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Researchers from University of the Republic of Uruguay are splitting and describing cores collected in coastal lagoons between Uruguay and Brazil. They will use XRF, grain size, diatoms, and stable isotope data to study anthropogenic impacts and long term sea level oscillations.

📢 @icdpdrilling.bsky.social Proposal Call for Pre-, Workshop, Full and our NEW ❗Fast-track Proposals is now open

📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026
📧 Submit via: proposal.submission@icdp-online.org

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We are busy in Finland🌏: now at the DEEP EGS workshop (Espoo, Finland) aiming at deep geothermal energy exploration in crystalline rock 🪨 + post-drilling assessment & experiments in the St1 Deep Heat Reservoir, Finland👍
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ICDP Workshop FlankED now on in Catania (Italy)👉 >50 international scientists exploring our understanding on how deep scientific drilling can reveal the physical mechanisms & triggers of volcano flank sliding 🌋
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This week Lydia Olaka from the Technical University of Kenya, Cat Beck from Hamilton College and CSD staff collected water samples at springs and water sources around Turkana, Kenya for major ion chemistry, trace metals, and isotopes as preliminary work for the Turkana Basin Drilling Project.

CSD staff hosted a successful workshop on scientific drilling with Lydia Olaka from the Technical University of Kenya and Cat Beck from Hamilton College at the Colloquium for African Geology in Nairobi this weekend. We are thrilled to connect with the next generation of geoscientists in the region.

Researchers from University of Pittsburgh are resampling cores collected in 2015 from Lake Junin, Peru to expand their data to include more glacial and interglacial cycles. This research will reveal what controls the South American summer monsoon under different conditions.

Researcher Paige Kohler from Michigan State University is back in the lab - this time sampling for paleomagnetic data to provide age constraints for her cores from the Lake Erie central basin. Paige is researching biogeochemical cycling in the Great Lakes throughout the Holocene.

CSD Facility Researcher Vania Stefanova is teaching Carl Martin from Calvin College to identify pollen from cores collected in Flat Iron Lake, Michigan.

These cores from Gull Lake, CA are being sampled by researchers from Georgia Southern University for stable isotopes, total organic carbon, and X-ray fluorescence to complement previous work on diatoms.

And another project finalized 🎉! Congratulations to GOE-DEEP (Gabon)- End of Phase 01!
Final depth of 459.6 meters at the final (8th) Lebaye hole.
Core recovery of 96% ⚡ 2717 m of precious core in only 3 months👍
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Congrats 🎉 BVDP project (South Africa) finalized! Final depth: 1877.2 m depth on 23rd August 25. Congratulations to the successful team! 👍 Important goals achieved⚡now preparing for sampling and for publishing exciting new insights into the Bushveld Complex! ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

Sam Randall from Western Washington University is describing cores collected from small high altitude lakes near Mount Baker, WA. He is focusing on tephra deposits from the most recent explosive eruption around 6,700 years ago to study how the magma changed throughout the duration of the eruption.

Professor Kate Flick from the College of Menominee Nation recently visited the lab to split the cores she collected in Berry Lake, WI with the help of Facility staff last winter.

The CSD Division is excited to announce our 2025-2026 Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Kristine Pankow of the University of Utah!

You are welcome to invite her to talk at your colloquia by contacting kris.pankow@utah.edu or looking at the CSDD website (community.geosociety.org/%20continent...)

USGS geologists are studying how earthquakes are represented in sedimentary records using archival New England cores from the 70s & 80s to look for evidence of the 1638 New Hampshire & 1755 Cape Ann events. Stanley Lake, ID cores provide them a modern record of the 2020 M6.5 Stanley earthquake.

Researchers from Georgia Southern University are splitting and sampling cores from Lake Ypacaraí, Paraguay to study Holocene climate variations using stable isotopes and sediment characteristics such as grain size and shape from magnetic susceptibility data.

VGSP Hunter Allen from Northern Arizona University is working on cores from lakes across Alaska as part of a large project studying glacial-fed lakes. Hunter uses these sediment cores that span the deglacial to the Holocene, trying to identify how changes in past climate impacted glaciers.

CSD Facility staff recently returned from coring Lake Ypacaraí, Paraguay in support of a project to explore the history of environmental change in the context of urbanization and agricultural applications in the watershed since early Spanish colonization.

University of Toledo researchers are collecting sediment samples for genetic analyses to understand how aquatic communities responded to the marine incursion events in Lake Izabal and Golfete, Guatemala.

Researchers from Missouri S&T are generating lithologic descriptions and analyzing XRF data to identify marine incursion events in Lake Izabal Guatemala that caused the well-mixed lake waters to stratify and form anoxic bottom environments throughout the Holocene.

These happy visitors know how important our lab technicians are - and we're hiring! Please share this posting with anyone in the Twin Cities area who may be interested. lnkd.in/g9UNs4kY

BVDP Drilling Project (South Africa):approaching 1800 m👍 Microbiological sampling every 100 m with emphasis on peridotites at these depths, coordinated with additional noble gas sampling ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

GOE-DEEP borehole 3 finalized👍: 333m depth & cored in 7-day record time by the GOE-DEEP drilling project team🚀. Before moving to site 4, the team welcomes geology students 🎓 from the Masuku University of Science and Technology (Gabun) ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

KIND workshop last week in Potsdam (Germany): 65 scientists from all over the world gathered in Potsdam discussing ideas for scientific drilling of Lake Kinneret to address question of paleoclimate variability and its link to human evolution ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

Researchers from University of Notre Dame are sampling for aquatic and terrestrial organic molecules to examine the impacts of hydroclimate and sea level changes on Lake Izabal, Guatemala.

We're hiring! We're looking for more lab technicians to join our team - look how fun it is! Please share this posting with anyone in the Twin Cities area who may be interested hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/368...

Researchers from Indiana State University are sampling for freshwater diatoms to understand community response to marine inundation events in Lake Izabal and Golfete, Guatemala.

We're hiring! We're looking for more lab technicians to join our team. Please share this posting with anyone in the Twin Cities area who may be interested! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/368...

ICDP GOE-DEEP drilling project in Gabon on the go: 👍 half-way down in 2nd hole on Okouma Plateau (Francevillian Basin, Gabon) intersecting gray shales/mudstones of FB1b, 142m reached ℹ️ More info: www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...