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InterRidge Email 01/2014 (13 January 2014)
1. InterRidge Info
1.1. Launch of 2014 InterRidge and ISA Student and Postdoctoral Fellowships, $5000
2. Upcoming events
2.1. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014
2.2. 3rd World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (WCMB-2014) will be held from October 12-16, 2014 in Qingdao, China with the theme of 'Life in the Changing Ocean'
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1. InterRidge Info
1.2. Launch of 2014 InterRidge and ISA Student and Postdoctoral Fellowships, $5000
The InterRidge Office is pleased to announce the launch of the 2014 Student and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. As part of InterRidge’s mission to promote international, collaborative, and interdisciplinary studies of oceanic spreading centres, we invite proposals for InterRidge Student and Postdoctoral Fellowships of up to $5000 US each.
We expect to offer a number of Fellowships in 2014. Those funded by InterRidge are open to graduate students or postdocs from any nation. There are also three Fellowships being funded by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) Endowment Fund, with the requirement that the graduate student or postdoc is either from a developing country or will assist in training those of a developing country.
Deadline: 31 March 2014
Further details: http://www.interridge.org/fellowship/2014
Email: coordinator@interridge.org
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2. Upcoming events
2.1. European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014
The EGU General Assembly 2014 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences. For the first time, in 2014, the EGU General Assembly will have a theme!
Reminder: the deadline for abstract submitting is 16 January 2014, 13:00 CET
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2.2 3rd World Conference on Marine Biodiversity (WCMB-2014) will be held from October 12-16, 2014 in Qingdao, China with the theme of 'Life in the Changing Ocean'
WCMB-2014 will take the form of keynote lectures, oral presentations, posters and exhibitions. It will cover topics from recent breakthroughs in Marine Biodiversity. WCMB-2014 will continue to provide a platform for marine scientists to debate on the issues affecting the progress of this emerging field and identify the challenges and opportunities facing the development of marine biodiversity.
there will be six themes
Marine Biodiversity & Global change
Marine Ecosystem Structure & Function
Marine Ecosystem Safety
Marine Biological Observation
Marine Biological Resources
Deep sea Biodiversity
SESSION PROPOSAL deadline has been extended to 31st Jan 2014
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InterRidge Email 02/2014 (27 January 2014)
1. InterRidge Info
1.1. Greetings to Our Chinese Colleagues
1.2. The 2013 InterRidge News published online
1.3. 2014 InterRidge and ISA Student and Postdoctoral Fellowships,Reminder
2. Upcoming events
2.1.Lyell Meeting 2014: Deep sea chemosynthetic ecosystems: where they are found, how they work and what they looked like in the geological past.
2.2 Goldschmidt 2014 (Abstract deadline 8th February)
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1. InterRidge Info
1.1. Greetings to Our Chinese Colleagues
The Spring Festival(Chinese new year) is approaching. The InterRidge office would like to send our warmest greeting to our Chinese Colleagues. Wish you have a prosperous Horse Year!! Our office will be closed from 31 Jan through 06 Feb for the spring festival.
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1.2 The 2013 InterRidge News published online
The 2013 InterRidge News published online at http://www.interridge.org/files/interridge/IR_News2013.pdf. The hard copy is under production and will be send out later. If you didn't receive the hard copy in 202 but requrie a hard copy this year, please send us your mailing address by Feb 25, 2014.
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1.3. 2014 InterRidge and ISA Student and Postdoctoral Fellowships, Reminder
This is a reminder of the 2014 Student and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme. As part of InterRidge’s mission to promote international, collaborative, and interdisciplinary studies of oceanic spreading centres, we invite proposals for InterRidge Student and Postdoctoral Fellowships of up to $5000 US each.
We expect to offer a number of Fellowships in 2014. Those funded by InterRidge are open to graduate students or postdocs from any nation. There are also three Fellowships being funded by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) Endowment Fund, with the requirement that the graduate student or postdoc is either from a developing country or will assist in training those of a developing country.
Deadline: 31 March 2014
Further details: http://www.interridge.org/fellowship/2014
Email: coordinator@interridge.org
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2. Upcoming events
2.1 Lyell Meeting 2014: Deep sea chemosynthetic ecosystems: where they are found, how they work and what they looked like in the geological past.
Date: 12 March 2014
Venue: The Geological Society, Burlington House, London
Web: www.geolsoc.org.uk/lyell14
The Lyell meeting 2014 will bring together geologists, marine biologists and ecologists, palaeontologists and geomicrobiologists to highlight recent achievements in our understanding of chemosynthetic ecosystems, past and present. We will explore the complex relationships between geology and life at these sites; details of chemosymbiotic animal-microbial interactions; and how and when animals adapted to life in these extreme environments. Finally, recent hypotheses about the existence of similar ecosystems on other Solar System planets will be presented.
Conveners:
Silvia Danise (Plymouth University) and Crispin Little (University of Leeds)
Invited Speakers:
Jonathan Copley (University of Southampton) Orbis non sufficit: going beyond biogeography in understanding the ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
Nadine Le Bris (Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, France) Intimate links between chemosynthetic fauna and their chemical environment: a microhabitat perspective.
Richard Herrington (Natural History Museum) The economic importance of modern seafloor massive sulphide deposits and their ancient analogues.
Marina Cunha (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal) Ecology and biogeography of cold seep fauna, with insights from the Northeast Atlantic.
Jörn Peckmann (Universität Wien, Austria) Biogeochemical processes at ancient and modern methane-seeps.
Jillian Petersen (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany) Chemosynthetic symbioses at vents and seeps: Tapping dark energy in the deep sea.
John Taylor (Natural History Museum) Chemosymbiotic bivalves from the intertidal to deep sea - multiple origins, diversity and evolution.
Adrian Glover (Natural History Museum) Chemosynthesis at whale-falls and their role in driving the speciation and evolution of annelids in the deep sea.
Steffen Kiel (Universität Göttingen, Germany) Chemosynthetic ecosystems through Earth history.
Monica Grady (The Open University) Astrobiological implications of chemosynthesis and the possibility of life beyond the Earth.
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2.2 Goldschmidt 2014 (Abstract deadline 8th February)
The Californian Goldschmidt will take place in Sacramento between June 8th and June 13th, 2014. Goldschmidt2014 will follow the pattern established for the recent Goldschmidt conferences, and should be the prime forum for all recent developments in Geochemistry and related fields.
Session 05b: Magma Generation/Evolution and Oceanic Crust Formation at Mid-Ocean Ridges and Interoceanic Arcs
Magmatism in the ocean basins is responsible for forming the igneous crust of two-thirds of Earth's surface and for a significant portion of mass and heat transfer from the mantle into the oceanic crust and oceans. Petrologic, geochemical, geochronological and geophysical studies of oceanic magmas at a range of spatial and temporal scales (from single eruptions to volcano-scale sampling) in both extrusive and intrusive sections (e.g., by drilling and in ophiolites) have revealed the operation of a wide range of magmatic processes. This session will investigate the latest results to inform our understanding of how the full range of these processes and conditions act to control oceanic magmatism at spreading centers and arcs (including mantle melting style and depth, mantle fluids and metasomatism, melt-rock reactions in the mantle and crust, and eruption of magmas or entrapment as plutons). The session welcomes contributions from petrological, geochemical, geochronological, geophysical, experimental and modeling studies of igneous processes and oceanic crust formation in modern and ancient oceanic settings.
convenors: Ken Rubin, Laurence Coogan, Yaoling Niu
keynote: Susumu Umino (Kanazawa University)
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InterRidge Email 03/2014 (10 Feburary 2014)
1. InterRidge Info
1.1 Cruise Berth Available
2. Education and Outreach
2.1 Marine Conservation Summer Institute, July 7 - August 8, 2014
2.2 Announcement for the ClimEco4 summer school
3. Jobs and Fellowships
3.1 Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Geology at the University of Manchester
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1. InterRidge Info
1.1 Cruise Berth Available
Dr Jo Whittaker offered a berth to an early-career scientist on board a scientific voyage for which she is Chief Scientist. The voyage will map oceanic and continental crust of the Perth Abyssal Plain, offshore western Australia, from the 4th October 2014 to 8th November 2014. One of the aims of the voyage is to investigate where extinct MOR is located in the Perth Abyssal Plain, and also to collect a range of geological and geophysical data across the Gulden Draak Knoll, which we identified to be a continental fragment (during an earlier cruise in 2011) that?rifted from India, most likely as the result of a ridge jump facilitated by the Kerguelen Plume. The voyage will take place on board Australia's new Marine National Facility vessel, the RV Investigator. Please let me know if InterRidge would be happy to support the participation of an early career researcher as part of your Cruise Travel Bursaries.Please contact Dr Whittaker(jo.whittaker at utas.edu.au) for details.
2. Education and Outreach
2.1 Marine Conservation Summer Institute, July 7 - August 8, 2014
The Marine Conservation Summer Institute will immerse students in the world of marine conservation biology and policy, giving them a set of basic tools for addressing and understanding issues of conserving marine biodiversity in the context of 21st Century society and the ‘anthropocene’ epoch. The Institute is set in the vibrant educational and research setting of the Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina.
The five-week course consists of three weeks of plenary lectures, field trips and activities, and two intensive week-long modules intertwined in weeks two and four and led by experts in the field. Plenary weeks and modules will be focused on hands-on, team-based, experiential learning with meaningful faculty-student engagement that are hallmarks of the educational environment at the Marine Laboratory. Students will be in the field and at the discussion table, learning the basic tools of conservation biology and policy in the plenary weeks and delving deeply into special topics with experts during the module weeks.
Modules for 2014 are:
1) Deep Sea Conservation (Van Dover) & International Oceans Law (Kraska)
2) Conservation of Marine Mammals & Sea Turtles (Read) & Domestic Oceans Law (Roady)
Full details: http://nicholas.duke.edu/marinelab/programs/mcsi
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2.2 Announcement for the ClimEco4 summer school
The focus will be Delineating the issues of climate change and impacts to marine ecosystems: Bridging the gap between research, assessment, policy and management.
If you are a student or early-career researcher interested in?the impact of global change on?marine ecosystems and the human populations that depend on them, then this is the summer school for you!
- ClimEco4 will provide the opportunity to learn about:
- Climate pressures on marine systems from a bio-physical and human perspective
- Modelling complex systems
- Data access and analysis?Indicators - how they can be used to evaluate marine ecosystems, how to construct them (for process/observation scientists), how to use them (modellers from natural and social sciences), and how to ?combine them for policy and decision-making.
Daily hands on sessions will allow you to work with databases (bring your own if you have one), indicators and models, applying the concepts covered in the lectures.
Additional information can be found on the summer school website, including how to apply (before 15 March 2014) – go to: http://www.imber.info/index.php/Early-Career/IMBER-Summer-Schools/ClimEco4-August-2014-Shanghai-China
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3. Jobs and Fellowships
3.1 Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Geology at the University of Manchester
The University of Manchester has two full time job opertunities in Geology. The closing date for application is 28/02/2014. Full details: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/world-leadingminds/displayjob.aspx?jobid=7317
http://www.interridge.org/node/17134
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The next e-news will be sent on Monday 24 Feb 2014
All items for inclusion should be sent to the IR Office by the end of Friday 21 Feb 2014.
Contact: Zengxi Ge: coordinator@interridge.org
