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

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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

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