Returning to the University of Leicester for the fifth year, the ECORD Summer School: Downhole Logging for IODP Science focuses on downhole-logging within the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and the applications of downhole measurements in various geoscientific fields, including paleoclimatology, sedimentology, and broader geological and ecological processes.

Workshop to develop an IODP preliminary proposal to investigate the early evolution of back-arc basins by drilling in the Havre Trough, 10-11 March 2020

The following sessions may be of interest to the InterRidge community at the Goldschmit Conference (https://goldschmidt.info/2020/) in Honolulu, Hawai'i, 21-26 June 2020. Please submit your abstracts before the deadline of 14 February 2020 (23:59 HST).

Please feel free to contact the IR Coordinator to advertise any other session of interest to the IR community.

Year 2019 has been very active for InterRidge, with the organization of three workshops (Workshop on Integrated Multidisciplinary Observations in Vent Environments – IMOVE, in Bergen, Norway; Workshop on Hydrothermal Ore-forming Processes and the Fate of Seafloor Massive Sulfides Deposits along Slow and Ultraslow Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridges, in Hangzhou, China; Workshop on Seamounts and Islands Associated With Mid-Ocean Ridges, in Lisbon, Portugal) and the Theoretical Institute "Hydrothermalism in 4D: current challenges and emer

An international workshop DriMMLOC “Drilling the Mantle, Moho and Lower Oceanic Crust” will be held on 7-9 May 2020 at Tongji University in Shanghai (China). The workshop will present the latest developments across a broad spectrum of earth science disciplines, including tectonics, geophysics, petrology and biogeochemistry to address the main question of how do the styles of formation of the oceanic lithosphere vary with spreading rate and magma supply, and how do these influence hydrothermal alteration and microbial activity.

The SCOR Committee on Capacity Building is in the process of evaluating applications for the 2020 class of SCOR Visiting Scholars. As usual, we have more good applications than the funds available. We should be able to support 5 Visiting Scholars in 2020 from traditional sources. For the past several years, we have supported part of a sixth Visiting Scholar through crowdfunding.

The following sessions of interest for the InterRidge community will be organized at the EGU (European Geosciences Union) 2020 General Assembly in Vienna on 3-8 May 2020. Plese submit your abstracts before the 15 January 2020 at 13:00 CET.

Session TS8.1

Oceanic and continental transform faults: towards a multi-disciplinary approach

Webinar hosted by the STRONG High Seas project: Marine Genetic Resources: Building Capacities for Ocean Governance

17 December 2019 at 4 pm – 5.30 pm (CET / UTC +1)

ECORD Training Course 2020

20 - 24 April 2020 at the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the IODP Bremen Core Repository (BCR), University of Bremen, Germany.

The Training Course

InterRidge Theoretical Institute 2019 'Hydrothermalism in 4D: current challenges and emerging issues'

Dates: 18-21/11/2019 Location: Banyuls-sur-mer, France

Final version of the meeting agenda and poster abstracts.

The application period is now open for the 2020 SCOR Visiting Scholars Program. Applications are due by 1 December 2020 and selections will be made by the SCOR Committee on Capacity Building by 1 January 2020.

Application forms and instructions can be found here.

HACON (Hot Vents in an Ice-Covered Ocean) is the first full-scale multidisciplinary investigation of deep (4000 m) hydrothermal vents under permanent ice cover in the Arctic, investigating the Aurora vent field (82.5°N) in the Gakkel Ridge. The expedition is organized between 19 September and 16 October 2019 on board R/V Kronprins Haakon. Follow the HACON expedition.