Become an Anzic expeditioner
Participating in an International Scientific Drilling Project is the experience of a lifetime, working as part of an integrated science party to recover, examine and unlock millennia of secrets hidden in cores.
Current opportunities
Expressions of interests for new ocean drilling expedition!
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Into the Nadir!
Did the Chicxulub asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaur have a smaller cousin?
A new candidate impact crater – which appears similar in age to the Chicxulub crater near Mexico – has recently been discovered offshore West Africa and IODP3 plan to drill into it to find out!
The Expedition: Into the Nadir plans to drill a single well through the Nadir crater into the sedimentary rocks beneath it, to understand how the 9.2km-wide crater formed and what its consequences were.
Applications to take part will open in 2027, but you can be the first to receive information about this exciting expedition by completing IODP3’s Expression of Interest form.
Seeking specialists: second call
Expedition 503: Hadal Trench Tsunamigenic Slip History
IODP3 is calling for new scientists to join the science team for Expedition 503 whilst still in the moratorium period.
The expedition aimed to recover the complete trench-fill sedimentary succession in the central Japan Trench to reconstruct the long-term history of megathrust earthquakes and tsunamigenic slip-to-the-trench events. Last year, the expedition successfully recovered a continuous sedimentary succession, spanning the complete sedimentary succession of the hadal trench basin and extending into the underlying sedimentary sequence, and magnetostratigraphic constraints indicate that the recovered record extends back to at least the Middle Pleistocene (~773 ka).
The Expedition Science Team have identified new analytical directions that could complement the original research portfolio and further enhance the scientific value of the expedition materials without duplicating ongoing studies. These include, but are not limited to:
- additional chronological constraints
- expanded interstitial-water and sediment geochemistry
- additional dissolved and gas-phase organic geochemical approaches
- additional approaches to constrain low-temperature diagenesis and organic matter.
Applications are welcomed from scientists proposing to either: (a) adopt these or any other approaches to address the original objectives of the expedition without duplicating the plans of the original Science Team; or (b) use core samples recovered during the expedition to address new objectives and deliver new science not envisaged by the original expedition proposal (Ikehara et al., 2025).
Applications close Spetember 21.
Funding to support our Expeditioners
If you are selected to participate in an international drilling project or expedition, ANZIC has funding to support your travel, participation and research.