Primary Conveners: Glen Tritch Snyder, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan
Conveners: Adam D Skarke, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States, William Ussler, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States and Phillip John Turner, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Chairs: Phillip John Turner, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, William Ussler, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Adam D Skarke, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States and Glen Tritch Snyder, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan
OSPA Liaisons: William Ussler, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Subseafloor to Sea-Air Interface Characterization of Methane Dynamics in the northern US Atlantic Margin Seep Province (68578)
Carolyn D Ruppel1, Jared Kluesner2, William W Danforth3, Michael Casso4 and John Pohlman4, (1)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)USGS, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)US Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Sediment and water column geochemistry related to methane seepage along the northern US Atlantic margin (72730)
John Pohlman1, Carolyn D Ruppel1, Frederick S Colwell2, Stefan Krause3, Tina Treude4, Michael Graw2, Michael Casso5, Lee-Gray Boze1, Brian Buczkowski1 and David Brankovits6, (1)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (6)Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States
Towards Biogeochemical Modeling of Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane: Characterization of Microbial Communities in Methane-bearing North American Continental Margin Sediments (73442)
Michael Franklin Graw1, Evan A Solomon2, William Chrisler3, Stefan Krause4, Tina Treude5, Carolyn D Ruppel6, John Pohlman6 and Frederick S Colwell7, (1)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (4)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (7)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Anaerobic oxidation of methane related to methane seepage along the northern US Atlantic margin (84202)
Tina Treude1, Stefan Krause2, Frederick S Colwell3, Michael Franklin Graw4, John Pohlman5 and Carolyn D Ruppel5, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (3)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Tracking Dissolved Methane Concentrations near Active Seeps and Gas Hydrates: Sea of Japan. (77262)
Glen Tritch Snyder1, Shinsuke Aoki2, Ryo Matsumoto1, Hitoshi Tomaru3, Satoko Owari3, Ryosuke Nakajima3, Daniel Foster Doolittle4 and Robert Brant5, (1)Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan, (2)Meiji University, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kawasaki, Japan, (3)Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, (4)Fugro Geoconsulting Inc., Houston, TX, United States, (5)CSnet International Inc., Melbourne Beach, FL, United States
Subsea Gas Emissions from the Barbados Accretionary Complex (63468)
Alex Barnard1, William W Sager2, Jonathan E Snow1 and Michael D Max3, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)University of Houston, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Hydrate Energy International, Washington, DC, United States
Using a video-corer to evaluate hydrocarbon fluxes in the northern South China Sea (70385)
Chin-chang Hung1, Chau-chang Wang2, Hsin-Hung Chen2, Yu-Shih Lin1 and Kuo-Hao Huang3, (1)NSYSU National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, (2)Institute of Undersea Technology, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, (3)National Sun Yat-sen University, Department of Oceanography, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Observations of Brine Pool Surface Characteristics and Internal Structure Through Remote Acoustic and Structured Light Imaging (83248)
Clara Smart1, Chris Roman1, Anna Michel2 and Scott D Wankel3, (1)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Using Bathymodiolus tissue stable isotope signatures to infer biogeochemical process at hydrocarbon seeps (61266)
Dong Feng1, Steffen Kiel2, Jianwen Qiu3, Qunhui Yang4, Huaiyang Zhou4, Yongbo Peng5 and Duofu Chen6, (1)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (2)Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Department of Palaeobiology, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)Hong Kong Baptist University, Department of Biology, Hong Kong, China, (4)Tongji University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Shanghai, China, (5)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (6)GIG Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
The Role of Seep Ecosystems in Distribution Patterns of Deep-Sea Megafauna (70962)
Jamie Wagner1, Zachary McKelvey1, Alixandra Jacobson2, Elizabeth Hoerauf1 and Cindy Lee Van Dover3, (1)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Duke University Marine Laboratory, Marine Science and Conservation, Beaufort, NC, United States
SeepC: Preliminary Characterization of Atlantic Margin Seep Ecosystems from Norfolk Canyon to New England Seep Sites. (72809)
Phillip John Turner1, Bernard Ball1, Elijah Cole2, Abigail LaBella3, Jamie Wagner4, Cindy Lee Van Dover5, Adam D Skarke6 and Carolyn D Ruppel7, (1)Duke University Marine Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Beaufort, NC, United States, (2)Duke University, Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, (3)Duke University, University Program in Genetics and Genomics, Durham, NC, United States, (4)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (5)Duke University Marine Laboratory, Marine Science and Conservation, Beaufort, NC, United States, (6)Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States, (7)USGS Coastal and Marine Science Center Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Investigating the chemical and isotopic kinetics of aerobic methane oxidation in the Northern US Atlantic Margin, Hudson Canyon (75627)
Eric W Chan1, John D Kessler1, Alan M Shiller2, Molly C Redmond3, Eleanor C Arrington1 and David L Valentine4, (1)University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)University of Southern Mississippi, Dept. of Marine Science, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, (3)University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
AUV Mapping and ROV Exploration of Los Frailes Submarine Canyon, Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park, Baja California Sur, Mexico (84756)
Giancarlo Troni1, David W Caress1, Dale Graves2, Hans J Thomas2, Duane Thompson2, James P Barry2, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza3 and Andrew Frederick Johnson3, (1)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Watsonville, CA, United States, (2)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Biology Research Division, La Jolla, CA, United States
Underwater Oil Plume Intrusion from Deepwater Blowouts – A Large-Eddy Simulation Study (69811)
Di Yang1, Bicheng Chen2, Marcelo Chamecki2 and Charles Vivant Meneveau3, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States