Ninth international conference on - Marum

Wednesday, Sept 17, 2008
09:00 – 09:30 Pimenov N, Ulyanova M, Kanapasky T, Veslopolova E, Sivkov V (invited talk):
Microbial activity in the south-eastern Baltic Sea (Russian sector) with
special reference to the methane and sulfur cycling
09:30 – 09:45 Raggi L, Schubotz F, Hinrich KU, Sahling H, Dublier N: Bacterial symbionts
related to hydrocarbon degraders in mussels from the asphalt cold seep
Chapopote, Gulf of Mexico
09:45 – 10:00 Knab NJ, Dale AW, Jørgensen BB: Thermodynamic and kinetic control on
anaerobic oxidation of methane and sulfate reduction
10:00 – 10:15 Schellig F, Schmale O, Niemann H, Rehder G: Dispersion of biomarker in the
AOM dominated upper sediment of Quepos slide offshore Costa Rica
10:15 – 10:30 Zemskaya TI, Shubenkova OV, Chernitsina SM, Egorov AV, Kalmychkov GV,
Pogadaeva TP, Khlystov OM, Buryukhaev S, Namsaraev BB: Microbial
communities in sediments of Lake Baikal mud volcanoes
10:30 – 10:45 Deusner C, Ferdelmann TG, Widdel F: High-pressure continuous-incubation
studies of sediments containing highly active communities of anaerobic
methanotrophs
10:45 – 11:00 Formolo MJ, Lyons TW: Carbon and sulfur cycling at cold seeps in the
Gulf of Mexico and new perspectives on old seeps
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 11:45 Felden J, Niemann H, Lichtschlag A, de Beer D, Wenzhöfer F, Boetius A:
Budgets of oxygen, sulfate and methane fluxes at an active mud volcano
11:45 – 12:00 Matveeva T, Mazurenko L, Prasolov E, Kulikova M, Beketov E, Poort J,
Shoji H, Jin YK, Obzhirov A, Logvina E, Krylov A, Minami H, Hachikubo A:
Gas hydrates on the Sakhalin slope (the Sea of Okhotsk): Origin, formation
control, and gas resources
12:00 – 12:15 Lorenson TD: Methane seepage from the Arctic Shelf – Origin from
permafrost, gas hydrate, or river-borne organic matter?
12:15 – 12:30 Logvina E, Krylov A, Matveeva T, Stadtnitskaia A, von Weering TCE,
Ivanov M, Blinova V: The authigenic chimney formation in the Gibraltar
Diapiric Ridge (NE Atlantic)
12:30 – 12:45 Somoza L and MVSEIS 08 Team: New discovery of mud volcanoes related to
active strike-slip faults and thrusting ridges in the Moroccan margin (Gulf of
Cadiz, Eastern Central Atlantic)
12:45 – 13:00 Piñero E, Cruz Larrasoaña, Martínez Ruiz F, Gràcia E: Magnetic iron-
sulphides as methane proxies in southern Hydrate Ridge sediments (ODP Leg
204): Preliminary results
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch