Due to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, several of the 2020 planned research and education activities have been cancelled, in particular the onshore and offshore expeditions. These activities have now been postponed to 2021 and, accordingly, the budget has been adjusted and shifted for the following year. However the HOTMUD activities continued with some other planned training and education activities including one field expedition (TTR19 cruise), organizing and participating to conferences (EGU 2020, KIMO-2020 Young Scientists Conference, The Seventh Vereshchagin Baikal Conference, MARESEDU-2019 and MARESEDU-2020 Conferences) and organising thematic University courses (DEEP school GEO-DEEP9400 course). At total of 26 conference contributions have been presented by members of the HOTMUD team during several internationals events.
EGU conference 2020
Between 4–8 May 2020 took place the European general Assembly in Vienna. In the framework of the HOTMUD project we organized and chaired the conference session "Extreme environments, mud volcanoes and hydrothermal systems on Earth and planetary analogues: biology, stratigraphy, structure, evolution and monitoring of active and fossil settings". The session was attended by >100 participants and the HOTMUD team contributed with 7 abstracts presenting results of the 2019 filed activities.
The 5th Conference of Young Scientists “Integrated Investigations of World Ocean” (KIMO-2020)
The conference of young scientists involved in marine investigations is a traditional event annually bringing together MSc and PhD students, post-docs and young researchers from different universities and institution of Academy of Sciences to discuss and to share their ideas and achievements. In 2020 it took place in Kaliningrad (Russia) between 18 and 22 May. For the first time it was exclusively in on-line format and with more than 400 attendees. More than 200 oral talks and posters, tens of round-tables, several invited speakers’ lectures, expedition video contest were in the programme reflecting broad activity of young generation in various fields of marine sciences. The HOTMUD team contributed with 2 oral presentations and 1 poster with the results of HOTMUD-Class@Baikal-2019 cruise and with 1 invited speaker lecture on mud volcanism.
MARESEDU-2020 Conferences
The International Marine Research and Education Conference (MARESEDU) is a multidisciplinary international annular conference, addressing various aspects of marine research and education. Its traditional topics include (1) integrated marine research – state and perspectives of multidisciplinary studies; (2) sustainable use of marine resources and sustainable practices of environmental management; (3) biodiversity conservation in marine environment; (4) advances in geological surveys on continental shelf and beyond; (5) organization of expeditions, fieldwork and internships involving students; (6) education in “marine disciplines”. MARESEDU include plenary sessions, scientific sessions, round tables meetings/workshops, and a competition of early career researchers’ presentations. Its main mission is building common interests via information exchange and scientific cooperation between research communities in the field of interdisciplinary marine research, education and outreach.
The HOTMUD activity was presented in 8 oral presentations and 1 poster on MARESEDU-2019 in October 2019. The students and scientists, participants of the TTR19-HOTMUD Barents Sea cruise have submitted 16 theses to be presented on MARESEDU-2020 which will be held on 26-30 October 2020.
DEEP course
In the framework of the Norwegian Research School for Dynamics and Evolution of Earth and Planets (DEEP) at the University of Oslo, the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) and the HOTMUD team organized the course GEO-DEEP9400 with the thematic “Solid Earth – Fluid Earth Interactions”. This intensive course, open for all students, addresses topics like material recycling across the geospheres and how mantle dynamics, volcanism, plate tectonics influences long-term, global environmental and climatic changes. 20 students including HOTMUD members attended and successfully completed the course.
Barents Sea TTR19 expedition
The Training Through Research (TTR) program successfully completed 18 expeditions throughout the European and Arctic margins. The HOTMUD team contributed to organize the TTR19 expedition is in collaboration with the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation. The Barents Sea expedition took place in July-. The Barents Sea expedition took place in August 2020 and targeted areas with glacial deposits, modern and ancient degassing systems displaying pockmarks features.
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