September has been a busy month of travels and connecting with our international colleagues. Following a fruitful trip to the annual Chikyu IODP Board meeting in Japan late last month, I headed to the US to attend the IODP Forum at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, then on to Aix-en-Provence in France for the ECORD Facility Board Meeting, and finally Germany to meet with ICDP. In this photo, I'm enjoying a robust discussion with ECORD's Gilbert Camoin (image credit: Nadine Hallman).
 
Though international travel remains challenging, attending these meetings in person – joined online by Sarah Kachovich, Stuart Henrys and Agathe Lisé-Pronovost – has been highly beneficial in planning the future of scientific ocean drilling. I also took the opportunity to share ANZIC’s challenges and plans moving forward, including our evolving strategy to partner with AuScope to secure long-term support for geoscience infrastructure for subsurface sampling.
 
While we await further clarity on the continuation of NSF support for JOIDES Resolution beyond IODP’s current phase, Europe and Japan are progressing plans for a joint program beyond 2024. We’re working closely with them to identify our place in an expanded Mission Specific Platform concept. Closer to home, the ANZIC Office has met with the Australian Antarctic Division – quite timely given ECORD's desire to utilise RSV Nuyina as a Mission Specific Platform – and is engaging with the Australian geoscience community to collect thoughts and ideas centred on ‘virtual expeditions’.
 
Finally, I'd like to congratulate Rob McKay on his recent appointment to the JOIDES Resolution Facility Board, and our upcoming 2022 and 2023 expeditioners. If you're keen to join an upcoming voyage, calls for Expeditions 401 and 402 in 2024 are now open – see below for details.

Read on for more news, events and activities taking place in our thriving community.

Dr Ron Hackney 

Director, ANZIC-IODP 

•  Mission-Specific Platforms: MSP expeditions are planned to operate once a year to drill/core targets that are inaccessible by the other facilities (e.g. shallow water, enclosed seas, ice-covered seas) in any ocean basin until the end of 2024. After that date, MSP expeditions might be implemented in all drilling environments. New and revised MSP proposals for any ocean basin are welcomed.
• Chikyu: New Complementary Project Proposals (CPPs) are encouraged, but other new riser and riserless proposals for the Chikyu may not be submitted at this time. Revisions and addendums to any proposal that is already in the system will be accepted.
• JOIDES Resolution: revisions to proposals already under consideration by SEP and the facility boards can still be (re)submitted.

Geoscience Society of New Zealand Annual Conference 2022
29 November – 1 December
Massey University, Palmerston North
Early bird registrations close 21 October. GeoDiscoveryNZ and ANZIC will host a booth; please drop by if you are intending to attend.
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Australian Earth Sciences Convention: AESC 2022
27-30 June 2023
Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
Registration and abstracts open 1 September. ANZIC plans to host a session, a booth, and a Town Hall meeting for our community.
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2022 Monsoon Seminar Series
Held weekly
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Aware of a recent publication by an ANZIC member author not listed below? Please let us know at pr.anzic@anu.edu.au so we can include it in the next edition. Be sure to tag us on Twitter (@anzic_iodp) or Facebook (@ANZICIODP) when you share your publications so we can assist with promotion.

ANZIC Member Publications: September 2022
'Climatic and tectonic drivers of late Oligocene Antarctic ice volume', by B. Duncan, R. McKay, R. Levy, T. Naish, J.G. Prebble, F. Sangiorgi, S. Krishnan, F. Hoem, C. Clowes, T. Dunkley Jones, E. Gasson, C. Kraus, D.K. Kulhanek, S.R. Meyers, H. Moossen, C. Warren, V. Willmott, G.T. Ventura & J. Bendle; Nature Geoscience (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-01025-x

'Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago', by K.M. Grant, U. Amarathunga, J.D. Amies, P. Hu, Y. Qian, T. Penny, L. Rodriguez-Sanz, X. Zhao, D. Heslop, D. Liebrand, R. Hennekam, T. Westerhold, S. Gilmore, L.J. Lourens, A.P. Roberts & E.J. Rohling; Commun Earth Environ 3, 11 (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-021-00339-9

'The origin of magmas and metals at the submarine Brothers Volcano, Kermadec Arc, New Zealand', by P.A. Brandl, M. Portnyagin, H. Zeppenfeld, F.J. Tepley, C.E.J. de Ronde, C. Timm, F. Hauff, D. Garbe-Schönberg & R. Bousquet; Economic Geology, 2022. DOI: 10.5382/econgeo.4973

‘Direct constraints on in situ stress states from deep drilling into the Nankai subduction zone, Japan’, by H.J. Tobin, D.M. Saffer, D.A. Castillo & T. Hirose; Geology, 5 September 2022. DOI:10.1130/G49639.1

'Data report: Site U1523 composite section and stratigraphic splice based on X-ray fluorescence data, IODP Expedition 374', by D.K. Kulhanek, C. Prunella, J.R. McLaughlin, B. Griffin, R.M. McKay, M.O. Patterson, J. Gales, A.E. Shevenell, T.E. van Peer & the Expedition 374 Scientists; Volume 374 of the Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 2 September 2022. DOI: 10.14379/iodp.proc.374.202.2022


Selected IODP Publications: September 2022 
'Rare Earth Element Mobility and Sr Isotope Systematics of Altered Volcanic Rocks from Seawater-Based and Magmatically-Influenced Hydrothermal Systems: Brothers Volcano, Kermadec Arc (IODP Expedition 376)', by S.E. Humphris, J. Blusztajn & Y. Cai; Economic Geology, 2022. DOI: 10.5382/econgeo.4961

'Expedition 400 Scientific Prospectus, NW Greenland Glaciated Margin', International Ocean Discovery Program, 2 September 2022. http://publications.iodp.org/scientific_prospectus/400/

‘Enhanced ocean oxygenation during Cenozoic warm periods’, by A. Auderset, S. Moretti, B. Taphorn, P. Ebner, E. Kast, X.T. Wang, R. Schiebel, D.M. Sigman, G.H. Haug & A. Martínez-García; Nature 609, 77–82 (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05017-0

‘Cenozoic evolution of deep ocean temperature from clumped isotope thermometry’, by A.N. Meckler, P.F. Sexton, M. Piasecki, J. Leutert, J. Marquardt, M. Ziegler, T. agterhuis, L.J. Lourens, J.W.B. Rae, J. Barnet, A. Tripati, S.M. Bernasconi; Science, Vol 377, Issue 6601, 2022. DOI: 10.1126/science.abk0604

‘Elevated post K-Pg export productivity in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean’, by C.M. Lowery &  T.J. Bralower; Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37, 2022. DOI: 10.1029/2021PA004400


New Seismic Data 
'Wide-angle seismic reflections reveal a lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary zone in the subducting Pacific Plate, New Zealand', by P. Herath, T.A. Stern, M.K. Savage, D. Bassett & S. Henrys; Science Advances, Vol 8, Issue 38. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn5697