Chairs: Nathan L Bangs, Univ Texas, Austin, TX, United States, Warren T Wood, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Ctr, MS, United States and Christian Berndt, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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: Warren T Wood, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Ctr, MS, United States
8:00 AM
Methane Hydrate Dissociation and Gas Seepage on Global Upper Continental Slopes Driven by Intermediate Ocean Warming
Carolyn D Ruppel1, Thomas Weber2, John D Kessler3, John Pohlman1 and Adam D Skarke4, (1)US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Mechanical Engineering, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States, (4)Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States
8:30 AM
Atmospheric methane emissions along the western Svalbard margin
John Pohlman1, Jens Greinert2,3, Anna Silyakova2, Michael Casso1, Carolyn D Ruppel1, Jurgen Mienert2, Catherine Lund Myhre4 and Stefan Bunz2, (1)US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of Tromsø, Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrates, Environment and Climate (CAGE), Tromsø, Norway, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway
9:15 AM
Ultra-Slow Tectonics, Sediment Drifts, and Gas Hydrates in the Arctic Fram Strait
Joel E Johnson1,2, Jurgen Mienert2, Andreia Aletia Plaza-Faverola2, Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta2, Jochen Knies2,3, Stefan Bunz2, Karin Andreassen2 and Benedicte Ferre2, (1)University of New Hampshire, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Durham, NH, United States, (2)UiT The Arctic University of Norway, CAGE-Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment, and Climate, Dept. of Geology, Tromso, Norway, (3)Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway
9:30 AM
Submarine hydrocarbon seepage in the wake of the 2010 Maule earthquake, Central Chile
Jacob Geersen1, Philip Steeb1, David Völker2, Florian Scholz1, Dietrich Lange1, Jan H Behrmann1, Peter Linke1, Tina Treude1 and Christian Hensen1, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
9:45 AM
Constraints on the timing and duration of methane derived authigenic carbonate formation in the North Sea and the Barents Sea from U-Th dating
Diana Sahy1, Antoine Crémière2, Aivo Lepland2, Daniel James Condon1, Stephen R Noble1, Shyam Chand2 and Harald Brunstad3, (1)British Geological Survey, NERC Isotope Geoscience Facilities, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, (2)Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway, (3)Lundin Petroleum, Oslow, Norway