IODP and ICDP New Science Plans and Land-2-Sea proposals – Webinar at EGU2021

2020 saw the beginning of a new era of scientific ocean drilling with the publication of the community-inspired and driven Exploring the Earth by Scientific Ocean Drilling: 2050 Science Framework, which will guide scientific ocean drilling over the next 30 years with the overarching goal of understanding the interconnected processes that characterise the complex Earth system and shape our planet’s future.

The 2050 Science Framework builds on the many successes from 50 years of scientific ocean drilling – but represents a radical departure from previous 10-year science plans that have previously guided scientific ocean drilling, with its focus on multidisciplinary research and its longer timeframe that enables multi-decadal planning for complex projects that address key issues facing society. The 2050 Science Framework has been designed to inspire and support strong cross-discipline collaboration, including strengthened collaborations with allied programs such as space agencies and continental drilling programs, and to promote dissemination of results to a broad audience.

The publication of the 2050 Science Framework marks the culmination of an intense planning and writing effort by the international scientific drilling community – the outcome of this extensive peer review process and the high level of community input and involvement is an exciting new outlook for three decades of future scientific ocean drilling.

The webinar is part of the vEGU 2021 and it is one of  the five webinars that we prepared for the ECORD/IODP-ICDP joint booth at vEGU 2021.