Chairs: Marion D Jegen1, Christian Berndt1 and Seth S Haines2, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany(2)US Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States
Primary Conveners: Christian Berndt, GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany
Co-conveners: Sverre Planke, Volcanic Basin Petroleum Rsch, Oslo, Norway, Seth S Haines, US Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States and Warren T Wood, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Ctr, MS, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Seth S Haines, US Geological Survey, Denver, CO, United States
Optimizing Installation and Operation Properties of an AUV-Mounted Swath Sonar Sensor for Automated Marine Gas Seep Detection – a Modelling Approach
Stefan Wenau1, Tai Fei1, Zsuzsanna Tóth2, Hanno Keil2, Volkhard Spiess2 and Dieter Kraus3, (1)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (2)University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (3)Bremen University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Water-acoustics, Sonar Engineering and Signal Theory, Bremen, Germany
Natural Gas Seepage Along the Edge of the Aquitaine Shelf (France): Origin and Flux Measurements
Livio Ruffine1, Jean-Pierre Donval1, Anne Battani2, Laurent Bignon1, Claire Croguennec1, Jean-Claude Caprais1, Dominique Birot1, Germain Bayon1, Nadine Lantéri1, Denis Levaché3 and Stéphanie Dupré1, (1)IFREMER, Plouzané, France, (2)IFP Énergies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France, (3)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
Richard B Coffin1, Paula S Rose1, Ingo Klaucke2, Joerg Bialas2, Ingo Andreas Pecher3 and Andrew R Gorman4, (1)Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (2)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (3)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (4)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.
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, NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Marine Geology, Wellington, New Zealand and Geoffroy Lamarche, NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
3-D seismic study into the origin of a large seafloor depression on the Chatham Rise, New Zealand
Kate Alyse Waghorn1, Ingo Andreas Pecher1, Lorna J Strachan1, Gareth James Crutchley2, Joerg Bialas3, Sudipta Sarkar3, Bryan William Davy2, Cord A Papenberg3, Stephanie Koch3, Thomas Eckardt3, Karsten Kroeger2, Paula S Rose4 and Richard B Coffin4, (1)University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, (2)GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
High-Resolution 3D Seismic Imaging of Fluid Flow Anomalies in the Southwest Barents Sea
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
Seth S Haines, US Geological Survey, Denver, CO, 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, LA, United States and Matthew Frye, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Herndon, Herndon, VA, United States
The Evolution of Methane Vents That Pierce the Hydrate Stability Zone in the World's Oceans
Andrew J Smith, ExxonMobil Spring, Spring, TX, United States, Peter B Flemings, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Xiaoli Liu, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Houston, TX, United States and Kristopher Darnell, University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics, 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?
Tina Treude1, Stefan Krause1, Victoria J Bertics1, Lea Steinle2, Helge Niemann2, Volker Liebetrau1, Tomas Feseker3, Ewa Burwicz1, Sebastian Krastel4 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)Inst fuer Geowissenschaften, Kiel, Germany
Biologic Indicators of Seabed Methane Venting Along the US Mid-Atlantic Margin
Nancy Prouty1, E Brendan Roark2, Amanda W Demopoulos3, Daniel James Condon4, Kelsi Davis2, Steve Ross5 and Sandra Brooke6, (1)USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, College Station, CA, United States, (3)USGS Southeast Ecological Science Center, Gainesville, FL, United States, (4)NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Keyworth, United Kingdom, (5)University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Center for Marine Science, Wilmington, NC, United States, (6)Florida State University, Coastal and Marine Lab, St Teresa, FL, United States
Continuous Seafloor Gas Hydrate Monitoring on the Ocean Networks Canada NEPTUNE Cabled Observatory
Martin Scherwath1, Martin Heesemann1, Kate Moran1,2, Tania Lado Insua1, Miriam Roemer3, Michael Riedel2,4, George Spence2, Laurenz Thomsen5 and Autun Purser5, (1)Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Marum and University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (4)Natural Resources Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada, (5)Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany
Mud Volcanism in the South East Caspian, Gorgon Plane, Iran
Elena Nikolaevna Poludetkina1, Adriano Mazzini2, Behzad Mehrabi3, Martin Krueger4, Salvo Inguaggiato5 and Giuseppe Etiope5, (1)Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, (2)University of Oslo, CEED, Oslo, Norway, (3)Tehran Tarbiat Moalem University, Tehran, Iran, (4)BRG, Hannover, Germany, (5)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy