The abstracts of the InterRidge Theoretical Institute is online now! You can access them by clicking

http://www.interridge.org/irtiabstracts

The deadline to submit an abstract has been extended to 18 September, 2015

InterRidge and KOPRI (Korea Polar Research Institute) are hosting the second Circum-Antarctic Ridges Workshop at Songo, Incheon, South Korea, during October 12 – 15, 2015.

More information is available at https://ircar.kopri.re.kr

Conveners Sung-Hyun Park (Korea Polar Research Institute)

Seung-Sep Kim (Chungnam National University, Korea)

The meeting will be held in The HNA Resort Huagang Hangzhou, Yang Gong causeway NO.1, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Hotel rooms have been block booked in the same hotel. 

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Mapping the oceans: co-ordinating seabed and habitat mapping for maritime spatial planning. 

Session ID#: 9526

Session Description:

Globally it is estimated that hydrographic maps are available for only 5% of the world’s oceans, even less of which have been mapped geologically or to identify benthic habitats. 

国际大洋中脊协会(http://www.interridge.org)指导委员会诚邀您参加2015年9月25-27日在杭州举行的第三届国际大洋中脊理论讲习班，讲习班的主题是国际大洋中脊协会第三个十年规划(http://www.interridge.org/thirddecade)中的前两项主题，即“大洋中脊的岩浆和构造过程及海底资源”。讲习班的主要目的是总结上一个十年规划中国际上的主要研究进展，讨论未来新的研究方向，并借此推动第三个十年规划所倡导的国际合作。讲习班将邀请国际知名科学家做主题发言，并欢迎广大从事洋中脊相关工作的科学家参与讲习班。此外，国际大洋中脊协会还将选出两名最佳学生报告人，颁发证书和奖金。

两个科学主题的召集人分别为:

主题一: 洋中脊岩浆和构造过程

      Dr. Jian Lin (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA), Co-Convener

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 -