Meeting

The InterRidge Office is proposing to sponsor a session at AGU 2012. It seems appropriate to have a ridge focused session, now that national programmes have ended. At this stage, if you would be prepared to support this by presenting a paper, please contact the office (coordinator@interridge.org) by the end of February so that we can see the level of support within the InterRidge community.

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