Deadline approaching: Continental Scientific Drilling Science Planning Workshop
Deadline April 14: Continental Scientific Drilling Science Planning Workshop in Minneapolis May 18-19. Please attend; travel funded by NSF.
The CSDCO requests participation in the development of a community Long Range Science Plan. If you plan to core or drill on Earth’s continents in the next 10 years, your ideas should be included in the Science Plan.
Apply to Attend Science Planning Workshop 2 (Deadline: April 14): http://z.umn.edu/2017csdcwapp
This workshop is for scientific disciplines other than Paleorecords requiring continental drilling and coring: Critical Zone, Deep Biosphere, Tectonics/Magmatism, Fault Zone, Impact Structures, Hydrology, Geothermal, Geochemistry, and others. Participants from the Paleorecords community will be considered if space and funding allow. Travel is supported through CSDCO funding from NSF.
Complete information is available at the Workshop 2 webpage: http://z.umn.edu/spw2
Email from Stuart Henrys – DRILLNZ
Stuart Henrys at GNS Science co-ordinates the DRILLNZ (now GeoDiscoveryNZ) group. He emailed today to remind us of the IODP Workshop application deadline and the ANZIC Report not he web – both of which I’ve already told you about this morning. Additionally he comments:
1. In order to take advantage of the many port calls coming up in 2018 Chris Hollis and myself, together with John Callan (GNS) met with Emily Watt, a PR consultant, who has put together a draft comms plan. The plan is attached and we welcome feedback. IODP Comms Plan-March2017(final). Recently I have had an opportunity to pitch IODP to Minister Paul Goldsmith, Megan Woods (Labour spokesperson for Science), and Laura and I spoke to Gareth Hughs (Greens) earlier this year. All are keen to visit the ship when berthed in Wellington!
2. The table attached to the comms plan provides a summary of the Expeditions, participants (to date), and port calls for the 6 legs scheduled in NZ waters and the Ross Sea. In addition, if you receive the Royal Society Alerts, you will see we are calling for E&O applications. I attach the advertisement and keen to spread the word for this as well. 17 April deadline NZ Education & Outreach Advert
3. We have relaunched the DRILLNZ web site as GeoDiscoveryNZ https://geodiscovery.gns.cri.nz/ We needed to do this because of peculiar associations were showing up on google search. In any case, it has given us an opportunity to rearrange it a bit. We are still in the process of doing that and improving the layout.
Email in lieu of a monthly meeting: LAST CALL for IODP and CSDCO Workshop Applications
Hi all
First, note that I am not presently in Dunedin so haven’t convened a lunchtime meeting this month. I will also be away next month but am likely to call an ‘out of season’ meeting in mid May to make up for that.
Second, please note that next Monday 10 April is the deadline for applications to attend the IODP planning workshop in Sydney in mid June. I would really like people to apply to attend this important workshop. At it, plans will be made for applications to IODP for future expeditions in the SW Pacific region in the coming decade. Its really important that those of us who will be doing Ocean Drilling-related science in this region are involved in defining our scientific goals. If you think you could attend, please please apply. For those who cannot attend, I will compile a list of science ideas/targets/objectives that I hope one Otago representative can take to the Workshop and present for us. I will also send this summary to Neville Exxon. If you have relevant ideas please signal these to me.
There is also a Continental Scientific Drilling workshop of similar style planned in Minneapolis in May this year, and if you think you might be involved in projects in the USA or with US colleagues in the next decade you should be thinking of attending that. Deadline for applications is 14 April. More details under 3 below.
Third, I’ve recently added updates to our blog about
1. A new ANZIC Annual Report available for download if desired
2. An invitation to join a Geol Soc of America Interdisciplinary Interest Group for Continental Scientific Drilling.
3. A call for applications to join a workshop planning the science drivers and drilling targets for Continental Scientific Drilling in America (and projects that Americans might contribute to overseas!) in Minneapolis from May 18-19 this year. If anyone can attend this I strongly recommend applying by the deadline of 14 April. There are also links in that blog post to some online surveys that you can/should try to fill in to provide some input if you can’t attend in person.
4. There is a blog post about an online article about the W Pacific Warm Pool and the latest ANZIC Bulletin.
5. I am working on setting up a mailing list for these emails but haven’t done it yet… but can you glance at the addressee list here and see if I am missing anyone please?
6. There is a similar upcoming workshop (Sept 2017) related to the JOIDES resolution. Details here: http://usoceandiscovery.org/denver2/
OK, if you have any questions about any of this stuff please contact me by email. Also, keep watching the blog for new stuff I pop up there as I mostly don’t send out emails to you all as I do it.
Thanks
Virginia
Last call: Attendance at Australasian IODP Planning Workshop: Sydney University 13-16 June
Dear colleagues – this is to remind everyone that the deadline is next Monday, April 10th. It is clear that the international and national attendance will be very good, and the workshop should be a great success. With regards, Neville.
Original announcement:
There will be an important international IODP Workshop at Sydney University from 13-16 June, with good funding support. As you all know Australia and New Zealand have been very successful in working with others to ensure that more than a dozen IODP expeditions have examined or will examine global science problems in our area from 2010 to 2018. The primary aim is to plan the next phase of strong proposals and hence drilling expeditions in our region by JOIDES Resolution, whose schedule has it back here in 2022. Of course, other plans should involve the European platforms and Chikyu. The geographic regions involved are the eastern Indian, the Southwest Pacific, and the adjacent Southern Ocean and Antarctic margin. For us the workshop is essentially about getting teams together to build proposals, and there will be some ANZIC funding to provide travel support for suitable people.
Details are provided on the ANZIC website http://iodp.org.au/, under for scientists. The direct link is http://iodp.org.au/for-scientists/australasian-iodp-regional-planning-workshop-june-2017/. This works with most search engines but not with Google at this moment. Applications for Australians and New Zealanders to attend have a deadline of 10 April.
ANZIC Annual Report for 2016 now up on web site
Dear colleagues
The ANZIC 2016 Annual Report is now available from the ANZIC web site on http://iodp.org.au/wp-content/uploads/ANZIC-Annual-Report-2016-Web-version2.pdf. It is well worth looking through and gives a good overview of our highly successful group and the great scientific work being undertaken.
A number of printed copies will be used strategically to forward the interests of ANZIC. Some will be sent to various individuals and groups in the next few weeks, including a number sent to Principal and Chief Investigators for forwarding as appropriate in each member institution. Some will be sent to leaders in government departments and other institutions, and some will be handed out in various meetings.
With regards
Neville
Invitation to join: Geological Society of America group for Continental Scientific Drilling
Dear Continental Scientific Drilling Enthusiasts,
We write to solicit your interest in developing a Continental Scientific Drilling Interdisciplinary Interest Group (IIG) within the Geological Society of America (GSA).
For more information, and to indicate your interest, please read the information below and visit the weblink:
GSA Interdisciplinary Interest Group for Continental Scientific Drilling Interest Form
Background
The National Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office (CSDCO) at the University of Minnesota was established in 2014 to assist the U.S. Continental Scientific Drilling community in project development, operations support, infrastructure development, and various community planning and coordination activities. The CSDCO largely replaces the Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earth’s Continental Crust (DOSECC) consortium as the community organization of the U.S. scientific drilling community. DOSECC is now in the process of disincorporation, which we hope to complete in 2017.
About the new Interdisciplinary Interest Group
Over the years DOSECC has acquired substantial financial assets that we feel would be best used to support the continental drilling and coring community. To this end, we propose to create a new Interdisciplinary Interest Group (IIG) on Continental Scientific Drilling within the Geological Society of America.
This new Continental Scientific Drilling IIG will have many benefits for our community. First and foremost, this IIG will highlight the outstanding research conducted through scientific drilling and coring. The IIG can sponsor or co-sponsor topical sessions at GSA meetings that highlight the science from scientific drilling projects, and can organize and promote meetings, working groups, and other activities in areas of interest to our community.
The DOSECC consortium’s financial assets can be set up as an endowment with The Geological Society of America Foundation, which will maintain the account and distribute its gains to fund activities that promote our science. These could range from student research grants, to traveling lectureships, to many other activities to be determined by the IIG and its members. Lastly, the IIG is composed of individual members and operates much like a GSA division, but will not compete with Divisions for individual membership. The IIG can in fact serve to bridge science across multiple divisions, important given the interdisciplinary nature of many drilling projects.
We have discussed this new IIG with GSA membership, and they are extremely supportive. To establish the IIG, we must show community support and interest in membership in the IIG from current GSA members, and submit a proposal to GSA with proposed IIG bylaws.
How to get involved
If you are interested in becoming a member of this IIG, please provide your name, home institution, email address, primary research interest, and whether you are a GSA member on the GSA Interdisciplinary Interest Group for Continental Scientific Drilling Interest Form.
Going forward, our hope and plan is to have the IIG approved by GSA leadership in time to hold our first organizational meeting at the 2017 GSA fall meeting in Seattle.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Jim Russell
Brown University
John Shervais
Utah State University
Anders Noren
University of Minnesota
Can anyone join this?: Australasian IODP Planning Workshop: Sydney University 13-16 June
Dear colleagues
There will be an important international IODP Workshop at Sydney University from 13-16 June, with good funding support. As you all know Australia and New Zealand have been very successful in working with others to ensure that more than a dozen IODP expeditions have examined or will examine global science problems in our area from 2010 to 2018. The primary aim is to plan the next phase of strong proposals and hence drilling expeditions in our region by JOIDES Resolution, whose schedule has it back here in 2022. Of course, other plans should involve the European platforms and Chikyu. The geographic regions involved are the eastern Indian, the Southwest Pacific, and the adjacent Southern Ocean and Antarctic margin. For us the workshop is essentially about getting teams together to build proposals, and there will be some ANZIC funding to provide travel support for suitable people.
Details are provided on the ANZIC website http://iodp.org.au/, under for scientists. The direct link is http://iodp.org.au/for-scientists/australasian-iodp-regional-planning-workshop-june-2017/. This works with most search engines but not with Google at this moment. Applications for Australians and New Zealanders to attend have a deadline of 10 April.
If you would like to mention the workshop on social media please do so.
With regards
Neville
Call for participation: CSDCO Science Planning… can anyone go?
Call for participation: CSDCO Science Planning
Workshop 2
May 18-19, 2017
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The NSF Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office (CSDCO) at the University of Minnesota requests participation in the development of a community Long Range Science Plan. If you plan to core or drill on Earth’s continents in the next 10 years, your ideas should be included in the Science Plan. This process includes:
Scientific disciplines other than Paleorecords:
1) Apply to Attend Workshop 2, May 18-19, 2017, Minneapolis, Minnesota: http://z.umn.edu/2017csdcwapp
This workshop is for scientific disciplines other than Paleorecords requiring continental drilling and coring: Critical Zone, Deep Biosphere, Tectonics/Magmatism, Fault Zone, Impact Structures, Hydrology, Geothermal, Geochemistry, and others.
Travel is supported through CSDCO funding from NSF.
All disciplines:
2) Fill out the community survey (3 questions) — http://z.umn.edu/csdcsurvey
3) Submit an abstract for a project concept — http://z.umn.edu/csdprojconcept
Paleorecords disciplines:
4) Review and provide feedback on the draft plan, generated during and after Workshop 1 (November 2016).
The goal of this workshop is to identify and prioritize for each discipline the compelling science drivers, drilling/coring targets, strategic frameworks, and timelines focusing on continental localities in the coming decade. Projects include, but are not limited to, collaborative efforts and co-funding with international partners. Investigators with committed funding from the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), or those who will seek such support, are particularly encouraged to participate.
The outputs from this process will form components of the CSDCO Long Range Science Plan. This document will serve as a community roadmap and allow the identification and development of resources required (site surveys, drilling and/or borehole survey technology, field support services, lab instrumentation, data infrastructure, focused workshops, and others) to reach the goals.
Short presentation slots will be available in the agenda for participants to provide brief overviews of the scientific rationale for proposed drilling/coring targets and strategic frameworks. Participants may also bring posters for display during the workshop.
Workshop 2 Meeting Dates:
Wednesday May 17: arrivals, informal gatherings
Thursday May 18: meeting (full day)
Friday May 19: meeting ends 4pm, return home early evening
Application deadline: April 14.
Rolling acceptances will be made prior to the deadline, and will be complete by about April 21.
We will post updates on the Workshop 2 webpage.
If you have questions or comments about this community science planning effort, please contact Anders Noren (noren021@umn.edu) or Amy Myrbo (amyrbo@umn.edu). Thanks for your time and participation.
Anders and Amy
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Amy Myrbo, Ph.D.
Research Associate | LacCore | LacCore.org
Director of Outreach, Diversity, and Education | CSDCO.org
Department of Earth Sciences | esci.umn.edu
500 Pillsbury Dr SE, room 672A, Minneapolis MN 55455
University of Minnesota | UMN.edu
Flyover Country | fc.umn.edu
amyrbo@umn.edu | 612-624-3329
Life and work funded by the National Science Foundation
W Pacific Warm Pool online article, and 2pager on ANZIC
A couple of updates just in from Neville Exon (head of ANZIC):
1. Alex Watt, who is doing a part-time doctorate here at RSES, is also working as a communicator at ARC and has put together this good online article largely covering the Western Pacific Warm Pool Expedition 363. It will get to a wider audience that we normally tap.http://www.arc.gov.au/news-media/news/archway-march-2017-unravelling-secrets-ocean-bed
2. The latest version of the two-page ANZIC/Australian flyer for perusal and potential use is attached. Australian IODP short handout 2-17 final
V
Scientific drilling consortia – latest news and meeting Monday 13th March, 12pm
Hi all
In leiu of our usual meetings on the first Monday of the month, which I have not been here to convene recently, I am calling an out of season meeting next Monday 13th March @12pm
I will be at the Staff Club then, keen to discuss:
1. Application to Division of Sciences Strategic Fund (you will have received a separate email about this if you are staff)
2. Call for ANZIC applications for Brothers Arc Flux IODP Expedition 376
3. Next annual report due to Division on 31 May so I need you to update the attached document please. My new stuff is in purple.
4. Other updates are on the Blog – but I’ve already told you all about them.
See some of you, hopefully, next Monday.
V
