Stefan Bünz – Team leader
Gas Hydrate and Free Gas Reservoirs
https://cage.uit.no/employee/stefan-buenz/
HACON 2021 Participants
Norwegian Institute for Water Research and REV Ocean
Eva Ramirez-Llodra – Project coordinator and cruise co-lead
Senior scientists at the Marine Biology department of NIVA; Science Coordinator at REV Ocean
hthttps://www.niva.no/Ansatte/eva-ramirez-llodra
www.revocean.org/about/contact/
How much carbon is stored in today’s methane hydrate and free gas reservoirs in the Arctic and how much is susceptible to climate change? At what rates, by which means, and under which circumstances is methane expelled from sub-seabed reservoirs to the seabed? Gas hydrate, shallow gas, geo hazards, continental slope stability, high-latitude sedimentary processes, petroleum systems, CO2-storage, seafloor ecosystems, tectonic and non-tectonic faulting, and the development of sedimentary basins.
CAGE, University of Tromso: Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate
How much carbon is stored in today’s methane hydrate and free gas reservoirs in the Arctic and how much is susceptible to climate change? At what rates, by which means, and under which circumstances is methane expelled from sub-seabed reservoirs to the seabed? Gas hydrate, shallow gas, geo hazards, continental slope stability, high-latitude sedimentary processes, petroleum systems, CO2-storage, seafloor ecosystems, tectonic and non-tectonic faulting, and the development of sedimentary basins.
Claudio Argentino – Post Doctoral Fellow
Gas Hydrates and Free Gas Reservoirs project group.
https://cage.uit.no/employee/claudio-argentino/
Dynamics and history of fluid flow systems in the SW Barents Sea at the Leierdjupet Fault Complex (LFC). In particular, Claudio will work on pore water and sediment geochemistry to determine the origin of the hydrocarbons and the biogeochemical processes occurring in the sediments.
Marie Stetzler, PhD candidate
Gas in the Water Column research group.
Distribution of greenhouse gases in the water column emanating from arctic seepages. How much of the methane released from the seafloor reaches the upper water column and/or the atmosphere? Over what horizontal and vertical distances do ocean currents transport methane plumes? Observe and model the transport of methane plumes.
Determine the amount of dissolved methane beneath the seafloor boundary layer. Determine and model methane fluxes from the seafloor to the sea surface. https://cage.uit.no/employee/marie-stetzler/
Frank Jakobsen, PhD candidate
https://cage.uit.no/employee/frank-jakobsen/
Palaeo-glaciology and possible relations to underlying carbon reservoirs on the NE Greenland shelf.
The Role of Ice Ages work group: long-term variability of methane storage and release forced by glacial advance and retreat over the past 2.7 million years).
Kate Waghorn
Post Doctoral Fellow, Gas Hydrate and Free Gas Reservoirs research group.
https://cage.uit.no/employee/kate-waghorn/
My research interests include the dynamics and history of fluid flow systems in glaciated margins. I also study fluid flow systems, origin and fluid-rock interactions on mid-ocean spreading ridges and transform faults. I work predominantly with geophysical data to characterize fluid migration and redistribution regimes in the subsurface and relationships between fluid flow and tectonic stresses. My current projects involve understanding how ice sheets altered shallow subsurface fluid flow regimes and modelling fluid cycling on transform faults.
University of Bergen
Ida Helene Steen, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences (BIO)
https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Ida.Helene.Steen
Physiology of microorganisms living in deep-sea hydrothermal vent systems by the use of culturing, molecular biology, biochemistry and geochemistry.
- What is the diversity of energy metabolisms of hydrothermal vents microorganisms?
- How do they link the cycling of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur in the system?
- Do they have enzymes useful in biotechnology?
Eoghan Reeves, Associate Professor, in Aqueous Geochemistry
Department of Earth Science
https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Eoghan.P..Reeves
My hydrothermal research group aims to understand how high temperature and pressure geologic fluids in the Earth’s crust acquire their chemical compositions, specifically how they interact with Earth’s lithosphere and biosphere.
- biogeochemical processes controlling the formation and evolution of seafloor hot spring fluids and their inorganic-organic chemistry
- the chemistry of carbon compounds and carbon-sulfur interactions in hydrothermal settings and petroleum systems
- exploration and sampling of new hydrothermal systems in the deep ocean
Pedro A. Ribeiro, Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Pedro.A..Ribeiro
Marine Community Ecology – Organisms and Habitats
Eco-Safe Ridge Mining: Environmental risk studies towards sustainable seabed mineral mining on the Mid-Ocean Ridge in Norway. Research Council of Norway KSPSAMARBEID21.
Ridge Ecology: Deep ecosystems in Norwegian waters and knowledge gaps and challenges related to deep-sea mining. Equinor Energy AS.
Emily Denny, PhD candidate
University of Bergen, Department of Biological Sciences. 
Ecology of microbiomes in deep sea hydrothermal systems .
Master in Microbiology from the University of Bergen in 2015.
https://www.cbu.uib.no/emily-denny-new-phd-student/
Samuel Ignatius Pereira. PhD candidate
https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Samuel.Ignatius.Pereira
My research aims at understanding the high-temperature fate of the hydrothermal deep biosphere. I’m interested in the formation of organic molecules as a result of pyrolysis of microbial biomass.
CESAM – Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Ana Hilario, Assistant Researcher
Ecology of deep-sea ecosystems, particularly chemosynthesis-based ecosystems (hydrothermal vents, cold seeps and whale falls);
Life-history traits and reproductive ecology of deep-sea invertebrates;
Population connectivity in deep-sea ecosystems and its implications for biogeography and conservation.
http://www.cesam.ua.pt/ahilario
Sofia Pinto Ramalho, Assistant researcher
CESAM – Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Community ecology of meiofauna and mega-epifaunal organisms from various deep-sea ecosystems (continental slopes, abyssal regions, including chemosynthesis-based ecosystems)
Anthropogenic impacts in the deep sea (bottom-trawling fisheries and deep-sea mining)
www.cesam.ua.pt/sofiapramalho
Carolina Ventura Costa
CESAM – Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Ecology of deep-sea (particularly hydrothermal vents and cold water corals). Conservation and management of the deep sea
Marine habitat mapping
www.cesam.ua.pt/carolinaventuracosta
Lissette Victorero, Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Norway and University of Aveiro, Portugal
www.cesam.ua.pt/lissettevictorero
Deep-sea macroecology. Connectivity and biogeography of hydrothermal vents in the deep Arctic Ocean. Deep-sea fisheries. Lead of InterRidge MACROCHESS and co-lead of DOSI Fisheries – working groups.
Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI)
Maria Baker, Senior Research Fellow, Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/oes/about/staff/mcb3.page
Marine ecologist and project manager of deep-sea chemosynthetic environments programme within the Census of Marine Life decade (2004-2010), established INDEEP (International network of scientific investigations of deep-sea ecosystems, 2011-2020) to address knowledge gaps. Since 2013 co-founded and co-led the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) which seeks to integrate science, technology, policy, law and economics to advise policy on ecosystem-based management of resource use in the deep ocean and strategies to maintain the integrity of deep-ocean ecosystems within and beyond national jurisdiction. www.dosi-project.org
Memorial University, Canada
John Jamieson
Canada Research Chair in Marine Geology and an assistant professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University / Canada.
Potential / risk associated with marine mineral exploration and exploitation.
https://www.mun.ca/research/explore/chairs/jamieson.php
Underlying geological processes that control where hydrothermal deposits occur on the seafloor, what their composition is, and how quickly they form. Data from seafloor mapping using ships and autonomous underwater vehicles, collection and analysis of rock samples from the seafloor using remotely-operated vehicles and human-occupied submersibles.
Medical Doctor on Board
Pascal Habault
Rouen, France
Ensuring a safe cruise during the covid19 pandemic.
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