12th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments GIMS 12 Program Taipei, Taiwan September 1-6, 2014

Organized by Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (NTU)

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12th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments Taipei, Taiwan, September 1-6, 2014 August 31, 2014 (Sunday)

17:30-20:30 Registration 18:00-20:30 Ice Breaker

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12th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments Taipei, Taiwan, September 1-6, 2014 September 1, 2014 (Monday)

08:30-09:00

Registration

09:00-09:30

Opening

Oral Session I Convener: Tsanyao Frank Yang 09:30-10:10: GIMS12A087

Keynote Speech

Miriam Kastner Gas Hydrates (Clathrates) in Marine Sediments - Key Questions 10:10-10:40

Group Photo and Break

Oral Session II Convener: Marc De Batist 10:40-11:20: GIMS12A088

Keynote Speech

Christian Berndt Gas Hydrates in the Climate System 11:20-11:40: GIMS12A063 Ian R MacDonald, Oscar Garcia-Pineda, Mauricio Silva, Samira Daneshgar-Asl, Caroline Johansen, Chris Reddy and William Shedd Post-Accident Discharge Forensics at the Deepwater Horizon Site, Gulf of Mexico 11:40-12:00: GIMS12A085 Tsanyao Frank Yang, Nai-Chen Chen, Chin-Yi Hu, Pei-Chuan Chuang, Hsuan-Wen Chen, Saulwood Lin, San-Hsiung Chung, Yunshuen Wang and Po-Chun Chen Methane Flux in Gas Hydrate Potential Areas off SW Taiwan 12:00-13:30

Lunch IV

2014 Sep. 1st

Oral Session III Convener: Martin Hovland 13:30-13:50: GIMS12A003 Heiko Sahling, Miriam Römer, Thomas Pape, Christian dos Santos Fereirra, Gerhard Bohrmann and Benoît Bergés Quantification of Gas Emissions at the Continental Margin West of Svalbard 13:50-14:10: GIMS12A007 Timo Zander, Ingo Klaucke, Jörg Bialas, Christian Berndt, Dirk Kläschen and Cord Papenberg Are Cold Seep Locations Controlled by Topography or Gas Hydrate Distribution A View from the Kerch Seep Plumbing System in the Black Sea 14:10-14:30: GIMS12A025 Shakirov Renat, Nguyen Nhu Trung, Duong Quoc Hung, Syrbu Nadezhda, Le Duc Anh, Mal’tseva Elena, Telegin Iurii, Polonik Nikita and Obzhirov Anatoly The Anomalies of Natural Gases in the Sediments and Seawater in the Gulf of Tonkin (BacBo, South-China Sea), Vietnam 14:30-14:50: GIMS12A005 Ingo Klaucke, Saulwood Lin, Christian Berndt and SO227 Scientific Party Surface Expression of Cold Seeps on the Continental Margin offshore SW Taiwan 14:50-15:10: GIMS12A006 Wen J Whan, K. M. Tsai, Hsiupo Yeh, Jiann-Lin Chen and Jeng-Yu Lin Real Time Sea Bed Shallow Sounding for Resistive or Conductive Target Layer 15:10-15:30: GIMS12A092 Y. Sano, H. Wen, T. Kagoshima, N. Takahata, Y. Tomonaga, A. Ishida, K. Tanaka and K. Shirai, J. Ishibashi,H. Yokose, U. Tsunogai and T.F. Yang Helium and carbon flux from shallow submarine hydrothermal system in the Tokara Islands, Southwestern Japan 15:30-15:50

Break

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15:50-16:30 2014 Sep. 1st

Poster Session I Convener: Wu-Cheng Chi GIMS12A002: Win-Bin Cheng, Shiao-Shan Lin, T. Y. Shih, Tan-Kin Wang, Char-Shine Liu, Song-Chuen Chen and Yunshuen Wang Imaging Three-Dimensional Seismic Velocities for Hydrate-Bearing Sediments Near YuanAn Ridge, off Southwest Taiwan GIMS12A004: Sheng-Chung Chen, Mei-Chin Lai and Saulwood Lin Analyses of Microbial Diversities and Functions in Potential Gas Hydrate Bearing Area at Offshore Southwestern Taiwan by Metagenomic Approach GIMS12A009: In-Tian Lin, Ching-Tse Chang, Jun-Chin Shen and Tsanyao Frank Yang The Genetic Type and Accumulation Characteristics of Biogas in the Guan Tian Area of South-Western Taiwan GIMS12A010: Dong Feng and Duofu Chen Fluid Sources, Intensities, and Biogeochemical Processes of an Active Cold Seep from the Northern South China Sea Initial Results of Manned Submersible Jiaolong GIMS12A011: Hongxiang Guan, Nengyou Wu, Dong Feng and Duofu Chen Molecular Fossils Reveal Biogeochemical Process at an Active Methane Seep from the Northern South China Sea GIMS12A012: Sandra Hurter, Stefan Bünz, Andreia Plaza-Faverola and Jürgen Mienert Time-Lapse Seismic Study of Active Gas Seepage at The Arctic Vestnesa Ridge, Southern Fram Strait GIMS12A015: Chien-Hui Yang, Tin-Yam Chan, Shinji Tsuchida, Katsunori Fujikura, Yoshihiro Fujiwara and Masaru Kawato Connectivity of the Chemosynthetic Squat Lobster Shinkaia Crosnieri (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae) Between the Cold Seep and Hydrothermal Vent Habitats in the Northwest Pacific GIMS12A016: Huai-Houh Hsu, Jia-Jyun Dong, Che-Ming Yang, Shu-Kun Hsu and WinBin Cheng Slope Analysis of a Submarine Landslide near the SW Xiaoliuqiu VI

GIMS12A017: Chia-Hsien Chao, Chih-Chien Chang, Mei-Chin Lai, Saulwood Lin and LiLian Liu Population and Reproduction of the Mussel Bathymodiolus Platifrons from Seeps in Southwestern Taiwan GIMS12A018: Qinxian Wang, Chiyue Huang and Duofu Chen Petrographic and Geochemical Characterization of Cold Seep Carbonate in the Kuohsing Area, Taiwan GIMS12A027: Daidai Wu and Nengyou Wu Geochemical Research of Gas Hydrate in the Northern South China Sea GIMS12A028: Shuhong Wang, Wen Yan, Jiaxiong He, Wei Zhang and Zhenquan Lu Biogenicsub-Biogenic Gas Resource Potential and Gas Hydrate Accumulation in the Pearl River Mouth Basin of the Northern South China Sea GIMS12A029: Song-Chuen Chen, Shu-Kun Hsu, Yunshuen Wang, San-Hsiung Chung, PoChun Chen, Ching-Hui Tsai, Hsiao-shan Lin,Char-Shine Liu, Saulwood Lin and Ho-Han Hsu Seabed Features in the Gas Hydrate Potential Area of the Yung-An and Good Weather Ridges, off Southwest Taiwan GIMS12A069: Li-Hsin Kao, Tsanyao Frank Yang, Hsin-Yi Wen, Ai-Ti Chen and HsiaoFen Lee Helium Isotopes of Fluids from Submarine Volcanoes in the South-Okinawa Trough GIMS12A076: Hsin-Yi Wen, Tsanyao Frank Yang, Li-Hsin Kao, Hsiao-Fen Lee, Yuji Sano, Naoto Takahata and Shinsuke Kawagucci Gas Geochemistry Characteristics of Hydrothermal Fluids from the Southwestern Okinawa Trough 16:30-17:20

Poster Discussion

18:30-20:30

Welcome Party

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2014 Sep. 1st

12th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments Taipei, Taiwan, September 1-6, 2014 September 2, 2014 (Tuesday)

Oral Session IV Convener: Christian Berndt 08:30-09:10: GIMS12A089

Keynote speech

Char-Shine Liu Taiwan Gas Hydrate Investigation Program: Present Status and Future Prospective 09:10-09:30: GIMS12A034 Timo Zander, Jörg Bialas, Christian Berndt, Ingo Klaucke, Dirk Klaeschen, Stephanie Koch, Cord Papenberg and MSM34 Scientific Parties Gas Hydrate Distribution in Channel-Levee Systems of the Danube Deep-sea Fan (Black Sea) Revealed by New Seismic Data. 09:30-09:50: GIMS12A026 Lisa Vielstädte, Jens Karstens, Matthias Haeckel, Mark Schmidt, Peter Linke, Susan Reimann, Volker Liebetrau, Klaus Wallmann and Daniel F. McGinnis Anthropogenic Methane Emissions from Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells in the North SeaHow much Methane is Leaking into the Ocean and finally into the Atmosphere 09:50-10:10: GIMS12A046 Chau-Chang Wang, Hsin-Hung Chen, Yuan-He Lin, Jian-Hong Chen, Chun-Cheng Huang, Chia-Min Lin, Chung-Ray Chu, Ying-Hsueh Chien and Chin-Chang Hung Development of Abyss Twisted-Pair Imaging System and Autonomous Benthic Lander for Gas Hydrate Exploration 10:10-10:30

Break

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2014 Sep. 2nd

Oral Session V Convener: Anatoly Obzhirov 10:30-10:50: GIMS12A038 Saulwood Lin, Wan-Yen Cheng, Chieh-Wei Hsu and Tsanyao Frank Yang Gas Seeps BioGeoChemical Anomalies at Active and Passive Margin of the South China Sea 10:50-11:10: GIMS12A045 Boris Baranov, Dar’ya Rukavishnikov, Young Keun Jin, Vladimir Prokudin, Alexander Salomatin, Natal’ya Nikolaeva, Alexander Derkachev, Anatoliy Obzhirov, Hirotsugu Minami and Hitochi Shoji Methane Gas Flares in the Tatarskyi Strait 11:10-11:30: GIMS12A062 Nai-Chen Chen, Tsanyao Frank Yang, Yu-Chun Huang, Hsuan-Wen Chen, Lulu Chen Hong-Chun Li, Pei-Ling Wang, Chin-Chang Hung and Chau-Chang Wang Geochemistry of Gases and Fluids at “MV12” Offshore SW Taiwan 11:30-11:50: GIMS12A014 Martin Hovland and David Riggs The Bremer Canyon Ocean Animal Hotspot: - A Case of Seepage-Induced Congregation? 11:50-12:10: GIMS12A044 Ruei-Long Guo, Mmeng-Shen Huang, Yu-Shih Lin, Li-Hung Lin, Tsanyao Frank Yang, Pei-Ling Wang and Saulwood Lin Aerobic Conversion of Methane to Inorganic and Organic Carbon Pools Assessed by Stable Isotope Probing 12:10-13:30

Lunch

Oral Session VI Convener: Catherine Pierre 13:30-13:50: GIMS12A019 Anatoly Obzhirov Methane Fluxes, Gas Hydrate and Oil-Gas Deposit in the Okhotsk Sea

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13:50-14:10: GIMS12A052 2014 Sep. 2nd

Li-Hung Lin, Pei-Ling Wang, Tsanyao Frank Yang and Yunshuen Wang Comparative Methane Cycling and Microbial Communities in Marine and Terrestrial Mud Volcanoes 14:10-14:30: GIMS12A020 Stephanie Koch, Joerg Bialas, Matthias Haeckel, Gareth Crutchley, Cord Papenberg and Dirk Klaeschen Doming and Seepage, Development of shallow Gas Migration Pathways - Opouawe Bank, Offshore New Zealand 14:30-14:50: GIMS12A013 Akihiro Hiruta, Tsanyao Frank Yang, Yi-Jyun Chen, Hsuan-Wen Chen, Nai-Chen Chen, Tsun-Han Yang, Kuo-Yen Wei, Jyh-Jaan Huang, Sheng-Rong Song, Chih-Chieh Su, Saulwood Lin and Song-Chuen Chen Activating Mud Volcanism Indicated by 210Pb Geochronology at a Submarine Mud Volcano, Offshore Kaohsiung, Southwestern Taiwan 14:50-15:10: GIMS12A051 Hsuan-Wien Chen, Hsing-Juh Lin and Chun-Ming Yeh Trophic Structure of Megabenthic Assemblages at Seep and Surrounding Ecosystems in the South China Sea 15:10-15:30: GIMS12A093 Sutieng Ho, Patrice Imbert, Joe Cartwright and Jean-Philippe Blouet Intensity of Hydrocarbon Leakage Reflected by Vertical Successions of Methane-Related Carbonates, Pockmarks and Chimneys; A Study of Fluid Venting Structure in 3D Seismic Data, Offshore Angola 15:30-15:50

Break

15:50-16:30 Poster Session II Convener: Saulwood Lin GIMS12A001: Yuchun Huang, Tsanyao Frank Yang, Nai-Chen Chen, Ching-Yi Hu Saulwood Lin and Song-Chuen Chen Origin and Flux of Methane Gas from Submarine Mud Volcanoes in the Upper Slope off SW Taiwan X

GIMS12A064: Tsung-Han Yang, Tsanyao Frank Yang, Nai-Chen Chen, Saulwood Lin, Pei-Ling Wang and Shu-Kun Hsu Temporal Variations of Methane Flux from Submarine Mud Volcanoes off Southwest Taiwan GIMS12A021: Hongpeng Tong and Duofu Chen A Newly Discovered Cretaceous Seep Carbonates in Tibet GIMS12A022: Min Luo, Duofu Chen, Andrew W. Dale and K. Wallmann Microbial Turnover and Benthic Geochemical Flux of the Pockmark Field in Southwestern Xisha Uplift, Northern South China Sea: Insight from Reaction-Transport Model GIMS12A030: Yuncheng Cao and Duofu Chen Numerical Simulation of Gas Composition Differentiation in Marine Sediments An Application at IODP Site 1327 GIMS12A008: Yu Hu, Duofu Chen, Qianyong Liang and Hongbin Wang Pore Water Geochemistry in Shallow Sediments in the Dongsha Area of Northern South China Sea: Evidences of the Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane and its Impact on the Cycle of Redox-Sensitive Elements GIMS12A033: Akihiro Hachikubo, Hirotoshi Sakagami, Hirotsugu Minami, Satoshi Yamashita, Nobuo Takahashi, Hitoshi Shoji, Young Keun Jin, Olga Vereshchagina and Anatoly Obzhirov Gas Hydrate Characteristics Retrieved off Southeastern and Southwestern Sakhalin Island GIMS12A023: Yota Sasaki, Hirotsugu Minami, Akihiro Hachikubo, Satoshi Yamashita, Takuma Hirano, Hirotoshi Sakagami, Nobuo Takahashi, Hitoshi Shoji, Young Keun Jin Nataliya Nikolaeva, Alexander Derkachev, Anatoly Obzhirov and Boris Baranov Low Chloride Anomalies in Sediment Pore Waters off Southwest Sakhalin Island, Russia GIMS12A037: Che-Kang Chu, Yan-Ping Chen, Shiang-Tai Lin, Li-Jen Chen and Po-Chun Chen Measurements and Prediction of Methane Hydrate Equilibrium in the Presence of Ionic Liquid 1-Ethyl-3-Methylimidazolium Chloride

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2014 Sep. 2nd

2014 Sep. 2nd

GIMS12A053: Wei-Zhi Liao, Andrew Tien-Shun Lin, Char-Shine Liu, Jung-Nan Oung and Yunshuen Wang Geothermal Gradient and Heat Flows in the Continental Slope of the Northern South China Sea near Taiwan GIMS12A054: Wan-Yen Cheng, Jing-Yang Tseng, Saulwood Lin, Chieh-Wei Hsu, Genady V. Kalmychkov and Tatyana V. Pogodaeva Climatic Change and Records of AOM in the Lake Baikal Freshwater Environment GIMS12A055: Po-Chun Chen, Kuan-Chen Liu, San-Hsiung Chung, and Yunshuen Wang Using Ethanol Vapor as Catalyst for Decomposing Artificial Methane Hydrate GIMS2A056: Makarov Mikhail Mikhailovich, Kucher Konstantin Miroslavovich, Granin Nikolay Grigorievich, Gnatovskiy Ruslan Yurievich and Muyakshin Sergey Ivanovich Observation and Quantification of Bubble Gas Escapes in Lake Baikal with Echosounder GIMS12A057: Elodie Lebas, Theresa Roth, Christian Berndt, Marion Jegen, Anne Krabbenhoeft, Cord Papenberg, Anke Dannowski and Wu-Cheng Chi P-Wave Velocity Model above the Formosa Ridge (Southwest off Taiwan) from Combined Analysis of OBS and Multichannel Seismic Reflection Data GIMS12A074: Evan A. Solomon, Susan Hautala, H. Paul Johnson, Una K. Miller, Brendan Philip and Robert Harris Response of the Cascadia Margin Gas Hydrate Reservoir to Warming North Pacific Intermediate Water 16:30-17:20

Poster Discussion

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12th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments Taipei, Taiwan, September 1-6, 2014 September 3, 2014 (Wednesday)

Oral Session VII Convener: Hirotsugu Minami 08:30-09:10: GIMS12A090 Keynote speech Ryo Matsumoto 10 Years Shallow Gas Hydrate Exploration in Japan Sea 09:10-09:30: GIMS12A043 Alexander V. Egorov, Robert I. Nigmatulin and Alexey N. Rozhkov Field Experiments on Decomposition of Deepwater Gas Hydrates During the Lifting from the Bottom to the Surface 09:30-09:50: GIMS12A039 Dupuis Matthieu, Vendeville Bruno and Imbert Patrice Geometric Analysis of a Cluster of Mud Volcanoes and Associated Mud Chambers Description of Shallow Fluidization Zones 09:50-10:10: GIMS12A077 Patrice Imbert, Matthieu Dupuis, Viviane Casenave, Bruno Vendeville and Francis Odonne Turning Stratified Fine-Grained Sediment into Homogeneous Mud: the Role of Gas 10:10-10:30

Break

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Oral Session VIII 2014 Sep. 3rd

Convener: Yunshuen Wang 10:30-10:50: GIMS12A032 Catherine Pierre and Jérôme Demange Oxygen and Sulphur Isotopic Compositions of Authigenic Gypsum from Methane Seeps of the Southwest African Continental Margin 10:50-11:10: GIMS12A024 Chuan-Chou Shen, Yi-Chi Chen, Yun-Shuen Wang, Po-Chun Chen, Horng-Sheng Mii Shih-Wei Wang, Pei-Ling Wang and Saulwood Lin Active Methane Seep Events Offshore Southwestern Taiwan Inferred from 230Th-Dated Authigenic Carbonate 11:10-11:30: GIMS12A083 Glen Snyder, Hitoshi Tomaru, Chiaki Toyam and Yasuyuki Muramatsu Iodine as an Indicator of Deep Marine Diagenesis Pore Water Chemistry of Sediments Associated with Methane Generation in Coalbeds of the Shimokita Peninsula 11:30-11:50: GIMS12A035 Kamila Sztybor, Tine L. Rasmussen, Jürgen Mienert, Stefan Bünz and Chiara Consolaro Methane Release from the Seabed and Reliability of the Paleo-Record 11:50-12:10: GIMS12A091 Jean-Philippe Blouet, Patrice Imbert, Anneleen Foubert and Sutieng Ho Evolution of Hydrocarbon Seepage Mechanisms and Flux Through Time Deduced from the Vertical succession of Methane-Derived Authigenic Carbonates: A Case Study from the Vocontian Basin, SE France

12:10-13:00

Lunch

13:00-17:00

City Tour

18:30-21:00

Banquet party

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12th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments Taipei, Taiwan, September 1-6, 2014 September 4, 2014 (Thursday)

Oral Session IX Convener: Ian MacDonald 08:30-08:50: GIMS12A047 Ewa Burwicz, Lars Ruepke and Klaus Wallmann Numerical Modeling of the Co-Existence of Dissolved and Gaseous Methane in the Blake Ridge Site-Implications for Gas Hydrate Accumulation Dynamics 08:50-09:10: GIMS12A049 Liwen Chen, Wu-Cheng Chi, Yu-Sian Lin, Shao-Kai Wu, Char-Shine Liu and Yunshuen Wang Geological Processes Affecting the Thermal Structures of Shallow Seafloor 09:10-09:30: GIMS12A071 Wu-Yang Sean, Ren-Yu Ye and Ray-Quan Hsu Meso-scale Modeling of Methane Hydrate Dissociation in Porous Media by using Regular Arrays 09:30-09:50: GIMS12A079 Cheng-Yueh Wu and Bieng-Zih Hsieh Efficiency of Depressurization on Gas Production from Class-1 Hydrate Deposits Offshore Southwest Taiwan 09:50-10:10: GIMS12A081 Ardian Nengkoda, Supranto, Suryo Purwono and Imam Prasetyo Methane Hydrate Production Top Side Facilities Model Case Study Indonesia

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10:10-10:30: GIMS12A094 2014 Sep. 4th

Sutieng Ho, Daniel Carruthers, Patrice Imbert, Joe Cartwright and Jean-Philippe Blouet How Geometries of Fluid Venting Structures Are Affected by Spatial Variations of Polygonal Fault Patterns Due to Stress Perturbations 10:30-10:50

Break

10:50-11:20 Poster Session III Convener: Glen Snyder GIMS12A065: Kruglyakova R., Dachnova M., Shevtsova N., Mozhekova S., Terenozhkin Seafloor Fluid Emission in the Khatanga Gulf of the Laptev Sea GIMS12A066: Min-Te Chen Identifying Environmental Impacts from Large-Scale Methane Releasing Events by Using Marine Geological Records Offshore SW Taiwan and the Northern South China Sea GIMS12A073: So-Siou Shu and Ming-Jer Lee Dynamic Behavior of Methane Gas Hydrates Formation and Decomposition with a MidScale Apparatus GIMS12A067: Jyun-Yi Wu and Shiang-Tai Lin A New Force Field for Accurate Thermodynamic Properties of CH4-THF Hydrates GIMS12A070: Shein-Fu Wu, Chen-Feng You, Yen-Po Lin, Eugenia Valsami-Jones and Emmanuel Baltatzis Magmatic Water Contribution in Milos Submarine Hydrothermal Fluids New Boron Isotopic Evidence GIMS12A072: Hung-I Chao, Hsuan Lo and Shiang-Tai Lin Molecular Dynamics Simulation for Quantitative Description of Thermodynamic Properties of Methane Hydrates GIMS12A078: Yan-Yu Chen, David Shan-Hill Wong and Ying-Chih Liao Production Analysis for Depressurized Methane Gas Recovery from Hydrate Reservoir in Offshore Southwestern

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GIMS12A080: Ke-Shu Li, Andrew Tien-Shun Lin and Char-Shine Liu Three-Dimensional Structural and Stratigraphic Architectures and Gas Hydrate Occurrences in a Fault Zone of the Accretionary Wedge off SW Taiwan GIMS12A084: Tsanyao Frank Yang, Tomohiro Toki, Saulwood Lin and Hideaki Machiyama Gas Composition of the Venting Bubbles from the Formosa Ridge in the Gas Hydrate Potential Area, Offshore of SW Taiwan GIMS12A058 : Chuang-Yi Ho and Chin-Chang Hung Methane Flux in the Northern South China Sea GIMS12A050: Sudipta Sarkar, Joerg Bialas, Stephanie Koch, Cord Papenberg, Thomas Eckardt, Felix Gross, Jasper Hoffmann, Ingo Klaucke, Christian Berndt, Bryan Davy, Karsten Kroeger, Ingo Pecher, Kate Waghorn and SO226 Scientific Party Polygonal Fault System and Mud Mobilization in Cenozoic Chalky Limestone of the Chatham Rise, New Zealand GIMS12A086: Stefan Wenau, Zsuzsanna Tóth, Volkhard Spiess, Hanno Keil, Jan-Hendrik Körber, Tai Fei and Dieter Kraus Autonomous Detection, Mapping and Sampling of Marine Gas Seeps Using an AUV GIMS12A042: Matveeva Tatiana, Logvina Elizaveta, Semenova Anastasiya and Alexander Savvichev Spatial Distribution and Turnover of Methane in the Chukchi Sea GIMS12A068 : Tatiana V. Pogodaeva and Tamara I. Zemskaya Evidence of Current Gas Hydrate Formation in The Near-Surface Sediments of Lake Baikal GIMS12A041: Jürgen Mienert, Karin Andreassen, Jochen Knies, JoLynn Carroll, Stefan Buenz, Bénédicte Ferré, Tine Rasmussen, Giuliana Panieri, Catherine Lund Myhre CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate GIMS12A059 : Mario Veloso, Marc De Batist, Jens Greinert and Jürgen Mienert Estimation of CH4 Release over a Seep Area Offshore Svalbard Based on an Inverse Hydroacoustic Method GIMS12A075 : Wei-Li Hong, Marta Torres, Malgorzata Peszynska and Ji-Hoon Kim Methane Hydrate Stability and Saturation in Ulleung Basin A Numerical Model Perspective XVII

2014 Sep. 4th

2014 Sep. 4th

GIMS12A031: Alexey Portnov, Jürgen Mienert and Pavel Serov Modeled Evolution of Subsea Permafrost Associated with Extensive Gas Escape Offshore the West Yamal Shelf GIMS12A036 :Pavel Serov, Alexey Portnov, Jurgen Mienert and Petr Semenovet Methane as a Potential Driving Force to Form the Pingo-Like Features at the South Kara Sea Shelf GIMS12A094: Sutieng Ho, Daniel Carruthers, Patrice Imbert, Joe Cartwright and JeanPhilippe Blouet How Geometries of Fluid Venting Structures Are Affected by Spatial Variations of Polygonal Fault Patterns Due to Stress Perturbations 11:20-12:10

Poster Discussion

12:10-13:20

Lunch

Oral Session X Convener: Heiko Sahling 13:30-13:50: GIMS12A048 Sergey Muyakshin Review of the Remote Hydroacoustic Methods for the Quantification of Gas Discharge from Underwater Bubble Seep 13:50-14:10: GIMS12A061 Jens Karstens and Christian Berndt Seismic chimneys in the Southern Viking Graben 14:10-14:30: GIMS12A082 Tzu-Ting Chen, Char-Shine Liu and Charles K. Paull AUV Surveys Reveal Seafloor Asymmetric Depressions and Linear Troughs Along a Fault Zone Offshore Southwest Taiwan 14:30-14:50: GIMS12A060 Zsuzsanna Tóth and Volkhard Spiess Multi-Frequency Imaging and Quantification of Shallow Free Gas

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14:50-15:10: GIMS12A040 Ewa Burwicz, Elena Piñero and Christian Hensen Influence of 3D Fault Modeling on Gas Migration Pathways and Gas Hydrate Accumulation in Porous Sediments: Case Studies of Hydrate Ridge (Oregon Margin) and Green Canyon (Gulf of Mexico) 15:10-15:30

Break

15:30-15:50

Introduction of field trip

15:50-16:40

General Assembly

16:40-17:00 Closing

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2014 Sep. 4th

12th International Conference on Gas in Marine Sediments Taipei, Taiwan, September 1-6, 2014 September 5-6, 2014 (Friday-Saturday)

Field Trip Day One - 9/5 07:30-11:00 11:00-12:00 12:00-13:30 14:30-15:30 16:00-16:15 17:30-19:00 Day Two - 9/6 07:30-08:30 11:00-12:00 12:00-14:00 15:00-18:30

Bus to 921 Museum in Wufong, Taichung County. Lunch. Bus to Chung-lun (CL) mud pool. Bus to Kuang-tze-ling (KTL) muddy hot spring. Bus to Suei-huo-tong-yuan (SHTY) everlasting fire. Bus to Les Hotel, Tainan.

Bus to Wu-shan-ding (WSD) mud cones, walk to Hsin-yang-nyu-hu (HYNH) mud shield. Lunch. Bus to Chelungpu Fault Preservation Park in Chushan Nantou County. Bus to National Taiwan University.

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