13th International Conference on

Gas in Marine Sediments

19th to 22nd September 2016 at Scandic Ishavshotel in Tromsø, Norway

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GIMS 13 will take place in Tromsø, “The Gateway to the Arctic", Norway.

The interdisciplinary conference – held every second year – will focus on the world’s active and passive margins including the Arctic and Antarctic. There will be technical programme themes devoted to the detection and chemistry of fluids.

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Tromsø

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Lill-Iren Gabrielsen Mikalsen

Executive officer
CAGE – Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate

E-mail: lill-iren.g.mikalsen@uit.no

Phone: +47 77 64 51 94

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Jürgen Mienert

Director
CAGE – Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate

E-mail: jurgen.mienert@uit.no

Phone: +47 77 64 44 46

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Maja Sojtaric

Communications Coordinator
CAGE – Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate

E-mail: maja.sojtaric@uit.no

Phone: +47 77 62 52 40

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Program

GIMS13 – Gas In Marine Sediments Conference, Scandic Ishavshotel, Tromsø
18th to 22nd of September

Sunday 18th September
18:00–20:00
Icebreaker – Artist: Anne Nymo Trulsen
Monday 19th September
08:00–09:00
Registration
09:00–09:20
Opening
09:20–10:00
Keynote speaker
 
Ian R. MacDonald, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, USA, A hydrocarbon budget for a Gulf of Mexico natural seep site: GC600
10:00–10:30
Coffee break and Group photo
10:30–12:30
GEOPHYSICS for gas hydrate and fluid flow prospecting – Oral Chair: Gerald R.Dickens
 
Peter Kannberg, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, High Resolution Electromagnetic Mapping of Gas Hydrate Offshore Southern California
 
Katrin Schwalenberg, BGR - Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, FRG, Gas hydrate saturation estimates from the Danube Delta offshore Romania using marine controlled source electromagnetics
 
Michael Nole, University of Texas at Austin, USA, The impact of flow focusing on gas hydrate accumulations in overpressured marine sediments
 
Joana Gafeira, British Geological Survey; UK, Semi-automated mapping and characterisation of seabed pockmarks
 
Sutieng Ho Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, TW, Pockmarks above buried reservoirs: how structural heterogeneity in sediment cover govern gas leakage
 
Kate Alyse Waghorn, CAGE- Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO, Origins and driving mechanisms for shallow methane accumulations on the Svyatogor Ridge, Fram Strait
12:30–13:30
Lunch
13:30–14:10
GEOPHYSICS for gas hydrate and fluid flow prospecting – Oral Chair: Sutieng Ho
 
Andreia Plaza-Faverola, CAGE- Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO, Tectonic stress modeling can explain seafloor seepage of the West-Svalbard margin
 
Angus Best,National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, UK, Methane gas and hydrate morphology effects on seismic wave attenuation in seafloor sediments.
14:10–15:30
MODELING gas hydrate formation and gas release – Oral Chair: Peter Kannberg
 
Alberto Malinverno, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, USA, Modeling the formation of methane hydrate-bearing intervals in fine-grained sediments
 
Liang-Kai Chu, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, TW, Using Ethanol as a Kinetic Promoter for Methane Hydrate Formation
 
Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta, CAGE – Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT- The Arctic University of Norway, NO, Impact of future methane emissions from gas hydrate dissociation in the Arctic
 
Leonid Yurganov, UMBC, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, NASA-GSFC, USA, Atmospheric methane over the Arctic Ocean: Thermal IR satellite data, VIA SKYPE!
15:30–16:00
Coffee break
16:00–17:00
GEOPHYSICS / MODELING poster session Chairs: Rui Yang and Alberto Malinverno
17:00–18:00
GEOPHYSICS / MODELING poster discussion Chairs: Rui Yang and Alberto Malinverno
GEOPHYSICS – Posters
 
Solidad García-Gil, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, ES, Seabed fluid migration structures in the northwest Iberia margin (North Atlantic Ocean)
 
Víctor Cartelle Álvarez, University of Vigo, ES, Contextualization of gas-bearing sediments in the shallowest areas of the Galician margin: results from the Ría de Ferrol (NW Spain)
 
Win-Bin Cheng, Jinwen University of Science & Technology, TW, Determination of Fracture Distribution on the Accretionary Prism off Southwest Taiwan Seismic Using Ocean Bottom Seismometers and shear-wave splitting analysis
 
Anke Dannowski, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, FRG, High resolution shear wave modelling of OBS data in a gas hydrate environment in the Danube deep-sea fan, Black Sea
 
Peter Franek, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT The Arctic University of NorwayNatural gas leakage on the western Svalbard continental margin as a source of microseismic activity
 
Jess Hillman, The Ohio State University, USA /GEOMAR, FRG/USA, Determining gas hydrate distribution in sands using integrated analysis of well log and seismic data in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico.
 
Huai-Houh Hsu, Chienkuo Technology University, TW, Submarine Velocity Structure and Slope Stability Assessment
 
Jens Karstens, Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, NO, The impact of sedimentation and erosion on gas hydrate dynamics during and after glaciations on the Norwegian continental shelf
 
Boris Katsnelson, L. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, IL, Acoustic characterization of gassy sediment in shallow water. Lake Kinneret as a case study
 
Ingo Klaucke, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, FRG, On the response of mud volcano morphology and backscatter pattern to fluid content of the expulsed mud: examples from the Sorokin Trough offshore Crimea, Black Sea
 
Urmi Majumdar, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, USA, The Role of Bottom Simulating Reflectors in Gas Hydrate Assessment
 
Nils-Axel Mörner, Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics, Department at Stockholm, SE, Methane venting and methane venting tectonics
 
Anatoly Obzhirov, V.I.I’lichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Vladivostok, RU, Gas hydrate is indicator of active zones faults and oil-gas deposit.
 
Emilia Piasecka, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO, Glacitectonically formed hill-hole pairs associated with shallow gas accumulations and fluid flow in Nordkappbanken, southern Barents Sea.
 
Sverre Planke, Volcanic Basin Petroleum Research, Oslo, NO, P-Cable high resolution 3D seismic technology and seabed sampling: new tools for mapping and understanding sub-surface fluid flow in the Barents Sea
 
Katrin Schwalenberg, BGR - Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, FRG, Geophysical signatures of methane seepage and gas hydrate formation at Opouawe Bank, Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand
 
Sunny Singhroha, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT- The Arctic University of Norway, NO, High-resolution seismic velocity analysis of multicomponent OBS data in gas hydrate saturated sediments of Vestnesa Ridge, western Svalbard margin
 
Malin Waage, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO, Structural controlled fluid flow migration beneath giant craters and associated pingos in the Western Barents Sea
 
Rui Yang, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN, Calculation of Depth about Base of Gas Hydrate Stability Zone in Northern Slope of South China Sea
MODELING – Posters
 
Yen-An Chen, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, TW, Determination of the Diffusion Coefficients of Methane in Water/Brine at 100 bar
 
Katja Heeschen GFZ - German Research Centre for Geosciences, FRG, An approach on the effect of mineral compositions on the kinetics of methane hydrate formation
 
Elke Kossel, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, FRG, Experimental investigation of water permeability in quartz sand as function of gas hydrate saturation
 
Matt O’Regan, Stockholm University, SE, Modelling of climate warming-induced methane gas escape from the seafloor - the importance of dynamic multi-phase flow representation
 
Li Wei, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, USA, A 1D mass balance model for the formation of gas hydrate in marine sequences
Tuesday 20th September
08:00–08:40
Keynote speaker
 
Gerald R. Dickens, Department of Earth Science, Rice University, USA., Controls on the Distribution and Release of Methane on Continental Slopes.
08:40–10:00
REGIONAL studies on gas hydrate and fluid emissions – Oral Chair: Soledad García-Gil
 
Karin Andreassen, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO, Massive gas release from Arctic petroleum provinces formed seabed craters after ice sheet retreat
 
Henry Patton, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, The impact of ice-sheet glaciation on gas-hydrate stability across the Eurasian Arctic
 
Stephanie Dupre, IFREMER - French Research Institute for the Exploration of the Sea, FR, Fluid emissions in the Sea of Marmara: distribution, controls and impacts
 
Luis Somoza, Geological Survey of Spain (IGME), Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, ES, Are buried hydrothermal systems fuelling sub-seafloor gas hydrate mounds in deepwater sub-polar oceanic basins?: Examples from the Scotia and Weddell Sea, Antarctica.
10:00–10:30
Coffee break
10:30–12:30
REGIONAL studies on gas hydrate and fluid emissions – Oral Chair: Stephanie Dupre
 
Soledad García-Gil, University of Vigo, ES, Shallow Gas System in the Galician Rias (NW Spain): Factors of control
 
Shu-Kun Hsu, Department of Earth Sciences, National Central University, Taiwan, TW, General character and distribution of seabed gas emissions off SW Taiwan
 
Romain Jatiault, University of Perpignan and TOTAL, FR, Morphologic and sub‐bottom characteristics of active thermogenic seeps in the Lower Congo basin
 
Regina Katsman, University of Haifa, IL, Methane bubble ascent within shallow muddy aquatic sediments: dynamics and controlling factors
 
Christian Hensen, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung, FRG, FLOWS: Fluid Flow and Seismicity at Transform-Type Plate Boundaries (EU-COST project ES1301)
12:30–13:30
Lunch
13:30–17:30
Tour
18:00–21:00
Banquet – Artist: Durmål
Wednesday 21st September
08:00–08:40
Keynote speaker
 
Antoine Cremiere, Norwegian Geological Survey and CAGE at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO, The influence of grounded ice-sheets on gas hydrates and fluid migration
08:40–10:00
GEOCHEMISTRY of fluid environments – Oral Chair: Rossella Capozzi
 
Catherine Pierre, UPMC-LOCEAN, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, FR, Methane seepage and groundwater discharge on the Aquitaine Shelf and New Jersey Margin as recorded by silica and carbonate cementation of sub-seafloor sediments.
 
Natalia Martínez-Carreño, University of Vigo, ES, Geochemical and geological factors controlling the spatial distribution of sulfate-methane transition zone in the Ría de Vigo (NW Spain)
 
Matthias Haeckel, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, FRG, Methane seepage induced clay mineral diagenesis
10:00–10:30
Coffee break
10:30–11:50
GEOCHEMISTRY of fluid environments – Oral Chair: Ian R. MacDonald
 
Pavel Serov, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Deglaciation-driven methane release developing gas hydrate pingos at Storfjordrenna Trough, Svalbard
 
Martin Blumenberg, BGRFederal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, FRG, “Adsorbed" Gases Revisited – A tool for a better understanding of the geology of the Northern Barents Sea?
 
Simone Sauer, Geological Survey of Norway and CAGE at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, NO, Sources and turnover of organic carbon and methane in fjord and shelf sediments off northern Norway
 
Jean-Philippe Blouet, University of Fribourg, CH, Natural gas shale fracturing recorded by seep carbonate paragenesis
11:50–12:30
BIOLOGICAL, microbiological and biogeochemical processes at seep environments – Oral Chair: Shu-Kun Hsu
 
Helge Niemann, University of Basel, CH and CAGE at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO / FRG, Environmental controls on aerobic methane oxidation in coastal waters
 
Haoyi Yao, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT- The Arctic University of Norway, Fracture controlled fluid transport induced microbial activities in Vestnesa Ridge
12:30–13:30
Lunch
13:30–15:30
BIOLOGICAL, microbiological and biogeochemical processes at seep environments – Oral Chair: Joana Gafeira
 
Emmelie Åström, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO, Sub-seabed methane emissions influences infaunal and megafaunal community structure at Vestnesa cold seep, 79N°
 
Mei-Chin Lai, Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, TW, Deep sea methane base ecosystem offshore SW Taiwan
 
Luis Somoza, Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), ES, Mapping seafloor features and benthic habitats in mud volcanoes of the Moroccan margin of the Gulf of Cádiz using ROV underwater images
 
Alexey Krylov, St. Petersburg State University, VNIIOkeangeologia, RU, Authigenic carbonates in the Gas Hydrates-bearing structures of the Lake Baikal
 
Rossella Capozzi, University of Bologna, IT, Controls on stable isotope signatures in Methane-Derived Authigenic Carbonates: examples from the Northern Apennines, Italy
 
Diana Sahy, British Geological Survey, UK, U-Th dating of methane emissions on the Northern US Atlantic margin
15:30–16:00
Coffee break
16:00–17:00
REGIONAL / GEOCHEMISTRY / BIOLOGY poster session Chairs: Helge Niemann and Catherine Pierre
17:00–18:00
REGIONAL / GEOCHEMISTRY / BIOLOGY poster discussion Chairs: Helge Niemann and Catherine Pierre
 
REGIONAL – Poster
 
Ewa Burwicz-Galerne, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, FRG, 3D basin-scale modeling of a natural gas hydrate system at the Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico
 
Joana Gafeira, British Geological Survey, UK, Evidence of Gas in Marine Sediments, offshore UK
 
Akihiro Hachikubo, Kitami Institute of Technology, JP, Hydrate-bound thermogenic methane retrieved at the Tatar Trough, off southwestern Sakhalin Island
 
Akihiro Hachikubo, Kitami Institute of Technology, JP, Natural gas hydrates retrieved off Abashiri (eastern Hokkaido), the Sea of Okhotsk
 
Wei-Li Hong, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Production, consumption, and migration of methane in offshore southwestern Taiwan
 
Oleg Khlystov, Limnological Institute SB RAS, RUS, Distribution pattern of hydrate-bearing structures in Lake Baikal
 
Simon Müller, BGR - Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, FRG, Shallow Gas in the German North Sea – Origin, Migration and Reservoir Architecture
 
Anastasiia Semenova, All Russian Research Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean, RU, Mapping of Gas Hydrate Stability Zone within the Arctic seas offshore Russia
 
Ming Su, Key Laboratory of Gas Hydrate, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN, Reconciling some ideas on stratigraphic correlation to understanding the occurrence of gas hydrates in the Shenhu Area, northern continental slope of the South China Sea
 
Umberta Tinivella, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale – OGS, IT, Gas Hydrate in the South Shetland Margin, Offshore Antarctic Peninsula: A review of two decades of studies
 
GEOCHEMISTRY - Poster
 
Akihiro Hachikubo, Kitami Institute of Technology, JP, Double structure gas hydrates discovered at the southern basin of Lake Baikal
 
Wei-Li Hong, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Fluid geochemistry from a shallow water gas hydrate pingo field south of Svalbard: the role of gas hydrate in fluid transport
 
Guillaume Michel, IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, FR, Biogenic methane leakage on the Aquitaine Shelf: fluid system characterization from source to emission.
 
Hirotsugu Minami, Kitami Institute of Technology, JP, Geochemical feature of pore waters from gas hydrate-bearing sediment cores retrieved at Tatarsky Trough off Sakhalin Island, Russia
 
Tatiana Pogodaeva, Limnological Institute SB RAS, RUS, Chemical in and outflow at the Krasny Yar methane seep in Lake Baikal
 
Soledad García-Gil, University of Vigo , ES, Iron and methane redox processes in pore water sediments of the Ría de Vigo (NW, Spain)
 
BIOLOGY– Poster
 
Song-Chuen Chen, Central Geological Survey, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan, TW, Chemosynthetic communities and authigenic carbonates in the cold seep area of the Palm Ridge off southwest Taiwan
 
Stephanie Dupre, IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, FRG, The Aquitaine Shelf edge (Bay of Biscay): an outlet for microbial methane release
 
Sutieng Ho, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, TW, First direct evidence of methane gas conduit formed along endobenthic burrow
 
Oleg Khlystov, Limnological Institute SB RAS, RUS, Diversity of Archaea and their Participation in Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane in Bottom Sediments of the Discharge Areas with Oil- and Gas-Bearing Fluids of Lake Baikal
Thursday 22nd September
08:00–08:40
Keynote speaker
 
Patrice Imbert, Total, Pau, FR, Methane seepage, from dispersed to focused: a multi-scale continuum
08:40–09:30
MUD volcanoes and pockmarks – Oral Chair: Angus Best
 
Oleg Khlystov, Limnological Institute SB RAS, RUS, Gas source and formation depth of mud volcanoes in Lake Baikal
 
Matthieu Dupuis, Université de Lille, FR, The Ayaz-Akhtarma mud volcano: an actively growing mud pie in the foothills of the Greater Caucasus, Azerbaijan
 
Markus Loher, MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and University of Bremen, FRG, Deep-seated fluid seepage at the Venere mud volcano, Calabrian accretionary wedge
09:30–10:30
Coffee break
10:30–11:30
MUD volcanoes and pockmarks – Oral Chair: Patrice Imbert
 
Arunima Sen, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway /IFREMER, FR, Fauna and habitat types in the turbidity current driven Congo deep-sea fan lobes
 
Tatiana Matveeva, VNIIOkeangeologia, RUS, Mud Volcano Gas Hydrate-Bearing Province of the Gulf of Cadiz - Multi-Disciplinary Investigations
 
Shyam Chand, Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) and CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO, Long term fluid expulsion revealed by pockmarks, gas flares and carbonate crust connected to present and palaeo channels from central North Sea
11:30–12:00
BIOLOGY / TECHNOLOGY poster discussion Chair: Tatiana Matveeva and Markus Loher
12:00–12:30
BIOLOGY / TECHNOLOGY poster discussion Chair: Tatiana Matveeva and Markus Loher
 
BIOLOGY – Poster
 
Olga Pavlova, Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RUS, Microbial communities in bottom sediments of Lake Baikal and their role in the early hydrocarbon generation
 
Andrea Schneider, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO, Records of past methane seepage from the Vestnesa Ridge (79°N)
 
Emmelie Åström, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO, Arctic cold seeps in marine methane hydrate environments: impacts on shelf macrobenthic community structure offshore Svalbard
 
TECHNOLOGY – Poster
 
Joana Gafeira, British Geological Survey, UK, Scanner pockmark – 33 years on
 
Arunima Sen, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, NO, Exploring Arctic cold seeps with photomosaics and GIS
 
Haoyi Yao, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, First Results from the Stable Isotope Laboratory at UiT
 
Sutieng Ho, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, TW, The impermeability of “polygonal faults" evidenced by the geometry of Linear Chimneys
 
Jeffrey Poort, Sorbonne Universities, FR, Fluid migrations at different scales in gas hydrate-rich seeps and mud volcanoes of Lake Baikal
 
Romain Jatiault, University of Perpignan and TOTAL, FR, Natural thermogenic seepage location and dynamics from the tasking of SAR scenes and current measurements in the Lower Congo Basin
12:30–13:30
Lunch
13:30–15:10
SEAFLOOR gas emissions and detection – Oral Chair: Jurgen Mienert
 
John Pohlman, US Geological Survey, USA, A test of the ‘Seep Fertilization Hypothesis’ on the western Svalbard margin
 
Pär Jansson, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Variability of free gas emissions, inferred from repeated hydroacoustic surveys on the Arctic shelf margin west of Svalbard
 
Benedicte Ferre, CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, NO, Autonomous seabed platforms to monitor Arctic gas hydrate and methane release systems - Technology development in cooperation with industry
 
Asrar Talukder, CSIRO Energy, AU, Submarine natural seepage along sandy carbonate margins, North West Shelf, Australia
 
Carsten Frank, Kongsberg Maritime Embient GmbH, NO / FRG, Gas seepage detection and monitoring by horizontal imaging with a multibeam sonar installed on a stationary lander platform.
15:10–15:40
Coffee break
15:40–16:30
General Assembly
16:30–17:00
Closing

Venue

GIMS 13 will take place at Scandic Ishavshotel in the city centre of Tromsø.