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Monthly Archives: July 2018

June ANZIC Bulletin

 

In this bulletin:
Geosciences 2018 – Napier
LATE CALL Expedition 383 DYNAPACC
ANZIC Team Update
Expedition 376
Geological Society of Japan -International Award
Rise and fall of the Great Barrier Reef
IODP School of Rock 2018
RV Investigator Supplementary applications now open.
AGU Fall Meeting 2018
Australian Organic Geochemistry Conference
Origins of Oil, old organics, and organisms.

Open ANZIC Bulletin 21 June 2018 for more info

July 9 2018 Monthly meeting – due today but happening via email instead

Hi everyone

We were due to have a meeting of Otago Scientific Drilling people today but Gary is away rebuilding a hospital in Vanuatu and I am in Japan
Thus, I am just emailing relevant things. There are two on my list. If you have anything else to advise people of please reply to this email with them.
1. Value Proposition to MBIE for support of NZ IODP

I emailed you all last week asking if you could check this document (which is attached again here with my additions) and advise me of any changes – particularly to the tables at the end where there are lists of student and postdoc projects, associated research grants, and the section of the report which provides details of future drilling proposals (“Future IODP Proposals in New Zealand Region). PLEASE ADD TO THIS AND RETURN TO ME BY THIS THURSDAY.

I will prepare and circulate a similar document for ICDP later this week in which I will try to summarize what I know of your associated research grants etc (we have a  lost from the OAR application) but it will again require checking.

NZIODP Infrastructure VP 030718-PB-VT

2. Short course in scientific drilling

I have just finished teaching a very successful short course in Scientific Drilling at Hokkaido University. During this, 9 international (NZ, China, Italy, France, Nepal, Angora, Australia/USA) and 4 Japanese students learned about Structural Geological, Geophysical, and Paleoenvironmental analyses from a Japanese (Hokkaido, JAMSTEC, GSJ) and International (NZ = Chris Moy, Ireland) faculty group. They enjoyed a combination of lectures, practical classes that included examination of cores loaned to us by Kochi core repository, and fieldwork to validate and upscale drilling-related observations. 

I think this was extremely successful – the student feedback confirms this – and am currently preparing an application for a similar course next year – but I will only be able to run the course next year if we get more enrollments than we did this year. The NZ BSc(Hons) and MSc students who participated were able to get credit for one 20 point 400-level course by participating and I will ensure this is also the case in 2019. However, applications for next year from international students have to be submitted by the end of February 2019 but this does not equate to a commitment to attend. So please advise your current students of this opportunity and get them thinking about it. I will send a flyer for the 2019 course in ~September this year.

 

Thanks everyone

V

Sessions of interest to the GeoPRISMS Community, taking place at the 2018 AGU Fall Meeting, December 10-14 in Washington, DC

AGU abstract submission deadline is 1 August 2018, 11:59 P.M. EDT.

https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/
Submit your abstract: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2018/abstract-submissions/
Your session is not listed? Email us at info@geoprisms.org and we’ll be happy to include your session to the list.

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T017. Exploring Subduction Initiation Processes and Subduction Zone Dynamics: New Insights from Scientific Drilling, Marine Geophysics and Ophiolites
T032. Oceanic Lithosphere: Structure and Evolution from Creation to Destruction
T035. Seafloor Geodesy — Measuring Deformation of the Seabed
S008. Environmental seismology: using geophysical tools for Earth surface processes research
V011. Chemistry and Physics of Redox reactions in the Solid Earth
V018. Deciphering Magma-Tectonic Interactions in Rifts, Arcs, Ridges and Volcanic Fields
V026. Integrating perspectives on East African Rift magmatism from satellite to subsurface measurements
V027. Interdisciplinary Characterization of Volcanic Explosion Source Dynamics
V037. Sulfur – a unique player for redox evolution, volatile degassing, metal transport in magmatic, volcanic, and hydrothermal systems
V044. Volcano Seismology and Acoustics: Recent Advances in Understanding Volcanic Processes
MR023. Volatile Elements in Planetary Interiors: Storage, Cycling, and Implications
DI022. The Role of Lithosphere Heterogeneities in Shaping Plate Kinematics and Subduction Dynamics