This years conference on gas in marine sediments (GIMS12) in Taiwan was successful for two CAGE-students who won awards for their effort. Next conference will be held in 2016 and organised by CAGE in Tromsø.
Text: Maja Sojtaric
The 12th International conference on Gas in Marine Sediments (GIMS12) was held in Taipei, Taiwan this September.
This interdisciplinary conference intends to bring together scientists from a range of disciplines to address current research on methane in the marine and lake environments.
The conference in Taipei was attended by PhD students Sandra Hurter and Kamila Sztybor. They won an award each for their efforts.
Hurter won the Best Student Poster Award for “Time-Lapse Seismic Study of Active Gas Seepage at The Arctic Vestnesa Ridge, Southern Fram Strait”.
She described the acquisition of high-resolution P-Cable seismic datasets and the processing method that she developed, and presented preliminary results of the 4D analysis of the temporal evolution of gas hydrate and fluid flow systems at the Vestnesa Ridge.
Sztybor won the second place in Best Student Oral Award competition with “Methane release from the seabed and reliability of the paleo-record”.
She presented data and results from a suite of cores collected at the Vestnesa Ridge, within and outside one of the active pockmarks, and discussed the challenges in reading the paleo-record from methane-influenced environment.
The next GIMS Conference will be organised in Tromsø in September 2016, as voted by this year participants during the General Assembly held on the last day of the conference.
