Deep-Sea Mining of Seafloor Massive Sulfides: A Reality for Science and Society in the 21st Century
1 - 2 April 2009, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (USA)
Website coming soon: http://www.whoi.edu/sites/deepseamining
Science and Policy Workshop (limited to 100 participants): 1 - 2 April
Organizing Committee:
Maurice Tivey (WHOI, USA), Chair of InterRidge Working Group on Seafloor Mineralization, mtivey@whoi.edu, +1 508 289-2265;
Members of the InterRidge Working Group on Seafloor Mineralization: Georgy Cherkashov (Russia), Yves Fouquet (France), Mark Hannington (Canada), Yasuhiro Kato (Japan), Jonguk Kim (Korea), Lisa Levin (USA), Rachel Mills (UK), K.A. Kamesh Raju (India), Xuefa Shi (China), Ingunn Thorseth (Norway), and Cindy Van Dover (USA);
Co-Chairs of the ChEss (Chemosynthetic Ecosystems) project of the Census of Marine Life: Chris German (WHOI, USA) and Paul Tyler (NOC, UK);
Jian Lin (WHOI, USA), InterRidge Chair;
Porter Hoagland (Senior Research Specialist, Marine Policy Center, WHOI, USA).
Morss Colloquium: Public Forum and Live Web Casting (Thursday afternoon, 2 April)
Please click here for 1st Circular PDF.
Keynote Speakers:
Rod Eggert (Division Director, Economics and Business, Colorado School of Mines);
Lyle Glowka (Senior Legal Advisor to the Convention on Biological Diversity);
Nii Allotey Odunton (Secretary-General, International Seabed Authority);
Maurice Tivey (Dept. Chair, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).
Sponsors: WHOI, ChEss, InterRidge
Link to Morss Colloquium sponsorship at WHOI: http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=17140
Contact:
Stace Beaulieu, InterRidge Coordinator (coordinator@interridge.org)
For more information on this subject, click here for a new article, "Going for Gold" in Ocean Challenge magazine.
