Cruise Bursaries

Maria Seton is Chief Scientist on a 3-week cruise in October/November 2012, which will be investigating the ‘Tectonic framework for the easternmost Coral Sea and northern extent of the Lord Howe hotspot’. She is looking to form an international collaboration with an early career scientist interested in working in this field. InterRidge is offering a travel bursary to enable the selected scientist to join the cruise.

InterRidge invites early career scientists to apply for a cruise travel bursary. EITHER identify a cruise you wish to be part of and contact the PI to see if a berth is available, then fill in the application form, OR complete the application form and the IR Office will attempt to find a cruise for you.

Further details
List of 2012 cruises

A new collaboration will begin in November when Adrien Bronner, a PhD student at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg, joins the team led by Jo Whittaker, on the Southern Surveyor to the Perth Abyssal Plain.

The InterRidge Office is pleased to announce that it has awarded a cruise travel bursary to Adam Schaen. Adam is studying geochemistry at Bridgewater State University, USA and will be collaborating with Dr. Wolfgang Bach, University of Bremen, on a research cruise to the Eastern Manus Basin. During this collaboration, isobaric gas-tight samplers will be used to collect high-temperature vent fluids, which will undergo chemical and isotopic analysis. Adam will study how interactions between rocks and vent fluid-seawater mixtures modify the compositions of diffuse fluids.