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.
Students sailing into future careers with CAPSTAN
Thirty university students and trainers from ANZIC member institutions across Australia will get the training experience of a lifetime when they take to the seas for a circumnavigation of Tasmania aboard CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator.
Expert seminar: Prof Masao Iwa
Join us online, or in person at the Australian National University’s Research School of Earth Sciences, to hear Prof. Iwai (Kochi University, Japan) speak about his research using IODP cores.
Science Evaluation Panel – Australian Representative
Applications for this opportunity have now closed.
Beneath the Ice: Revealing Antarctica’s past to safeguard the future
ANZIC Expeditioner, Dr Linda Armbrecht, is part of an international team probing the sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Drilling into an earthquake zone: ANZIC experts on Expedition 405
Three ANZIC expeditioners will be onboard as IODP Expedition 405 drills deep into the fault zone responsible for Japan’s devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
ANZIC Travel Support
ANZIC is pleased to offer Travel Support for you to attend international Proposal Planning Workshops to shape new scientific drilling plans.
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.