Project dissemination

Dissemination 2022-2023

Vachon, Remi Elie Celestin; Schmidt, P.; Lund, Bjorn; Plaza-Faverola, Andreia; Patton, Henry; Hubbard, Alun Lloyd.
Glacially Induced Stress Across the Arctic From the Eemian Interglacial to the Present—Implications for Faulting and Methane Seepage. Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Solid Earth 2022 ;Volum 127.(7) s.

Ramachandran, Hariharan; Plaza-Faverola, Andreia; Daigle, Hugh.
Impact of Gas Saturation and Gas Column Height at the Base of the Gas Hydrate Stability Zone on Fracturing and Seepage at Vestnesa Ridge, West-Svalbard Margin. Energies 2022 ;Volum 15.(9) s.  https://doi.org/10.3390/en15093156

Plaza-Faverola, Andreia, N. Sultan, R. G. Lucchi, N. El bani Altuna, H. Ramachandran, S. Singhroha, F. Cooke, S. Vadakkepuliyambatta, M. M. Ezat, and T. L. Rasmussen. Spatial changes in gas transport and sediment stiffness influenced by regional stress: observations from piezometer data along Vestnesa Ridge, eastern Fram Strait; 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR) Solid Earth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JB025868

Przemyslaw Domel, Clément Hibert, Vera Schlindwein, Andreia Plaza-Faverola. Event recognition in marine seismological data using Random Forest machine learning classifier, 2023; Geophysical Journal International. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggad244

Sunny Singhroha, B. Schramm, A. Plaza-Faverola, P. Domel, S. Bünz, A. Dannowski, F. Cooke. Stress constraints from shear-wave analysis in shallow sediments at an actively seeping pockmark on the W-Svalbard Margin; accepted for publication in Earth and Space Science.

Frances Cooke, Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Stefan Bünz, Nabil Sultan, Hariharan Ramachandran, Heather Bedle, Henry Patton, Sunny Singhroha, Jochen Knies. Sedimentary deformation relating to episodic seepage in the last 1.2 million years: a multi-scale seismic study from the Vestnesa Ridge, eastern Fram Strait, 2023; Frontiers in Geosciences. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1188737

Bünz, Stefan. CAGE-19-1 Cruise Report: Passive and active ocean-bottom seismic surveys at Vestnesa Ridge, west-Svalbard margin within the framework of the SEAMSTRESS project; Stefan Bünz; 2023 DOI:10.7557/cage.6909

Plaza-Faverola. CAGE20-6 Cruise Report: Pore-fluid pressure and heat flow surveys along the Vestnesa Ridge, west-Svalbard continental margin. https://doi.org/10.7557/cage.6918

Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Vera Schlindwein, Przemyslaw Domel, Mechita Schmidt-Aursch, Frances Ann Cooke, Truls Holm, Stormer A. Jensen. CAGE21-3 Cruise Report: Ocean bottom seismics and acoustic surveys on the West-Svalbard margin – a study of local seismicity and its effect on methane seepage. https://doi.org/10.7557/cage.6722

Plaza-Faverola. CAGE21-5 Cruise Report: Test of offshore instrumentation for in-situ sediment pressure measurements, west-Svalbard continental margin. https://doi.org/10.7557/cage.6721

Conferences and workshops

  • Frances Cooke, Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Stefan Buenz, Khalid Amrouch, Rosalind King, Jean-Baptiste Koehl; High resolution fault analysis of the Vestnesa Ridge: a highly complex deep water fluid flow system in the east Fram Strait; accepted abstract for Poster presentation at the EGU annual meeting, EGU23-15125; https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-15125.html
  • Przemyslaw Domel, Vera Schlindwein, Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Stefan Bünz; Local seismicity in the obliquely spreading setting of Fram Strait constrained from ocean bottom seismometers: Implications for fluid flow and methane seepage; accepted abstract for Poster presentation at the EGU annual meeting, EGU23-12348 https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU23/EGU23-12348.html
  • Cooke, Frances Ann; Plaza-Faverola, Andreia; Bünz, Stefan.
    Highly focused fluid flow and sediment deformation related to early stage compaction: Vestnesa Ridge. Methane in a changing Arctic; 2022-09-14 – 2022-09-16
    CAGE International Conference, UiT https://site.uit.no/methane-in-a-changing-arctic/
  • Domel, Przemyslaw; Hibert, Clément; Schlindwein, Vera; Plaza-Faverola, Andreia; Bünz, Stefan.
    Seismological activity in the Fram Strait constrained from ocean bottom seismometers: Implications for fluid flow and methane seepage. Methane in a changing Arctic; 2022-09-14 – 2022-09-16
    CAGE International Conference, UiT https://site.uit.no/methane-in-a-changing-arctic/
  • Plaza-Faverola, Andreia; Sultan, Nabil; Ramachandran, Hariharan; Daigle, Hugh; Cooke, Frances Ann; Sauvin, Guillame; El Bani Altuna, Naima; Douss, Nessim; Mohamed, Mohamed Mahmoud Ezat Ahmed; Rasmussen, Tine Lander; Lucchi, Renata Giulia; Singhroha, Sunny; Vadakkepuliyambatta, Sunil; Knies, Jochen Manfred; Bünz, Stefan.
    Sediment stiffness and shallow pore fluid pressures at deep marine Arctic seepage systems: constraints from piezometer data and calypso cores off west-Svalbard, Fram Strait. Methane in a changing Arctic; 2022-06-14 – 2022-06-16
    CAGE International Conference, UiT https://site.uit.no/methane-in-a-changing-arctic/
  • Ramachandran, Hariharan; Plaza-Faverola, Andreia; Daigle, Hugh; Cooke, Frances Ann; Bünz, Stefan.
    Constraints on methane seepage volumes from gas hydrate-bearing sediments at the Vestnesa Ridge, W-Svalbard. Methane in a changing Arctic; 2022-09-14 – 2022-09-16
    CAGE International Conference, UiT https://site.uit.no/methane-in-a-changing-arctic/
  • Singhroha, Sunny; Schramm, Bettina; Plaza-Faverola, Andreia; Domel, Przemyslaw; Bünz, Stefan.
    Stress constraints from shear-wave splitting through shallow sediments at an actively seeping pockmark on the W-Svalbard Margin. Methane in a changing Arctic; 2022-09-14 – 2022-09-16
    CAGE International Conference, UiT https://site.uit.no/methane-in-a-changing-arctic/
  • Rémi Vachon, Peter Schmidt, Björn Lund, Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Henry Patton, Alun Hubbard; Glacially induced stress across the Arctic from the Eemian interglacial to the present – implications for faulting and seafloor methane seepage; Vachon et al., 2022; Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, Iceland, 2022; https://jfi.is/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/NGWM-2022.pdf

Outreach

  • Bünz, Stefan; Plaza-Faverola, Andreia; Vadakkepuliyambatta, Sunil; Waage, Malin. Hvor kommer metanlekkasjene fra?. Ottar 2022 (342) s. 6-11
  • Several posts in the project website (https://site.uit.no/seamstress/) with articles directed to the general public on new scientific publications and project results, written by the main authors of the studies: – The strength of methane bubbles moving out from the ocean floor (https://site.uit.no/seamstress/2023/08/18/the-strength-of-methane-bubbles-moving-out-from-the-ocean-floor/); – Making sense out of all this noise (https://site.uit.no/seamstress/2023/08/14/making-sense-out-of-all-this-noise/); Investigating past methane release through imaging mud-cracks beneath the seafloor (https://site.uit.no/seamstress/2023/06/26/investigating-past-methane-release-through-imaging-mud-cracks-beneath-the-seafloor/); International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) in the eastern Fram Strait – SEAMSTRESS impulses one of the objectives (https://site.uit.no/seamstress/2023/03/09/international-ocean-discovery-program-iodp-in-the-eastern-fram-strait-seamstress-impulses-one-of-the-objectives/)

Dissemination 2021-2022

Papers

  • Ramachandran, Hariharan, Andreia Plaza-Faverola, and Hugh Daigle (2022). “Impact of Gas Saturation and Gas Column Height at the Base of the Gas Hydrate Stability Zone on Fracturing and Seepage at Vestnesa Ridge, West-Svalbard Margin” Energies 15, no. 9: 3156. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15093156
  • Domel, P., S. Singhroha, A. Plaza-Faverola, V. Schlindwein, H. Ramachandran, and S. Bünz (2022), Origin and Periodic Behavior of Short Duration Signals Recorded by Seismometers at Vestnesa Ridge, an Active Seepage Site on the West-Svalbard Continental Margin, Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, doi:10.3389/feart.2022.831526.
  • Plaza-Faverola, Andreia; Vadakkepuliyambatta, Sunil; Singhroha, Sunny; Hong, Wei-Li; Waghorn, Kate Alyse; Lasabuda, Amando Putra Ersaid; Ferré, Benedicte; Bünz, Stefan; Mienert, Jürgen. Gas Hydrate Related Bottom-Simulating Reflections Along the West-Svalbard Margin, Fram Strait. I: World Atlas of Submarine Gas Hydrates in Continental Margins. Springer Nature 2022 ISBN 9783030811853. s. 225-235, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81186-0_18
  • Wei-Li Hong, T. Pape, C. Schmidt, H. Yao, K. Wallmann, A. Plaza-Faverola, J.W.B. Rae, A. Lepland, S. Bünz, G. Bohrmann, Interactions between deep formation fluid and gas hydrate dynamics inferred from pore fluid geochemistry at active pockmarks of the Vestnesa Ridge, west Svalbard margin, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 127, 2021, 104957, ISSN 0264-8172, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.104957
  • Koehl, Jean-Baptiste Philippe; Magee, Craig; Anell, Ingrid. Impact of Timanian thrust systems on the late Neoproterozoic–Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of the Barents Sea and Svalbard. Solid Earth (SE), vol. 13; ISSN: 1869-9510, e-ISSN: 1869-9529, Pages: 85–115 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-85-2022

Presentations in conferences, workshops and seminars

  • Matteo Lupi (Convener) / Andreia Plaza-Faverola and Adriano Mazzini (co-conveners): session at the EGU annual meeting, Vienna, May 2022 – Fluid Flow in the upper crust: geysers, hydrothermal vents, mud volcanoes and cold seeps https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/43330
  • Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Frances Cooke, Rémi Vachon, Kate Waghorn, Jean Baptiste Koehl, Stefan Bünz; Coupling between rifted oceanic crust and sedimentary deformation in the Fram Strait: implications for seafloor seepage and gas hydrate dynamics. Abstract accepted for EGU2022 (May – link available from the 18th of March).
  • Vachon et al., 2022; Nordic Geological Winter Meeting 2022 – Glacially induced stress across the Arctic from the Eemian interglacial to the present – implications for faulting and seafloor methane seepage, submitted abstract
  • Ramachandran et al., 2021 EGU – Time Constraints on Seepage Through Fractured Regions on the Vestnesa Ridge off the W-Svalbard Coast https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-11489.html

Outreach

Dissemination 2020-2021

Papers

Dessandier, P.-A., J. Knies, A. Plaza-Faverola, C. Labrousse, M. Renoult, and G. Panieri 2021, Ice-sheet melt drove methane emissions in the Arctic during the last two interglacials, Geology. https://doi.org/10.1130/G48580.1

Daszinnies, M., Plaza-Faverola, A., Sylta, Ø., Bünz, S., Mattingsdal, R., Tømmerås, A., and Knies, J., 2021, The Plio-Pleistocene seepage history off western Svalbard inferred from 3D petroleum systems modelling: Marine and Petroleum Geology, p. 105023. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264817221001264

Hong, W., Pape, T., Schmidt, C., Yao, H., Wallmann, K., Plaza-Faverola, A., Rae, J., Lepland, A., Bünz, S., and Bohrmann, G., 2021, Interactions between deep formation fluid and gas hydrate dynamics inferred from pore fluid geochemistry at active pockmarks of the Vestnesa Ridge, west Svalbard margin: Marine and Petroleum Geology, p. 104957 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264817221000611

Sultan, N., Plaza-Faverola, A., Vadakkepuliyambatta, S., Buenz, S., and Knies, J., 2020, Impact of tides and sea-level on deep-sea Arctic methane emissions: Nature communications, v. 11, no. 1, p. 1-10. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18899-3?proof=t

Presentations in conferences, workshops and seminars

  1. Ramachandran, H., Plaza-Faverola, A., Daigle, H., and Buenz, S.: Time Constraints on Seepage Through Fractured Regions on the Vestnesa Ridge off the W-Svalbard Coast, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-11489, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-11489, 2021.
  2. Plaza-Faverola, Gas hydrates and fluid migration systems at continental margins, Seminar for undergraduate students from Los Andes University, Bogotá, Colombia.
  3. Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl, Frances A. Cooke, and Andreia A. Plaza-Faverola. Transform-parallel oceanic core complex along an inherited Timanian thrust, and impact on gas seepage in the Fram Strait; online TSG (Tectonic Studies Group) The Geological Society; poster presentation.
  4. Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Frances Cooke, Przemyslaw Domel, Sunny Singhroha, Rémi Vachon, Hariharan Ramachandran, Björn Lund, Peter Schmidt, Stefan Bünz, Vera Schlindwein, Hugh Daigle, Nabil Sultan, Guillaume Sauvin; Effect of regional forcing on fault-related seepage off west-Svalbard; virtual poster presentation at the AGU annual meeting, December 2020.
  5. Przemyslaw Domel, Sunny Singhroha, Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Vera Schlindwein, Peter Franek, Stefan Bünz; Correlation between seepage activity and micro seismicity on the Vestnesa Ridge, NW- Svalbard continental margin; virtual poster presentation at the AGU annual meeting, December 2020.
  6. Vachon, P.Schmidt, B.Lund, A.P.Faverola, S.Beaussier, H. Patton, A. Hubbard; Computation of glacial and tectonic stress off Svalbard: implications for seabed methane seepage along the Vestnesa Ridge; virtual poster presentation at the AGU annual meeting, December 2020.
  7. Plaza-Faverola et al., A million year flatulence off the west-Svalbard coast – Stress Effects on Arctic Methane Seepage. Webinar for the OSEG (Oslo Society of Exploration Geophysics); October 2020.
  8. Plaza-Faverola et al., A million year flatulence off the west-Svalbard coast – Advances from the SEAMSTRESS project. Friday seminar Department of Geosciences, Uit – The Arctic University of Norway; September 2020
  9. Beaussier, S. J., Plaza Faverola, A., Gerya, T., and Buenz, S.: Effect of the interplay between ultra-slow spreading ridge and transform faults on seafloor morphology, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-9390, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-9390, 2020
  10. Vachon, R., Schmidt, P., Lund, B., Patton, H., Beaussier, S., Plaza- Faverola, A., and Hubbard, A.: Regional stress field computation along the West Svalbard margin (Vestnesa ridge): Effect of the glacial isostatic adjustment., EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-19927, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-19927, 2020
  11. Cooke, F., Plaza-Faverola, A., Bünz, S., and Singhroha, S.: High-resolution 3D seismic investigation of fine scale faults and fractures along the Vestnesa Ridge, western Svalbard Margin , EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-19487, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-19487, 2020
  12. Sunny Singhroha, Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Stefan Bünz, Shyam Chand. Relationship between gas hydrate and free gas distribution and the structural and tectonic settings of the Vestnesa Ridge, western Svalbard Margin. International Conference on Gas Hydrates, postponed to 2023 due to Covid-19.
  13. Sunny Singhroha, Bettina Schramm, Przemyslaw Domel, Anke Dannowski, Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta, Jörg Bialas, Andreia-Plaza-Faverola, Christian Berndt, Stefan Bünz. Ocean-bottom seismic experiment for characterization of a gas chimney beneath the actively seeping Lunde pockmark, Vestnesa Ridge, W-Svalbard Margin. STEMM-CCS Open Science Meeting and 4th International Workshop on Offshore Geologic CO2 Storage, Bergen, Norway.

Outreach

  • https://www.itromso.no/pluss/eksklusiv/2020/08/27/Forskningsskip-måtte-bistå-turistbåt-etter-motorhavari-22561512.ece
  • https://cage.uit.no/2020/12/11/the-moon-controls-the-release-of-methane-in-arctic-ocean/
  • https://eos.org/articles/the-influence-of-tidal-forces-extends-to-the-arctics-deep-sea
  • https://thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/1702/lunar-flow/
  • https://www.ivoox.com/andreia-plaza-faverola-maravilloso-mundo-de-audios-mp3_rf_66457594_1.html
  • https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1vOxwEpLgoDGB
  • https://scipoetry.podbean.com/?s=lunar+flow
  • https://wwz.ifremer.fr/Actualites-et-Agenda/Toutes-les-actualites/Des-vagues-d-emissions-de-gaz-en-Arctique-sous-l-influence-des-marees
  • https://en.brinkwire.com/science/the-moon-controls-the-release-of-methane-in-arctic-ocean-unexpected-finding-with-big-implications/
  • https://oceanbites.org/lunar-power-over-methane-emissions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lunar-power-over-methane-emissions
  • https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/moon-methane?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/arctic-methane-release-controlled-by-the-moon-343961
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201214104716.htm

Dissemination 2019-2020

Papers

Singhroha, S., S. Bünz, A. Plaza‐Faverola, and S. Chand (2020), Detection of gas hydrates in faults using azimuthal seismic velocity analysis, Vestnesa Ridge, W‐Svalbard Margin, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2019JB017949. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JB017949

Himmler, T., D. Sahy, T. Martma, G. Bohrmann, A. Plaza-Faverola, S. Bünz, D. J. Condon, J. Knies, and A. Lepland (2019), A 160,000-year-old history of tectonically controlled methane seepage in the Arctic, Science advances, 5(8), eaaw1450. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/8/eaaw1450.abstract

Plaza-Faverola, A. & Keiding, M. (2019). Correlation between tectonic stress regimes and methane seepage on the western Svalbard margin. Solid Earth, 10(1), 79-94. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-79-2019

Koehl, J.-B. P., Bergh, S. G., Osmundsen, P. T., Redfiled, T. M., Indrevær, K., Lea, H., Bergø, E.: Late Devonian-Carboniferous faulting and controlling structures and fabrics in NW Finnmark, Norwegian Journal of Geology, 99, 1-40, 2019. https://njg.geologi.no/images/NJG_articles/NJG_Vol99_Nr3_Koehl_etal.pdf

Koehl, J.-B. P.: Devonian-Mississippian collapse and core complex exhumation, and partial decoupling and partitioning of Eurekan deformation as alternatives to the Ellesmerian Orogeny in Spitsbergen, Solid Earth Discuss, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5194/se-2019-200

Presentations in conferences, workshops and seminars

– Ramachandran et al., Multiple Phases Observed at an Active Seepage Site at the Vestnesa Ridge, W-Svalbard; Gordon Research Seminar, Houston, 23/2/2020

– Beaussier et al., Effect of the interplay between ultra-slow spreading ridge and transform faults on seafloor morphology; poster presentation accepted for the EGU annual meeting, Vienna April 2020

– Vachon et al., Regional stress field computation along the West Svalbard margin (Vestnesa ridge): Effect of the glacial isostatic adjustment; PICO presentation accepted for the EGU annual meeting, Vienna April 2020

– Cooke et al., High-resolution 3D seismic investigation of fine scale faults and fractures along the Vestnesa Ridge, western Svalbard Margin; poster presentation accepted for the EGU annual meeting, Vienna April 2020

– Koehl, J.-B. P.: Impact of Timanian faults on the Phanerozoic tectonic history of Svalbard. Key note invited for the EGU annual meeting, Vienna April 2020

– Singhroha et al., Subsurface fluid flow quantification in a gas chimney using modelling of 4D seismic data; poster presentation at International workshop on offshore Geologic CO2 storage, Bergen February 2020

– Singhroha et al., Ocean-bottom seismic experiment for characterization of a gas chimney beneath the actively seeping Lunde pockmark, Vestnesa Ridge, W-Svalbard Margin; poster presentation at International workshop on offshore Geologic CO2 storage, Bergen February 2020

– Koehl, J.-B. P.: Mississippian rocks and WNW-ESE-strking faults in Spitsbergen, University of Oslo, 18th June, Oslo, 2019. – Koehl, J.-B. P.: Impact of Timanian faults on the Phanerozoic tectonic history of Svalbard, Friday Seminar, UiT The University of Norway in Tromsø, 13th September, Tromsø, Norway, 2019.

– Koehl, J.-B. P.: WNW-ESE-striking Timanian faults in Svalbard, ARCEx Conference, 22-24th October, Sommarøya, Norway, 2019.

– Koehl, J.-B. P.: Forseglingsanalyse og risiko for gass og olje lekkasje, Lundin Petroleum Norway, 28th October, Oslo, 2019. – Koehl, J.-B. P.: WNW-ESE-striking Timanian faults in Svalbard, Research in Svalbard: an APECS workshop, 4th November, Oslo, 2019.

– Koehl, J.-B. P.: Påvirkning av Timanianske forkastninger på Svalbards Fanerozoiske tektoniske historie, Norges geologiske undersøkelse, 5th December, Trondheim, 2019.

– Plaza-Faverola et al., Correlation of tectonic stress models with nearsurface faulting and fluid dynamics: the west-Svalbard margin case study; Numerical modelling in studies of continental margins and surrounding areas; ArkEx workshop 2019

*The EGU conference will be transformed into an online event due to the Corona virus spread.

Outreach

Podcast – Tu Planeta Vital, Andreia Plaza-Faverola y el maravilloso mundo de la geofísica. https://tuplanetavital.org/actualidad-planetaria/andreia-plaza-faverola-y-el-maravilloso-mundo-de-la-geofisica/

Educational video – Koehl, J.-B. P., Contini, M., Grosso, F., Anderson, A., Faria, N., Pereira, V., Lima, K., Ito, R., Wittmann, M., Xhelo, G., Rosenthal, A., Cutmore-Scott, B., Kwartler, D., Bryce, E., Isaac, J.: Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?, TED-Ed Lesson, release date: 8th April, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhRuUoTnA6g