IIASA - Hydrated workshop

Vulnerability and Opportunity of Methane Hydrates Workshop
13-14 MARCH 2008, GVISHIANI ROOM, IIASA

Meeting Agenda (pdf)

Introductory Address: Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Pep Canadell, Volker Krey
Background and goals of the workshop (presentation)

Self-introduction of workshop participants

Session 1: Methane Hydrates Occurrences
Kick-off Presentations (Chair: Nicholas Langhorne)

Nicholas Langhorne - Methane hydrate occurrences (presentation)
Michael Riedel - Recent advances in our understanding of marine gas hydrate provinces (presentation)
Arthur Johnson - Geological occurrences, scenarios for development, and risks of methane release from natural gas hydrate deposits (presentation, abstract)
Weihua Wang - Construction of Global Natural Gas Hydrate Database Portal System (presentation, abstract)

General discussion (Chair: Arthur Johnson)

Session 2a: Hydrates and Linkage to Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
Kick-off Presentations (Chair: Pep Canadell)

David Archer - Models of the global distribution of methane in the ocean and its response to climate warming (presentation, abstract)
Jean-Francois Lamarque - Methane clathrates in the past and future (presentation, abstract)
Euan Nisbet - Methane Hydrates: Near-future risks and monitoring strategies, and past nightmares (presentation, abstract)
Neil T. Hamilton - Methane hydrates and arctic climate change: What if the worst scenarios are true? (presentation)

General discussion (Chair: David Archer)

Session 2b: Methane Fluxes, the Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
Kick-off Presentations (Chair: Volker Krey)

Yuichi Abe - How to deal with environmental impacts in MH21 Project (presentation, abstract)
Walter Oechel - Continuous measurements of methane fluxes by eddy covariance in the arctic: Results of a large scale manipulation of water status at Barrow Alaska (presentation, abstract)
Brian O’Neill - Treatment of carbon cycle/climate change uncertainties (presentation)

General discussion (Chair: Walter Oechel)

Session 3: Possible Implications for Energy Systems and Climate Mitigation
Kick-off Presentations (Chair: Nebojsa Nakicenovic)

Vladimir Yakushev - Current view of upstream gas industry on gas hydrate studies (presentation, abstract)
Pacelli Zitha - Natural gas hydrates as an energy resource: Will they deliver? (presentation, abstract)
Volker Krey/Arnulf Grübler/Nebojsa Nakicenovic - Implications of methane hydrates availability for future energy systems (presentation, abstract)

General discussion (Chair: Pacelli Zitha)

Session 4: Concluding Session
Summaries by session chairs:

State of the current knowledge and open research questions related to methane hydrates
General discussion of knowledge gaps, future research challenges and priorities

Discussion about:

Editing a Special Issue of a Journal on methane hydrates
Writing a short paper for Science or Nature

This is a Carbon Neutral Meeting (see also http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/carbonneutral/).

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