May 13th to 17th, 2015
Room 507, Clark Building，Woods Hole MA, USA
Day 1 Wednesday 13th
08:30 – 08:40 Henry Dick: Introduction and Workshop Objectives
Atlantis Bank Site Survey Data and Prior Results
08:40 – 09:10 Mathilde Cannat – the SW Indian Ridge
09:10 – 09:40 Jian Lin: Evolution of the SW Indian Ridge: Hotspot-ridge Interaction, Ridge Segmentation and Crustal Accretion
09:40 -10:10 Mike Cheadle: Regional Tectonic Setting of Atlantis Bank
10:10 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:00 Henry Dick: The Origin and Emplacement, of Atlantis Bank
11:00 – 11:30 Tim Minshull: Seismic Constraints on Crustal Structure at Atlantis Bank, VIA SKYPE
11:30 – 12:00 M. Tivey: Magnetic Survey of Atlantis Bank
12:00 – 12:30 Chris MacLeod – Local-scale Geology of Atlantis Bank: Constraints from Seabed Drilling
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Buffet Clark top floor)
13:30 – 14:00 Jack Casey: Correlation Between Core From Leg 179 Hole 1105A and Hole 735B Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge
14:00 – 14:30 Jim Natland: Results of Prior Exploration at Atlantis II Bank
14:30 – 15:00 Deans, Jeremy; Reoriented High Temperature Fabrics and Textures at Atlantis Bank, SWIR: Magmatic Emplacement and Lower Crustal Flow
15:00 – 15:30 Koepke, Juergen; Hydrothermal Activity Triggering Partial Melting in Gabbros from Slow-spreading Ridges
15:30 – 15:50 Break
15:50 – 16:20 Sanfilippo, Alessio; Troctolites from the Crust Mantle Boundary, Why Should We Go So Deep?
16:20 – 16:50 Rioux, Matthew; High-precision ID-TIMS U-Pb Dating of Zircons from Plutonic Crust from ODP Holes 735B and 1105A, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge
16:50 – 17:20 Beth Orcutt: What is known about Microbiology of Ocean Crust and Mantle
17:30 – 18:30 Reception (Top Floor Clark Laboratory)
18:30 Conference Dinner (Top Floor Clark Laboratory)
Day 2 Thursday 14th
8:30 – 9:00 Frieder Klein: Reaction Pathways and Hydrogen Generation During Serpentinization of Seafloor Serpentinite.
9:00 – 9:30 Matt Shrenk: Serpentinization, Carbon, and Deep Life
9:30 – 10:00 Pluemper, Oliver; Low-temperature Nanocatalysis of Abiogenic Methane during Peridotite Alteration
10:00 – 10:20 Break
10:20 – 10:50 Johnson, Kevin; Carbonation Reaction Experiments on Olivine-rich Basalt
10:50 – 11:20 David Smith: Challenges and Strategies for biogeochemical Sampling
11:20 – 11:50 Jennifer Biddle (V. Edgcomb) Challenges of working with low biomass samples
Drilling Objectives
11:50 – 12:10 Virginia Edgcomb* Biological Drilling Objectives
12:10 – 12:30 Benoit Ildefonse*: What are the Igneous Drilling Objectives
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Buffet Clark top floor)
13:30 – 13:50 Bobbie John*: What are the Tectonic Objectives of drilling
Model Site Surveys for SloMo Phase 1
13:50 – 14:20 Alastair Harding: High-resolution Seismic Imaging of a Gabbroic Section at Atlantis Massif, MAR
14:20– 14:50 Mladen Nedimovic: 3D MCS Imaging of Moho at the EPR
14:50 – 15:20 Rob Dunn: MARINER: A Multi-disciplinary Geophysical Study of a Non-transform Discontinuity and Ultramafic Massif, MAR – Rainbow Area
15:20 – 15:40 Break
Hole Siting
15:40 – 16:00 IODP/TAMU Engineers: Prior Drilling at Sites 735 and 1105
16:00 – 16:30 IODP/TAMU Engineers: Engineering a Deep Hole
16:30 – 17:00 LDEO Guerin, Gilles; Logging a Deep Hole in the Ocean Crust and Mantle
17:00 – 17:30 Henry Dick* Siting Hole AtBk 1
Dinner: Participants will be provided with a list of Falmouth Restaurants
Day 3 (Friday 15th)
8:30 – 9:00 Chris MacLeod*: Down-Hole Logging Plan
9:00 – 9:30 Virginia Edgecomb*: Biological Sampling
Survey Siting
9:30 – 10:00 Pablo Canales* SloMo Phase 1 Site Surveys
10:00 – 10:20 Break
10:20 – 10:50 Pablo Canales* SloMo Phase 1 Site Surveys -continued
*Discussion leader with short presentation
Science Planning
10:50 – 11:10 Benoit Ildefonse*: Shore Based Studies & Access to Samples
Contributed Talks
11:10 – 12:10 Mathilde Cannat, Drilling Proposal: The Easternmost Southwest Indian Ridge: A Melt-poor Natural Laboratory for the Study of Ridge Processes
12:10 – 12:30 Changgui Gao: Melt Extraction and Mantle Source at a Southwest Indian Ridge Amagmatic Segment on the Marion Rise
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (Buffet Clark top floor)
13:30 – 14:00 Marguerite Godard: Mantle Processes and Composition of the Oceanic Crust: Lessons from Drilling at Atlantis Massif and Hess Deep
14:00 – 14:30 Eric Ferre: Using Fabrics to Quantify Rheological Coupling at the Oceanic Crust-mantle Boundary
14:30 – 15:00 Tomoaki Morishita: Gondwanaland-mantle Beneath the Central Indian Ridge
15:00 – 15:30 Nebel, Oliver; In-situ Formation of Indian Mantle in Global Subduction Zones
15:30 – 15:50 Break
Dragon Flag Hydrothermal Site
15:50 – 16:00 Huaiyang Zhou: Introduction and Workshop Objectives for the Dragon Flag Drilling Proposal
16:00 – 16:30 John Chen: Seismic Constraints on SW Indian Ridge Crustal Architecture from 46°-52°E
16:30 – 17:30 Mathilde Cannat & Daniel Sauter: Geochemical and Tectonic Evolution of the 46°-52°E Segment
18:00 Lobster Bake, Fenno Estate Lawn
Day 4 (Saturday 16th)
8:30– 9:00 Huaiyang Zhou: The Dragon Flag Hydrothermal Area
9:00 – 9:30 Yang Qun Hui: Geochemistry of the Dragon Flag Vent Fluids
10:00 – 10:30 Susan Humphris: Results of ODP Drilling in the TAG
9:30- 10:00 Xiang Zeng: Biological Communities at the Dragon Flag Hydrothermal Field
10:00 – 10:20 Break
10:20 – 10:50 Maurice Tivey: Maurice Tivey: Reduced Crustal Magnetization beneath Relict Hydrothermal Mounds, TAG Hydrothermal Mounds, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
10:50 – 11:20: Fernando Barriga: Manus Basin Hydrothermal Drilling
11:20 – 11:50 Pablo Canales: Crustal Architecture and Fault Geometry at the TAG Hydrothermal Field
Hole Siting
11:50 – 12:30 IODP/TAMU/BRG: Engineering for and Logging at Hydrothermal Drilling
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:00 Huaiyang Zhou: Preliminary Drilling Plan for the Dragon Flag Hydrothermal Area
14:00 – 14:30 Henry Dick*: Tectonic Drilling Objectives at the Dragon Flag Hydrothermal Area
14:30 – 15:00 Wolfgang Bach*: Biogeochemical Objectives at the Dragon Flag Hydrothermal Area
15:00 – 15:30 Susan Humphris* Discussion of the Dragon Flag Hydrothermal Area Potential Drill Sites.
15:30 – 16:00 Ciazela, Jakub; Why Primary Copper Enrichment Could Be Expected at the Moho Transition Zone?
18:00 – 19:30 (June 16th) Barbecue for organizing committee, report volunteers hosted by Henry & Winifred Dick at Coonamessett Bog, Hatchville.
Day 5 (Sunday)
8:30 – 9:00 Pastries & Coffee
09:00 – 09:30: Steering committee and volunteers meet to organize writing assignments.
09:30 – 12:30 Writing
12:30: Pizza lunch provided.
13:30 – 15:30 Writing
15:30 – 16:00 Wrap up group session.
