MagellanPlus Workshop Series Programme
Carbon Cycling at the Ultraslow Arctic Spreading Ridge System
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Carbon Cycling at the Ultraslow Arctic Spreading Ridge System
Magellan workshop programme (6-8 September 2017)
Day 1 – Symposium: Carbon and life in deep sediments in the Arctic
09:15 Welcome and Introduction by Steffen L Jørgensen
10:00 Rolf Birger Pedersen
Title: “Southern Knipovich Ridge and geological history of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea”
10:45 Coffee/Tea
11:00 Vera Schlindwein
Title: “Seismicity and lithosphere structure at slow/ultraslow ridges”
12:00 Lunch break
13:30 Wolfgang Bach
Title: “The role of water-rock reactions for cycling of buried carbon”
14:15 Hans Røy
Title: “Carbon cycling by subseafloor microbial life”
15:00 Coffe/Tea
15:30 Florian Schmid
Title: “Implications of deep-reaching serpentinization for the deformation mode at ultraslow
opening mid-ocean ridges”
16:15 Andreia Faverola
Title: “Gas sources in the Norwegian-Greenland sea”
17:00 Mitch Malone
Title: “Challenges of drilling the SKR”
19:00 Dinner
Day 2 – Overarching Research Questions and Site Selection
09:15 Javier Escartin
Title: “Structural evolution of ultra-slow spreading ridges”
09:45 Beth Orcutt
Title: “Ups and downs on CORKs”
11:15 Group discussions related to:
- Key questions about deep carbon cycling can be tackled by drilling the SKR?
- First-order sub-seafloor microbial life questions we attempt to solve?
- Other critical knowledge gaps (tectonics, climate, geochemical fluxes, etc.)can be addressed?
- Best drill sites for accomplishing these science goals?
- Additional site survey data for the potential drilling sites are required for an
IODP proposal?
12:15 Lunch break
13:30 Continued group discussions
16:00 presentation by the different groups
19:00 Dinner
Day 3 – Strategies and Implementation
09:30 Final discussion, proposal outline and delegations of tasks
12:00 Lunch/departure
