Meeting

Please make every effort to attend the InterRidge Third Decade Planning meeting in San Francisco this December (just prior to the Fall AGU). InterRidge is YOUR programme. And this meeting is YOUR chance to influence its priorities over the next decade.

The successes of InterRidge are the successes of the whole ridge community. There is currently a rapidly growing economic and political interest in ridges and their resources. This pushes ridge science up the political and economic agenda and, as a result, the role of InterRidge is becoming ever more important. What do you think the big issues for ridge science are? 

Check out the meeting agenda, register, and have YOUR say at:   http://www.interridge.org/third_decade

Deadlines for two InterRidge workshops fall in the next fortnight:

Ocean Mantle Dynamics: from Spreading Center to Subduction Zone
2-6 October 2011, AORI, Tokyo, Japan. 
This is the main meeting for the IR Mantle Imaging Working Group.

Registration deadline for fieldtrip: 3 Sept
Registration deadline for workshop: 10 Sept
Registration for poster abstracts: 10 Sept
All details at: http://ofgs.aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/intridgej/WS_2011/

Circum-Antarctic Ridges
28-30 Sept 2011, Toulouse, France

A workshop to discuss the important scientific issues of the Antarctic ridges, together with technological possibilities, will be held in Toulouse, France, 28-30 September 2011. A major aim will be the formation of an InterRidge Working Group to continue this work. For all information, programme and registration, go to: http://www.interridge.org/circum_antarctic

The above meeting will be held on 4-6 October 2011 at AORI, Tokyo, Japan, with an optional field trip on 2 October. Registration is now open and attendees are encouraged to post their interest as soon as possible. All details are available from the Japanese website.

In this meeting, there will be a focus on three objectives of crustal and mantle imaging, with an emphasis on mantle dynamics: