LacCore/CSDCO Grad student and early career training and funding
LacCore/CSDCO, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), provides a wide range of training and support for early career researchers from the U.S. and abroad. We announce two important opportunities for 2018.
Drilling and Coring Summer Institute (DCSI)
The Drilling and Coring Summer Institute (DCSI), a nine-day comprehensive training course for grad students, postdocs, and early-career researchers. This highly-rated, low-cost course will be offered twice in summer 2018.
Learn more on the Drilling and Coring Summer Institute web page.
Visiting Grad Student Program (VGSP)
The Visiting Grad Student Program (VGSP), a $1,000 competitive travel grant for graduate students to visit LacCore/CSDCO with their cores and receive support and training from facilities staff.
Learn more on the Visiting Grad Student Program web page.
The application deadline for both programs is Friday, March 16, 2018.
Please contact Amy Myrbo at amyrbo@umn.edu with questions about either program.
Save the date: CSDC Community Meeting 2018
The Continental Scientific Drilling and Coring Community Meeting 2018 will be held June 4-5 in Alexandria, Virginia. Additional details are forthcoming, but participants will be invited to provide updates on active and future projects, as well as input to CSDCO community science planning and the formal merger of CSDCO and LacCore facilities, funded by NSF.
Please contact csdco@umn.edu with questions in the interim.
Outcomes of Sci Drilling Meeting on 12 Feb
- Gary Wilson is the ‘2IC’ for these
- Schedule for meetings this year… mostly the 2nd Monday of the month with a few modifications:
- 19 Mar
- No meeting in April
- 14 May
- 11 June
- etc….
3. OAR Update
We have agreement from Property Services to move into the old Wickliffe Press building, and are currently waiting for them to clear the space and install some power, lights, water and internet. We have ordered three new containers – one fridge, one office, one for the Geotek – which will probably be delivered there in the next 4-6 weeks. Then there will be a staged operation to shift materials already in other refrigerated containers into those, followed by their containers. We will need a workforce for this.
The database is being constructed at present and we expect a trial version to be delivered in late March.
Data technician position – a work in progress.
4. Dave Prior is about to put in two funding applications
(i) To the Div Sci Strategic Fund and then perhaps the Australian Antarctic Division for funding to support development of a novel device to use laue refection of X-rays to determine crystal orientations of the surfaces of ice or rocks (including cores). It may also be able to do CT scans. $1-1.5M development costs.
(ii) An ice-coring system known as an Eclipse drill to the Otago Large Equipment Grant scheme. Can drill <300m dry in ice/snow and is very portable. $200k.
Contact Dave (david.prior@otago.ac.nz) if you envisage these items might be of use to you and thus you can support his applications.
5. IODP stuff
- Please do read the ANZIC Bulletins I have posted recently and will continue to post
- See associated post that I just put up about forthcoming port calls for the JR and a seismic vessel in Dunedin
6. A reminder to distribute the add about the Short Course in Scientific Drilling in Japan 18 June – 7 July. Add here
That’s all folks!
V
Opportunities to visit Scientific Drilling Ships in March
Two opportunities
1. Port Call for Joides Resolution on 9 Mar.
Andrew Gorman will take a bus to Lyttleton with Geol263-363 students on board for this, and will have 20 spare seats. Does anyone want to go along?
2. 20 Mar, the Marcus Langseth – a seismic research vessel will be visiting Otago, and will make a port call in Dunedin. If you are interested in visiting this vessel please set aside this ~date.
More info can be requested from andrew.gorman@otago.ac.nz
Sci Drilling meeting 12 Feb 12pm @ the Staff Club
Hi all
I have sadly neglected the regular Otago Scientific Drilling group meetings in recent months and want to redress this. Due to my own travel plans I would like to change the previous ‘first Monday of the month’ schedule, to the ‘second Monday of the month’, which would mean the next few meetings are:
12 Feb
12 Mar
9 Apr
8 May…
Pursuant to no one telling me that this will interfere with any other regular meeting?
Agenda items for 12 Feb:
- New meeting schedule
- OAR update
- I need a 2IC to run these Sci Drilling meetings when I am away – any volunteers?
- ANZIC Bulletins including (but not limited to)
- Call for applications to sail on Exps 383 and 385 in 2019
- Call for nominations for a number of positions on ANZIC boards
- Updates on expeditions currently in progress around NZ
- Publication of ‘Exploring the Earth Under the Sea’
- Retirement of Neville Exxon as ANZIC program scientist, and his replacement by Dr. Leanne Armand
- Scientific Drilling Short Course in Japan – June-July 2018 – Applications now open, closing 28 Feb. Add here.
- Any other topics that you all advise me about.
I look forward to seeing many of you next Monday.
V
ANZIC Bulletin Feb 2018
ANZIC Bulletin 7 February 2018 (PDF of the bulletin)
This issue contains information on the following items:
- ANZIC Governing Council 2018
- Expedition 374: Ross Sea
- Expedition 380: NanTroSEIZE
- ANZIC and IODP Governance Roles
- Apply to Sail in 2019
- Australia 2030: Prosperity through Innovation
- Citation advice for ANZIC funded projects
- ANZIC Key Dates Jan-Jun 2018
ANZIC Bulletin Jan 2018
ANZIC Bulletin Jan 2018 (PDF of the Bulletin)
This issue includes news on the following items:
- Apply to Sail on Expedition 383
- Governance roles
- Science meets Parliament
- Meet Leanne Armand
- AGCC 2018
- New ANZIC Office
- New publications
- 2017 ANZIC Overview
