The Training Course on Marine Radiochemistry will be hosted by the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, China from June 8 to 10, 2016.

The purpose of this course is to train graduate students and professionals who are interested in or will pursue radiochemistry research and management.

The first announcement for this training course is attached. Please circulate the information among your colleagues who may be interested.

InterRidge decided to host a special issue “Magmatic and Tectonics Process, Seabed Resource in the Mid-Ocean Ridge” on Marine Geophysical Research.

During the third InterRidge Theoretical Insitute, each poster presentation was given 5 minutes to present his/her work orally. The presentations are scored by the senior scientists according to their poster, oral presentation and scientific accievements. 3 students wins the "best student presentation award" in the third interridge theoretical Institute.  They are

Mr. Masakazu FUJII from University of Tokyo, Japan

France wins the bid to host the next InterRidge Office, 2016 - 2018 during the 2015 InterRidge StComm Meeting held on 28th September, 2015 in Hangzhou. Professors Jérôme Dyment (IPGP and CNRS, Paris, France) and Nadine LeBris (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France) will team up to lead of the new InterRidge office during 2016-2018. Congratulations to France.

The third InterRidge Theoretical Institute have successfully ended on 27^th September, 2015 after three days gathering. About 150 scientists from France, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, USA, Germany, Portugal and China attended this events. 27 oral talks and 38 posters are presented during this event. Dr. Jian Lin from led the discussion on the summary of IRTI Recommendations. Progress have been made towards enhanced international deep-ocean exploration and networking of young scientists. 3 students have been selected by senior scientists to be awarded the “best student presentation awards.”

The InterRidge Vents Database (http://vents-data.interridge.org/) has been upgraded and revised with the addition of 94 new listings. Most of these new listings were discovered in the past five years.

各位同行：

The agenda for the Theoretical Institute is available on line at

http://www.interridge.org/IRTI_agenda

and the Poster Number can be find at

http://www.interridge.org/posters.

Instructions:

Oral presentations

Each speaker will be given 30 mins for the presentation, including 20-35min talk and 5-10min questions.

Poster presentations

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)