Competing Uses and Value of Groundwater and the Subsurface Environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 353-359
Author(s):  
Charles A. Job
Keyword(s):  
Subsurface Environment

scholarly journals Evaluation of a Genome-ScaleIn SilicoMetabolic Model for Geobacter metallireducens by Using Proteomic Data from a Field Biostimulation Experiment

2012 ◽  
Vol 78 (24) ◽  
pp. 8735-8742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilin Fang ◽  
Michael J. Wilkins ◽  
Steven B. Yabusaki ◽  
Mary S. Lipton ◽  
Philip E. Long
Keyword(s):  
Proteomic Analysis ◽  
In Silico ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Metabolic Model ◽  
Geobacter Metallireducens ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Proteomic Data ◽  
Subsurface Environment ◽  
A Genome ◽  
Genome Scale

ABSTRACTAccurately predicting the interactions between microbial metabolism and the physical subsurface environment is necessary to enhance subsurface energy development, soil and groundwater cleanup, and carbon management. This study was an initial attempt to confirm the metabolic functional roles within anin silicomodel using environmental proteomic data collected during field experiments. Shotgun global proteomics data collected during a subsurface biostimulation experiment were used to validate a genome-scale metabolic model ofGeobacter metallireducens—specifically, the ability of the metabolic model to predict metal reduction, biomass yield, and growth rate under dynamic field conditions. The constraint-basedin silicomodelof G. metallireducensrelates an annotated genome sequence to the physiological functions with 697 reactions controlled by 747 enzyme-coding genes. Proteomic analysis showed that 180 of the 637G. metallireducensproteins detected during the 2008 experiment were associated with specific metabolic reactions in thein silicomodel. When the field-calibrated Fe(III) terminal electron acceptor process reaction in a reactive transport model for the field experiments was replaced with the genome-scale model, the model predicted that the largest metabolic fluxes through thein silicomodel reactions generally correspond to the highest abundances of proteins that catalyze those reactions. Central metabolism predicted by the model agrees well with protein abundance profiles inferred from proteomic analysis. Model discrepancies with the proteomic data, such as the relatively low abundances of proteins associated with amino acid transport and metabolism, revealed pathways or flux constraints in thein silicomodel that could be updated to more accurately predict metabolic processes that occur in the subsurface environment.

The interactions between nanoscale zero-valent iron and microbes in the subsurface environment: A review

2017 ◽  
Vol 321 ◽  
pp. 390-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yankai Xie ◽  
Haoran Dong ◽  
Guangming Zeng ◽  
Lin Tang ◽  
Zhao Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Zero Valent Iron ◽  
Subsurface Environment ◽  
Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron

scholarly journals Fault “Corrosion” by Fluid Injection: A Potential Cause of the November 2017 MW 5.5 Korean Earthquake

Geofluids ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Westaway ◽  
Neil M. Burnside
Keyword(s):  
Time Delays ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Fluid Injection ◽  
Anthropogenic Activity ◽  
Geothermal System ◽  
Causal Mechanism ◽  
Seismogenic Fault ◽  
Subsurface Environment ◽  
Anthropogenic Seismicity ◽  
Physical And Chemical

The November 2017 MW 5.5 Pohang earthquake is one of the largest and most damaging seismic events to have occurred in the Korean peninsula over the last century. Its close proximity to an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) site, where hydraulic injection into granite had taken place over the previous two years, has raised the possibility that it was anthropogenic; if so, it was by far the largest earthquake caused by any EGS project worldwide. However, a potential argument that this earthquake was independent of anthropogenic activity considers the delay of two or three months before its occurrence, following the most recent injection into each of the wells. A better understanding of the physical and chemical processes that occur following fluid injection into granite is thus warranted. We show that hydrochemical changes occurring while surface water, injected into granite, reequilibrates chemically with its subsurface environment, can account for time delays for earthquake occurrence of such duration, provided the seismogenic fault was already critically stressed, or very close to the condition for slip. This candidate causal mechanism counters the potential argument that the time delay militates against an anthropogenic cause of the Pohang earthquake and can account for its relatively large magnitude as a consequence of a relatively small-volume injection. The resulting analysis places bounds on combinations of physical and chemical properties of rocks, injected volume, and potential postinjection time delays for significant anthropogenic seismicity during future EGS projects in granite.

scholarly journals Metal Transformation by a Novel Pelosinus Isolate From a Subsurface Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison E. Ray ◽  
Stephanie A. Connon ◽  
Andrew L. Neal ◽  
Yoshiko Fujita ◽  
David E. Cummings ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subsurface Environment
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