Invited speakers

 Session : 1. Processes and frequency of fluid expulsion

Aurélien Gay (Montpellier University) : Fluid flow in sedimentary basins

 Session : 2. Nature and chemical composition of fluids and development of associated bacterial communities

Helge Niemann (NIOZ, Texel) :  Microbes at cold seeps: how environmental determine their activity

 Session : 3. Examples of pockmarks and associated benthic ecosystems in deep sea domain

 Giuliana Panieri (CAGE, Tromsø) : Pockmarks in the Arctic Ocean: Recent insights

 Session : 4. Examples of pockmarks and benthic ecosystems in coastal areas

Jean-Claude Dauvin (Caen University) : Review of the genus Haploops Liljeborg, 1856 (Amphipoda, Ampeliscidae): from  taxonomy to dynamic of dense populations