Ninth international conference on - Marum

Thursday, Sept 18, 2008
09:00 – 09:30 Ivanov M, Blinova V, Malyshev N, Pevzner R, Volkonskaya A, Bouriak S (invited
talk) Mapping and main characteristics of multiple BSR reflectors in the
Tuapse Trough (Black Sea)
09:30 – 09:45 Maignien L, Parkes J, Cragg B, Boon N, R/V James Cook JC10 Shipboard
scientific party: Environmental constrains on anaerobic methane oxidation and
microbial community structure in marine sediments: The case of Cadiz mud
volcanoes
09:45 – 10:00 Dondurur D, Coşkun S, Gürçay S, Okay S, Özer P, Çifçi G, Ergün M:
Acoustic observations of shallow gas accumulations, gas seeps and
active pockmarks in the Gulf of Izmir, Aegean Sea
10:00 – 10:15 Chevalier N, Bouloubassi I, Stadtnitskaia A, Pierre C, Hopmans E,
Damste JS, Saliot A: Archaeal and bacterial lipids at cold seeps on the
Norwegian margin
10:15 – 10:30 Wenzhöfer F, Felden J, Lichtschlag A, de Beer D, Feseker T, Foucher JP,
Bohrmann G, Inagaki F, Boetius A: Methane emission and associated
biogeochemical consumption rates: How important are cold seep geo-
structures on a local and global scale
10:30 – 10:45 Lichtschlag A, Felden J, Wenzhöfer F, Boetius A, de Beer D: Thiotrophic
mats and their association with methane seeps – Comparison of different cold
seep sites
10:45 – 11:00 Pierre C, Bayon G, Blanc Vallerion MM, Rouchy JM, Mascle J, Dupré S,
Bouloubassi I, Sarrazin J, Foucher JP, Medeco scientific team: Authigenic
carbonate crusts from active cold seep sites in the Eastern Mediterranean:
New results from MEDECO cruise
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 11:45 Foucher JP, Feseker T, Dupré S, Fabri MC, Harmegnies F, Normand A,
Satra C, Boetius A: How unstable with time are submarine mud volcanoes:
Examples from the European seas
11:45 – 12:00 Dupré S, Brosolo L, Mascle J, Pierre C, Harmegnies F, Mastalerz V, Bayon G,
Ducassou E, de Lange G, Foucher JP, Victor ROV Team and Medeco Leg 2
scientific party: The Menes mud volcano caldera complex: An exceptional site
of brine seepage in the deep waters off north-western Egypt
12:00 – 12:15 Praeg D, Mascle J, Geletti R, Uniithan V, Loncke L, Harmegnies F: Evidence
of gas hydrates on the central Nile deep sea fan
12:15 – 12:30 Brückmann W, Bialas J, Brown K, Feseker T, Hensen C, Hölz S, Jegen M,
Linke P, Nuzzo M, Reitz A, Scholz F: The West Nile Delta mud volcano project
12:30 – 12:45 Feseker T, Nuzzo M, Scholz F, Brown K and P362/2 scientific party:
Exceptionally high levels of mud volcano activity on the western Nile deep
sea fan – First results from the P362/2 cruise of R/V POSEIDON