Spring is in the air and the #ScientificDrilling community is heading to Vienna, there are several ways to interact, get informations, listen to science and network.
MEET US AT THE BOOTH:
Like in the past years, you can find the Scientific Drilling booth in the Exhibition Hall (#48/49 SCIENTIFIC DRILLING)

COME TO THE ECORD-ICDP TOWN HALL MEETING:
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SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS:
Achievements and perspectives in scientific ocean and continental drilling
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Convener: Cindy Kunkel | Co-conveners: Angelo Camerlenghi, Thomas Wiersberg, Norikatsu Akizawa, Lotta TernietenECS

Orals

| Tue, 29 Apr, 08:30–12:27 (CEST)

Room 2.24

Posters on site

| Attendance Tue, 29 Apr, 14:00–15:45 (CEST) | Display Tue, 29 Apr, 14:00–18:00

Hall X3

HIGHLIGHT:
Learn more about the future of ocean drilling with contributions from our partners from U-S. Scientific Ocean Drilling and China’s Scientific Ocean Drilling
 
SSP1.3
Maria Bianca Cita and her legacy in the Messinian Salinity Crisis and micropaleontology in scientific ocean drilling
Convener: Angelo Camerlenghi | Co-conveners: Erik WolfgringECS, Laura GemeryECS, Elisabetta Erba, Michael Kaminski, Alberto Malinverno, Giovanni Aloisi

Orals

| Fri, 02 May, 08:30–10:15 (CEST)

Room D3

Posters on site

| Attendance Thu, 01 May, 16:15–18:00 (CEST) | Display Thu, 01 May, 14:00–18:00

Hall X2

A new global programme has launched, calling for international collaboration to synchronise climate records over the last 100 million years in order to make a significant contribution to the understanding of Earth history, biotic evolution, and particularly, Earth’s climate history.
Entitled “TIMES (Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences)” this initiative is an international collaboration of researchers, including Thomas Westerhold and Heiko Pälike from MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen (Germany), and these researchers have now outlined their motivation and necessity for this program in a publication in the journal Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology of the American Geophysical Society.
As a multidisciplinary team from palaeoceanography, palaeoclimate research and geochronology, Westerhold and his co-authors emphasize in their publication that it is crucial to synchronize globally consistent and very precise dating for all important sedimentary climate archives across geographical regions
“It is important to now understand the biological and climatic processes on Earth that influence evolution, extinction, recovery and resilience. However, the most important climate proxy data from the past 100 million years, which can provide precise information about this, are not sufficiently synchronized in time across the different regions, which makes it considerably more difficult to understand the Earth’s climate dynamics,” explains Westerhold. Most of the material and data for this period is available – because that is how far back the material goes that was obtained in the international ocean and continental drilling programs almost worldwide.
Synchronizing 100 million years of regional and global climate history is very complex, and the TIMES project is extensive. Since timing is everything, Westerhold’s team emphasizes, internationally coordinated work must begin now to calibrate the climate records of the past 100 million years so precisely that the Earth’s climate history can reliably help shape a safe future for humanity.

Read the full article here
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024PA004932

MagellanPlus workshop announcement
 
Land-to-Sea Shaking Studies: Unlocking the full potential of subaqueous paleoseismology at active plate boundaries
Workshop Aims:
We aim to gather international experts ranging from marine seismologists to limnologists, and students to senior scientists, to discuss and develop future proposals aimed at tracking earthquake-shaking across land-to-sea transects to enhance fundamental understanding of rupture processes, earthquake recurrence and associated hazards at active plate boundaries.
 
Dates: 21-24 October 2025
Venue: National Taiwan University, Taipei
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MagellanPlus workshop announcement
 
HIGHLAND: Holocene Insights Gained from High resolution drilling in North Victoria Land
Workshop Aims:

To develop a high-quality IODP3 proposal for drilling in North Victoria Land’s fjord systems.
Fostering collaboration and expanding the scientific network in alignment with the 2050 Science Framework.
Defining drill site targets based on available data.
Addressing operational logistics for ECORD Mission-Specific Platforms.
Identifying data gaps and planning additional site surveys.

 
Dates: 25-27 June 2025
Venue: Institute of Polar Sciences, Italian National Research Council, ISP-CNR Bologna
Organisers: Francesca Battaglia & Tommaso Tesi (ISP), Laura De Santis & Michele Rebesco (OGS)
Link to registration
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Link to ECORD MagellanPlus website

Download the Le Monde article from 5 February 2025 with the interview of Gilbert Camoin here