Proceedings of the Deepwater Hydrate Coring Expedition UT-GOM2-2
Expedition UT-GOM2-2 to the Terrebonne Basin
Sites WR313 H002 (API# 608124014800) and WR313 H003 (API# 608124014900).
July 30 to September 28, 2023
Volume Authorship
Peter B. Flemings, Carla Thomas, Stephen C. Phillips, Timothy S. Collett, Ann E. Cook, Evan Solomon, Frederick S. Colwell, Joel E. Johnson, David Awwiller, Irita Aylward, Athma R. Bhandari, Donald Brooks, Jessica Z. Buser-Young, Alejandro Cardona, Michael Casso, Rachel Coyte, Tom Darrah, Marcy Davis, Brandon Dugan, Dan Duncan, John T. Germaine, Melanie Holland, Jesse Houghton, N. Tanner Mills, Michael Mimitz, Daniel Minarich, Yuki Morono, Zachary Murphy, Joshua O’Connell, Ethan Petrou, Tom Pettigrew, John W. Pohlman, Alexey Portnov, Marcie Purkey Phillips, Thomas Redd, Derek E. Sawyer, Peter Schultheiss, Kelly Shannon, Camille Sullivan, Cathal Small, Kayla Tozier, Man-Yin Tsang, Camila Van Der Maal, William F. Waite, Taylor Walton (see UT-GOM2-2 Science Party)
Publisher’s Notes
This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-FE0023919.
This work was the result of scientific collaboration between the following institutions The University of Texas at Austin (UT), DOE, NETL, the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), The Ohio State University, Columbia University, University of New Hampshire, Oregon State University, University of Washington, Tufts University, and Colorado School of Mines, and Geotek Ltd.
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Photos
UT-GOM2-2 expedition photos are the property of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and are public access. High-resolution images are available upon request.
Cover photograph shows the Helix Q-4000 over the Terrebonne Basin Site H on 30 July 2023. Photo credit: Peter B. Flemings
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Volume DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13970849
Publication Date
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Contents
Expedition Reports
SCIENTIFIC PROSPECTUS
PRELIMINARY REPORT
Chapters
Expedition UT-GOM2-2 Summary
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Expedition UT-GOM2-2 Methods
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Expedition UT-GOM2-2 Site H
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Publications
Tozier, Kayla, “Investigating Late Pleistocene To Recent Bimodal Sedimentation in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico” (2024). Master’s Theses and Capstones. 1902, https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/1902.
Conference Presentations
Awwiller, D., Johnson, J. E., Purkey Phillips, M., Phillips, S., et al., 2024, Stratigraphy, sediment composition, and provenance of Pleistocene strata of the Terrebonne Basin, northern Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Buser J. Z., Shannon, K., Morono, Y., Van Der Maal, C., et al, 2024, Microbial distribution in methane hydrate-containing deep sea sediments in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Cardona, A., Bhandari, A. R., Flemings, P. B., 2024, Heat flow in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico: establishing the gas hydrate stability zone. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Cook, A., Phillips, S., Flemings, P. B., Collet, T., Thomas, C., Frye, M., and McConnell, D., 2024, Comparing high saturation hydrate-bearing sand reservoirs in the northern Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Coyte, R., Wulsin, G., Phillips, S., Darrah, T., et al., 2024, Using noble gas tracers to constrain the residence time of methane gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Flemings, P. B., Thomas, C., Phillips, S., Collett, T. S., et al., 2024, Exploring the methane hydrate system through coring in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: the UT-GOM2-2 Expedition. OS54B-01. Talk presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Johnson, J., Phillips, S., Purkey Phillips, M., Awwiller, D., et al., 2024, Sediment geochemistry and early diagenesis in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Kumar, A., Cook, A. E., and the UT-GOM2-2 Scientists, 2024, An unusual seafloor sand in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Martin, S., Cook, A. E., Holland, M. E., Thomas, C., et al., 2024, Insights from X-ray computed tomography on core from the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Phillips S., Coyte, R., Casso, M., You, K., et al., 2024, Accumulation of microbial methane in hemipelagic sediments of the Terrebonne Basin, northern Gulf of Mexico. OS54B-02. Invited talk presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Purkey-Phillips, M., Johnson, J. E., Phillips, S., Tozier, K., 2024, High-resolution calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy in the Terrebonne Basin, northern Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Sawyer, D., Germaine, J., Cardona, A., Bhandari, A. R., et al., 2024, Sediment shear strength properties within the hydrate stability zone: results from the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Hydrate Coring Expedition, Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Small., C., Germaine, J., Cook, A. E., Cardona, A., et al., 2024, Characterization of the compressive behavior of sediment in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Small., C., Germaine, J., Johnson, J. E., Cook, A. E., et al., 2024, Downhole variation of porosity and grainsize in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Solomon, E., Walton, T., Tsang, M., Aylward, I., et al., 2024, Geochemical constraints on the genesis of methane hydrates in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Thomas, C., Flemings, P. B., Cook. A. E., Phillips, S., et al., 2024, Pressure coring in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Tozier, K., Johnson, J. E., Phillips, S., Purkey Phillips, M., et al., 2024, Investigating Late Pleistocene to Recent Bimodal Sedimentation in the Terrebonne Basin, Gulf of Mexico. OS51E. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2024.
Van der Maal, C., Flemings, P., Mills, T., Johnson, J., Greiner, K., 2024, Characterizing the Orange Sand in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Poster presented at UT GeoFluids Annual Meeting, February, 2024