📸Throwback to #ICDP2025TrainingCourse in Weinan! While we celebrated the hard work of all our participants, this young star decided to celebrate with an impromptu dance. 🤩 It was the perfect, most joyful end to an incredible week. Sometimes the best moments are the ones you don't plan! 🥰

📢 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-...

📸Throwback to #ICDP2025TrainingCourse in Weinan! Beyond the drills, lectures, and fieldwork ... PEOPLE made this week unforgettable. Each photo shows a moment of teamwork and laughter — the essence of what makes our community special🤗. Here’s to continuing the journey together🥂

Looking forward to exciting new future collaborations as equal partner in the joint continent ⛰️ and ocean 🌊 Scientific Drilling Forum, held in Sicily last week to strengthen international collaboration in Earth science research 🤝

ICDP Workshop PROTEA (Klerksdorp, South Africa)🇿🇦: 59 international scientists met up in South Africa from 16-17 Oct. 2025 under the topic "Probing the heart of an earthquake and life in the deep subsurface" 👉 More project info: www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

📸Throwback to #ICDP2025TrainingCourse in Weinan! Hands-on training and social gatherings highlight the dedication, teamwork, and connections that made the week momentous.🫰 Building community + technical skills = scientific success‼️ 💯Let’s rewind to these unforgettable moments.

PSST!! The tension builds as a New Zealand–led team ventures to the edge of Antarctica, drilling into the Ross Ice Shelf in search of climate clues buried beneath the ice. Ana Tovey @swais2c.bsky.social follows their quest and reports from the field. Read more 👇 www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Throwback to ICDP 2025 Training Course in Weinan! Cindy (ICDP OSG) leads trainees in a hands-on sample/data management session using a core dummy. Practical skills like these are key for scientific drilling success. #ICDP2025TrainingCourse #DataManagement #CoreHandling

Have a look at SWAIS2C (Antarctica) in color 🎨: the SWAIS2C team illustrated on NZ poster boards for kids during the field season on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica 👍 Project info: www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

📢 @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-...

At the #ICDP2025TrainingCourse, Riikka Kietäväinen shares insights into fluid research from the Outokumpu deep drilling site in Finland. This investigation is key to understanding fluid-rock interactions, microbial life in the deep biosphere, and broader geochemical cycles. #ScientificDrilling

What’s flowing deep beneath the surface? ⬇️ Thomas Wiersberg is leading a deep dive into advanced borehole fluid sampling and monitoring at the #ICDP2025TrainingCourse. OLGA, U-Tube, and gas membrane sensors, key tools for characterizing fluid composition, origin, and movement in the subsurface.

Advancing the future of scientific drilling! 🔥 Amazing week @ ICDP 2025 Training Course (Weinan, PCR). Diving into drilling engineering, logging, core management & visual science communication 👍Thanks to all @ WEIHE Project & IEECAS for a very special training week👏

ICDP is busy @ GEO4Göttingen 25 (Germany) 👉 Session on Latest Achievements in Scientific Ocean and Continental Drilling ⚡

Today, award-winning artist Will Leung is workshopping with our #ICDP2025TrainingCourse participants. We're reviewing and discussing the powerful photos taken yesterday at the WEIHE drill site! #ScienceCommunication #VisualStorytelling #SciComm #Outreach #Photography #Geoscience #WEIHE

#ICDP2025TrainingCourse Day 4. How does a global scientific idea become a reality? 💡 This morning, Leila Rezaei is unpacking exactly that! She's guiding us through the vision, structure, and international collaboration process behind the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program.

Team ICDP 2025 in action! 💥 From the classroom to the drill site.🤩 The course is still going strong in Weinan! More updates to come. Follow the journey! 👇 #ICDP2025trainingCourse #ScientificDrilling

Ai Li is briefing us on what to expect at the WEIHE drilling site, an active ICDP project studying East Asian monsoon evolution and tectonic-climate interactions. Nothing beats seeing theory put into practice! Next stop: the drill rig! #ICDP2025TrainingCourse #WEIHEProject#ScientificDrilling

#ICDP2025TrainingCourse DAY 3: Simona Pierdominici is guiding us through the world of downhole logging and borehole testing. Measurement principles and data interpretation in both sedimentary and crystalline rocks! Next stop: the WEIHE drilling site! 🚧 #DownholeLogging #Weinan #Geoscience

Nicolas Waldmann is now leading a fascinating session on Lacustrine Sediment Coring — revealing how lake sediments serve as archives of past climate and environmental changes. Another step toward mastering the full spectrum of scientific drilling! #ICDP2025TrainingCourse #ScientificDrilling

Let's get into the core of the matter! 🧠🔩 Jan-Erik Rosberg is captivating the room with his expertise on continuous wireline coring techniques. How to retrieve samples with maximum integrity? A masterclass in precision engineering for science! #ICDP2025TrainingCourse #ScientificDrilling

First up: a warm welcome and diving deep into the fundamentals of drilling engineering. SAID KAMRANI😍 Follow our journey this week! #ICDP2025TrainingCourse #Weinan #Science #Geoscience #DrillingEngineering

The moment is here! 👏 Day 2 of the ICDP 2025 Training Course is about to begin. Our participants are arriving, grabbing their seats, and getting ready. Let’s get this started! 🧠💥 #ICDP2025TrainingCourse #Weinan #ScientificDrilling

The ICDP 2025 Training Course is officially underway! 🚀 What a fantastic icebreaker evening in Weinan! High energy in the room as our participants from around the world connected over a delicious welcome buffet. The excitement is palpable! #ICDP2025TrainingCourse #ScientificDrilling

The countdown is ON! 🚀 The ICDP 2025 Training Course in Weinan is just around the corner. Get ready for deep-dive learning sessions, unforgettable networking, and practical skills to power your career! Excited? Comments below pls! 👇 #ICDP2025TrainingCourse #Weinan #ScientificDrilling

@gfz.bsky.social has taken over HiPerCoRig (High-Performance Coring Rig)👍 an innovative lake drilling system developed to extract drill cores at water depths of up to 200 metres. Available soon to science research teams requiring continuous core drilling! ℹ️ More info: www.gfz.de/en/press/new...

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-...

icdpdrilling.bsky.social is busy⚡ Packing our bags & goodies for our Training Course in Weinan (PCR) from 14–20 Sept: sessions on drilling project skills🔥 & hands-on experience @ ICDP Weihe Basin Deep Drilling Project 👍 ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/support/upco... 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-...

Event in German: Österreich in ICDP und IODP-Programmen. Beitrag zur integrativen Erdsystemwissenschaft. 📅 When: 9 October 2025, 13:30H–19:00H 📍 Where: Theatersaal, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sonnenfelsgasse 19, Vienna For more information, visit: www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veran... #ICDP #IODP

GOE-DEEP drilling project (Gabon): ready to start on hole 8 in Lebaye 👍 to examine Okondja Subbasin stratigraphy, enhancing our understanding of athmosphere oxygenation & upper ocean layers + aerobic microbial ecosystems evolution during the Paleoproterozoic 🌍 ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

Conference Call: 5th Arab and Africa Impact Cratering and Astrogeology Conference AICAC V (Ghana) + excursion to Bosumtwi impact crater When: November 9-15, 2025 Where: Accra, University of Ghana Abstract Deadline: Sept 5, 2025 More info: aicacv.org Contact: christian.koeberl(at)univie.ac.at

GOE-DEEP project (Gabon) finalized hole 5075_7_A at 513.3 m👍 200 core runs ⚡and 140 core boxes filled within 10 days 💪Now on to hole 8! ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

First 125m reached👍at Weihe drilling project (China) ▶️Phase 1: 3000-m borehole to provide a terrestrial record spanning the Late Miocene - Holocene ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

Congrats, thank you for this update SWAIS2C! 🤩

Happening soon: International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Summer School at the University of Leicester. Get ready!😎 le.ac.uk/iodp/summer-...

GOE-DEEP drilling project (Gabon): have a look at the inner wall of a borehole all the way down to 350 meters using a borehole imager provided by LIAG Institute for Applied Geophysics👍 ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-... 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJb9... ©️ www.liag-institut.de

First Cores on Deck! 📣The Weihe drilling project has sucessfully started with first drilling in the Weihe Basin (PR China)👍 Phase 1: 3000-m borehole to provide a terrestrial record spanning the Late Miocene - Holocene ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

BVDP Drilling Project (South Africa):current depth 1849m, after fixing the wireline and successfully passing through more tricky lamprophyres👍 ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-... Daily news: www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

GOE-DEEP drilling project (Gabon) finalized borehole 5, drilling to 258 m depth👍 Now busy on borehole 6, current depth of the borehole near Benguia: 174 m ⏩ ℹ️ www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-... Daily news: www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-...

📣 Call for proposals to the Magellan3 Workshop Series Programme NOW OPEN! 🗓️ Applications must be submitted by Monday, 1 September 2025. ✏️ Apply here: iodp3.org/call-for-pro... #IODP3 #ICDP #ScientificDrilling

Our Dr. Elena Robakiewicz joined the KIND workshop by @icdpdrilling.bsky.social to discuss scientific #drilling ideas for Israel's Lake Kinneret. The team aims to address research questions relevant to HESCOR, including #paleoclimate variability and its link to human #evolution. 🔗 shorturl.at/5JqZS

Mission accomplished! The payload carrier reveals its treasures. Science triumphs, curiosity is rewarded, and every single gummy bear has mysteriously vanished... Success!🧸😂 #KTB #ICDP #Outreach

Pupils from Staatliche Realschule Dettelbach are making the most of their time while waiting for the gummy bears... Maybe prepping their next experiment?😎 Science never stands still when curiosity leads the way!💯 #KTB #ICDP #Outreach

Smiles, Science, and Surprises at the KTB!😍 ☀️All together at the KTB drilling site, the pupils and teachers from Staatliche Realschule Dettelbach are proof that geoscience can be as joyful as it is educational!👍 #KTB #ICDP #ScienceIsFun

The experiment is happening NOW at the KTB drilling site! Dettelbach Realschule pupils are lowering their chosen objects down the borehole, turning curiosity into real-world geoscience exploration. Gesa Nobiling is on site, actively documenting the process and capturing the excitement ...😍

Dettelbach Realschule pupils have arrived at the KTB drilling site! Today, they will be dropping gummy bears, eggs, and Playmobil toys down a 9-kilometer-deep borehole!🤩 Stay tuned to witness the incredible experiment! Will gummy bears emerge victorious at an astonishing depth of 5,000 meters?🤣

⚡ Watch live as we lower a payload carrier into Germany’s legendary KTB borehole to enabling tomorrow’s student investigators from Staatliche Realschule Dettelbach to conduct real depth research! What do YOU think they will find❓ #KTB #GFZ #ICDP #DeepScience #STEMeducation #FutureGeologists