http://www.asia.deepsea-mining-summit.com/

    Ventbase Version 3.3 is the present live site hosted by InterRidge. Version 3.3 launched on 26 May 2015 with two structural changes to the content type “vent field”: 1) we added an rdf:type to match to http://dbpedia.org/resource/Hydrothermal_vent, and 2) we added a database record field to link to the Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program volcano profile for those vent fields that are sub-features of these identified volcanic features.

We would like to thank our former coordinator, Dr Stace Beaulieu for helping maintain this database.

We are pleased to announce the 2nd InterRidge International Workshop on Circum-Antarctic
Ridge will be held at the Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) in Songdo, Incheon,
Republic of Korea during October 12-15, 2015.

website https://ircar.kopri.re.kr

Please see attachment for details.
International convener:
Sung-Hyun PARK(shpark314@kopri.re.kr), Seung-Sep Kim, Anne Briais, Jian Lin, Charles Langmuir, Nobukazu Seama and Chunchui Tao

7-9 December 2015
National Institute of Oceanography
Dona Paula, Goa, India

SCOR is focusing some activities on the Indian Ocean region in the period of 2015-2020, as part of the Second Indian Ocean Experiment. SCOR is co-sponsoring, with the International Oceanographic Commission and the government of India, a symposium in Goa during the week before the annual SCOR meeting (see http://www.IO50.incois.gov.in/).

Please refer to http://scor-int.org/SCOR_EC_2015.html for detail information.

A MOR session 20c at Goldschmidt 2015 is orginized in Prague (August
16-21) entitled “Fluxed and Stretched – Making New Crust” (part of Theme
20: Mantle to Crust). The session covers crustal formation at mid-ocean
ridges, continental rifts and arcs, and aims to examine the differences
and commonalities between crust-forming processes in these different
tectonic settings; the full session description is pasted below. We hope
to see you there as contributors and/or in the audience.

Keynote: Mike Perfit
Invited Speakers: Tyrone Rooney (on Afar), Julian Pearce (on Izu Bonin -

Chunhui Tao

Two students, Mederic Amman (University of Strasbourg, France) and Nina Jordan (University of Leicester, UK), are awarded the InterRidge Cruise Bursaries to participate the VESPAN Cruise in May-June 2015. The interRidge office would like to thank the PIs  Nick Mortimer and Martin Patriat for providing opportunity to students to gain first-hand experience on board. 

The Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans (POGO) is pleased to announce that the POGO-SCOR Visiting Fellowship programme for 2015 is now open for applications. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2015.

The InterRidge Office is calling proposals for 2015 fellowships. Please visit http://www.interridge.org/fellowship/2015 for details.

Abstract submission for the 2015 International Ocean Colour Science meeting is now open. The meeting will take place in San Francisco, California from 15 - 18 June 2015, and will be convened by the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) in partnership with, and thanks to sponsorship from NASA and NOAA, with additional sponsorship from EUMETSAT, ESA and CNES. On behalf of the Scientific Planning Committee, we encourage you to register, and to submit an abstract for a poster presentation (see http://iocs.ioccg.org/).

The EGU General Assembly 2015 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 geoscience.

Please refer to http://www.egu2015.eu/home.html for details

We would like to remind you that the deadline for 

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In January 2016 the InterRidge Office is due to rotate under the appointment of a new Chair. All interested Members of InterRidge are invited to submit bids to host the new office and nominations for the new Chair. The full call for bids is posted on the IR website: http://www.interridge.org/newofficebids

The following conditions apply:

EGU session on Seafloor Observatories OS4.7:Seafloor Observatories: Design, Results, and Integration Convener: Mairi Best | Co-Conveners: Robert Weller , Henry Ruhl , Jean-Francois Rolin , Martin Scherwath A growing number of seafloor observatories around the world provide power and communications for (near)-real-time monitoring of environmental processes across the geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere. A key strength of observatory design is its ability to address interdisciplinary objectives simultaneously across temporal and spatial scales.

Scientific Ocean Drilling in the Indian Ocean Crust & Mantle May 13th to 16th, 2015 in Woods Hole MA, USA

The workshop will bring together scientists interested in the Indian ocean lower crust and mantle