Dear All,
On behalf of the conveners, we encourage you to submit an abstract
to mid-ocean ridge session
V015 - Linking Volcanic, Magmatic,
and Hydrothermal Processes in Mid-Ocean Ridge and Submarine Rift
Settings, taking place at the AGU Annual Meeting 7-11 December
2026 in San Francisco, Calif.
Submarine mid-ocean ridge (MOR) and other rift volcano settings are
among the most magmatically and hydrothermally active regions on
Earth. Over the past seven decades, marine expeditions conducted at
ever-improving observational scales have transformed our
understanding of these environments. Increasing temporal and spatial
resolution, advances in mapping technologies, improved eruption
detection and response, sustained monitoring and observatory
efforts, and new deep-submergence vehicle capabilities now reveal
fine-scale connections among magmatic, tectonic, and hydrothermal
processes throughout the volcano-tectonic cycle (i.e., precursory,
syn-eruptive, and post-eruptive periods). This session invites
contributions that highlight how these systems evolve through space
and time, and how they influence the broader ocean, including recent
advances in volcanology, geochemistry, petrology, geophysics,
deep-submergence technologies, numerical modeling, laboratory analog
studies, and predictive mapping that deepen our understanding of the
coupled magmatic, tectonic, and hydrothermal dynamics of submarine
rift and MOR systems and the underlying mantle.
Please consider submitting an abstract
before 5th August 2026 at 2359 EDT by
visiting
https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/prelim.cgi/Session/281863.
Please share this session with colleagues and collaborators, young
scientists, or other experts you think might be interested.
Conveners
Kenna Harmony Rubin - University of Rhode Island
Scott White - University of South Carolina Columbia
Melissa Anderson - University of Toronto
Deborah Eason - University of Hawaii at Manoa