A MiCROSYSTEMS - COCARDE - CHECREEF Workshop and Field Seminar
Carbonate Mounds in Shallow and Deep Time
Oviedo, Spain, 16-20 September 2009
COCARDE (Cold Water Carbonate Reservoir Systems in Deep Environment) is an international network that endeavours to build bridges between
1) the academic community which boosted the study of subrecent carbonate mounds in midslope environments in the present ocean, in particular through a decade of European research programmes,
2) the academic community which for decades has investigated the world of fossil mounds, spanning the whole Phanerozoic times,
3) the industrial community which is confronted with fossil mound reservoirs and, in recent times, increasingly faces deep water reservoir systems of mixed carbonate and siliciclastic nature,
4) youth, which through the fascination of the ocean processes at the interface between Life and Earth Sciences, moves into stimulating multidisciplinary studies and – by the same token – gets a perspective of exciting careers in Science and Industry.
A basic rationale of COCARDE is the confrontation of subrecent mounds – which show up as true natural labs and windows on both mound players and environmental controls through observation and experimentation – with more ancient mound systems.
IODP Expedition 307 on Challenger Mound (2005) was immediately preceded by a workshop (Dublin) and field seminars on Devonian mounds in Belgium (F. Boulvain) and Carboniferous (Waulsortian) mounds north of Dublin (Feltrim Quarry). In 2006, with the support of IOC-UNESCO and the Flanders Government, a field seminar was organized in Erfoud, Morocco, to assess the Ordovician mounds and the Devonian Kess-Kess mounds.
The present field seminar focuses on mounds from the Carboniferous platform of Asturias and Cantabria, maybe already more visited by industrial researchers than by academic ones. The Asturias-Cantabria platform system is famous for microbial carbonates: the right place for the MiCROSYSTEMS teams, studying microbial diversity and functionality in cold water coral ecosystems, associated with carbonate mounds.
The field seminar is preceded by a compact workshop, meant to convey highlights of ongoing research from one community to the other, to set the scene of the field seminars and to trigger and fuel the field discussions.
Meeting participants
1. |
Juan Bahamonde |
Convenor
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University of Oviedo, Spain |
2. |
Valentina Blinova |
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MSU Moscow, Russia |
3. |
Anne-Christine da Silva |
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University of Liège |
4. |
Anneleen Foubert |
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K.U. Leuven, Belgium |
5. |
Giordana Gennari |
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University of Fribourg, Switzerland |
6. |
Giancarlo Ghilardi |
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Univesity of Geneva, Switzerland |
7. |
Mohamed El Amine Hazim
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University of Rabat |
8. |
Jean-Pierre Henriet |
Convenor
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RCMG, Gent University |
9. |
Philippe Lapointe |
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Total, Exxon Mobil, NCOC Houston
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10. |
Stephanie Larmagnat |
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University of Laval, Canada |
11. |
Oscar A. Merino-Tomé |
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Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, León, Spain |
12. |
Hans Pirlet |
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RCMG, Gent University, Belgium
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13. |
Andres Rüggeberg |
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RCMG, Gent University, Belgium
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14. |
Elias Samankassou |
Convenor |
University of Geneva, Switzerland |
15. |
Silvia Spezzaferri |
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University of Fribourg, Switzerland |
16. |
Alexei Suzyumov |
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UNESCO, Paris, France
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17. |
Elisa Villa |
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University of Oviedo, Spain |
18. |
Thomas Wöhrl |
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Potsdam, Germany |
19.
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Yu Zhang |
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LabMET Ghent, Belgium
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