Summer School (Aug. 29-31)

The Summer School is intended to provide participants with an overview of knowledge and challenges on our understanding of geodynamic processes and biochemical interactions at seafloor spreading ridges, a rapidly expanding research domain (mineral resources, global budget, deep biosphere, …).

The summer school will specially focus on:

  • geodynamical and petro-geochemical processes at seafloor spreading ridges;
  • ridge-flank processes in volcanic oceanic crust;
  • fluid-rock interactions, and geochemistry of seafloor hydrothermal systems;
  • in-situ observation of physical, geochemical and biological processes at the seafloor;
  • geobiological interactions, ecosystems and microbial diversity.

In addition to topical lectures, technical training sessions will be provided on data acquisition at sea (logging, geophysics, coring), on petrological, geochemical and biological observation (rock description, mass spectrometer analyses, in-situ microbiology, …) and on job and funding opportunities.

The program will include a session on each of the above topics (see program below).

Invited speakers

  • Michael Perfit (University of Florida, Gainesville)
  • Katrina Edwards (University of Southern California)
  • Benoit Ildefonse (Geosciences Montpellier)
  • Wolfgang Bach (University of Bremen)
  • Brandy Toner (University of Minnesota, St Paul)
  • Brian Glazer (University of Hawaii)
  • Margaret Tivey (WHOI)
  • And a team of experts from Ifremer, CNRS and the University of Brest: Yves Fouquet, Anne Godfroy, Pierre-Marie Sarradin, Ewan Pelleter, Stefan Lalonde, Christophe Hémond, Gilles Chazot, Anne Deschamps, Marcia Maia, Jean-Yves Royer and Olivier Rouxel

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