CSD Facility

On Saturday CSD Facility staff cored two sites on Schulz Lake with students from Carleton College. They sampled the full record through the bottom of the lake sediment to the glacial barrier below. Students will work to correlate these cores to those collected last year.

Dan Maxbauer from Carleton College brought his class to the lab yesterday to explore climate records in cores collected at local lakes Schulz and Holland. Students compared these with cores collected across Minnesota and in Lake Tanganyika.

ICDP ECR Workshop Call – Next Generation (Chiba, Japan) You are here:

Apply now for the ICDP Early Career Researchers in Geoscience Workshop 2026
Chiba, Japan | May 21-23, 2026
Application Deadline: January 31
www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...

We’ve wrapped up drilling at Crary Ice Rise with 228m of sediment core. This is an unprecedented record of the history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet stretching back millions of years. Initial observations indicate the core includes periods of environmental change during past times of warming.

Don't forget to submit an abstract for upcoming @geosociety.bsky.social 2026 section meetings!

If you're attending the 2026 Northeast GSA Meeting in Hartford, CT, consider registering for our short course, "CoreNET—Best Practices in Coring and Analyzing Lake Records".

ICDP needs a Field Data Geoscientist to drive field data workflows for international drilling projects using mDIS and drill-site instrumentation.
📍 Place of work: Potsdam, Germany
📆 Start: ASAP | Fixed-term 31 Dec 2028
🗓 Application deadline: 1 February 2026
🔗 Apply here: www.gfz.de/karriere/ste...

We have successfully drilled 200 metres of sediment core from beneath the ice sheet at Crary Ice Rise! The pipe is still spinning - with a bit of time up our sleeve, we’re not stopping drilling yet, as we continue to drill back through the geological archive hidden beneath the ice. 📷 Ana Tovey

Start the New Year off right by reading the CSD Paleoecology Working Group's article in Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE) "Advancing ecology and evolution through continental scientific drilling": www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

We’ve got our eyes on the prize 24/7, through blowing snow, lashing winds and sunshine. With more than 100 metres of sediment core retrieved, we’re more than halfway towards our target of 200 metres. Co-Chief Huw Horgan shares this expedition update from our deep-field camp at Crary Ice Rise.

The Federal Office of Science and Technology Policy is requesting input on Federal policy updates relevant to scientific research in America by December 26: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Today is the last day to visit our booth at AGU 2025 - Come find us at booth 823 before 1 pm today! We would love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Attending AGU? Come visit us in the Exhibit Hall at booth 823! We would love to catch up and hear what you're working on.

Tonight! Meet ICDP and CSD Facility representatives and scientists for program updates and future developments at the ICDP-CSD Town Hall Meeting on Monday, December 15th at 6:30 pm at the SpringHill Suites New Orleans Warehouse District (301 Saint Joseph St.)

Meet ICDP and CSD Facility representatives and scientists for program updates and future developments at the ICDP-CSD Town Hall Meeting on Monday, December 15th at 6:30 pm at the SpringHill Suites New Orleans Warehouse District (301 Saint Joseph St.) during the AGU Fall Meeting!

WEIHE Drilling Project (China): 1000 m depth reached 🎉 Core recovery rate: 88 % 👍 Results with an interesting lithological change to be seen! ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

ICDP´s @swais2c.bsky.social drilling project (Antarctica) Season 3 begins! ❄️ Drilling for a 200 m sediment core deep beneath 500m of ice on the Ross Ice Shelf 👍

More project info ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...
SWAIS2C ℹ️ www.swais2c.aq

Chloe Allen from University of Victoria BC is making descriptions of the marine encrustations preserved on the upper segments of the drill cores collected from ancient Roman harbor structures by the harbor sites by the Roman Archaeological Concrete Survey.

They’ve made it across the Ross Ice Shelf! Huge congrats to the Antarctica NZ traverse crew, for completing a 13-day journey to our drilling site at Crary Ice Rise. They towed sleds with fuel, equipment and supplies, to keep our deep-field camp cranking. Now it's time to set up camp!

Getting ready.... #AGU25

📢 Workshop CALL: Deep CHB (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Deep Chew Bahir Drilling Project

WHEN 📆 June 30th – July 3rd, 2026

CALL ▶️ www.icdp-online.org/fileadmin/Ne...

MORE INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...

Chloe Allen from University of Victoria BC is describing and characterizing the biological encrustations and their impact on cores of Roman concrete collected from submerged harbor structures.

Researchers from DiSTAR at Univ. Federico II Italy, Univ. of Victoria BC, Univ. of Utah, and Univ. of Colorado is creating an archival database of drill cores of ancient Roman marine concrete collected from 11 harbor sites by the Roman Archaeological Concrete Survey.

Chloe Allen from University of Victoria BC will analyze CT scans of cores from the ancient Roman concrete harbor structures collected by the Roman Archaeological Concrete Survey to determine the spatial distribution of pore space and aggregate particles.

📢 Workshop CALL: HOROMAN DC (Hokkaido, Japan) Horoman Mantle Drilling and Carbon Injection

WHEN 📆 25-28 August 2026 (Hokkaido, Japan)

CALL ▶️ www.icdp-online.org/fileadmin/Ne...

INFO ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

VGSP Savannah Rivera from University of Oklahoma is sampling cores collected from three sites in Lake Tanganyika to study the impact of land use and climate change on the sediment over the past few thousand years.

VGSP Carson McFarland from University of Wisconsin Milwaukee is sampling cores collected in 2023 in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania for volcanic layers which he will correlate to previously described geologic units using geochemistry and mineralogy.

Due today! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...

Due this Friday! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...

Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...