Minutes of Monthly meeting 4 March 2019 12:00-12:30
via zoom: https://otago.zoom.us/j/207435659
In attendance: Virginia Toy, Christina Riesselman, Chris Moy, Christian Ohneiser
Minutes
1. Blog posts
– Reminder to register for the Ocean Planet Workshop – 14-16 April in Canberra
Attendees at present Christina Riesselman, Chris Hollis, Stuart Henrys
Virginia emailed and recommended that Rupert Sutherland, Cecile Massiot, Julie Rowland, Jennifer Eccles…. Represent the hard rock/geophysics/structure world.
Virginia will also co-ordinate a submission from EGU by announcement at the IODP/ICDP Town Hall at 20:00 on 9 April, and by being based at the IODP/ICDP booth with a laptop and a draft science plan (we hope) on 11 April ready for people to drop by and contribute their thoughts.
– U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling Beyond 2023 Workshop
– Latest ANZIC Bulletin including
• Special call for shore-based nanofossil specialist on Exp 385. Apply ASAP
• Article about an amazing IODP scientist Dr. Christina Riesselman !!
• Calls to sail (ie apply) for Expeditions 387 – Amazon Continental Margin and 388 – Equatorial Atlantic Gateway. These are both pretty novel projects that combine oceanic and continental drilling – a first for IODP/ICDP – and will thus be extremely cool to be involved in. Apply!
• Exp 358 – NanTroSEIZE phase 4 plate boundary thrust drilling news
• Exp 378 – Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet drilling news
• Workshop reports – New Caledonia Peridotite and Aus-Antarctic transect.
• Reminder to register for the Ocean Planet Workshop
• ANZIC Program Scientist roadshow… dates have already passed and nothing planned in Dunedin.
Richard Blaikie was invited. Christina Hulbe attended instead.
Current IODP membership ends in 2020, at which time Oz will go up to full rather than half membership as at present (which will be $10 M/a)
There is a move at GNS to obtain higher level infrastructure funding to contribute better too. It’s the plan that Stuart Henrys was working on last year that stalled when GNS didn’t have a strategy manager… they are likely to hire one soon so this may move forward again.
Stuart wanted support from Universities. Victoria’s DVC Research has agreed to coordinate with other insititutions’ DVC Research to ensure there is a join submission of support from the Universities.
• Announcements for a couple of conferences
These are :
In conf on Paleooceanography 2-6 Sept Sydney Australia
3rd Int congress on stratigraphy 2-5 July Milan
Izu-Bonin Oct 27-Nov 2 Japan
• A survey administered by James Cook University evaluating the relationship between University training and the skills needed for Industry jobs.
2. Otago Core Repository Update
There is a steering group meeting this afternoon and its likely that further communications will be distributed thereafter. Please feel free to drop by and see how its going.
3. Other business
Reminder to register for Ocean Planet Workshop – 14 to 16 April, Canberra
As part of the worldwide effort to develop the next decadal plan for scientific ocean drilling, the ANZIC Ocean Planet Workshop will bring together Australian and New Zealand experts in marine geoscience and geomicrobiology relevant to drilling who wish to help formulate a new 2024-2034 science plan for ANZIC and international partners. Participants will deliberate new research frontiers, gaps in the current IODP Science Plan , and improved engineering, technological, drilling, logging, and observing capabilities. The workshop report will form the basis of Australia’s and New Zealand’s input into the next global decadal plan.
Please consider attending this important planning workshop and encourage others in your organisation to attend, especially early or mid-career researchers with an active interest in the science that can be addressed by scientific drilling. Limited funding is available to support travel and accommodation.
For those unable to attend the workshop, the convenors encourage submission of white papers on science challenges, themes and drilling targets in the coming decades. Register for attendance or white paper submission here:
Please also email nzodp@gns.cri.nz by 9 March if you plan to attend the workshop or submit a white paper.
Scientific Drilling at Otago monthly meeting: Monday 4 March 12:00-12:30
This meeting is online only, using Zoom: https://otago.zoom.us/j/207435659
Agenda items:
1. Blog posts
– U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling Beyond 2023 Workshop
– Latest ANZIC Bulletin including
• Special call for shore-based nanofossil specialist on Exp 385. Apply ASAP
• Article about an amazing IODP scientist Dr. Christina Riesselman !!
• Calls to sail (ie apply) for Expeditions 387 – Amazon Continental Margin and 388 – Equatorial Atlantic Gateway. These are both pretty novel projects that combine oceanic and continental drilling – a first for IODP/ICDP – and will thus be extremely cool to be involved in. Apply!
• Exp 358 – NanTroSEIZE phase 4 plate boundary thrust drilling news
• Exp 378 – Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet drilling news
• Workshop reports – New Caledonia Peridotite and Aus-Antarctic transect.
• Reminder to register for the Ocean Planet Workshop
• ANZIC Program Scientist roadshow… dates have already passed and nothing planned in Dunedin.
• Announcements for a couple of conferences
• A survey administered by James Cook University evaluating the relationship between University training and the skills needed for Industry jobs.
2. Otago Core Repository Update
3. Other business
Cheers
Virginia
The Otago iTrax is now in operation!
We are pleased to announce the delivery and installation of our new Itrax high-resolution XRF core scanner. The Itrax is globally recognized for its high precision and rapid generation of multi-element profiles (Al to U) of whole rock and split sediment cores. The instrument can rapidly determine the distribution of a wide range of elements at cm scale down to 0.1 mm, which makes it possible to accurately measure fine details of the core stratigraphy. In addition, the instrument can produce x-ray images that provide valuable information about subtle density (lithology) changes within sediment cores. This is a fundamental tool used in Earth science research and we are proud to have this new capability at the University of Otago.
The instrument has been installed within a modified 20’ marine shipping container in the former Wickliffe Press Building (59 Clyde Street), which now houses the recently established Otago analytical core repository.
We are grateful for the financial support received from a Research & Enterprise major equipment grant and contributions from the Departments of Geology, Geography and Marine Science that have made this important acquisition possible. We will hold an open house within the next few months to celebrate the arrival of the new instrument and the establishment of the new facility.
Please contact Chris Moy (chris.moy@otago.ac.nz) for more information.
