Townhall meetings

ECORD at EGU 2014

From Sunday 27 April 27 to Friday 2 May 2014 ECORD/IODP and the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) have presented joint activities and events to promote ocean and continental research drilling at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014 in Vienna, Austria.

IODP-ICDP Exhibition Booth
Location: booth # 55-56-57, Entrance Hall, Yellow level from Monday 28 April 28 to Thursday 1st May.
The ECORD/IODP-ICDP booth was a focal point aiming to attract both programme communities but also scientists from other fields of research and other countries. Live demonstrations of logging operations were organised several times per day to explain logging with a sonic tool, a tool commonly used by both programmes.

Contact: Patricia Maruéjol

photos T. Wiersberg and P. Maruéjol

TM1: IODP – ICDP Townhall Meeting

Tuesday April 29, 19:00-20:00, Room B5
The Townhall meeting is the opportunity to share our views on exciting challenges to take up for a better understanding of the Earth system and its changing environments.
>> Download the programme

Contact: Thomas Wiersbe

EuroForum 2014: Major achievements and perspectives in scientific ocean and continental drilling (including Arne Richert Award for Young Scientist Lecture)
Convenor: Gretchen Früh-Green
Co-convenors: C. Escutia, U. Röhl, U. Harms, T. Wiersberg & R. Stein

Tuesday, April 29, 2013, Orals: 8:30-12:30 – Room Y9
Yellow Posters from 17:30 to 19:00
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/session/14118

Contact: Gretchen Früh-Green

PC6 – Press conference: Looking into the past to predict future climate
First results of IODP Expedition 347 Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment
Participants: Thomas Andrén (Co-chief scientist) and a second scientist to be announced.

Tuesday April 29, 2013, 14:00 – Press center, Yellow level

Contact: Albert Gerdes

IODP-ICDP-related sessions at EGU 2014:

CL1.3: Polar continental margins and fjords – climatic, oceanography, tectonics and geohazards
Convenors: K. Hogan, J. S. Laberg & M. Forwick
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/session/14088
OS2.6: Clmatic causes and consequences of Mediterranean-Atlantic gateway exchanges from Miocene to present
Convenor: R. Flecker | Co-Convenors: F.J. Hernandez Molina
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/session/15305
TS7.1/GM3.7: Fold-and-thrust belts & accretionnay wedges: mechanics, models, large earthquakes, fluids, growth, erosion, structures, tectonics and lithospheric links
Convenor: J. Suppe
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/session/14737
SSP4.4: Mesozoic and Cenozoic Foraminifera: biostratigraphy, palaeoenvironments, palaeo/climates, palaeo/biogeography, phylogeny (sp. PalAss)
Convenor: D. Grosheny | Co-Convenors: S. Spezzaferri, I. Premoli Silva, F. Eynaud
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/session/15147
ML27: Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal Lecture by Isabella Premoli Silva
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/orals/16267
ML6: Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientist by Peter Bji
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/orals/16246
and also…

EOS14: Science in tomorrow classroom: exemplars from schools to post-graduate education and beyond
Convenor: Eve Arnold
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/session/14822
SC9/EO212: Scientist must film! Filmmaker & Storyteller workshop
Convenors: S. Mynott, M. Roos. and D. Brinkhuis
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/session/15998
More about the EGU 2014 programme

ECORD at EGU 2013

From Sunday 7 April to Friday 12 April 2013, ECORD/IODP and ICDP jointly presented ocean and continental research drilling at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

IODP-ICDP Exhibition Booth
Location: booth #52-53-54, Entrance Hall, Yellow level from April 8 to Friday April 11
The joint IODP-ICDP booth, a focal point for the scientific drilling community, was busy and also attracted many scientists from other fields of research and from non-IODP countries, to catch the latest news. Live demonstrations of logging operations were organised several times per day to explain logging with a sonic tool, a common tool used by both science programmes.
Contact: Patricia Maruéjol

IODP-ICDP Townhall Meeting
(Convenors: Gilbert Camoin, ECORD, and Ulrich Harms, ICDP)
TM2: Tuesday 9 April, 19:00-20:00
Two major and complementary international programmes undertake drilling for the scientific community: IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program) and ICDP (International Continental Scientific Drilling Program), in oceanic and continental environments respectively.
The Townhall meeting was a succesful event where the community had the opportunity to meet, share views and hear about the most recent outcomes of IODP expedtions and ICDP projects.

IODP-ICDP Session: Major achievements and perspectives in scientific ocean and continental drilling
(Convenor: Carlota Escutia Dotti
Co-convenors: Ursula Röhl, Ulrich Harms, Thomas Wiersberg, Rüdiger Stein)
Friday 12 April, Orals: 15:30-17:00 and Posters from 17:30 to 19:00
Despite a late scheduled poster session, the joint IODP-ICDP session was very well attended with excellent talks about volcanic and seismic hazards (NanTroSEIZE, Lesser Antilles, Campi Flegrei, N Anatolian Fault and W Bohemia) as well as about drilling in Antarctic areas.
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/11622

IODP-ICDP related sessions at EGU 2013:

EOS14: Scientific story telling & social media in effectively communicating science
Convenors: G.J. Reichart and P. Courtial
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/13741
GM8.2/GD2.10/TS4.5: Seafloor and sub-seafloor expression of tectonic and geomorphic processes (co-organised)
Convenor: Sebastian Krastel | Co-Convenors: J.K. Hillier, R. Urgeles, M. Strasser, J. Chaytor and A. Errera
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/11704
CL1.3: Polar continental margins and fjords – glacial and climatic evolution in the Cenozoic
Convenors: H. C. Hass, M. Forwick, K. Hogan | Co-Convenors: F. Florindo, D. Harwood, H. Brinkhuis, B. O. Hjelstuen, M. Rebesco, A. Camerlenghi, C. Escutia and J. S. Laberg
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/11604
EMRP1.5: Fluid-rock interactions and transport properties in fault zones
Convenor: M. Violay | Co-Convenors: M.L. Doan, J.P. Gratier and G. Di Toro
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/12781
Other ICDP related sessions are posted on ICDP website

and also…

EOS14: Science in tomorrow classroom story telling & social media in effectively communicating science
Convenor: Eve Arnold
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/12095
SC8/EOS12: Blogs and social media in scientific research
Convenors: B. Ferreira, A. Gerdes and S. Mynott
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/13108
CL1.9: Paleoclimate records in continental archives
Convenors: N. Fagel,
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/11606

More about EGU 2013 programme

ECORD at EGU 2012

From Sunday 22 April 22 to Friday 27 April 2012, ECORD/IODP and ICDP have jointly presented ocean and continental research drilling at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012 in Vienna, Austria.
The conference was again a large success with 11,275 participants (28% students) from 95 countries

IODP-ICDP Exhibition Booth
Location: booth #52-53-54, Entrance Hall, Yellow level..>>>>>>>>>> see a floor map of the hall
The booth is a focal point for the scientific drilling community, scientists from other fields of research and from non-IODP countries, to catch the most recent informations from both scientific programmes. Lively demonstrations with real cores were organised by ICDP as well as online presentations to access IODP, ODP and DSDP data via SEDIS.
Contact: Patricia Maruéjol

photos by T. Wiersberg and P. Maruéjol

IODP-ICDP Townhall Meeting
(Convenors: Gilbert Camoin, ECORD, and Ulrich Harms, ICDP)
Tuesday 24 April, 19:00-20:00
Understanding climate, sea-level and environmental changes, geohazards, natural resources and the structure and evolution of the Earth’s crust and the nature and extent of the deep biosphere all require having acces to information recorded in sub-surface layers. Two major and complementary international programmes undertake drilling for the scientific community: IODP and ICDP, in oceanic and continental environments respectiveley.
This Townhall meeting was the opportunity to share our views on exciting challenges to take up for a better understanding of the Earth system and its changing environment. The new framework of the future International Ocean Discovery (IODP) post 2013, was also presented.

photos by T. Wiersberg 

EuroFORUM 2012 (CL5.11): Major achievements and perspectives in scientific ocean and continental drilling
(Convenor: Carlota Escutia, Co-convenors: Ursula Röhl, Thomas Wiersberg)
Tuesday 24 April – Orals: 13:30-17:00, Posters: 17:30-19:00
The principal goals of this session are to summarise and review major scientific achievements in ocean and continental drilling with special emphasis on the European contributions to IODP and ICDP. Futhermore, perspectives and visions for drilling projects using a multi-platform approach were tackled.

Press conference: Uncovering the Great Tohoku Earthquake
(Kyoshi Suyehiro, IODP-MI, Gerold Wefer, MARUM-University of Bremen, Michael Strasser, ETH-Zurich, and Albert Gerdes, Moderator)

Wednesday April 25, 10:00 at EGU media centre.
>> Webstreaming

Contact: Miyuki Otomo, Albert Gerdes

EGU 2012 sessions related to ECORD/IODP and ICDP:

CL1.3: Polar continental margins and fjords – glacial and climatic evolution in the Cenozoic
Friday April 27, 10:30-12:00, room 13 (Orals) and 13:30-15:00, Hall Z (Posters).
Convenor: J. S. Laberg | Co-Convenors: H. Brinkhuis, A. Camerlenghi, C. Escutia Dotti, F. Florindo, M. Forwick, D. Harwood, C. Hass, B. O. Hjelstuen, K. Hogan and M. Rebesco,
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9684
GM8.4/OS3.6/TS4.10: Seafloor expression of tectonic and geomorphic processes (co-organised)
Monday April 23, 13:30-15:00, room 21 (Orals) and 17:30-19:00, Hall Z (Posters)
Convenor: Sebastian Krastel | Co-Convenors: J.K. Hillier
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9747
BG6.5/CL5.14/SSP5.4: Micropaleontology: a key to modern and ancient environments (co-organised)
Thursday April 26, 15:30:17:00, room 23 (Orals) and Friday 27, 8:30-10:00, room 23
Friday April 27, 15:30-17:00, Poster area BG (Posters)
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/oral_programme/9855
EOS8: Communicate your science
Thursday April 26, 15:30-17:00, room 25
Convenors: Albert Gerdes and Barbara Ferreira
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/10627

For more information, search EGU 2012 programme online.

ECORD at EGU 2011

From Sunday 3 April to Friday 8 April 2011, ECORD/IODP and ICDP have jointly presented ocean and continental research drilling at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 in Vienna, Austria (10,725 scientists – 28% students – from 96 countries), by organising the following successful activities.
The IODP-ICDP exhibition booth was a very active focal point for the scientific drilling community and also for scientists from other fields of research (biology, oceanology) and from non-IODP countries (Russia, Brazil). Lively core scanner demonstrations with real cores were organised by ICDP and attracted many visitors to the booth. As a result we collected a total of 150 new subscribers to the IODP-ICDP Scientific Drilling journal. We had a large variety of printed documents to distribute with a good balance between the Newsletters (ECORD, USIO and CDEX) and the SD journal and IODP/ECORD/ICDP brochures and flyers. Since 2008, many teachers who attended the EGU education sessions and workshops are used to stop by the booth to pick up education documents provided by USIO and CDEX and also to get in touch with the resources ECORD make available for the classroom activities. A new ECORD/ESO video was shown to the public for the first time.

photos T. Wiersberg and A. Gerdes

The IODP-ICDP Townhall meeting (convenors: Catherine Mével, ECORD, and Ulrich Harms, ICDP) was a very well attended event. Roughly 250 people met to hear about the results of the recently completed expeditions and projects and news of the future of both programs.

photos T. Wiersberg and A. Gerdes

The joint ICDP-IODP session (convenor: Rüdiger Stein | co-convenors: Ulrich Harms, Ursula Röhl, Thomas Wiersberg) on scientific drilling was very well received and drew the attention of people from inside and outside the scientific drilling community. Six oral presentations and a large number of posters exhibited results from current projects of the IODP and ICDP and demonstrated the potential and benefit of scientific drilling to tackle questions from different research fields, including research on paleoclimate, impact structures, fault zones and deep biosphere.

photos T. Wiersberg and A. Gerdes

Two ECORD/IODP media conferences have been organised by Albert Gerdes (ESO public relations) at EGU media centre and can be viewed as webcasts.

A new science for ocean drilling – The future of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Tuesday, April 5, 10:00
Catherine Mével (EMA Director) and Kyoshi Suyehiro (IODP-MI President and CEO)
>> Web cast
As a result of the press conference, a BBC article, “Dino crater focus for ocean drilling plans” was published by Richard Black.

Unlocking climate and sea-level secrets since the Last Glacial Maximum – New results from the IODP Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes Expedition
Tuesday, April 5, 14:00
Carol Cotterill (ESO Staff Scientist) and Thomas Felis (MARUM, University of Bremen)
>> Web cast

EGU 2011 sessions related to ECORD/IODP and ICDP:

Interdivision session CL4.17/SSP1.5: Achievements and perspectives in scientific ocean and continental drilling (co-organised)
Tuesday, April 5, 8:30-10:00, room 19 (orals) – 17:30-19:00 (attendance), Hall X/Y (posters)
Convenor: Rüdiger Stein | Co-Convenors: U. Harms, U. Röhl, T. Wiersberg
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/6436
CL1.6: Polar continental margins and fjords – glacial and climatic evolution in the Cenozoic
Friday, April 8, 13:30-17:00, room 16 (orals) – 8:30-10:00 (attendance), Hall XL (posters)
Convenor: Fabio Florindo | Co-Convenors: M. Rebesco, H. Brinkhuis, M. Forwick, J. S. Laberg, D. Harwood, A. Camerlenghi, B. O. Hjelstuen
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/6405
GM8.4/OS3.6/SSP1.6/TS4.7: Seafloor expressions of tectonic and geomorphic processes (co-organised)
Tuesday, April 5, 10:30-12:00, room 22 (orals) – 17:30-19:00 (attendance), Hall A (posters)
Convenor: Sebastian Krastel | Co-Convenors: J.K. Hillier, C.L. Jacobs, D. Vachtman
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/6521
OS3.4/EG9: Deep Sea Frontier – a European challenge (co-organised)
Wednesday, April 6, 15:30-17:00, room 7 (orals) – 10:30-12:00 (attendance), Hall X/Y (posters)
Convenor: Achim Kopf | Co-Convenors: T. Ferdelman, H. Pälike, C. Mével, A. Boetius
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/6953
SPM1.7: Post-glacial Fault Drilling Project (public)
Wednesday, April 6, 17:30-20:00, room SM5
Convenor: Ilmo T. Kukkonen
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/8112
SM2.12/G3.10/GD2.16/TS8.8: Intraplate faulting and seismicity with special reference to the Fennoscandian post glacial fault province (co-organised)
Friday, April 8, 15:30-17:15, room 26 (orals) – 10:30-12:00 (attendance), Hall X/Y (posters)
Convenor: Ilmo T. Kukkonen | Co-Convenors: M. Ask, O. Olesen
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/7878
Alfred Wegener Medal Lecture by Gerold Wefer
Tuesday, April 5, 12:15-13:15, room D
Convenor: Tuija Pulkkinen
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2997
EG2/CR1.70: Future Perspectives from European Polar Research (co-organised)
Friday, April 8, 13:30-14:15, room 40 (poster summaries and discussion) – 15:30-17:00 (attendance), Hall A (posters)
Convenor: L. Lembke-Jene | Co-Convenors: B. Wolff-Bönisch, R. Azzolini
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/7655
SM1.2/EG11/G6.4/GD1.7/TS1.6: Large scale European Research facilities/infrastructures: data acquisition, data storage and data access
Monday, April 4, 8:30-11:15, room 26 (orals) – 17:30-19:00 (attendance), Hall X/Y (posters)
Convenor: M. Cocco | Co-Convenors: W. Spackman, J. Ludden, T.E. Van, P. Favalli
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/7325
TM1: A roadmap for European Geoscience Infrastructure
Monday, April 4, 10:30-12:00, room 1
Convenors: John Ludden and Sylvie Joussaume | Co-Convenor: Hervé Pero
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/8002
TM10: Panel discussion on the 11 March 2011 Tohoku (Sendai) earthquake and tsunami
Friday, April 8, 13:30-15:00, room D
Convenors: Stefano Tinti, Euan Nisbet and Bruce Malamud
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2011/session/8963

ECORD at EGU 2010

The European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 met in Vienna, Austria, from 2 to 7 May 2010, at the Austria Vienna Centre.
Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)and the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) support projects with a need in scientific drilling. For the first time, ECORD presented IODP along with ICDP at EGU 2010 – 2 to 7 May to get together the scientific drilling community.
All activities listed below are organised by ECORD and ICDP and supported by IODP-MI, CDEX-JAMSTEC and IODP-USIO.
>> EGU 2010 web site

Joint IODP-ICDP Booth #55-57-58: a L-shape and 18 sqm booth, located in the exhibition/entrance hall was opened from 3 to 6 May. Many scientists visited the booth to learn about the expeditions and projects, to watch the CoreWall demonstrations, to meet the scientists and to collect materials and information from both programmes.

IODP-ICDP Townhall Meeting, 4 May, Convenors: Catherine Mével (ECORD) and Ulrich Harms (ICDP)
The recent scientific achievements and upcoming new projects addressing key scientific questions such as climate dynamics and geological hazards through earthquakes, landslides and volcanic eruptions were presented.

IODP-related media conferences, 5 May 2010

Magnitude and rates of past sea-level changes – Results from the IODP New Jersey Shallow Shelf Expedition:
J.N. Proust (Co-chief Scientist) and D. McInroy (ESO Science Manager)

The future of ocean research drilling – A new science plan under developement:
C. Mével (EMA Director) and K. Suyehiro (IODP-MI President and CEO)

In stormy waters – First results of the Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes Expedition:
D. McInroy (ESO Science Manager) and A. Stevenson (ESO Outreach Manager)
>> Contact: Albert Gerdes
>> Watch the webcasts on: http://www.egu-media.net/content/view/212/81/

EGU sessions related to IODP and ICDP:

Interdivision session CL4.9/SSP1.7 EuroFORUM 2010: Achievements and perspectives in scientific ocean and continental drilling (co-organized)
Convener: Ruediger Stein | Co-Conveners: Gilbert Camoin, Jochen Erbacher, Henk Brinkhuis, Ulrich Harms, Ursula Röhl
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2717
CL1.3 Cenozoic Antarctic and Southern Ocean Climate Evolution
Convener: Fabio Florindo
Co-Conveners: David Harwood, Carlota Escutia Dotti
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2685
CL1.5 Dynamics of the Greenhouse – Icehouse transition
Convener: Henk Brinkhuis | Co-Conveners: Robert DeConto, Steven Bohaty, Gert-Jan Reichart
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2687
CL1.14 Assessment of climate events in lake sediments: deciphering climate, tectonic or anthropic influence
Convener: Nathalie Fagel | Co-Conveners: Marie-France Loutre, Aurelia Hubert-Ferrari
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/1867
CL4.8 Glaciated continental margins – sedimentary processes, architecture, evolution and implications for paleoclimatic reconstructions
Convener: Jan Sverre Laberg | Co-Conveners: Angelo Camerlenghi, Michele Rebesco, Berit Oline Hjelstuen
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2716
GI8 Down-hole and polar regions Instrumentation: Technology and Applications
Convener: Philippe Gaillot | Co-Conveners: Bernard Celerier, Jochem Kück, Sarah Davies, David Meldrum, Mike Rose
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/1953
EG1 Integrated Science Planning between European Research Infrastructures
Convener: Lester Lembke-Jene | Co-Conveners: Roberto Azzolini, Paul Egerton
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/3147
OS15 European Collaboration for Implementation of Marine Research on Cores (ESF EUROCORES Programmes)
Convener: Jean Pierre Henriet | Co-Conveners: Gert J. De Lange, Gilbert Camoin, Paola Campus
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2450
GM10.4/TS4.9
Seafloor expression of tectonic and geomorphic processes
Convener: Sebastian Krastel | Co-Conveners: Neil Mitchell, Dina Vachtman, Colin Jacob
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/3088
SM1.2/G21/GD3.4/TS10.4
Observing the European plate: Sensor networks and data infrastructures
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2132
BG3.2/ERE4.2/GMPV56/TS5.6
Fluid flow in continental margins
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/3133
GMPV23/GD2.16
Nature and evolution of the lithospheric mantle – inferences on magma genesis
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/poster_programme/1973
MPRG9 Paleosecular variation and paleointensity records from baked earth, lavas and sediments: geomagnetic and chronological implications.
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2061
US2 Large Infrastructures in the Geosciences (by invitation only)
Convener: John Ludden | Co-Conveners: Massimo Cocco, Sylvie Joussaume
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/3210
EOS2 Science in tomorrow’s classroom
Convener: Phil Smith | Co-Conveners: Stephen Macko, Annegret Schwarz, Jean-Luc Berenguer, Eve Arnold, Angelo Camerlenghi
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2010/session/2997

ECORD at EGU 2009

More than 9,000 scientists from all over the world attended the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009 in Vienna, Austria, from 19 to 24 April 2009. For the fifth consecutive year, ECORD presented IODP at the EGU in the Austria Vienna Centre and organised the following events with a strong support of IODP partners (IODP-MI, CDEX/JAMSTEC, J-DESC, IODP-USIO) and ICDP.

 IODP/ECORD Booth #54-55, Monday 20 to Friday 24 April

IODP-ICDP Townhall meeting, Thursday 23 April, Room 1
Convenors: Catherine Mével (ECORD) and Ulrich Harms (ICDP)
A brief update on IODP and ICDP plans was presented and the Townhall meeting was also the opportunity for all scientists to express their needs and to discuss future directions in scientific drilling.

Pre-INVEST Workshop: ‘Beyond 2013 – the Future of European Scientific Drilling Research’, held at Geocenter, University of Vienna, 24-25 April, 2009
Convenors: Gilbert Camoin, Rüdiger Stein and Michael Wagreich

NEW! Download the report of the Workshop ‘Beyond 2013 – the Future of European Scientific Drilling Research’

In preparation of the IODP New Ventures in Exploring Scientific Targets (INVEST) Conference, ECORD organised a Pre-INVEST Workshop to discuss the future directions of scientific ocean drilling and to outline ECORD’s vision of the scientific drilling beyond 2013. This 2-day workshop includes break-out group and discussions open to all scientists with an interest in scientific drilling.

Scientific Sessions:

Interdivision Session SSP/CL/GMPV/TS (oral and poster presentations) co-sponsored by IAS, Thursday 23 April
Convenors: G. Camoin and R. Stein
>> more information

Climate: Past, Present and Future – CL33: New findings and achievement in ocean and continental drilling (IODP-ICDP) (oral and poster presentations), Thursday 23 April
Convenors: U. Roehl, H. Brinkhuis, D. Hodell and B. Ildefonse
The principal goals of the joint IODP-ICDP session are to summarise and review major scientific achievements in ocean and continental drilling with special emphasis on the European contributions to IODP and ICDP. The session will include presentations and discussions of results and new perspectives on scheduled drilling projects using a multi-platform approach.
>> more information

Press Conferences:
Two press conferences have been held at the EGU Press centre and can be viewed as webcasts at EGU 2009 Webstreams:
‘The Future of IODP’ – Catherine Mével and Rüdiger Stein
‘Full Speed Ahead – IODP Expeditions 2009’ – Gilbert Camoin and Henk Brinkhuis

EGU 2009 web site

ECORD at EGU 2008

At least 8,400 people attended the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008 (EGU 2008), in Vienna, from 13 to 18 April 2008, one of the major geological conferences in Europe. ECORD co-organised the following events in collaboration with IODP-MI, ICDP, IODP-USIO and CDEX/JAMSTEC, involving the European scientific drilling community:

ECORD/IODP booth, opened from 14 to 18 April;
Joint ICDP-IODP Townhall Meeting, Thursday 17 April;
IODP media conference, Thursday 17 April;
IODP-ICDP EuroFORUM 2008, Thursday 17 April.

photo K. Umetsu ©JAMSTEC/IODP

For the fourth consecutive year, ECORD presented the IODP booth at EGU with the support of IODP-MI, ICDP and the fruitful collaboration of CDEX, J-DESC and IODP-USIO. For scientists, students and educators who visited the booth, it was the opportunity to catch up with the most recent news of the program, to receive a wide range of informations – printed (Newsletters, Scientific Drilling), on line (web sites and databases), DVDs of expeditions and core replicas – and to meet the scientists who are participating in the program. 

The joint ICDP-IODP Townhall Meeting entitled “Future needs in scientific drilling?”, jointly convened some 150 people during an evening event. Uli Harms from ICDP, Catherine Mével and Gilbert Camoin from ECORD, briefly presented the updated plans for future drilling operations, in particular the Canterbury Basin and Wilkes Land expeditions scheduled to be operated by the renewed drillship JOIDES Resolution from November 2008 to March 2009. >> flyer

IODP media conference “Drilling into the seismogenic zone: latest results from NanTroSEIZE”: Masataka Kinoshita and Harold Tobin co-chief project scientists of NanTroSEIZE (NTS) Exp. 314, presented the first phase of NTS and highlighted some results (see News release). After the press conference Harold Tobin was interviewed by Axel Bojanowski for Sueddeutsche Zeitung, a German daily newspaper, and by Richard Black for BBC >> read “First contact to the earthquake zone” published on BBC News

IODP-ICDP EuroFORUM 2008: for the first time, the EuroFORUM was held in conjunction with a major scientific conference. The main goals were to summarise and review major scientific achievements in ocean and continental drilling with special emphasis on the European contributions to IODP and ICDP.Oral and poster presentations have covered the three major themes of the IODP Initial Science Plan, as well as the various ICDP geoscientific themes of socio-economic relevance such as paleoclimate, earthquakes and volcanism or unconventional energy resources.
>> Read the programme on the flyer

>> EGU 2008 web site

ECORD at EGU 2007

Almost 8,000 people attended the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2007 (EGU 2007), at the Austria Centre Vienna, from 15 to 20 April 2007, one of the major geological conferences in Europe. ECORD co-organised the following events involving the European scientific drilling community:

ECORD-IODP Booth from 16 to 20 April 2007;
Joint ICDP-IODP Townhall Meeting;
ECORD Teachers’ Workshop;
IODP Media Activities.

The ECORD-IODP booth co-organised by ECORD (EMA, ESO and ESSAC), with the help of IODP and CDEX, was a focal point for people interested in the program.The booth featured a wide range of information including replica cores from the Arctic and Tahiti expeditions and the most recent publications related to the ECORD, IODP and CDEX activities. We are very thankful to all people who voluntereed in the booth, sharing their own experience and activity with the EGU participants.

Joint ICDP-IODP Townhall Meeting, Tuesday 17 April, 2007: IODP-ECORD and ICDP jointly convened some 150 people during this evening event. Uli Harms (ICDP) and Catherine Mével (ECORD) briefly presented the updated plans for future drilling operations, workshops and education activities.
To initiate discussions and exchanges between IODP and ICDP people, the speakers introduced some of the key people in the audience to convey more detailed information to the audience.

ECORD Teachers’ Workshop, Wednesday 18 to Thursday 19 April: ECORD sponsored a 1-day Teacher Workshop “Exploring the ocean floor with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program” during the 2007 EGU meeting in Vienna. Seventy teachers from 22 different countries registered for the ECORD Teachers’ workshop, which was organised in partnership with the annual EGU Geophysical Information For Teachers (GIFT) symposium. >> more information

Scientific sessions on IODP science: Numerous lectures and posters have presented many results from IODP expeditions, in particular:

Marine and terrestrial paleoclimate records – recent advances in IODP and ICDP,
Microbial carbonates,
Tracing hydrothermal circulation at mid-ocean ridges using geochemistry, geophysics and modelling,
Downhole instrumentation: technology and applications.

IODP media activities during EGU 2007: IODP-related information was distributed to the media in different ways.

In the media centre a press conference about planned drilling projects in seismogenic zones offshore Japan and Costa Rica was held. This story was picked up by the BBC`s Interactive science pages which are visited by ~ 500,000 individuals daily, and has – according to the EGU press officer – been cited worldwide in other media.

Another press conference entitled “Lessons from the deep – recent advances in climate history” presented new insights from the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) and from the Walvis Ridge Operations. This media conference was held together with colleagues working within ICDP.

Two so-called ‘Media Tips’ on ECORD expeditions were published on the EGU media website. They covered the Tahiti Sea-Level Expedition and the upcoming New Jersey Shallow Shelf Expedition.

IODP scientists, Ursula Röhl (Bremen Core Repository) and Jochen Erbacher (Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften, Hannover), were interviewed about the PETM event by a science writer of the important German news magazine “Der Spiegel”; the reporter also visited the Bremen Core Repository.

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ECORD at EGU 2006

ECORD/IODP Exhibition Booth:
Approximately 8,000 people attended the EGU 2006 meeting held from 2 to 7 April 2006 in Vienna, and many of them visited the ECORD-IODP booth set up by EMA, ESO and ESSAC with help from IODP Germany to man the booth and support from IODP-MI. Many scientists involved in IODP also volunteered in the booth to share their own experience with interested visitors. The booth featuring informational materials from all parts of IODP (©ECORD/IODP).

Joint IODP – ICDP Townhall Meeting:
ECORD was pleased to welcome nearly 100 participants to a Townhall Meeting jointly supported by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP). Both IODP and ICDP have a complementary approach in addressing key questions in Earth Sciences. Both programmes investigate climate change, solid earth cycles and geodynamics, and the nature of the deep biosphere through drilling/coring, downhole measurements and long term monitoring of boreholes.
Ulrich Harms of ICDP, Julian Pearce and Chris MacLeod (ESSAC Office in Cardiff) provided brief updates on future plans for drilling operations, workshops and associated activities, and also answered many questions asked by the audience.

All images are ©ECORD 

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ECORD at EGU 2005

(seated, left) Jan Backman, Co-chief Scientist of the Arctic Coring Expedition, (middle) Catherine Mével, EMA Director and (far right) Uli Harms, ICDP (© ECORD/IODP).

ECORD/IODP Exhibition booth: It was the first participation of ECORD as an exhibitor in the EGU General Assembly, which took place from 24 to 29 April 2005, a few months after the successful completion of the Arctic Coring Expedition (IODP Exp. 302). This international conference covering all fields of geosciences was attended by almost 8,000 people, mostly originated from European countries.

ECORD was pleased to welcome many scientists at the first joint IODP-ICDP Townhall Meeting organised at EGU 2005. Lectures were given by Jeroen Kenter (ESSAC Chair), Roland Oberhänsli (ICDP), Jan Backman (Co-chief Scientist of the Arctic Coring Expedition), Uli Harms (ICDP), Gilbert Camoin (ESSAC), Christian Köberl (ICDP) and Manik Talwani (IODP-MI President).