Workshop on the modeling of gas hydrates

Nov 28, 2023

The workshop participants come from Germany, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Belgium. Photo: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp — The workshop participants come from Germany, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Belgium. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Gas hydrate deposits are among the largest marine carbon reservoirs on earth. In collaboration with colleagues from the University of Malta and GEOMAR in Kiel, a new model for simulating gas hydrate dynamics in the underwater seabed was recently developed at MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the Department of Geosciences at the University of Bremen. Contrary to previous assumptions, gas hydrate systems – under geological time scales – do not necessarily converge to a stable state, but show a more complex cyclic behavior. This has implications for previous estimates of carbon and methane resources. The new model enables a more precise uncertainty analysis of these budgets in both marine underwater sediments and permafrost regions.

As part of the Ocean Floor Cluster of Excellence, an international group of 14 researchers met at MARUM for three days for a workshop to investigate the possible effects of the periodic gas hydrates states in nature in more detail by using the new modeling solutions.

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More information:

Link to Ocean Floor - Cluster of Excellence
Link to publication: Shubhangi Gupta, Ewa Burwicz-Galerne, Christopher Schmidt, Lars Rüpke "Periodic states and their implications in gas hydrate systems" Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 624, 2023, 118445.