International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP

📣 Magellan³ Workshop Call: SHREK focusses on submarine volcanism and related hazards, bringing researchers together to discuss scientific questions and develop a new IODP/ICDP drilling strategy for the Kikai Caldera 📍 Kobe, Japan | 15–17 March 202 ℹ️ www.k-obec.kobe-u.ac.jp/Magellan3ser...

📢 @icdpdrilling.bsky.social Proposal Call for Pre-, Workshop, Full and our NEW Fast-track Proposals is now open! 📅 Deadline: 15 January 2027 📧 Submission: proposal.submission@icdp-online.org 👉 Download PDF: www.icdp-online.org/fileadmin/Ne... ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...

DeepDust Drilling Project - Coring campaign finalized 👍 Congratulations to the team 🏆 for reaching the final depth of 1988 m. The core recovery is excellent, close to 100%. ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

📣 WEIHE Drilling Project: Final depth 3004 m - Congratulations👍 This project will provide a highly resolved and accurately dated terrestrial record spanning the Late Miocene to the Holocene. ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

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The CSD's Town Hall at GSA Connects will occur on Sunday, Oct. 11 from 6:30-9:30 PM in the Hyatt Regency Denver Centennial Ballroom B! We hope to see you there!

🌉 Registration and housing are open for #AGU26! Scientists from around the world will come together in San Francisco, CA, this 7–11 December. 🎟️🏨 Register: spklr.io/63322ETKqM

📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY | ICDP Education & Outreach Science Coordinator 🌍 Interested in supporting international scientific drilling education and outreach? Find out more and submit your application here: www.gfz.de/en/career/jo... 📅 Application deadline: 14 Oct. 2026

THAW Workshop Call (Yellowknife, NWT Canada): Thawing of permafrost and cryosphere-associated gas hydrates by Arctic warming 📍February 24-27, 2027, Yellowknife, NWT Canada ℹ️ MORE INFO: www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-... 👉 WORKSHOP CALL PDF: www.icdp-online.org/fileadmin/Ne...

Connecting Science 🌍 in Samani at the ICDP Horoman Workshop: International and Japanese scientists gathered in Samani, Japan, near UNESCO Global Geopark Mt. Apoi, to define scientific targets for drilling and CO₂ injection in the Horoman peridotite ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

Throwback to the ICDP 2026 Training Course in Bavaria, Germany! 🥨🇩🇪 Hands-on drilling, expert OSG insights, best-practice skills, and global connections—all packed into one week of learning and collaboration. 🔬 Would our participants recommend the course? Hear it from them! 👇

DeepDust Drilling Project: first core on deck: 40-ft (12-m)! 👍 DeepDust uses high-resolution continental records from Oklahoma’s Anadarko Basin and Wichita Uplift🔬 ℹ️ More about the project: www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

🌏 International Symposium on Deep Earth Exploration & TopoAsia (DEEP&TOPO 2026) 📍 Beijing, China 📅 6–12 Nov 2026 deeptopo.hyterp.cn/website/2981... Cutting-edge research on deep Earth probing & deep-surface coupling🔬 👉 Abstract deadline: 15 Sep 2026 ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...

@swais2c.bsky.social core description workshop🔬 Co-Chief Scientist Molly Patterson takes us behind the scenes at our June workshop in Dunedin, NZ. More info: swais2c.aq/media/core-w... 🎥 Ana Tovey / SWAIS2C; Kara Vadman / Oregon State University

Check out the EGER Drilling Project video 👉 tinyurl.com/ycyystwn aiming to create a modern deep lab to study earthquake swarms, crustal fluid flow, mantle-derived CO₂ & He degassing, and deep biosphere processes! Project info ℹ️ tinyurl.com/y5xsfkbe

A great few days in Addis Ababa at the ICDP Workshop Deep Chew Bahir Drilling Project (DeepCHB): Getting to the Bottom of the Quaternary (30 June–3 July 2026). We are moving closer to deciphering the Chew Bahir Basin’s unique climate archive. Here’s our group photo. Thanks to everyone involved.

Having a wonderful time at the @icdpdrilling.bsky.social Deep Chew Bahir Drilling Project workshop in Addis www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

Wrap-up of ICDP Training Course 2026: A week of learning, logging, and drilling innovation at KTB, Germany with amazing participants!🔥 Hands-on in wireline logging, data integration & scientific drilling, capped off by presenting draft drilling proposals for future continental drilling projects!🌍

Great energy & dedicated participants working on exercises on proposal writing and training with @icdpdrilling.bsky.social operational support group OSG team & drilling equipment explained 👍 during this year‘s ICDP training course in Windischeschenbach @ KTB Geocenter, Germany 🔥

Thanks Stuart!💚

ICDP Training Course 2026: This morning we explored the fundamentals of downhole wireline logging, visited the KTB main borehole to observe a deep logging operation, and continued with hands-on log interpretation. Great to learn, discuss, and experience scientific drilling firsthand! 👍

ICDP training course 2026 now on in Windischeschenbach, Germany: first impressions of networking🔥 training & exercises on scientific drilling👍

Call for Registration & Abstract: The First International Electronic Ocean Drilling Program (E-ODP) Workshop 9 -11 September 2026 (Tongji University, Shanghai, China) Register by 30 June! www.iodp-china.org/E-ODP_workshop Together with ICDP, @anzic.bsky.social , @ecord.bsky.social

At the KTB getting ready for the #ICDP2026TrainingCourse. Carolin Böse is making the final preparations. The place carries a strong sense of history — decades of work and knowledge shaping what’s happening here today.💥

icdpdrilling.bsky.social is busy⚡ packing our bags & goodies for our Training Course @ KTB Geocenter, Windischeschenbach (Germany): 1 week of drilling project skills, new @icdp-ecn.bsky.social Early Career session & hands-on experience 🔥 @ KTB drillrig 👍 www.icdp-online.org/support/upco...

Wrap-up of our @icdpdrilling.bsky.social ECR – Next Generation workshop in Chiba, Japan! 🗾 Still buzzing with excitement - what a great week it has been! Thank you to all the enthousiastic participants (ECR and PIs) from all around the globe - it certainly was an inspiring and fruitful workshop! 🎉

🌟Starring at JpGU-AGU 2026 in Chiba! A glimpse of the @icdp-ecn.bsky.social ICDP Early Career Network Podcast with speakers Yasuo Yabe, Yohei Suzuki & interviewers Yuhi Sakai and Kana Miyata during Live Session No. 2

📍Chiba | JpGU–AGU 2026 | IODP3 / ICDP / J-DESC Townhall 👏Great updates and a networking reception with early career researchers sharing recent experiences from projects, cruises, and workshops.🔥 ⚡A great moment to connect across the scientific drilling community!

Behind the scenes at JpGU-AGU 2026 in Chiba! A glimpse of the @icdp-ecn.bsky.social ICDP Early Career Network Podcast recording in Special Space 3, featuring Hiroshi Ogasawara, Katsuyoshi Michibayashi, and Virginia Toy, with Rodrigo and Romina on interviews.

Last day of the ICDP ECR Workshop – Next Generation, featuring Dr. Christian Zeeden’s talk, “Chaos in the Field: Expecting the Unexpected”simulation. 😱😜 👏Great energy, happy faces, and a strong finish to the workshop.🎉

😅Day 2 of @icdp-ecn.bsky.social Workshop, featuring Drilling Operation Essentials and Technical Training with Dr. Ai Li, followed by Outreach & Citizen Science with Dr. Virginia Toy.👏 🤓We are working in groups, exchanging ideas over Japanese tea. A productive and engaging day so far.💚

The last lecture of the day features psychologist Franklin Guevara on “Managing the Mental Load of Leadership” in a virtual presentation. 🎈🤲 A timely reminder for early career scientists stepping into leadership roles in scientific drilling. 🧡💚 @icdp-ecn.bsky.social 💙

🤓The ICDP workshop simulation is underway! Participants were given a project idea and context, then challenged to draft their own ICDP workshop proposal.💥 Prof. Hiroshi Ogasawara and Prof. Virginia Toy led the session. Great energy and excellent photos to capture the moment!😅 @icdp-ecn.bsky.social 💚

⛲Virginia Toy offered a fresh perspective on leadership in large scientific projects, drawing on her experience in structural geology, tectonics, and scientific drilling.🥇 A great talk to end the session before coffee break. ☕️ @icdp-ecn.bsky.social 🩵

Prof. Hiroshi Ogasawara (Ritsumeikan University, Emeritus) delivered an inspiring talk on leadership in large-scale projects, drawing on his experience from ICDP DSeis project (2016–2018).👏 🎯 A highlight for the next generation, followed with great interest by participants @icdp-ecn.bsky.social🔥

🎉We are kicking off the @icdp-ecn.bsky.social ICDP ECR Workshop – Next Generation in 📍Chiba, ahead of #JpGU-AGU2026. 😍 ECRs from around the world are coming together to connect, collaborate, and engage with the scientific drilling community. Great energy, smiling faces, and a strong start. 🧡🩵💙💚

@icdp-ecn.bsky.social Podcast live at the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 26 (Chiba, Japan)! Location: Special Space 3 Exhibition hall for conversations with invited speakers & ICDP early-career interviewers 📍 24 May, 12:30–13:30 📍 27 May, 14:00–17:00 Official event page: www.jpgu.org/meeting_e202...

Meet ICDP at JpGU-AGU 2026 in Chiba! Town hall meeting, live ICDP ECR podcast, and exhibition booth 40 — all in one place. 🧡@icdp-ecn.bsky.social💚 🎯Join us there!

Straight from #EGU26 into action: the IODP³ Communication Task Force meets today in Vienna. ICDP is pleased to join as liaison, strengthening collaboration across the drilling community. 📅 11 May | 🕤 09:30 CET #IODP3 #ICDP #ScientificDrilling

@icdp-ecn.bsky.social Trapped in Antarctica: A special birthday! Guest: Simona Pierdominici, a specialist in borehole logging evaluation to characterize sediment and rock properties & part of the OSG of ICDP. Listen to Into the Core on: Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2p7I1gk...

That’s a wrap for #EGU2026! 🌍 This week we presented new initiatives, discussed key topics with the community, and shared ideas and perspectives for future research and collaborations. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us! @icdpdrilling.bsky.social

International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP ‪@icdpdrilling.bsky.social‬ Day 4 at #EGU26 and still going strong! More contacts, more outreach, and great conversations for ICDP. 🌍

More impressions of ICDP going interactive! 🌍✨ Our brand-new interactive #ICDP-GLOBE, showcasing our drilling projects and key science themes!

The #ICDP community busy gathering for the #EGU26 poster session — a few more impressions from a lively and inspiring day.🔥🔥

The #ICDP community busy gathering for the #EGU26 poster session🔥

A few impressions from the oral session “Achievements and perspectives in scientific ocean and continental drilling” at #EGU26. Now, we are bringing posters, discussion, and future drilling ideas to the floor. 💙😍🧡

A few impressions from SPM111 at #EGU26, where GEO and the GEO-IDEA project highlighted work to improve the availability and re-use of in-situ Earth observation data. Cindy from ICDP was there, presenting our mDIS. Many thanks to Helen Glaves and all involved for the session.

ICDP goes interactive! 🌍✨ Proudly presenting our brand-new interactive #ICDP-GLOBE, showcasing our drilling projects 🌍 and key science themes. Soon, you’ll be able to explore it directly in your browser 💻 via a dedicated URL 🔗 Stay tuned and follow us to to access the #ICDP-GLOBE🌍

Joint ICDP & Ecord/IODP³ Townhall 2026 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna with an amazing turnout 🇦🇹 Huge thanks and applause to our wonderful Austrian hosts! 💐👏 Visit us at our joint booth #50/51 (ICDP & ECORD / IODP³) — let’s talk science 🌍

We’ve arrived at #EGU26 and the ICDP booth is ready! Doors open tomorrow — come find us in the exhibition hall. 🕙 Mon–Thu 10:00–18:00 | Fri 10:00–13:00 #ICDP #ScientificDrilling #EGU26