Special Issue "Natural Gas Hydrate"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Ross Chapman
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Bob Wright Centre for Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Science, Rm A329, 3800 Finnerty Road (Ring Road), Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2, Canada
Website: http://web.uvic.ca/acoustic/chapman.html
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Phone: +1 250 472 4340
Fax: +1 250 472 4620
Interests: seismic investigation of marine gas hydrates; characterization and detection of sea floor gas seeps

Guest Editor
Dr. Richard B. Coffin
Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Dr., SW Washington, DC 20375, USA
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Phone: +1 202 767 0065
Interests: variation in methane hydrate abundance in world ocean coastal regions; shallow sediment methane cycling; methane flux to the atmosphere; elemental isotope analyses

Dear Colleagues,

Gas hydrates, recognized to be distributed through the world coastal oceans, are a significant energy source, have potential to influence coastal ocean platform stability, are an important component in climate change, and may contribute significantly to the overlying water column carbon cycles. Large investments for evaluation of methane hydrates as an energy source are ongoing at the Mackenzie Delta and Prudhoe Bay in the Arctic, the Nankai Trough off Japan, the Bay of Bengal near India, and on the Texas-Louisiana Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to these large scale efforts, preliminary investigation of hydrate as a resource has started off on the coasts of New Zealand, Korea, Russia, Norway, Chile and other countries. Methane in hydrates is also being studied in Arctic coastal permafrost as a contribution to climate change. Addressing the development of this resource requires integration of a wide array of chemical, physical, geophysical and biological laboratory and field data. This special issue will combine papers on methods for evaluating deep sediment hydrate quantities, regional resource characterization, the methane contribution to shallow sediment and overlying water column carbon cycling, and predicted contributions to climate change. A primary goal is to share a thorough global overview of the current activity related to methane hydrate research.

Richard B. Coffin, Ph. D.
Prof. Dr. Ross Chapman
Guest Editors

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• energy
• methane hydrates
• climate change
• carbon cycling
• biogeochemistry
• ocean modeling