Engage with our community
There’s always so much happening across our ANZIC community – in our region and all around the world. Catch up with the latest news, events, and find ways to engage even more deeply in the world of scientific drilling.
Join one of FIVE workshops!
Combine your expertise with scientists from around the globe to create viable drilling proposals for these IODP3 or ICDP projects. Remember that ANZIC Travel Support is available to help you travel to workshops like these.
ZERO-AGE drilling: identify targets to recover zero-age basaltic crust at mid-ocean ridges. Learn more and register.
i-CREATE: Investigating buries impact craters to understand their evolution and environmental impact. Learn more and apply
DeepCHG: Getting to the bottom of the Quaternary. Learn more and apply
HOROMAN DC: Mantle Drilling and Carbon Injection. Learn more and apply
Young & Cool: ow and where to install observatories to study microbiology and geochemistry on the mid-Atlantic ridge flank. Learn more and register.
Our Annual Report out now!
Click through to see what we achieved last year, what happened in the world of scientific drilling, and to enjoy the stories!
Meet our expeditioners and hear their adventures!
For ANZIC, 2024 was a year of Firsts and Lasts. Australia joined the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program and we celebrated 12 years – and more than $2 Million – of our legacy funding; while the International Ocean Discovery Program was completed and the famous JR (drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution) took its last voyage.
“It’s exciting to have opened new opportunities through Australian membership in ICDP, and sobering to reflect on the nearly five decades of impactful science undertaken by the revered JOIDES Resolution.”
Ron Hackney, ANZIC Director
Apply to Co-Chair the IODP3 Science Evaluation Panel
Broaden your knowledge, skills and international networks while shaping the future of scientific ocean drilling. Apply to join SEP – IODP3's Science Evaluation Panel. The panel evaluates and selects the best and most relevant drilling/coring and SPARC (Scientific Projects using Ocean Drilling Archives) proposals.
The 'Site' SEP Subgroup is currently looking for a Co-Chair.
Apply by 17 December.
Join us to showcase scientific drilling at upcoming National Conferences!
Geoscience Society of New Zealand 2025 Conference
We are running a pre-conference workshop and Special Interest Group focusing on the future of Aotearoa New Zealand’s involvement in global scientific drilling programs – so sign up to join us!
Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC 2026)
Let's make scientific drilling a highlight at this event!
We will hold a booth and other events, and can't wait to see you there.
Early Bird Registration ends 17 October.
ANZIC Prize for Best Student Publication
Nominate now for the ANZIC Prize for Best Student Publication in scientific drilling! It’s your chance to showcase your contribution to the ANZIC community, gain recognition and engage with leading scientists.
From global cycles to microscopic bubbles and the sounds of science at sea!
IODP3 Expedition 502 is preparing to sail and four excited ANZIC expeditioners are contributing in diverse ways.
16 Research Institutions, One Mission: Deep Earth Discovery
Sixteen Australian and New Zealand universities and research institutions have renewed a powerful alliance to keep our scientists at the cutting edge of global Earth science.
Megaquakes, Mudslides and ‘Bio-snot’: ANZIC Expeditioners investigate the Japan Trench
Giant underwater avalanches that ‘ignite’, prehistoric mega earthquakes, and a curious substance nicknamed ‘bio-snot’, are among the mysteries that ANZIC-supported scientists will investigate on IODP3 Expedition 503.
Freshwater Hidden Beneath the Sea: A New Frontier for Water Security
Off the coast of New England lies a hidden reservoir of ancient, fresh water, locked in sediments beneath the seafloor.
ANZIC expeditioner, Dr Sara Polanco, is part of a team of scientists heading out to study it.
CORE Funding 2025
ANZIC invites proposals from Australian & New Zealand scientists and educators for our Continental & Ocean Research & Drilling (CORE) Funding.
Never miss an opportunity
ANZIC PUBLICATIONS
Keen to look back on past issues of ANZIC Bulletin? Access previous editions here.
Future DEEP Final Report – detailing the priorities and opportunities that will take us into the future.
The ANZIC Charter is our governing document.