The InterRidge Office has just received news from a January 2008 cruise on board R/V Hakuho-maru to the Southwest Indian Ridge near the Marion hotspot. We thank Dr. Nobukazu Seama, InterRidge Steering Committee Member from Japan, for providing a summary of the cruise objectives and sampling. Please visit the InterRidge-Japan webpage for ship track and sampling locations:
http://ofgs.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~intridgej/report_html/KH07-4-2/KH07-4-2.h...
News
Preliminary report on the Hakuho-maru Cruise KH-07-4 Leg 2, Southwest Indian Ridge
IODP DRILLS International Lecture Series
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) announces the launch of its inaugural lecture series: IODP DRILLS, the Distinguished Researcher & International Leadership Lecture Series.
There are more than 30 lecture events in more than a dozen countries.
For more information and the lecture schedule: http://www.iodp.org/drills/.
FIX08 cruise at the East Pacific Rise
FIX08: An interdisciplinary and international collaboration to study autotrophic carbon fixation and fluid chemistry at 9ºN and 13ºN EPR
An international group of scientists representing five different countries, i.e., USA, Germany, France, Italy, and China, was recently on board R/V Atlantis on cruise AT15-28, named FIX08. They were conducting work on in-situ chemistry of high- and low temperature hydrothermal vent fluids and the characterization of microbial communities carrying out autotrophic carbon fixation.
InterRidge News, Vol. 16, 2007 posted online
The InterRidge Office is pleased to announce that InterRidge News, Vol. 16, 2007, is now available on our website. This issue announces the four new Working Groups for 2008, features research articles from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and SE and SW Indian Ridges, provides updates from current Working Groups and member nations, lists upcoming cruises and events, and highlights this year's Photo and Image Competition.
To download a PDF file of this latest issue of InterRidge News, please go to:
http://www.interridge.org/IRNewsletter
