Invitation to join: Geological Society of America group for Continental Scientific Drilling
Dear Continental Scientific Drilling Enthusiasts,
We write to solicit your interest in developing a Continental Scientific Drilling Interdisciplinary Interest Group (IIG) within the Geological Society of America (GSA).
For more information, and to indicate your interest, please read the information below and visit the weblink:
GSA Interdisciplinary Interest Group for Continental Scientific Drilling Interest Form
Background
The National Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office (CSDCO) at the University of Minnesota was established in 2014 to assist the U.S. Continental Scientific Drilling community in project development, operations support, infrastructure development, and various community planning and coordination activities. The CSDCO largely replaces the Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earth’s Continental Crust (DOSECC) consortium as the community organization of the U.S. scientific drilling community. DOSECC is now in the process of disincorporation, which we hope to complete in 2017.
About the new Interdisciplinary Interest Group
Over the years DOSECC has acquired substantial financial assets that we feel would be best used to support the continental drilling and coring community. To this end, we propose to create a new Interdisciplinary Interest Group (IIG) on Continental Scientific Drilling within the Geological Society of America.
This new Continental Scientific Drilling IIG will have many benefits for our community. First and foremost, this IIG will highlight the outstanding research conducted through scientific drilling and coring. The IIG can sponsor or co-sponsor topical sessions at GSA meetings that highlight the science from scientific drilling projects, and can organize and promote meetings, working groups, and other activities in areas of interest to our community.
The DOSECC consortium’s financial assets can be set up as an endowment with The Geological Society of America Foundation, which will maintain the account and distribute its gains to fund activities that promote our science. These could range from student research grants, to traveling lectureships, to many other activities to be determined by the IIG and its members. Lastly, the IIG is composed of individual members and operates much like a GSA division, but will not compete with Divisions for individual membership. The IIG can in fact serve to bridge science across multiple divisions, important given the interdisciplinary nature of many drilling projects.
We have discussed this new IIG with GSA membership, and they are extremely supportive. To establish the IIG, we must show community support and interest in membership in the IIG from current GSA members, and submit a proposal to GSA with proposed IIG bylaws.
How to get involved
If you are interested in becoming a member of this IIG, please provide your name, home institution, email address, primary research interest, and whether you are a GSA member on the GSA Interdisciplinary Interest Group for Continental Scientific Drilling Interest Form.
Going forward, our hope and plan is to have the IIG approved by GSA leadership in time to hold our first organizational meeting at the 2017 GSA fall meeting in Seattle.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Jim Russell
Brown University
John Shervais
Utah State University
Anders Noren
University of Minnesota
Can anyone join this?: Australasian IODP Planning Workshop: Sydney University 13-16 June
Dear colleagues
There will be an important international IODP Workshop at Sydney University from 13-16 June, with good funding support. As you all know Australia and New Zealand have been very successful in working with others to ensure that more than a dozen IODP expeditions have examined or will examine global science problems in our area from 2010 to 2018. The primary aim is to plan the next phase of strong proposals and hence drilling expeditions in our region by JOIDES Resolution, whose schedule has it back here in 2022. Of course, other plans should involve the European platforms and Chikyu. The geographic regions involved are the eastern Indian, the Southwest Pacific, and the adjacent Southern Ocean and Antarctic margin. For us the workshop is essentially about getting teams together to build proposals, and there will be some ANZIC funding to provide travel support for suitable people.
Details are provided on the ANZIC website http://iodp.org.au/, under for scientists. The direct link is http://iodp.org.au/for-scientists/australasian-iodp-regional-planning-workshop-june-2017/. This works with most search engines but not with Google at this moment. Applications for Australians and New Zealanders to attend have a deadline of 10 April.
If you would like to mention the workshop on social media please do so.
With regards
Neville
Call for participation: CSDCO Science Planning… can anyone go?
Call for participation: CSDCO Science Planning
Workshop 2
May 18-19, 2017
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The NSF Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office (CSDCO) at the University of Minnesota requests participation in the development of a community Long Range Science Plan. If you plan to core or drill on Earth’s continents in the next 10 years, your ideas should be included in the Science Plan. This process includes:
Scientific disciplines other than Paleorecords:
1) Apply to Attend Workshop 2, May 18-19, 2017, Minneapolis, Minnesota: http://z.umn.edu/2017csdcwapp
This workshop is for scientific disciplines other than Paleorecords requiring continental drilling and coring: Critical Zone, Deep Biosphere, Tectonics/Magmatism, Fault Zone, Impact Structures, Hydrology, Geothermal, Geochemistry, and others.
Travel is supported through CSDCO funding from NSF.
All disciplines:
2) Fill out the community survey (3 questions) — http://z.umn.edu/csdcsurvey
3) Submit an abstract for a project concept — http://z.umn.edu/csdprojconcept
Paleorecords disciplines:
4) Review and provide feedback on the draft plan, generated during and after Workshop 1 (November 2016).
The goal of this workshop is to identify and prioritize for each discipline the compelling science drivers, drilling/coring targets, strategic frameworks, and timelines focusing on continental localities in the coming decade. Projects include, but are not limited to, collaborative efforts and co-funding with international partners. Investigators with committed funding from the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), or those who will seek such support, are particularly encouraged to participate.
The outputs from this process will form components of the CSDCO Long Range Science Plan. This document will serve as a community roadmap and allow the identification and development of resources required (site surveys, drilling and/or borehole survey technology, field support services, lab instrumentation, data infrastructure, focused workshops, and others) to reach the goals.
Short presentation slots will be available in the agenda for participants to provide brief overviews of the scientific rationale for proposed drilling/coring targets and strategic frameworks. Participants may also bring posters for display during the workshop.
Workshop 2 Meeting Dates:
Wednesday May 17: arrivals, informal gatherings
Thursday May 18: meeting (full day)
Friday May 19: meeting ends 4pm, return home early evening
Application deadline: April 14.
Rolling acceptances will be made prior to the deadline, and will be complete by about April 21.
We will post updates on the Workshop 2 webpage.
If you have questions or comments about this community science planning effort, please contact Anders Noren (noren021@umn.edu) or Amy Myrbo (amyrbo@umn.edu). Thanks for your time and participation.
Anders and Amy
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Amy Myrbo, Ph.D.
Research Associate | LacCore | LacCore.org
Director of Outreach, Diversity, and Education | CSDCO.org
Department of Earth Sciences | esci.umn.edu
500 Pillsbury Dr SE, room 672A, Minneapolis MN 55455
University of Minnesota | UMN.edu
Flyover Country | fc.umn.edu
amyrbo@umn.edu | 612-624-3329
Life and work funded by the National Science Foundation
W Pacific Warm Pool online article, and 2pager on ANZIC
A couple of updates just in from Neville Exon (head of ANZIC):
1. Alex Watt, who is doing a part-time doctorate here at RSES, is also working as a communicator at ARC and has put together this good online article largely covering the Western Pacific Warm Pool Expedition 363. It will get to a wider audience that we normally tap.http://www.arc.gov.au/news-media/news/archway-march-2017-unravelling-secrets-ocean-bed
2. The latest version of the two-page ANZIC/Australian flyer for perusal and potential use is attached. Australian IODP short handout 2-17 final
V
Scientific drilling consortia – latest news and meeting Monday 13th March, 12pm
Hi all
In leiu of our usual meetings on the first Monday of the month, which I have not been here to convene recently, I am calling an out of season meeting next Monday 13th March @12pm
I will be at the Staff Club then, keen to discuss:
1. Application to Division of Sciences Strategic Fund (you will have received a separate email about this if you are staff)
2. Call for ANZIC applications for Brothers Arc Flux IODP Expedition 376
3. Next annual report due to Division on 31 May so I need you to update the attached document please. My new stuff is in purple.
4. Other updates are on the Blog – but I’ve already told you all about them.
See some of you, hopefully, next Monday.
V
Call for ANZIC applications for Brothers Arc Flux IODP Expedition 376
Neville Exxon advises: We are now a month away from the deadline for applications for the exciting and very different Brothers Arc Flux Expedition, which covers the rocks, fluid and microbiota of the active Brothers Volcano north of New Zealand. A wonderful suite of data exists, including detailed deep-towed swath maps of the volcano, and lots of seabed sampling and water sampling. There are shipboard positions to be considered in many fields.
The deadline for applications to ANZIC is 3 April, for this expedition sailing in early May 2018.
Full details of this opportunity:
Gateway to the Sub-Arc Mantle: Volatile Flux, Metal Transport, and Conditions for Early Life. 5 May – 5 July 2018
Expedition 376 will investigate the fundamental, interrelated processes governing subseafloor hydrothermal activity at Brothers volcano, southern Kermadec arc (IODP proposal 818-Full2). The primary objectives are to (1) Characterize the subsurface, magma-derived volatile phase for testing models predicting the existence of either a single-phase gas or a two-phase brine-vapor; (2) Explore the distribution of base and precious metals and metalloids at depth as well as the reactions that have taken place during their precipitation along fluid migration pathways to the seafloor; (3) Quantify the mechanisms and extent of fluid-rock interaction, and what this implies for the mass flux of metals and metalloids to the ocean as well as the role of magma-derived carbon and sulfur species in acting as agents for those fluxes; and (4) Assess the diversity, extent, and metabolic pathways of microbial life in an extreme, acidic, and metal-toxic (sub)volcanic environment.
The ultimate scientific goal of Expedition 376 is to discover the key processes that distinguish submarine arc-hosted hydrothermal systems from those linked to spreading centers, which results from the flux of magmatic fluid commonly being much higher in volcanic arcs. As a consequence of their shallow water depths and high volatile contents, the magmatic-hydrothermal arc signature gives rise to different fluid compositions and thus mineralization compared to submarine extensional settings. This likely also has consequences for the associated biota. Additionally, given the very acidic fluids and high metal concentrations, submarine arc hydrothermal systems are thought to be important analogs to porphyry copper, epithermal gold, and various volcanic rock-hosted massive sulfide deposits mined on land. Drilling Brothers volcano will provide essential information for understanding the formation of those mineral deposits and will also reconstruct the volcanic stratigraphy of this arc volcano.
Operations will focus on discharge zones of geochemically distinct fluids in and around the caldera of Brothers volcano by drilling and logging to hundreds of metres. The drill sites should show the variable impact of magmatic volatiles, which will enable the expedition to directly study the implications of magma degassing for the transport of metals to the seafloor and how this affects the functioning of microbial life.
For more information about the expedition science objectives and the JOIDES Resolution Expedition Schedule see https://iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/expeditions/brothers_arc_flux.html – this includes links to the expedition web pages that provide the original IODP proposal and expedition planning information.
For shipboard scientist responsibilities see http://iodp.tamu.edu/participants/scientist_jobs.html.
