CSD staff took University of Minnesota students in the Earth Surface Dynamics class out to collect surface cores on Twin Lake

CSD Facility staff presented at the Minnesota Earth Science Teachers Association annual conference last week to engage educators in core-focused classroom activities to address 6th and 9th grade science standards.

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.

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...

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

It's that time again! Apply for a Visiting Graduate Student Program travel grant to visit the CSD Facility and work on your cores: cse.umn.edu/csd/visiting...

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: [email protected] ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/all-events/d...

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

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

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

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 [email protected] 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.