Listvyanka, Lake Baikal, Russia
September 6-12, 2010
September 6-12, 2010
Website: http://lin.irk.ru/gims10
The 10th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments covers all aspects of research related to methane in the ocean. The topics of the conference will include, but are not restricted to:- Formation of shallow gas in sediments
- Subsurface fluid flow, geochemical and thermal gradients
- Biological and biogeochemical processes at seep ecosystems
- Formation and destabilization of hydrates
- Diversity and functioning of methane seeps, bubble sites, pockmarks and mud volcanoes
- Imaging sub-seafloor gas structures by seismic studies
- Regional studies on gas and gas hydrate distribution and quantification
- Seafloor emissions to the water column and the atmosphere
- Methane-derived authigenic carbonates
- CO2-hydrate for CH4-hydrate exchange: option for carbon storage in marine sediments
Host of the Conference The conference will be hosted by the Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Irkutsk, Russia).
Scientific Committee
Antje Boetius, MPI Bremen, Germany
Marc De Batist, Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Ghent, Belgium
Lyubomir Dimitrov, Institute of Oceanology, Varna, Bulgaria
Ian MacDonald, Tamu Corpus Christi, U.S.A.
Jean-Paul Foucher, IFREMER, Brest, France
Soledad Garcia-Gil, University of VIGO, Spain
Martin Hovland, Statoil Stavanger, Norway
Michael Ivanov, Moscow State University, Russia
Alan Judd, Newcastle, Great Britain
John Woodside, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gerhard Bohrman, MARUM, University Bremen, Germany
Bo Barker Jørgensen, Center for Geomicrobiology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Nikolay Pimenov, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology, Moscow, Russia
Michael Grachev, Limnological Institute, Irkutsk, Russia
Anatoly Obzhirov, Pacific Oceanological Institute, Vladivostok, Russia
Tatyana Matveeva, VNIIOceanology, St. Petersburg, Russia
Ira Leifer, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
Daniel Orange, Black Gold Energy, Jakarta, Indonesia
Erwin Suess, IFM-.GEOMAR Kiel, Germany
Hitoshi Shoji, Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan
Local Organizing Committee
Oleg Khlystov
Tamara Zemskaya
Nikolay Granin
Tatyana Sitnikova
Bair Namsaraev
Galina Nagornaya
Alexey Gurulev
Oleg Kotsar
Tamara Zemskaya
Nikolay Granin
Tatyana Sitnikova
Bair Namsaraev
Galina Nagornaya
Alexey Gurulev
Oleg Kotsar
Place and Date
The conference will be held in Hotel “Mayak” from Monday, Semptember 6, to Sunday, September 12, 2010.
Hotel “Mayak” is situated on the shore of Lake Baikal in the village Listvyanka, 70 km from Irkutsk.
Registration
Please find a registration form on the Conference website http://lin.irk.ru/gims10/regform.zip and send the completed form:
- - as e-mail attachment to Oleg Kotsar kotsar@lin.irk.ru;
- - or by fax to +7 3952 42 54 05;
- - or by post to: Oleg Kotsar, Limnological Institute, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk 664033, Russia.
Accommodation
The organizing Committee (contact person: Galina Nagornaya galinan@lin.irk.ru) will book rooms for participants of the Conference in Hotel “Mayak” and Hotel “Baikal Legend” http://www.legenda-hotel.ru/ in single and double rooms, and in suites.
The average daytime temperature in September in Listvyanka is 10°C, and at night 2°C. You are recommended to bring warm clothes for the boat trip. Current weather forecast is shown at http://www.gismeteo.ru/, or http://www.irk.ru/.
| Important Dates |
- 1 December 2009 Deadline for preliminary registration
- 1 April 2010 Deadline for abstract submission
- 1 May 2010 Deadline for final registration
- 1 May 2010 Deadline for hotel booking
- 30 July 2010 Distribution of Conference Programme to all registered participants
| Contact Address |
Limnological Institute,
3, Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk 664033, Russia
Tel.: +7 3952 42 30 53
Fax: +7 3952 42 54 05
E-mail: tzema@lin.irk.ru
Web-site: http://lin.irk.ru/gims10
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