Chairs: Marion D Jegen1, Christian Berndt1 and Seth S Haines2, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany(2)U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, United States
Primary Convener: Christian Berndt, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Co-conveners: Sverre Planke, Volcanic Basin Energy Research, Geosciences, Oslo, Norway, Seth S Haines, U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, United States and Warren T Wood, US Naval Research Laboratory, Ocean Sciences Division, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison: Seth S Haines, U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, United States
Optimizing Installation and Operation Properties of an AUV-Mounted Swath Sonar Sensor for Automated Marine Gas Seep Detection – a Modelling Approach (6800)
Stefan Wenau1, Tai Fei1, Zsuzsanna Tóth2, Hanno Keil3, Volkhard Spiess3 and Dieter Kraus4, (1)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (2)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (3)University of Bremen, Faculty of Geosciences, Bremen, Germany, (4)Bremen University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Water-acoustics, Sonar Engineering and Signal Theory, Bremen, Germany
Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) and Seismic Interpretation of Fluid Escape Features at the Vestnesa Ridge, West Svalbard Continental Margin (10276)
Bedanta Kishore Goswami1, Karen Andrea Weitemeyer1, Timothy A Minshull2, Graham K Westbrook1,3 and Martin C Sinha1, (1)Univeristy of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (2)Univeristy of Southampton, Ocean and Earth Science, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom
Natural Gas Seepage Along the Edge of the Aquitaine Shelf (France): Origin and Flux Measurements (7420)
Livio Ruffine1, Jean-Pierre Donval2, Anne Battani3, Laurent Bignon4, Claire Croguennec4, Jean-Claude Caprais4, Dominique Birot4, Germain Bayon4, Nadine Lantéri4, Denis Levaché5 and Stéphanie Dupré4, (1)Geo-Ocean, Univ. Brest-CNRS-IFREMER, Plouzane, France, (2)IFREMER, Department of Marine Geosciences, Plouzané, France, (3)IFP Énergies Nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France, (4)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (5)TOTAL - Centre Scientifique et Technique Jean Feger, Pau, France
Origin and Processes Highlighted By Noble Gases Geochemistry of Submarine Gas Emissions from Seeps at the Aquitaine Shelf (Bay of Biscay): (9692)
Anne Battani1, Livio Ruffine2, Jean-Pierre Donval2, Laurent Bignon3, Magali Pujol4 and Denis Levaché4, (1)IFP Énergies Nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France, (2)Geo-Ocean, Univ. Brest-CNRS-IFREMER, Plouzane, France, (3)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (4)TOTAL - Centre Scientifique et Technique Jean Feger, Pau, France
Evaluation of shallow sediment methane cycling in a pockmark field on the Chatham Rise, New Zealand (13695)
Richard B Coffin1, Paula S Rose2, Ingo Klaucke3, Joerg Bialas3, Ingo Andreas Pecher4 and Andrew R Gorman5, (1)Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, United States, (2)Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (5)University of Otago, Department of Geology, Dunedin, New Zealand
Investigation of Seafloor Depressions East of New Zealand’s South Island to Explore Their Potential Link to Methane Transport Processes Between the Seafloor and Ocean. (14597)
Jess Irene Tsahai Hillman, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, Andrew R Gorman, University of Otago, Department of Geology, Dunedin, New Zealand, Ingo Andreas Pecher, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Arne Pallentin, National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, Geoffroy Lamarche, NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand and SO226 Expedition Scientists
3-D seismic study into the origin of a large seafloor depression on the Chatham Rise, New Zealand (20929)
Kate Alyse Waghorn1, Ingo Andreas Pecher2, Lorna J Strachan2, Gareth James Crutchley3, Joerg Bialas4, Sudipta Sarkar4, Bryan William Davy3, Cord A Papenberg4, Stephanie Koch4, Thomas Eckardt4, Karsten Friedrich Kroeger3, Paula S Rose5, Richard B Coffin6 and Scientific Party of SO-226, (1)CAGE-Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment, and Climate, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, Norway, (2)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (3)GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (4)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (5)Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (6)Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, United States
High-Resolution 3D Seismic Imaging of Fluid Flow Anomalies in the Southwest Barents Sea (11602)
Sverre Planke1,2, Frode Norman Eriksen3, Ola Kaas Eriksen3, Muhammad Assad3 and Henrik H Stokke3, (1)Volcanic Basin Petroleum Research, Oslo, Norway, (2)Center for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), Oslo, Norway, (3)P-Cable 3D Seismic, Oslo, Norway
Insights into Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrate Study Sites GC955 and WR313 from New Multicomponent and High-Resolution 2D Seismic Data (13936)
Seth S Haines, U.S. Geological Survey, Central Energy Resources Science Center, Denver, United States, Patrick E Hart, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Timothy S Collett, USGS, Denver, CO, United States, William W Shedd, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, New Orleans, United States and Matthew Frye, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Herndon, Sterling, United States
Fluid flow pathways study from the 3D seismic data offshore southwestern Taiwan (23389)
Liwen Chen, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; IONTU Institute of Oceanography National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Wu-Cheng Chi, Academia Sinica, Institute of Earth Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, Hsieh-Tang Chiang, National Ilan University, Yilan, Taiwan and Saulwood Lin, NTU National Taiwan University, Institute of Oceanography, Taipei, Taiwan
The Evolution of Methane Vents That Pierce the Hydrate Stability Zone in the World's Oceans (8980)
Andrew J Smith, ExxonMobil Spring, Spring, TX, United States, Peter B Flemings, The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics and Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, Xiaoli Liu, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Houston, TX, United States and Kristopher Darnell, Kobold Metals, Berkeley, United States
Basin-Scale Modeling of Methane Hydrate Accumulations in the Gulf of Mexico (13600)
Michael Nole, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Hugh Daigle, University of Texas at Austin, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States and Kishore K Mohanty, Univ of TX-Austin CPE 3.168, Austin, TX, United States
A Non-Steady-State Condition in Sediments at the Gashydrate Stability Boundary off West Spitsbergen: Evidence for Gashydrate Dissociation or Just Dynamic Methane Transport? (15690)
Tina Treude1, Stefan Krause1, Victoria J Bertics1, Lea Steinle2, Helge Niemann2, Volker Liebetrau1, Tomas Feseker3, Ewa Burwicz4, Sebastian Krastel5 and Christian Berndt1, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)University of Basel, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Basel, Switzerland, (3)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (4)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (5)Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany
Biologic Indicators of Seabed Methane Venting Along the US Mid-Atlantic Margin (18637)
Nancy Prouty, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, United States, E Brendan Roark, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, Amanda W Demopoulos, US Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, United States, Daniel James Condon, NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Keyworth, United Kingdom, Kelsi Davis, Texas A&M University, College Station, CA, United States, Steve W Ross, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Center for Marine Science, Wilmington, NC, United States and Sandra Brooke, Florida State University, Coastal and Marine Lab, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Continuous Seafloor Gas Hydrate Monitoring on the Ocean Networks Canada NEPTUNE Cabled Observatory (24831)
Martin Scherwath1, Martin Heesemann1, Kate Moran2, Tania Lado Insua2, Miriam Roemer3, Michael Riedel4,5, George Spence5, Laurenz Thomsen6 and Autun Purser7, (1)University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Marum and University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (4)Natural Resources Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada, (5)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (6)Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (7)Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Submarine Dissolution During the Late-Miocene Carbonate Crash and Subsequent Mega-Pockmark Formation on the Cocos Ridge (28300)
Jared Kluesner, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States, Eli A Silver, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Nathan L Bangs, Univ Texas, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, United States and Kirk D McIntosh, Univ of Tx-Austin-Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
Mud Volcanism in the South East Caspian, Gorgon Plane, Iran (29342)
Elena Nikolaevna Poludetkina, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, Adriano Mazzini, University of Oslo, CEED, Oslo, Norway, Behzad Mehrabi, Tehran Tarbiat Moalem University, Tehran, Iran, Martin Krueger, BGR Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Hannover, Germany, Salvatore Inguaggiato, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Vulcani, Palermo, Italy and Giuseppe Etiope, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy
