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 ISA has approved two plans of work for exploration for polymetallic sulphides in the international deep seabed Area. China Ocean Minerals Resources Research and Development Association (COMRA), and the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment of the Russian Federation which submitted their applications on 7 May 2010 and on 24 December 2010 respectively.
Two highly topical and relevant reports have recently been published:
The Dinard Report (Environmental Management of Deep-Sea Chemosynthetic Ecosystems: Justification of and Considerations for a Spatially-Based Approach)
"Illuminating Earth's Past, Present and Future" - IODP's science plan for the next decade of ocean drilling.
