Chairs: Thibaut Barreyre, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jean Vandemeulebrouck, ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Martin d'Hères, France and Nicholas Pester, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Conveners: Thibaut Barreyre, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-conveners: Jean Vandemeulebrouck, ISTerre Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Martin d'Hères, France, Nicholas J Pester, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Shaul Hurwitz, USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Shaul Hurwitz, U.S. Gelogical Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
8:15 AM
Seawater Circulation and Thermal Sink at OCEAN Ridges – FIELD Evidence in Oman Ophiolite
Adolphe A Nicolas1, Francoise I Boudier1, Lawrence M Cathles2, W Roger Buck3 and Bernard P Celerier1, (1)University of Montpellier II, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, (2)Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY, United States, (3)Columbia University of New York, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory - LDEO, Palisades, NY, United States
8:30 AM
Hydrothermal Venting at Kick’Em Jenny Submarine Volcano (West Indies)
Steven Carey1, Katherine Lynn Croff Bell2, Frederic Jean-Yves Dondin3, Christopher Roman1, Clara Smart1, Marvin D Lilley4, John E Lupton5 and Robert D. Ballard2, (1)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)Ocean Exploration Trust, Narragansett, RI, United States, (3)University of the West Indies, Seismic Research Center, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, (4)Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)NOAA/PMEL, Newport, OR, United States
9:00 AM
Transient Hydrothermal Alteration In Fault Zones Cutting The Lower Oceanic Crust, Hess Deep Rift
Andrew M McCaig1, Sofya Titarenko1, Robert A Cliff2, Ivan P Savov2, Adrian Boyce3 and Ripul Dutt4, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center at the University of Glasgow, East Kilbride, United Kingdom, (4)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India
9:15 AM
Experimental serpentinization of intact dunite cores
Andrew J Luhmann1, Benjamin M Tutolo1, Xiang-Zhao Kong2, Brian C Bagley1, Adam T Schaen1, Martin O Saar1,3 and William E Seyfried Jr1, (1)University of Minnesota, Department of Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, (3)ETH Zurich, Geothermal Energy and Geofluids Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
9:45 AM
Fracture sealing in geothermal systems: A combined EBSD and chemical approach
David D Mcnamara1, Aaron Lister2, David John Prior2,3 and Marco Brenna3, (1)GNS Science-Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (2)University of Otago, Geology, Dunedin, New Zealand, (3)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
