particles dissolve.

Identifying a novel gene function on soil viruses.

Study shows coastal plants are dying from hydraulic failure and carbon starvation.

Biochemical preservation and mineral association retain carbon in grassland soils, resulting in consistent molecular composition across ecosystems.

Across the United States, water moving between the river and riverbed sediments does not overcome localized processes that govern organic matter chemistry.

Simulations show that pH influences boehmite nanoparticle structure and sorption ability.

Microbes and viruses play key roles in carbon and nitrogen cycling in riverbed sediments.

A new study shows how organic molecules respond to global change varies according to functional traits and ecological processes.

The size and concentration of ions influences the aggregation behavior of solutions of boehmite.

A novel combination of temperature and four-dimensional geophysical sensors revealed otherwise unseeable hydrologic dynamics below riverbed sediments.

Forms of nitrogen released by nitrogen-fixing bacteria differ across sampling scales and in structured environments.

Dominant and functionally important soil microbes show strong, predictable, and distinctly different associations with continental-scale gradients in climate, vegetation, and soil moisture.

Soil transplant experiment gives new insights into coastal forest resilience, rising seas, and increasing storms.

A novel ecological measurement uncovered interactions between river corridor organic matter assemblages and microbial communities, highlighting potentially important microbial taxa and molecular formula types.

Performing a network analysis of forces between particles reveals new insight into shear induced thinning and thickening in non-Newtonian fluids.

PNNL scientists have developed a new mass spectrometry method for in-depth analysis of proteins in individual cells.

New data analysis approach gives researchers deeper understanding of microbial ecology and evolution.

Data from increasingly complex mass spectrometry instruments met with adaptable data analysis solution.

IDREAM researchers show that high concentrations of sodium hydroxide significantly impact the molecular and macroscale properties of sodium nitrite solutions.