Primary Convener:
Masako Tominaga, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Convener:
Kurt Panter, Bowling Green State University
Ingo Pecher, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
Hao Yu, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

Early Career Convener:
Jyun-Nai Wu, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Chair:
Masako Tominaga, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Kurt Panter, Bowling Green State University

The seafloor in both Arctic and Antarctic oceans is the science frontier for understanding how this planet and its environments are shaped by ice. This session is inspired by the recent discoveries during R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer NBP25-01 Expedition in the western Ross Sea seafloor, Antarctica, which has shed new light on young (LGM to recent) seafloor volcanic processes, their interactions with ice sheets, fluid expulsion and methane flux. We especially welcome multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary contributions studies addressing a broad range of seafloor/sub-seafloor processes in polar oceans. Topics can range, but not limited to: geological processes within seafloor and subseafloor in polar regions, deep biosphere facilitated by the geological processes, ice sheet-seafloor interactions, glaciovolcanology in marine settings, groundwater and hydrocarbon seepage, offshore polar gas hydrates, studies of Earth regarding ocean worlds’ analogue to icy planets, and advancement in marine technologies that enable progress in polar marine sciences.

Index Terms
0726 Ice sheets
3045 Seafloor morphology, geology, and geophysics
8178 Tectonics and magmatism
8427 Subaqueous volcanism

Cross-Listed:
C - Cryosphere
V - Volcanology‚ Geochemistry and Petrology

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering