The second edition of the “Scientific Days of IODP-France” is scheduled on November 29th and 30th at the headquarter of the CNRS.
This event will be an opportunity to illustrate the involvement of the French scientists in the IODP program and to present the major results from recent and earlier IODP Expeditions, as well as to present some perspectives and proposals.
The external looks on the program will open the debates and will permit to imagine future perspectives.
External looks on the program will nurture the discussions and help to figure out perspectives for the future.
We hope that the 2016 edition of the IODP-France days will benefit from a wide audience from the researchers in geoscience and from the members of the Program, as during the 2012 Scientific Days.
Themes
Climate and Ocean Change: Reading the Past, Informing the Future
How does Earth’s climate system respond to elevated levels of atmospheric CO2?
How do ice sheets and sea level respond to a warming climate?
What controls regional patterns of precipitation, such as those associated with monsoons or El Niño?
How resilient is the ocean to chemical perturbations?
Ocean floor sediment cores provide records of past environmental and climatic conditions that are essential for understanding earth system processes.
Biosphere Frontiers: Deep Life, Biodiversity, and Environmental Forcing of Ecosystems
What are the origin, composition, and global significance of subseafloor communities?
What are the limits of life in the subseafloor?
How sensitive are ecosystems and biodiversity to environmental change?
Samples recovered by ocean drilling permit study of earth’s largest ecosystems, offering insight into the origins and limits of the deep biosphere, evolution of marine microfauna through times of environmental change, and human origins.
Earth Connections: Deep Processes and Their Impact on Earth’s Surface Environment
What are the composition, structure, and dynamics of Earth’s upper mantle?
How are seafloor spreading and mantle melting linked to ocean crustal architecture?
What are the mechanisms, magnitude, and history of chemical exchanges between the oceanic crust and seawater?
How do subduction zones initiate, cycle volatiles, and generate continental crust?
The dynamic processes that create and destroy ocean basins, shift the position of continents, and generate volcanoes and earthquakes extend from earth’s core to its atmosphere, and are fundamental for understanding global change within the context of planetary evolution.
Earth in Motion: Processes and Hazards on Human Time Scales
What mechanisms control the occurrence of destructive earthquakes, landslides, and tsunami?
What properties and processes govern the flow and storage of carbon in the subseafloor?
How do fluids link subseafloor tectonic, thermal, and biogeochemical processes?
Many fundamental earth system processes, including those underlying major geologic hazards, occur at “human” time scales of seconds to years, requiring new sampling, downhole measurement, monitoring, and active experimental approaches.
