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.
Unveiling Earth’s Microbial Mysteries with IODP
If you missed this exciting seminar highlighting IODP discoveries in microbiology, you can now view the Recording! Four fabulous speakers from across three Australian Universities:
Understanding plate dynamics – Luca Magri on Expedition 402
A collection of cores – sampled in a small cross off the coast of Italy – could help settle a debate in plate tectonics that’s been running for over 30 years.
Examining the Mediterranean’s past lives & their impact on global climate: Professor Simon George on IODP Expedition 401
Past changes to the gateway between the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean created some phenomenal events and changed ocean circulation and chemistry. Scientist will drill down – on land and under sea – to understand the details.
Tracking the travels of dust – could ocean cores hold the key?
A project funded by ANZIC’s AILAF Grants aims to investigate.
We all know dust can travel on the wind… and get into everything – usually in small amounts. For researchers like Dr Sam Marx, at the University of Wollongong
Venturing deep into the past lives of coral reefs: Professor Jody Webster on IODP Expedition 389
“We are going to learn a lot. It’s going to be fascinating to see what the reef cores look like and what they can tell us. My advice – if there’s fundamental scientific questions you want to answer – keep working and keep pushing! Never give up!
IODP Expedition 405: JTRACK
Tracking Tsunamigenic Slip Across the Japan Trench Sailing 12 September to 7 December 2024 Applications CLOSED. We are assessing applications and making preparations. MarE3 currently
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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.