Abundant training opportunities
LacCore: National Lacustrine Core Facility and the Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office (CSDCO) are offering several upcoming training opportunities.
NEW Short Courses
CSDCO/LacCore now offers FREE training courses in coring, core description and processing, core software, and more! Short courses are open to all! Registration is open for courses in February, March, and April.
Learn more about short courses.
Drilling and Coring Summer Institute
This institute is a comprehensive 10-day course for graduate students, postdocs, and early-career researchers. The application deadline is March 8.
Learn more about the summer institute.
Visiting Grad Student Program
Travel grants are provided for graduate students to bring their cores to the CSDCO/LacCore facilities. The application deadline is March 29.
Learn more about the visiting grad student program.
Input needed on CORES study
We’d also like to remind our community to provide input to the CORES study. Please see the request below from Dennis Kent, Rutgers:
The National Academies is conducting a study on Catalyzing Opportunities for Research in the Earth Sciences (CORES) for the Division of Earth Sciences at the National Science Foundation and wants to hear from you!
The purpose of the CORES study is to:
identify a concise set of high-priority scientific questions for the next decade,
assess infrastructure needed to address these questions, and
determine opportunities for greater collaboration with other NSF divisions and directorates, federal agencies, and domestic and international partners.
The CORES committee strongly feels that this study must be informed by vigorous community input from across the entire spectrum of Earth sciences. One of the ways we are soliciting input is through a questionnaire assessing your ideas about upcoming research priorities. Visit the questionnaire website.
The CORES website provides more detailed information on the study charge, as well as a complete list of committee members.
Please contribute your comments regarding the top Earth science priorities for the next decade.
Thank you!
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LacCore and CSDCO
University of Minnesota
