[MSA-Talk] Tectonic Fluxes of Carbon Workshop, AGU
Olivier Beyssac
Tectonic Fluxes of Carbon DCO Workshop
Sunday Dec 8 2013 before AGU; Location in San Francisco (details soon)
Organizers: Jay Ague and Olivier Beyssac
We would like to invite you participate in a workshop at AGU on Sunday, Dec 8, sponsored by the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO; https://dco.gl.ciw.edu/). The goal of the workshop is to develop a research initiative on Tectonic fluxes of carbon. As space is somewhat limited, please let us know by email if you will be able to attend and we will provide more details about the workshop.
The fluxes of carbon into and out of orogenic belts are probably the most poorly-constrained contributions to the global geologic carbon cycle. Is mountain building, for example, a net carbon source or sink? There is almost certainly no single (or simple) answer to such questions, and indeed the answers may vary depending on the time scale under consideration. This workshop aims to bring together workers in a diverse spectrum of fields to quantify sources and sinks of oxidized and reduced carbon as they relate to diagenesis, metamorphism, seismogenic zones and, ultimately, the return of carbon species to the shallow hydrosphere and atmosphere via gas/fluid phase transport or exhumation and erosion of mountain belts. How should we study these reservoirs and fluxes? What field areas would be "type localities" to elucidate processes?
We will have a full day of talks and discussion, and will provide breakfast and lunch. The preliminary schedule of events is:
0800: coffee, registration
0830: introduction to the DCO and to the workshop
0900-1030: Session I Carbon Cycle and C-bearing fluids and minerals
0900-0920: keynote 1; Joshua West (USC) Carbon cycling and modeling
0920-0940: keynote 2; Nadia Malaspina (Milano Bicocca) COH fluids and redox processes at subduction zones; field and experimental perspectives
0940-1000: keynote 3; Matthieu Galvez (Geophysical Lab): Carbon mobility in the lithosphere
1000-1030: Discussion led by Doug Rumble (Geophysical Lab)
1030-1100: coffee break
1100-1230: Session II Deep carbon in orogens
1100-1120: keynote 4; Peter Kelemen (Columbia) Carbon cycling in subduction zones: Perspectives from field observations in Oman, Santa Catalina, and Sambagawa
1120-1140: keynote 5; Yuji Sano (University of Tokyo) Carbon in faulted-seismogenic areas
1140-1200: keynote 6; Giovanni Chiodini (INGV Naples): Measurement of CO2 fluxes at the orogen scale: the case of the Apennine, Italy
1200-1230: Discussion led by Gray Bebout (Lehigh)
1230-1400: lunch and poster session
1400-1530: Session III Low-temperature carbon cycling
1400-1420: keynote 7; Christian France-Lanord (CRPG Nancy) Carbon fluxes during erosion/alteration
1420-1440: keynote 8; Brian Horsfield (GFZ – Potsdam) Bio-geo carbon cycling in sedimentary basins
1440-1500: keynote 9; Kate Maher (Stanford): Carbon cycling in the shallow crust
1500-1530: Discussion and break; Discussion led by Page Chamberlain (Stanford)
1530-1630: Discussion of research directions, including field areas, collaborative proposals, and possible field trips to study orogenic carbon cycling.
Notes about the DCO: The Deep Carbon Observatory is an international, decade-long effort with major support from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation and other organizations. The DCO seeks to achieve transformational understanding of carbon's chemical and biological roles in Earth's deep interior. For more information, please see https://dco.gl.ciw.edu/. DCO is not a funding agency like NSF. The purpose of Sloan Foundation support for the DCO is to provide seed funding to attract international scientific collaborations and partnerships that attempt to make transformative progress in understanding the Earth's deep carbon cycle.
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Olivier Beyssac
IMPMC
Université Paris 6 - CNRS
Campus Jussieu
Case Courrier 115
4 place Jussieu
F-75005 Paris
Olivier...@upmc.fr
http://www.impmc.upmc.fr/~beyssac/