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December 2006
- International Meeting on Ocean Continent Transitions (12/07/06)
Dear colleagues,
We would like to attract your attention to an international meeting on OCEAN CONTINENT TRANSITIONS. The meeting is organized by the Académie des Sciences and will take place September 19 to 21 2007 in Paris.
Aim of the meeting is to summarize the latest developments, newest concepts
and key results obtained from the Ocean Continent Transition (OCT) of passive margins (both observational and modelling).
The list of invited KEYNOTE SPEAKERS includes D.Bernoulli, E.Burov, M.Cannat, L.Geoffroy, R.Huismans, G.Karner, N.Kusznir, L.Lavier, X.Le Pichon, G.Lister, G.Manatschal, T.Minshull, O.Müntener, G.Péron-Pinvidic, T.Reston, W.Roest, B.Taylor, B.Tucholke and P.Unternehr.
MAIN TOPICS ADDRESSED DURING THE MEETING
- historical overview and latest results from OCT
- development of concepts: transitional domain, crustal and mantle exhumation, detachment structures
- basement / sedimentary architecture of the OCT
- geophysical / geological characterization of the OCT
- modelling
- examples: Central Atlantic, Aden, Iberia, Newfoundlands
- economic aspect of the OCT
For further questions please contact the conveners:
•Philippe Huchon - philippe.huchon@lgs.jussieu.fr
•Gianreto Manatschal - manatschal@illite.u-strasbg.fr
•Gwenn Peron-Pinvidic - gwenn@eost.u-strasbg.fr
Académie des Sciences:
•Fabienne Bonfils - fabienne.bonfils@academie-sciences.fr
More information and specific abstract guidelines are given at:
http://www.academie-sciences.fr/conferences/generalites.htm
The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 15th 2007. We are looking forward seeing you in Paris!
- Rupture Lithosphere at the IODP Town Hall Meeting (12/07/06)
Announcement for the Rupturing Continental Lithosphere Community:
At an IODP sponsered workshop on Continental Breakup last September (see
EOS Nov. 21, vol. 87, no. 47 for a summary of the workshop), it was
decided that a Continental Breakup-Birth of Oceans Mission should be
developed and submitted to IODP as a mission proposal on April 1. For
information regarding this new proposal format, please refer to IODP's
website <http://www.iodp.org> and look for "IODP MIssions" under "Quick
Links" on the right hand navigation bar.
The mission will comprise a number of individual components, each of
which will be developed into a full proposal as part of the overall
mission. Currently, there are groups of proponents working on drilling
initiatives in several regions where these problems can be addressed.
These include work along both the North Atlantic and South Atlantic
margins, the Australian margins, Gulf of California, and Woodlark
Basin, among others.
To be successful, it is essential that we receive broad feedback from
anyone interested in continental breakup research and we are therefore
soliciting input from the MARGINS RCL community to help define the
mission themes and goals. At the IODP Town Hall meeting on Thursday,
Dec. 14 (7:30 pm Salon B3 at the Marriott), I will present a brief
summary of the Pontresina workshop. Afterwards, I ask that interested
people meet up to discuss the breakup mission proposal in more detail.
My role in this is to coordinate the various groups and the final
proposal should reflect a consensus view on what the important problems
are. Please contact me with any comments, concerns, or questions you may
have, or show up to the Town Hall meeting and talk to me directly.
Hope to see you in San Francisco next week!
John R. Hopper
Asst. Professor
Texas A&M University
Dept. of Geology and Geophysics
College Station, TX 77843
hopper@geo.tamu.edu
+1-979-845-0119
fax: +1-979-845-6162
- Reminder: MARGINS Events at AGU (12/07/06)
Included in this message:
I. MARGINS Student and Community Reception
II. TWO mini-workshops; ONE venue: Izu-Bonin-Marianas and Central America
III. MARGINS-related sessions
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I. MARGINS Student and Community Reception
Tuesday, December 12, 6:00 pm, Salon 9, San Francisco Marriott
http://www.nsf-margins.org/AGU2006/recep_wkshops.html
Come to the MARGINS Student and Community Reception at Fall AGU to eat, drink, mingle around MARGINS Student Prize posters and learn the latest program news. Students are encouraged to use this event as an opportunity share their results and interact with a wide spectrum of MARGINS Scientists. MARGINS Chair, Geoff Abers, and NSF Program Director, Bilal Haq, will take the opportunity to update the community on MARGINS funding and other issues, including the recent change to the Red Sea status and other ancillary sites. A blue-ribbon panel will lead discussion on the future of the Rupturing Continental Lithosphere initiative.
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II. TWO mini-workshops, ONE venue: Izu-Bonin-Marianas and Central America
http://www.nsf-margins.org/AGU2006/recep_wkshops.html
*MARGINS Interdisciplinary Mini-Workshop on the Izu-Bonin-Marianas Subduction Factory Focus Site*
Monday, December 11, 6-8 pm, Salon A3, San Francisco Marriott
Conveners: R.J. Stern, Y. Tatsumi, R. W. Embley, Y. Kaneda
This mini-workshop will explore Izu-Bonin-Marianas Arc syntheses between communities involved in the recent NOAA "Submarine Ring of Fire" investigations, the Japan Continental Shelf Project, current IODP proposals and the MARGINS Subduction Factory Initiative. The conveners also hope to present the status of a proposal for a coming ~3 day MARGINS/IFREE Workshop to Integrate Subduction Factory and IODP Studies in this arc-system.
*Seismogenesis and Subduction Fluxes in the Middle America Subduction Zone: The role of IODP and ORION*
Monday, December 11, 8 pm onward, Salon A3, San Francisco Marriott
Convener: K. Brown
It takes a major interdisciplinary effort to address interconnections between the dynamics of seismic and aseismic slip processes and
along-strike variations in subduction fluxes through the Middle America arc and fore-arc. This mini-workshop will include: physical, geophysical and hydrological properties of the system; material/chemical fluxes; integration of onland and offshore studies; relation of laboratory and numerical studies to field observations; and development of new technologies and methodologies.
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III. Sessions related to MARGINS science
Each year, the MARGINS Office prepares a subjective list of AGU Fall Meeting sessions of special interest to the MARGINS community. The list appears in the upcoming Fall 2006 MARGINS Newsletter and online at:
http://www.nsf-margins.org/AGU2006/AGU06_sessions.html
- EGU Rifting Session (12/05/06)
Dear all,
We would like to inform you about a ‘Tectonics and Structural Geology’ Extensional Tectonics session at EGU 2007 that might interest you: "TS5.1: Failed vs. successful rifts: mechanisms for rift evolution"
http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/programme/view.php?p_id=255
Description of session:
Not all continental rifts eventually evolve to the stage of continental breakup. The so-called ‘failed’ rifts were once loci of strain localization and crustal extension, but are now no longer considered active. Other rifts proceed more successfully to their final stage and result in continental separation and seafloor spreading with oceanic crust formation. Why are some rifts successful, while others fail? Aim of this session is to explore mechanisms that control rift development, and are responsible for failure or success of a rift zone. The session focuses on all stages of rift development: from the onset (and ending) of continental extension to the formation and evolution of rifted margins.
Examples of topics that we would like to address include the role of magma injections during rifting, mantle plumes & mantle heterogeneities, lithosphere rheology and deformation mechanisms, inherited weaknesses, passive vs active rifting, and far-field plate boundary forces.
Welcome are data and models on failed and successful rifts, ancient and modern passive margins (such as Atlantic margins, exposed margins of the Alpine Tethys), but also for example the East African Rift System, which is of special interest to the topic since, along its length, all the different stages of the rifting process -from rift initiation to continental breakup- can be identified.
You are welcome to submit an abstract to this session! EGU is held from 15-20 April in Vienna.
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 15 January 2007.
(The deadline for support applications is 08 December 2006.)
We hope to see you in Vienna in April!
Kind regards,
Giacomo Corti
Thomas Mauduit
Romain Meyer
Jolante van Wijk
- DOSECC and ICDP Town Hall Meeting at AGU (12/04/06)
You are invited to attend a Town Hall Meeting at the upcoming AGU meeting in San Francisco.
DRILLING IN THE EARTH'S CONTINENTAL CRUST: Research Accomplishments and Opportunities
Monday December 11, 2006, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
San Francisco Marriott, Salons 13, 14, and 15
Drilling in the Earth's continental crust allows study of otherwise inaccessible subsurface geological processes and structures. Within the past decade or so, drilling has led to many important geological discoveries on paleoclimate, impacts, volcanoes, mantle plumes, active faults, etc. A few short overview talks on international and multidisciplinary drilling topics will be followed by discussion and a wine and beer reception to allow exchange of ideas. All geoscientists interested in using drilling as a tool are invited.
Speakers include:
•Dennis Nielson, DOSECC President, Welcome;
•Mark Zoback, Stanford University, ICDP Welcome;
•David Hodell, University of Florida, Paleoclimate of the Tropics Revealed by Deep Drilling in African and Central American Lakes;
•Christian Koeberl, University of Vienna, Continental Drilling in the Study of Impact Craters and Mass Extinctions.
This Town Hall is co-sponsored by DOSECC and ICDP. We hope to see you there!
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November 2006
- Three MARGINS-cosponsored Workshops (11/21/06)
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Workshop to Integrate Subduction Factory and Seismogenic Zone Studies in Central America. June 18-22, 2007, in San Jose, Costa Rica. This workshop, co-sponsored by MARGINS and the German SFB-574, will integrate offshore and onshore studies carried out in Central America over the past 5 years. A full announcement, along with detailed instructions for application and support requests, will be issued soon here and on the MARGINS Web Page ( http://www.nsf-margins.org/CostaRica2007).
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Workshop on multidisciplinary projects in Cascadia and the Salton Trough/Walker Lane. March 27, 2007, Monterey California. This workshop will take place in conjunction with the Earthscope National Meeting (www.earthscope.org). This workshop, co-sponsored by MARGINS and the EarthScope-GeoSwath effort, will prioritize scientific goals and to plan possible work in these two areas of common interest to the two programs. Geoff Abers and Basil Tikoff are the organizers: For general questions, please contact margins@nsf-margins.org. Further information, including instructions to apply for a travel subsidy, will be posted soon on the MARGINS web page ( http://www.nsf-margins.org/Geoswath07).
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International Data Access Workshop. May 9-11 2007, Kiel Germany. This international workshop is designed for scientists, data managers and data policy makers to explore new opportunities for data exchange in light of recent advances in database technology for scientific research. Current international efforts in geoinformatics relevant for studies of continental margin and mid-ocean ridge processes will be highlighted and data system approaches for exchange of key data of broad scientific interest will be explored. This workshop is co-sponsored by MARGINS, Ridge2000, InterMARGINS and InterRidge, and convened by S. Carbotte (MGDS, LDEO), K. Lehnert (GfG, LDEO), W. Weinrebe (IFM-GEOMAR), and S. Tsuboi (JAMSTEC-IFREE). For general questions, please contact margins@nsf-margins.org. Further information, including instructions to apply for a travel subsidy, will be posted soon on the MARGINS web page ( http://www.nsf-margins.org/Datawkshp07)
- Professional Development Workshop at the AGU Fall Meeting (11/20/06)
Attention Post-Doctoral researchers and (almost done!) Graduate Students!
Professional Development Workshop at the AGU Fall Meeting
Offered by the Council on Undergraduate Research – Geoscience Division
Location: San Fransisco Marriott Hotel, Willow Room
Date: Monday, December 11th
2:00-5:00 PM:
How to Get a Job and Develop an Undergraduate Research Program at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution (PUI)
Facilitators:
Dr. Lydia K. Fox, University of the Pacific
Dr. Pat Manley, Middlebury College
Dr. Jeff Ryan, University of South Florida
Workshop Early Registration Fee: $60 (includes CUR How-To publications and refreshments)
Early Registration Deadline: December 2nd
On-Site Registration: $75.
To Register: Contact
Dr. Jeffrey Ryan,
Chair CUR-Geosciences
ryan@shell.cas.usf.edu; phone: (813) 974-1598; FAX (813) 974-2654
Department of Geology
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Ave.
Tampa, FL 33620
- MARGINS Student Prize Deadline (11/14/06)
REMINDER: The entry deadline for the MARGINS Student Presentation Prize at AGU is November 24!
The MARGINS Program is offering a $1000 prize for the Outstanding Student Presentation on MARGINS-related science at the 2006 AGU Fall Meeting. The prize is open to any student from any country who is presenting a MARGINS-related talk or poster at the conference for which they are the first author and presenter. Details of the prize and how to enter can be found on the Award web page: http://www.nsf-margins.org/AGU2006/AwardHome.html
Student prize entrants are invited to present their posters at the MARGINS Student and Community Reception, 6:00-9:00 pm, Tuesday, December 12, Salon 9, San Francisco Marriott, and all members of the MARGINS Community are invited to attend. This informal event is an additional opportunity to present student research to MARGINS Prize judges, members of the MARGINS Steering Committee and others who study continental margins. Students entering an oral presentation are welcome to bring a related poster for the reception, but should notify the MARGINS Office in advance to ensure adequate display space. For more information on MARGINS at AGU 2006, please visit our web site http://www.nsf-margins.org/AGU2006/recep_wkshops.html
Please direct email inquiries to the MARGINS Office:
margins@nsf-margins.org
- IODP Town Hall Meeting at AGU (11/01/06)
Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
Welcome Reception, 6:30 p.m., San Francisco Marriott, Salons 4-6
"Charting IODP Investigations: Planning Workshops, Drilling Vessels Program"
Program
-Welcome from IODP-MI President & CEO Manik Talwani
-Welcome from Assistant Director, Directorate for Geosciences, U.S. National Science Foundation Margaret Leinen
-Scientific briefings on recently held IODP Long-Term Planning Workshops:
•Mission Moho—Exploring the ocean crust and the “Road to Moho”
•Benoit Ildefonse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Universite Montpellier II
•Continental Break-Up—Highlighting continental break-up and sedimentary basin formation, John Hopper, Texas A & M University
•Subseafloor Life—How greater understanding of subseafloor life can be achieved through IODP, Fumio Inagaki, JAMSTEC
-Mission Implementation & Call for Proposals, Susan Humphris, Science Advisory Structure Executive Committee, Chair
-Update on IODP Platforms
•ESO and New Jersey Margins: TBA
•USIO and SODV: Peggy Delaney
•CDEX and CHIKYU: Yoshi Kawamura
Visit IODP Booth 321 on the AGU Exhibition Floor!
- MARGINS Office Staff Changes (11/01/06)
Dear MARGINS Community,
Yesterday several personnel changes occurred at the MARGINS Office, as we complete the transition from the St. Louis to Boston Offices. First, it is with some difficulty that we say goodbye to Meredith Berwick, the Administrator at the Washington University (St. Louis) Office for the last year and a half. Her last day of work was Oct. 31. Meredith has been a huge asset to the program in making sure a wide variety of activities actually happened and did so smoothly, and was very helpful throughout the transition. Thanks Meredith!
Second, we welcome Pamela Lezaeta as the new Coordinator in the Boston University Office. Pamela comes to us via the Free University of Berlin, Woods Hole, and the Institute for Exploration, with expertise in electromagnetic methods and seagoing expeditions. You can reach her directly at plezaeta@bu.edu or through margins@nsf-margins.org. Her contact information has been posted on the MARGINS Office web page, http://www.nsf-margins.org/MARGINS_Office/MARGINSoffice.html. Paul Wyer has graciously agreed to continue on for another couple of months while Pamela gets up to speed, so the transition should be as seamless as possible.
Regards,
Geoff Abers, MARGINS Chair
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October 2006
- Annual MARGINS Prize for Outstanding Student Presentation (10/27/06)
The MARGINS Program offers a $1000 prize for the Outstanding Student Oral Presentation or Poster on MARGINS-related science at the 2006 AGU Fall Meeting. The prize is open to any student from any country who is presenting a MARGINS-related talk or poster for which they are the first author and presenter.
MARGINS is an NSF-funded program that seeks to facilitate outstanding interdisciplinary research, with foci on rupture of continental lithosphere, the (subduction) seismogenic zone, source-to-sink sedimentation, and material and chemical fluxes in the subduction factory. This prize highlights the important role of student research in accomplishing MARGINS science goals, and encourages cross-disciplinary input to the MARGINS Program.
To be considered, students must apply no later than November 24, 2006 at:
http://www.nsf-margins.org/AGU2006/AwardHome.html. The entry must include a brief statement of how the research relates to some aspect of MARGINS Science. This statement is important, as it will be used for pre-screening of entries of relevance, and may be considered in the final choice of winner. The winner and any honorable mentions will be notified after the conference and will be recognized in the MARGINS website and newsletter. Please direct email inquiries to the MARGINS Office: margins@nsf-margins.org.
NEW THIS YEAR: Student prize entrants are invited to present their posters at the MARGINS Student and Community Reception, 6:00-9:00 pm, Tuesday, December 12, Salon 9, San Francisco Marriott. This informal event is an additional opportunity to present student research to MARGINS Prize judges, members of the MARGINS Steering Committee and others who study continental margins. Students entering an oral presentation are welcome to bring a related poster or summary flier of their talk for the reception, but should notify the MARGINS Office in advance to ensure adequate display space.
- MARGINS at AGU 2006 (10/27/06)
Included in this message:
I. MARGINS Student and Community Reception
II. 2 Mini-workshops: Izu-Bonin-Marianas and Central America
III. MARGINS-related sessions
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I. MARGINS Student and Community Reception
AGU Fall Meeting 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 6:00 pm, Salon 9, San Francisco Marriot
The MARGINS Reception at Fall AGU is an open event, welcoming participants in MARGINS-funded studies and all others with an interest in the program. This year, posters presented by entrants in the annual MARGINS Student Prize will be on display throughout the reception. Students are encouraged to use this as event as an opportunity further share their results and to interact with a wide spectrum of MARGINS Scientists.
MARGINS Chair, Geoff Abers and NSF Program Manager, Bilal Haq, will use this event as an opportunity to welcome those present, introduce the new MARGINS Office, and update the community on MARGINS funding and other issues, including a discussion of the recent change to the Red Sea status and other ancillary sites.
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II. 2 Mini-workshops: Izu-Bonin-Marianas and Central America
*MARGINS Interdisciplinary Mini-Workshop on the Izu-Bonin-Marianas Subduction Factory Focus Site*
AGU Fall Meeting, 2006, Monday, December 11, 6-8 pm, Salon A3, San Francisco Marriott
Conveners: R.J. Stern (U Texas at Dallas), Y. Tatsumi (IFREE/JAMSTEC), R. W. Embley (PMEL/NOAA), Y. Kaneda (Japan Continental Shelf Project)
Efforts to reach InterMARGINS and MARGINS-Subduction Factory science objectives in the Izu-Bonin-Mariana focus site have been enhanced by recent NOAA “Submarine Ring of Fire” investigations and the Japan Continental Shelf Project. Geoscientific studies in the region are being further stimulated by a set of IODP preproposals for drilling in the IBM arc system. These complementary efforts can be stimulated in turn by involving the MARGINS Subduction Factory community. This mini-workshop will inform the three communities of these efforts, solicit feedback, and explore possible synergies. The conveners also hope to present the status of a proposal for a future ~3 day MARGINS/IFREE Workshop to Integrate Subduction Factory and IODP Studies in the Izu-Bonin-Marianas Arc System.
This mini-workshop shares its location with the MARGINS Middle America Subduction Zone mini-workshop following immediately after. Food and drink will be provided at both events.
*Seismogenesis and Subduction Fluxes in the Middle America Subduction Zone: The role of IODP and ORION*
AGU Fall Meeting, 2006, Monday, December 11, 8 pm onward, Salon A3, San Francisco Marriott
Convener: K. Brown (University of California, San Diego)
This public mini-workshop will focus on interconnections between the dynamics of both seismic and aseismic slip processes and along-strike variations in subduction fluxes (fluids, sediments, and chemical species) though the Middle America arc and fore-arc. How do the physical and hydrologic structure and composition of the incoming plate and fore-arc control both fluxes and seismogenic processes along the Middle America Trench? Can these controls be quantified sufficiently to make predictions from Central America to other non-accretionary subduction zones? Topics addressing these questions will include: physical, geophysical and hydrological properties of the system; material/chemical fluxes; integration of onland and offshore studies; relation of laboratory and numerical studies to field observations; and development of new technologies and methodologies.
This mini-workshop immediately follows the MARGINS Izu-Bonin-Marianas mini-workshop in the same location. Food and drink will be provided at both events.
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III. Sessions related to MARGINS Science at the 2006 AGU Fall Meeting
The extensive list of sessions in AGU’s Fall Meeting program can be daunting, so each year the MARGINS
Office assembles a list of sessions that we think may be of special interest to the MARGINS community. To view this list, please go to the MARGINS web page, http://www.nsf-margins.org/AGU2006/AGU06_sessions.html.
The concise summaries included with our subjective choices are edited excerpts from the original AGU session
abstracts (http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm06).
- 2007 AAPG Hedberg Conference Session at The Hague (10/23/06)
The co-chairs of the Geodynamics and Heat Flow session would like to
encourage you to contribute to a session on "Geodynamics and heat flow:
going beyond McKenzie models" that has been scheduled for the 2007 AAPG
Hedberg conference:"Basin Modeling Perspectives: Innovative Developments and Novel
Applications"
The Hague, Netherlands, 6-9 May, 2007.
You can read about the conference at
http://www.aapg.org/education/hedberg/netherlands/ and can submit
abstracts to:"Geodynamics and heat flow: going beyond McKenzie models", AAPG
Hedberg 2007.
Specific abstract guidelines are given at
http://www.aapg.org/education/hedberg/netherlands/format.cfm
The deadline for submission is November 1st.
- AGU 2007 Joint Assembly (10/19/07)
AGU 2007 Joint Assembly Session Proposals
This is the final opportunity to submit a session proposal for the 2007 Joint Assembly. The proposal deadline is 24 October and we encourage you to submit your proposals now. To submit your session proposal, visit www.agu.org/meetings/ja07/. Please make sure a convener is included with the proposal description.
The 2007 Joint Assembly will take place 22-25 May 2007 in Acapulco, Mexico. This is the first AGU Joint Assembly held in a Latin American country.
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September 2006
- Final Scientific Meeting for the Ocean Margins LINK Programme - "From Margins.......To Mainstream" (September 20, 2006)
Wednesday 15th & Thursday 16th November, 2006 at The Geological
Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BG, UK.
The Ocean Margins LINK Programme has funded over 30 projects during
the past 5 years, with research covering the geometry of the
continent-ocean boundary, basin evolution, reservoir architecture
and fluid migration. The involvement of industry in all the funded
projects has ensured the relevance of the research to ongoing
exploration for and development of hydrocarbon resources.
The meeting will present an overview of the science supported by
the Ocean Margins LINK Programme, highlighting the links forged
between academia and industry, the integrated, multi-disciplinary
nature of the research and the wider implications and exploitation
of the results from the Programme. It is expected that selected
papers will be published as a Geological Society Special Publication.
The event is likely to be of interest to professionals from the
hydrocarbon and telecommunication industries, and is open to all
university and industry researchers with an interest in the
scientific achievements of the Ocean Margins LINK Programme.
Industrial partners and participants in the Programme-funded
projects are especially welcomed.
A draft programme for the meeting is now available at the link below. For further
information of the event please contact the Ocean Margins LINK
Programme Science Co-ordinator, Dr Alick Leslie (Tel: +44 (0)1392
445271. Mobile: 07966 782627. Email: aleslie@bgs.ac.uk).
The draft programme, registration and further details are available here.
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August 2006
- Recent Publications on Central American MARGINS Focus Area (August 11, 2006)
Selected Central America references, 2001-2006, have been provided courtesy of Terry Plank and Eli Silver and are online here. Updates are welcome by e-mail to margins@nsf-margins.org.
July 2006
- Afar rift (July 27, 2006)
In a letter to Nature (Magma-maintained rift segmentation at continental rupture in the 2005 Afar dyking episode, Tim J. Wright, et al., Nature 442, 291-294(20 July 2006), doi:10.1038/nature04978) the authors present a three-dimensional deformation field for the Dabbahu segment of the Afar rift. They use this to show that magma intrusion via dyking, rather than segmented normal faulting, maintains and probably initiated the along-axis segmentation along this sector of the Nubia-Arabia plate boundary.
- ORION site and RCL Red Sea forums open (July 13, 2006)
MARGINS has opened a webforum for input regarding the RCL Red Sea focus site. For more information click here.
Information about the reopened ORION site forum can be found here.
- Long cores from the Waipaoa focus area available to MARGINS Source-to-Sink community (July 12, 2006)
US MARGINS researchers, in collaboration with French and New Zealand scientists, collected 5 long cores (up to 30-m length) from the shelf and slope off the Waipaoa which contain high-resolution records of the Late Quaternary. These cores are currently in cold storage at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, NZ. Click here for more information.
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June 2006
- SEISMIX 2006 meeting September 24-29 in Hayama, Japan (June 23, 2006)
The local organizing committee of SEISMIX 2006 has decided to postpone the deadline of abstract to July 23. Please note that the deadline of early bird registration remains unchanged (June 23). Please go to www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/seismix2006/ for more details.
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May 2006
- JAMSTEC Conducts 3-D Seismic Reflection Survey (May 26, 2006)
In preparation for NanTroSEIZE, the Chikyu's first IODP scientific expedition in 2007, JAMSTEC conducted a 3-D seismic reflection survey of a 900-square-kilometer area off Kii Peninsula. The data obtained from the survey will enable NanTroSEIZE project scientists to study the geological structures in the area and then determine Chikyu's drilling operations in greater detail. The seismic survey, jointly implemented with University of Hawaii, was scheduled to occur from April 9-May 31, 2006. The survey vessel chosen to conduct the survey was the Nordic Explorer, a ship chartered from Petroleum Geo-Services, Norway. More information about the survey is available in a series of pdfs posted on the JAMSTEC web site:
www.jamstec.go.jp/jamstec-e/PR/0604/0406/1.pdf (the survey process); www.jamstec.go.jp/jamstec-e/PR/0604/0406/2.pdf (survey data); www.jamstec.go.jp/jamstec-e/PR/0604/0406/3.pdf (survey ship specs).
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- MARGINS RCL-Cortez "Lithospheric Rupture in the Gulf of California - Salton Trough Region" Workshop website updates (April 26, 2006)
All presentations and photos from the January MARGINS RCL-Cortez Workshop are now online.
- NOAA Ocean Explorer Ring of Fire 06 Expedition website launched (April 18, 2006)
"The Submarine Ring of Fire 2006" expedition site has launched on NOAA's Ocean Explorer website at: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06fire/welcome.html. This is the second signature expedition for NOAA's Ocean Exploration 2006 field season, with 6 additional signature expeditions to follow.
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January 2006
- MARGINS "Interpreting Upper Mantle Images" Workshop application open (January 27, 2006)
A MARGINS-sponsored workshop on "Interpreting Upper Mantle Images" will be held May 17-19, 2006, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
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MARGINS News Archive 2006
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