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Ocean Crust Processes and
Consequences for Life
NOTE NEW
DATES: 2012 JUNE 7-9
The meeting in Bremen will focus on processes in the ocean
crust, from formation to subduction, and consequences for
ocean-crust exchange budgets and subseafloor life. The Center
for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) at the University
of Bremen will be hosting the meeting and organizers are Heiner
Villinger, Ursula Röhl, and Wolfgang Bach.
This meeting will provide a forum for presenting and discussing
the most recent results in ocean crust processes and identifying
the most pressing challenges that lie ahead. Specific focus
will be on (1) crustal heterogeneity and fluid flow, (2) ocean-crust
interactions, and (3) role of microbes in rock alteration.
| Arrival and Ice Breaker |
Wednesday,
June 6 |
Registration and ice breaker
| Conference |
Thursday, June
7 |
Welcome and introduction
Hosts Wolfgang Bach, Ursula Rohl and Heiner Villinger (University
of Bremen)
Seawater-crust interactions in fast and slow spread
crust
Damon Teagle (National Oceanography Centre, University of
Southampton)
Heat and fluid flow
Rob Harris (Oregon State University)
Training workshop
- Core repository tour & core curation, core
measurements
Ursula Röhl (University of Bremen)
- Core description & microscopy
Wolfgang Bach (University of Bremen), Damon Teagle
(National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton)
- In situ permeability determination
Keir Becker (University of Miami)
Conference dinner
| Conference |
Friday, June
8 |
Isotopic evidence for microbial activity in rocks
Olivier Rouxel (IFREMER)
Habitat characterization: rocks and bugs
Katrina Edwards (University of Southern California)
Training workshop
- ROV heat flow
Heiner Villinger (University of Bremen)
- Life detection
Everett Salas (California Institute of Technology)
- Spectroscopy
Brandy Toner (University of Minnesota)
Poster session
| Conference |
Saturday, June
9 |
Crustal accretion and implications for fluid flow
Benoit Ildefonse (Géosciences Montpellier, CNRS)
Carbonate veins: alteration & earth history
Rosalind Coggon (Imperial College London)
Breakout session 1
Dream up three projects you would like to do!
Breakout session 2
Develop one project - from planning to implementation!
Plenary discussion, including summary and recommendations
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