Objective: Our Working Group's first objective is to strengthen the scientific exchange between chemists, biogeochemists, geochemists, and microbial ecologists thereby gaining a better understanding of the interplay between biotic and abiotic processes in hydrothermal environments.
Chair - Nadine Le Bris (IFREMER)
Group Members - Antje Boetius (Max Planck Institute für Marine Mikrobiologie); Margaret K. Tivey (WHOI); George W. Luther III (University of Delaware); Christopher R. German (WHOI); Frank Wenzhöfer (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology); Jean-Luc Charlou (IFREMER); William E. Seyfried Jr (University of Minnesota); Danielle Fortin (University of Ottawa); F. Grant Ferris (University of Toronto); Ken Takai (JAMSTEC), John A. Baross (University of Washington), Huaiyang Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences), & Y.V.B. Sarma (National Institute of Oceanography, India)
InterRidge Theoretical Institute ‘Biogeochemical interaction at deep-sea vents’
IRTI 2007 Workshop Report (PDF, 614KB)
Agenda
Working Group Participants
Abstracts
Introduction
The goal of this Theoretical Institute was to encourage multidisciplinary convergence in the study of interactions occurring at deep-sea vent sites between the biological and chemical components of the environment, and to increase collaborative efforts to develop new techniques for making key measurements to achieve this goal. The InterRidge Theoretical Institute was held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and was comprised of two parts: 2 days of Short Courses and Advanced Lectures; and 3 days of Workshops.
