Workshops
Upcoming Workshops
OBSERVATORIES IN SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING
10-11 September 2012; Houston, Texas
Workshop supported by IODP-MI and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership to educate scientists on the state of the art in observatory science, to explore possible applications of new technologies, to discuss sensor and data needs for addressing fundamental problems, and to discuss strategies for proposing and maintaining long-term observatory experiments.
The deadline to apply is May 15, 2012. Please visit http://iodp-usssp.org/workshop/observatories/ for more information.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC OCEAN IODP WORKSHOP
9-11 October 2012; Sydney, Australia
This workshop, hosted by IODP-MI and ANZIC, will identify the leading scientific ideas, hypotheses and questions for the Southwest Pacific Ocean that are pressing and require ocean drilling.
For more information, see the workshop flyer or contact Neville.Exon@anu.edu.au.
Recent Workshops
COORDINATED SCIENTIFIC DRILLING IN THE BEAUFORT SEA: ADDRESSING PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE CHANGES IN ARCTIC TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE SYSTEMS
12-15 February 2012; Kananaskis, Alberta
Workshop funded by IODP-MI, IODP-Canada, ICDP-Canada and Natural Resources Canada to bring together proponents of IODP and ICDP proposals and members of the community having an interest in modern or paleo-studies of the Beaufort Sea region. The deadline to register is December 16, 2011.
Click here for more information about the Beaufort Sea Workshop.
UNLOCKING THE OPENING PROCESSES OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
31 January - 1 February 2012; Shanghai, China
Workshop sponsored by IODP-MI, IODP-China, NSFC and Tongji University to boost further international collaborations in geological research in the SCS, broaden the scope of the IODP proposal 735-CPP, and identify and refine both regional questions related to East Asian geology and fundamental issues regarding continental breakup and basin formation.
For more information, including application instructions, please see the workshop announcement. The deadline to apply is December 22, 2011.
CATCHING CLIMATE CHANGE IN PROGRESS: DRILLING ON CIRCUM-ARCTIC SHELVES AND UPPER CONTINENTAL SLOPES
10-11 December 2011; San Francisco, California
Workshop sponsored by the IODP U.S. Science Support Program and the USGS Gas Hydrates Project to explore how flexible and possibly multiplatform scientific drilling programs might be used to investigate the impacts of short- and long-term climate change on geological (including methane hydrates), biological, geochemical, and oceanographic systems on the shelves and upper continental slopes of the circum-Arctic Ocean.
Applications from prospective participants will be accepted through October 31. For more information, please visit the website or contact Carolyn Ruppel .
ASSESSING THE HISTORY OF THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET THROUGH OCEAN DRILLING
7-9 November 2011; Corvallis, Oregon
The response of the Greenland Ice Sheet to global warming represents one of the greatest uncertainties in predicting future sea-level rise. This workshop, supported by Ocean Leadership and PAGES, will explore the utility and application of ocean drilling in reconstructing the paleo-history of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Full and partial travel funding is available for a limited number of U.S. and international scientists. Postdocs and graduate students are encouraged to attend and will be given priority in travel support funding.
Interested attendees should contact convenors Joseph Stoner (jstoner@coas.oregonstate.edu) and Anders Carlson (acarlson@geology.wisc.edu) by September 30, 2011.
OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO ARCTIC OCEAN SCIENTIFIC DRILLING: THE SITE SURVEY CHALLENGE
1-3 November 2011; Copenhagen, Denmark
Magellan Workshop Series
The Arctic Ocean is the last essentially un-drilled, un-sampled ocean basin. Arctic deep-sea drilling is the only means to acquire paleo-oceanographic and climatic records and constrain the tectonic history of the basin. Among other issues, the lack of adequate site survey data and appropriate age models for these data, hampers the development of mature drilling proposals. The focus of the workshop is to develop a site survey strategy and planning site survey campaigns based on existing and planned proposals and pre-proposals that were developed as a result of the successful 2008-Magellan workshop.
Please download the "Registration of Interest" form or contact nm@geus.dk.
SCIENTIFIC DRILLING IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
17-18 October 2011; Goa, India
Hosted by IODP-MI, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Australia and New Zealand IODP Consortium (ANZIC) and India's Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES). Click here for the Workshop Program.
USING OCEAN DRILLING TO UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF SLOW SLIP EVENTS
1-5 August 2011; Gisborne, New Zealand
Workshop sponsored by IODP-MI, and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.
Slow slip events (SSEs) are a new class of shear slip found at subduction margins around the globe that have revealed the broad spectrum of fault slip behaviour. The relatively close proximity of SSEs to the seafloor in locations such as New Zealand, central Japan, and Costa Rica indicates that ocean drilling studies have the potential to play an important role in revealing the physical processes behind SSE occurrence. In some cases (such as in New Zealand) direct sampling of the SSE source area may be possible.
The practical issues of addressing transient slip behaviour in deep settings such as subduction zones are challenging, and will require extensive discussion, planning, and debate to develop the science and technology for achieving it. This workshop is intended to move ahead with this exciting challenge and facilitate discussion among the scientific community on ways to use ocean drilling to elucidate the processes behind SSE occurrence.
For more information, please visit the website or contact slowslip@gns.cri.nz.
FLUID FLOW IN ARCTIC CONTINENTAL MARGINS AND OCEAN RIDGES
30-31 May, 2011; Tromsø, Norway
Workshop sponsored by the EU funded Deep Sea and Sub Seafloor Frontier project of the Seventh Framework Programme.
One of the primary goals of this workshop is to develop a science report for conducting scientific drilling into fluid escape pathways in Arctic continental margins and (sedimented) ocean ridges, and to develop synergies with national and international ocean observatory programs. Drilling into fluid release areas of the Arctic has never been done before, but it is of regional and global relevance providing opportunities for fundamental, forefront interdisciplinary research involving geophysics and geology, geochemistry, biogeochemistry, microbiology and biology.
For more information, download the flyer or contact ds3f@ig.uit.no.
