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.
IODP Expedition 406: New England Shelf Hydrogeology
Applications now closed The Co-chief Scientists for this Expedition are Prof. Brandon Dugan (Colorado School of Mines, USA) and Prof. Karen Johannesson (University of Massachusetts
Special Call for Applicants: Nannofossil Micropaleont
Expedition 402: Tyrrhenian Continent – Ocean Transition9 February – 8 April 2024 This call is now CLOSED. Expedition 402 will investigate the temporal and spatial
Understanding volcano systems to mitigate threats: Acacia Clark on Expedition 398
The Hellenic arc – comprising the Santorini, Christiana, and Kolumbo volcanic centres in Greece’s Aegean Sea – is one of Europe’s most active volcanic centres.
Drilling deeper into Earth’s seismic history: Professor Myra Keep
Expedition 386: Japan Trench Paleoseismology When it comes to characterising Earth’s complex and multiscale seismic behaviour and its impacts, short historical records – and even
Unlocking six million years of detailed climate records: Professor Jimin Yu on IODP Expedition 397
Deep sea sediments hold the secrets of Earth’s past changing climate and help scientists understand what the future may hold. Because they trap ancient air,
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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.