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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.
ANZIC Prize for Best Student Publication
Calling all students!
Have you got a stellar publication in scientific drilling? The ANZIC Prize for Best Student Publication is your chance to shine!
By highlighting exceptional work, we aim to support early-career researchers in continuing their engagement with ANZIC and advancing their careers in 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.
Young & Cool: How and where to install observatories to study microbiology and geochemistry on the mid-Atlantic ridge flank. Learn more and register.
DeepCHG: Getting to the bottom of the Quaternary. Learn more and apply by 31 January
HOROMAN DC: Mantle Drilling and Carbon Injection. Learn more and apply by 8 May.
MANI_IN_PASTA: extracting the maximum information from existing drilling data from key deep-water formation sites in both hemispheres. Learn more and register by 15 February.
Chatham Rise Workshop: Seafloor Pockmarks and Their Role in Modulating the Release of Geologic Carbon Through Glacial Cycles. Learn more.
Call for New Zealand Representative to IODP3 Science Board
IODP3 are seeking applications from suitably qualified and experienced scientists from New Zealand to join the Science Board of their Mission-Specific Platform Facility Board (MSP-FB). This Science Board plays a key role in decision-making and consists of leading scientists drawn from the international scientific ocean drilling community.
Join us to showcase scientific drilling at upcoming National Conferences!
Australian Earth Sciences Convention (AESC 2026)
Let's make scientific drilling a highlight at this event!
We will hold a booth and run a workshop: Shaping the Future of Australia’s Involvement in the Global Scientific Drilling Programs.
It's on in February and we can't wait to see you there!
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.
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.
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ANZIC PUBLICATIONS
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Future DEEP Final Report – detailing the priorities and opportunities that will take us into the future.
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