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Monthly Archives: September 2018

ANZIC Travel Support for Participants in the New Caledonia Peridotite Amphibious Drilling Workshop

Due to the high interest and relevance to ANZIC community, the ANZIC Governing Council has made available 4 x$1500 travel support grants to participate at this pre-proposal development meeting.

ANZIC institutional members can apply for support of which two of the travel support grants will be made available for ECRs.

Details regarding the meeting are:

22-24 January 2019, Montpellier, France – website and flyer – The actual workshop application deadline is the: 15 October 2018.
Conveners: Julien Collot, Marguerite Godard, Camille Clerc, Rupert Sutherland, Juerg Matter.
Participation: Scientists who are interested to take part in a workshop should contact the convenor (see links).

To apply for ANZIC support please submit your EOI to ANZIC.programscientis@anu.edu.au by Wednesday the 3rd Oct.

Your EOI should address the following:

  • a summary of your expertise and experience (especially IODP/ICDP) relevant to the proposed objectives (max 300 words.)
  • a plan of how you would participate at the workshop and then share the outcomes with the ANZIC community (max 200 words)
  • an assessment of how attendance would benefit you professionally (please identify if you are an ECR here) (max 300 words)
  • have you received ANZIC funding/support in the last 3 years? If so please list the outcomes/outputs you have produced to date.

CSDCO/LacCore newsletter

Register for short courses at the GSA conference

Please consider registering yourself or your students for the Limnogeology Division short course at this year’s Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.

Short course #508
The Changing Face of Limnogeology—Tools and Methods for Analyzing Lacustrine Systems
Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Only $10 for students, $25 for others!

Instructors are current and former Limnogeology Division officers, LacCore/CSDCO scientific staff, and special guests!

Also check out short courses:
Short course #519 (Building Mobile Apps for Geoscience)
Short course #526 (Taking Students into the Field on Their Own Time: Design and Assessment of Student Self-Guided Field Experiences Using the Free, NSF-Funded Flyover Country Mobile App)
Both of these short courses are co-led by more CSDCO/LacCore people!
For more information on short courses, visit the GSA Annual Meeting Short Courses web page.

Apply for researcher and faculty positions

A number of advanced researcher and faculty positions in lake-related research are currently available at institutions within 2.5 hours of CSDCO/LacCore. We encourage you to apply!

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Department of Earth Sciences Assistant/Associate Professor: Geochemistry of Near Surface Environments

Carleton College Assistant Professor: Climate Science

University of Minnesota-Duluth Natural Resources Research Institute Researcher 7: Limnologist Natural Resources

University of Minnesota-Duluth Natural Resources Research Institute Researcher 7: Aqueous Geochemist


LacCore and CSDCO
University of Minnesota

Seminar on magnetic LWD in deep drilling projects

Hi all
Next Monday (24 Sept) there will be a talk in Physics of relevance to Scientific Ocean Drilling. Its about using MWD (measurement while drilling) of magnetic properties to help to target the direction of deep ocean drilling projects.
3pm, Room 314 in Science Building 3 at Otago.
A flyer is here: Ellen Clarke seminar

Minutes of 4 Sept meeting and next meeting details

Hi
Minutes of the meeting today (4 Sept) are Here.
Our next meeting will be 2 Oct 12:00-13:00 on AVC3 or via zoom:

Zoom Video Conference Information

Title: Science Drilling Meeting
Date and Time: 2 October at 12:00 pm

Click link to Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://otago.zoom.us/j/207435659
You can log into this meeting anytime to get set up and familiarise yourself with Zoom.
We would like to run a test with you prior to the day of your video conference to help ensure all is working correctly. Please email the eConferencing team at econferencing@otago.ac.nz to arrange a time.
Please find a guide on How to test your speakers & microphone https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/zoom/how-to-test-your-microphone-and-speakers-in-zoom/

As a backup option if you are experiencing issues on the day you can join by phone:
Here is a link to the Zoom International Dial-in Numbers: https://zoom.us/zoomconference (Toll charges may apply).
Enter Meeting ID: 207435659 followed by #

For more info on Zoom, please visit our https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/zoom/

For any questions or help with Zoom, please contact eConferencing on econferencing@otago.ac.nz or call +64 3 479 8440 during normal work hours (8:30am – 5:00pm NZ time).

4 Sept 12:00-13:00 – Monthly meeting for Scientific Drilling @ Otago

Our next monthly meeting will be  4 September 2018 at 12 noon

In person in AVC3 (Audio Visual Conferencing Room 3 in the Link Building)

Or electronically via ZOOM:
Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://otago.zoom.us/j/256789960
 
Or join by phone:
    If calling from within New Zealand, dial: 09 801 1188 or 04 831 8959 (Toll charges may apply)
    Meeting ID: 256 789 960
    If calling from outside New Zealand, please see list of available international numbers: https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/zoom/phone/ 
 
Or join from a H.323/SIP room system (e.g.LifeSize, Polycom, Tandberg, Sony) dial: 162.255.37.11 or 162.255.36.11
  Then enter Meeting ID: 256 789 960 
For more info on H323/SIP room connections, please see: https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/zoom/h323 
 
For more info on joining a Zoom meeting, please see our help site: https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/zoom/how-to-join-a-zoom-meeting-step-by-step/
 
For any questions or help with Zoom, please contact eConferencing on econferencing@otago.ac.nz or call either +64 3 479 8440 / +64 3 479 8997 during normal work hours.”

August ANZIC Bulletin

In this issue:

Apply to join the ANZIC Science Committee
Host the ANZIC Masterclass in 2019
Introducing our New Zealand team
Late call Exp 385- diatom or nannofossil biostratigrapher
Welcome Yusuke Yokoyama
MARGO Proposal development workshop funding available

PDF of the Bulletin is available.