IODP 370 meeting

Postcruise Meeting IODP Expedition 370 - University of Aberdeen

Edited 15/5/2018: Updates to Talk-Schedule, Edited 22/5/2018: Field Guide

Meeting Schedule (back to top)

Day 1 - Orientation and Scope

Day 2 - Scientific Sessions I-III

Day 3 - Scientific Sessions IV-V & Publication Plans

Day 4 - Wrap up

Wednesday May 30^th back to top

• Scientists Arrive in Aberdeen

Thursday 31^st May, Day 1: Orientation and aims back to top

Venue: Pickup from Hotel

1000 Visit to Gairoch Distillery. Coach/bus will collect from Hotel, Cost 10 GBP (8 for entrance and 2 GBP towards Coach).

Venue: Library 

1400 Orientation and Opening Remarks (Host & EPM)

1430 Brief self-introduction (All)

1500 Temperature Limits of the Deep Biosphere off Muroto. Results, Discussion, and Outlook on Workshop Goals and Structure (Kai-Uwe Hinrichs & Verena Heuer)

 Workshop Structure:

• Part I: Test the hypothesis that temperature is the limiting factor of the deep biosphere at Site C0023
• Part II: Investigate other factors that potentially influence microbial life or that might be influenced by microbial life at Site C0023
• Part III: Discussion of open questions and publication strategies

1600 Video chat with absent scientists (Yuki)

1700 - End

Friday 1^stJune, Day 2 Scientific Sessions I-III back to top

Venue: MacRobert Building

0900-1700 Scientific Sessions

Part I: Impact of temperature on the abundance and activity of microbial life at Site C0023

 0900 – 1030: Session I:

1. Final temperature model for Site C0023 (15 minutes)
   Takehiro Hirose & Masa Kinoshita: The shipboard temperature model and preliminary results of the temperature observatory

2. Abundance of Microorganisms at Site C0023 (5 x 15 minutes)

• Yuki Morono: Cell counts & high-pressure-high-temperature incubations, QA/QC
• Bernhard Viehweger: Endospore distribution inferred from the biomarker dipicolinic acid (DPA)
• Casey Hubert: Update on attempts to detect thermophilic spores
• Donald Pan: Virus enumeration
• Tatsuhiko Hoshino: On the endeavor to extract in situ microbial community structure

1030 – 1100: Break

1100 – 1200: Session II

1. Microbial Activity at Site C0023 (45 + 15 minutes)

• Radio Tracer Team (45 minutes, one combined talk)
  Tina Treude, Jens Kallmeyer, Felix Beulig, Rishi Adhikari, Clemens Glombitza, Florian Schubert: Radiotracer incubations to determine microbial methanogenesis, methane oxidation, sulfate reduction, and hydrogenase activity
• Rachel Harris (15 minutes) Stable isotopic evidence of high-pressure, high-temperature anaerobic methane oxidation

2. Concluding discussion of session I and II (15 minutes)

1200 – 1300: Lunch

1300 – 1730: Session III, including Video Chat with David and 30 minutes coffee break

1. Biogeochemistry at Site C0023 (7 x 15 minutes)

• Masanori Kaneko: Distribution of methanogenic coenzyme F430 at Site C0023
• Man-Yin Tsang: Porewater and mineral sulfur species
• Male Köster & Susann Henkel: Biotic iron reduction & trace elements in interstitial waters and bulk sediments
• Kira Homola: Subsurface nitrogen cycling controls and implications
• Art Spivack: Coupled transport and thermodynamic controls on deep biosphere activity
• Akira Ijiri: Stable isotope geochemistry of pore waters
• Shuhei Ono & Video Chat with David: Clumped isotopes and gas extractor

15:15 – 16:00 Coffee Break (15:15 – 16:00; including 15 minutes buffer for video chat)

2. Microbe-mineral interactions at Site C0023 (2 x 15 minutes)

• Kyle Metcalf: Mineral-associated microbial ecology of marine sediments
• Jinwook Kim: Microbe-clay mineral interaction at various temperatures

3. Culturing of microbes from Site C0023 (2 x 15 minutes)

• Hiro Imachi: Cultivation of decollment life with continuous-flow bioreactors
• Maija Raudsepp: Adventures in culturing microbes from the deep biosphere

4. Summary and concluding discussion of Part I (Session I-III) (30 minutes)

Free Evening

Saturday 2^nd June, Day 3: Scientific Sessions IV-V back to top

 Venue: MacRobert Building

Part II: Investigate other factors that potentially influence microbial life (or vice versa) at Site C0023

0900 – 1015: Session IV

1. Lithology, tectonics and fluid flow at Site C0023 (5 x 15 minutes)

• Yuzuru Yamamoto:
  Structural characteristics of the décollement zone and underthrust sediments in the Nankai accretionary prism: Geologic architectures in the Site C0023, IODP Expedition 370
• Yasuhiro Yamada: Initiation process of frontal thrust at accretionary prism
• Takehiro Hirose: Excess fluid pressure development beneath the décollement
• Nana Kamia: Paleo-thermal anomaly along with the decollement off the Cape of Muroto, Japan: controlled by subduction
• Stephen Bowden: Getting Into Hot-Water in the Underthrust Sediments of Nankai Accretionary Complex
• Satoshi Tonai: A new method for measurement of geological core sample quality using X-ray Computed Tomography data and its application of IODP Expedition 370

1015 – 1045: Coffee Break

1045 – 1215: Session V

1. Impact of temperature and life on mineralogy (4 x 15 minutes)

• Myriam Kars: Effects of high temperature and a deep SMT on rock magnetic properties
• Natsumi Okutsu: Progress toward understanding the characteristics and sedimentary system of silt-turbidites of IODP Site C0023
• Kiho Yang: Application of EELS on the microbial mineral alteration
• Oliver Helten & Florence Schubotz: Abiotic substrate generation from recalcitrant organic matter at elevated temperatures

2. Concluding discussion of Part I and II (30 minutes)

1215 - 1400 Lunch and Tours of Old Aberdeen (incl. group photo)

Part III: Publication strategies

1400 – 1530 Group Discussion #1

1530 - Coffee delivered

1530 - 1700 Group Discussion #2

Evening: Group meal at Brewdog Restaurant, Union Street (1930 till late – cost about 15-20 GBP)

1930 - Union Street - Brewdog Resteraunt for Group Meal (18-23 GBP)

Day 4 Sunday 3^rd June back to top

Venue: MacRobert Building

0900-1100 Wrap up Sessions

10 mins summary from groups

1100 Coffee - delivered

Wrap up (Fumio)

End of Session

1300 Lunch

Space available for afternoon meetings if needed

Accommodation (back to top)

 The conference hotel is the Holiday Inn. Please book using these links:

Aberdeen University Express

£50.00 per room per night including breakfast (Continental plus Sausages, Bacon, Scrambled Eggs and Beans)

Aberdeen University Holiday Inn

£57.00 per room per night including full Scottish breakfast

There are plenty of other accomodation options both nearby in the centre and around the University. Staying in the centre or near Old Aberdeen is fine. Further than this, and commuting will become troublesome for you.

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Getting to the Venue from the Hotel (back top top)

The main meeting venues look like this:

Library - Venue First Day	MacRobert - Venue Second-Fourth Day

There is a campus map here.

I suggest this route:

Your walk is above. It takes you through a nature reserve, past a drillsite, over a bridge so old nobody knows who built it, past Thomas Glovers Aberdeen House and then into sacred ground where you should be safe. Its 30 – 40 minutes. I gave you two routes so that you don’t draw attention; leave the Kelpies and Bogles alone and they won’t menace you. Don’t go under the bridge and stay out of the caves.

 If it rains we’ll run a shuttle.

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Travel to Aberdeen (back top top)

Air

Aberdeen International connects to lots of nice places: Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Dublin, Bergen. It also connects to London airports.

Rail

A pleasant 3.5 hour journey from Edinburgh or Glasgow, with trains about every two hours during the day.

To London is about 9+ hours, and you also have to go to London in the first place.

Rail from Newcastle and Manchester, if you flew there is also reasonable and takes about 6+ hours with journeys every two hours or so.

Travel by rail in the UK is expensive, crowded at busy times but otherwise safe. Northern Britain, in daylight, is quite pleasant by rail as the views are nice and picturesque.

Book train tickets here

Car

By car from Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester or Edinburgh would be ok, particularly once you escape central Scotland (Edinburgh and Glasgow). You would want a GPS (you can’t rely on good phone signals truly in the wilds – if this is why you have a car), but this would be perfect for exploring Northern Scotland. Forty-Freeway Minutes North of Edinburgh and Glasgow the traffic density drops and its about 3 hours of driving.

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Field Trips (back top top)

The trips are designed to run together to provide an introduction to highland geology, as well as a run through of some of the work my research group got up to in the last 10 years in the areas of Precambrian Geology, Impact Geology and a Little Geofluids and Geochemistry. We will also see some structural analogues for the Nankai Accreationary Complex.

The Highlands can you give you all kinds of weather in a single day, so you will need hiking boots, spare socks, spare jumpers and a raincoat that could be dried quickly, should it rain...

There will be a deadline after which I will have to sort out accommodation and transport. This will basically limit numbers. I expect this will limit us to 20-25 people.

Expected cost is about 250-350 GBP.

Please Register Your Interest Here.

Field Guide Here

Schedules are tenative until numbers are confirmed

Monday 4^th June

0930 – Leave for Highlands Field Trip

More Details to Follow.

Tuesday 5^th June

0930 – Geobiology Trip – Lead by John Parnell

This excursion will cover the new and interesting bits of geoscience research concerning the Torridonian Supergroup. In particular the work from the last decade on:

• Precambrian Impact Deposits
• Precambrian Geobiology (Psudo-Stromatolites)
• Life styles and habitats in Precambrian Lakes

The area is beautiful and remote, and the fieldsites unique and interesting.

Lunch: Pies

Dinner: Ullapool.

Wednesday 6^th June

0930 – Highland Geology Field Trip – Lead by Stephen Bowden

Highland Geology Basics (From South to North)

This field trip will drive through highland basics and focus on useful analogues for 370 scientists.

• Knockan Crag – Moine Thrust
• Glencoul – Detachment Surfaces
• Assynt – Tripple unconformities and Imbrication
• Scourie – A bit of Lewisian
• Durness – More stromatolites, the end of land and the other side of the thrust

Lunch: Seafood (salad) – Kylesku

Dinner: Ullapool.

Thursday 7^th June

The end.

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Publications