Next scientific drilling consortia meeting 5 Dec 12pm
Hi all
I never had a ‘catch-up’ meeting for last month, but now its time for the next monthly meeting of Otago Scientific Drillers – this coming Monday 12pm in the staff club.
Here are a few agenda items, which I may add to by Monday and will eventually post to the blog:
ANZIC-IODP Marine Geoscience Masterclass at Otago will be in progress at the time of the meeting. After some lab training and tours at Otago on Monday, the 20 NZ- and Australian-derived late undergrad to early postgrad participants will be heading off to Doubtful Sound on Tuesday to jump on the Polaris and learn about sediment sampling and other marine geological/geophysical techniques. Chris Moy and Beth Fox (Waikato) are running a substantial part of the course.
I expect they will be too busy to report at this meeting but I hope we can look forward to a written short report and evaluation at the February meeting.
Report on ICDP’s 2016 Conference ‘Supporting Continental Scientific Drilling: Perspectives from Within and Without’.
I (Virginia) attended this as the sole NZ representative.
The conference program is attached so that you can read for yourselves exactly what was covered. In summary, over two days we first heard a lot of summary of the current activities of the Operational Support Group (OSG), and of the way that the ICDP consortium is structured – including how funding is acquired and allocated – and I am happy to talk more to anyone in person about what I learned from this if they are interested in applying to ICDP for any project support.
Then, we split into working groups to consider current practices and make recommendations for the next 5 years of OSG operation. There were 4 working groups, as indicated on the program. I participated in the ‘Data-Curation-Publication’ working group. I was impressed at the way this group interacted and think the recommendations we presented are excellent. I attach the document summarising these and can outline them in person at the meeting.
The two latest ANZIC IODP Bulletins can be found at:
http://iodp.org.au/wp-content/uploads/ANZICs-Bulletin-Issue-7-27-Oct-2016.pdf
http://iodp.org.au/wp-content/uploads/ANZICs-Bulletin-Issue-8-24-Nov-2016.pdf
Remember that the JR will be in NZ waters soon!
The Jodie’s Resolution (IODP boat) will sail around the NZ area in 2017 and 2018. Most of the applications to sail on expeditions have already been made and are currently being assessed by IODP. However, there will still be ample opportunities for NZ scientists to request and work with data or material from the cruises as shore-based scientists and I would like to ensure that Otago take full advantage of these opportunities. Virginia Toy and Andrew Gorman both have involvement in a large MBIE project that will fund associated science.
To stimulate others to think about opportunities, it would be good if someone (me?) were to summarise the expeditions and their objectives. I promise to do this soon.
Marsden:
Does anyone plan a Marsden proposal for this Jan that will draw on IODP or ICDP stuff? I would like to circulate one-pager proposals among ourselves for feedback. If you can participate in this process either as an advisor or a submitter, let me know by return email.
That’s all I have for now but please email me if you want me to add anything and otherwise, see you on Monday!
Virginia
ICDP_Workshop_DataManagement-Summary
