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📢 Workshop CALL: HOROMAN DC (Hokkaido, Japan) Horoman Mantle Drilling and Carbon Injection
WHEN 📆 25-28 August 2026 (Hokkaido, Japan)
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WHEN 📆 25-28 August 2026 (Hokkaido, Japan)
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November 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
📢 Workshop CALL: HOROMAN DC (Hokkaido, Japan) Horoman Mantle Drilling and Carbon Injection
WHEN 📆 25-28 August 2026 (Hokkaido, Japan)
CALL ▶️ www.icdp-online.org/fileadmin/Ne...
INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
WHEN 📆 25-28 August 2026 (Hokkaido, Japan)
CALL ▶️ www.icdp-online.org/fileadmin/Ne...
INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
VGSP Savannah Rivera from University of Oklahoma is sampling cores collected from three sites in Lake Tanganyika to study the impact of land use and climate change on the sediment over the past few thousand years.
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
VGSP Savannah Rivera from University of Oklahoma is sampling cores collected from three sites in Lake Tanganyika to study the impact of land use and climate change on the sediment over the past few thousand years.
VGSP Carson McFarland from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee is sampling cores collected in 2023 in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania for volcanic layers which he will correlate to previously described geologic units using geochemistry and mineralogy.
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
VGSP Carson McFarland from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee is sampling cores collected in 2023 in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania for volcanic layers which he will correlate to previously described geologic units using geochemistry and mineralogy.
Due today! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Due today! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
Due this Friday! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Due this Friday! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
Apply now for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
October 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Apply now for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
It's that time again! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
It's that time again! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...
Researchers from University of the Republic of Uruguay are splitting and describing cores collected in coastal lagoons between Uruguay and Brazil. They will use XRF, grain size, diatoms, and stable isotope data to study anthropogenic impacts and long term sea level oscillations.
October 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Researchers from University of the Republic of Uruguay are splitting and describing cores collected in coastal lagoons between Uruguay and Brazil. They will use XRF, grain size, diatoms, and stable isotope data to study anthropogenic impacts and long term sea level oscillations.
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📢 @icdpdrilling.bsky.social Proposal Call for Pre-, Workshop, Full and our NEW ❗Fast-track Proposals is now open
📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026
📧 Submit via: proposal.submission@icdp-online.org
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📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026
📧 Submit via: proposal.submission@icdp-online.org
ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...
October 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
📢 @icdpdrilling.bsky.social Proposal Call for Pre-, Workshop, Full and our NEW ❗Fast-track Proposals is now open
📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026
📧 Submit via: proposal.submission@icdp-online.org
ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...
📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026
📧 Submit via: proposal.submission@icdp-online.org
ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...
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We are busy in Finland🌏: now at the DEEP EGS workshop (Espoo, Finland) aiming at deep geothermal energy exploration in crystalline rock 🪨 + post-drilling assessment & experiments in the St1 Deep Heat Reservoir, Finland👍
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October 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We are busy in Finland🌏: now at the DEEP EGS workshop (Espoo, Finland) aiming at deep geothermal energy exploration in crystalline rock 🪨 + post-drilling assessment & experiments in the St1 Deep Heat Reservoir, Finland👍
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ICDP Workshop FlankED now on in Catania (Italy)👉 >50 international scientists exploring our understanding on how deep scientific drilling can reveal the physical mechanisms & triggers of volcano flank sliding 🌋
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September 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
ICDP Workshop FlankED now on in Catania (Italy)👉 >50 international scientists exploring our understanding on how deep scientific drilling can reveal the physical mechanisms & triggers of volcano flank sliding 🌋
ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
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This week Lydia Olaka from the Technical University of Kenya, Cat Beck from Hamilton College and CSD staff collected water samples at springs and water sources around Turkana, Kenya for major ion chemistry, trace metals, and isotopes as preliminary work for the Turkana Basin Drilling Project.
October 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This week Lydia Olaka from the Technical University of Kenya, Cat Beck from Hamilton College and CSD staff collected water samples at springs and water sources around Turkana, Kenya for major ion chemistry, trace metals, and isotopes as preliminary work for the Turkana Basin Drilling Project.
CSD staff hosted a successful workshop on scientific drilling with Lydia Olaka from the Technical University of Kenya and Cat Beck from Hamilton College at the Colloquium for African Geology in Nairobi this weekend. We are thrilled to connect with the next generation of geoscientists in the region.
September 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
CSD staff hosted a successful workshop on scientific drilling with Lydia Olaka from the Technical University of Kenya and Cat Beck from Hamilton College at the Colloquium for African Geology in Nairobi this weekend. We are thrilled to connect with the next generation of geoscientists in the region.
Researchers from University of Pittsburgh are resampling cores collected in 2015 from Lake Junin, Peru to expand their data to include more glacial and interglacial cycles. This research will reveal what controls the South American summer monsoon under different conditions.
September 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Researchers from University of Pittsburgh are resampling cores collected in 2015 from Lake Junin, Peru to expand their data to include more glacial and interglacial cycles. This research will reveal what controls the South American summer monsoon under different conditions.
Researcher Paige Kohler from Michigan State University is back in the lab - this time sampling for paleomagnetic data to provide age constraints for her cores from the Lake Erie central basin. Paige is researching biogeochemical cycling in the Great Lakes throughout the Holocene.
September 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Researcher Paige Kohler from Michigan State University is back in the lab - this time sampling for paleomagnetic data to provide age constraints for her cores from the Lake Erie central basin. Paige is researching biogeochemical cycling in the Great Lakes throughout the Holocene.
CSD Facility Researcher Vania Stefanova is teaching Carl Martin from Calvin College to identify pollen from cores collected in Flat Iron Lake, Michigan.
September 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
CSD Facility Researcher Vania Stefanova is teaching Carl Martin from Calvin College to identify pollen from cores collected in Flat Iron Lake, Michigan.
These cores from Gull Lake, CA are being sampled by researchers from Georgia Southern University for stable isotopes, total organic carbon, and X-ray fluorescence to complement previous work on diatoms.
September 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
These cores from Gull Lake, CA are being sampled by researchers from Georgia Southern University for stable isotopes, total organic carbon, and X-ray fluorescence to complement previous work on diatoms.
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And another project finalized 🎉! Congratulations to GOE-DEEP (Gabon)- End of Phase 01!
Final depth of 459.6 meters at the final (8th) Lebaye hole.
Core recovery of 96% ⚡ 2717 m of precious core in only 3 months👍
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Final depth of 459.6 meters at the final (8th) Lebaye hole.
Core recovery of 96% ⚡ 2717 m of precious core in only 3 months👍
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September 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
And another project finalized 🎉! Congratulations to GOE-DEEP (Gabon)- End of Phase 01!
Final depth of 459.6 meters at the final (8th) Lebaye hole.
Core recovery of 96% ⚡ 2717 m of precious core in only 3 months👍
ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
Final depth of 459.6 meters at the final (8th) Lebaye hole.
Core recovery of 96% ⚡ 2717 m of precious core in only 3 months👍
ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
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Congrats 🎉 BVDP project (South Africa) finalized! Final depth: 1877.2 m depth on 23rd August 25. Congratulations to the successful team! 👍 Important goals achieved⚡now preparing for sampling and for publishing exciting new insights into the Bushveld Complex! ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
September 1, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Congrats 🎉 BVDP project (South Africa) finalized! Final depth: 1877.2 m depth on 23rd August 25. Congratulations to the successful team! 👍 Important goals achieved⚡now preparing for sampling and for publishing exciting new insights into the Bushveld Complex! ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...
Sam Randall from Western Washington University is describing cores collected from small high altitude lakes near Mount Baker, WA. He is focusing on tephra deposits from the most recent explosive eruption around 6,700 years ago to study how the magma changed throughout the duration of the eruption.
August 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Sam Randall from Western Washington University is describing cores collected from small high altitude lakes near Mount Baker, WA. He is focusing on tephra deposits from the most recent explosive eruption around 6,700 years ago to study how the magma changed throughout the duration of the eruption.
Professor Kate Flick from the College of Menominee Nation recently visited the lab to split the cores she collected in Berry Lake, WI with the help of Facility staff last winter.
August 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Professor Kate Flick from the College of Menominee Nation recently visited the lab to split the cores she collected in Berry Lake, WI with the help of Facility staff last winter.
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The CSD Division is excited to announce our 2025-2026 Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Kristine Pankow of the University of Utah!
You are welcome to invite her to talk at your colloquia by contacting kris.pankow@utah.edu or looking at the CSDD website (community.geosociety.org/%20continent...)
You are welcome to invite her to talk at your colloquia by contacting kris.pankow@utah.edu or looking at the CSDD website (community.geosociety.org/%20continent...)
August 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The CSD Division is excited to announce our 2025-2026 Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Kristine Pankow of the University of Utah!
You are welcome to invite her to talk at your colloquia by contacting kris.pankow@utah.edu or looking at the CSDD website (community.geosociety.org/%20continent...)
You are welcome to invite her to talk at your colloquia by contacting kris.pankow@utah.edu or looking at the CSDD website (community.geosociety.org/%20continent...)
USGS geologists are studying how earthquakes are represented in sedimentary records using archival New England cores from the 70s & 80s to look for evidence of the 1638 New Hampshire & 1755 Cape Ann events. Stanley Lake, ID cores provide them a modern record of the 2020 M6.5 Stanley earthquake.
August 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
USGS geologists are studying how earthquakes are represented in sedimentary records using archival New England cores from the 70s & 80s to look for evidence of the 1638 New Hampshire & 1755 Cape Ann events. Stanley Lake, ID cores provide them a modern record of the 2020 M6.5 Stanley earthquake.