Applications also extended for IODP Expedition 403, the last to sail onboard JOIDES Resolution.
ECORD Summer Schools: apply now
The Australian and New Zealand IODP Consortium (ANZIC) is now seeking applications from students to attend the upcoming ECORD Summer Schools, with ANZIC covering travel, accommodation, food, and course participation costs for successful applicants.
ECORD Summer Schools aim to connect early career researchers with the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) at an early stage in their career, enabling them to explore the exciting research within IODP and preparing them for future participation in expeditions. While open to applicants from all career stages and geoscience backgrounds, courses are tailored to individuals who are early in their career (PhD or post-doctorate studies). Read on for more details and information on how to apply for these exciting opportunities.
ECORD Summer School:
Downhole Logging for IODP Science
22-28 July 2023
The course introduces the interpretation and applications of downhole logs and physical property data primarily from IODP. It explores the relevance and unique insights of these data for a range of fields, including paleoclimatology, sedimentology, hydrogeology, and broader geological and ecological processes such as sediment provenance and water column productivity.
At the heart of the course are introductory sessions on petrophysics, the study of the physical (and chemical) properties of rocks and their interactions with fluids. These core principles are then used for insight into broader marine geoscience questions and environments through practical exercises and presentations that provide experience of interpreting downhole logging data and integrating them with other datasets based on real world science applications. Participants will gain insight into data quality assessment, basic data processing using commercial software, scientific log interpretation, stratigraphic correlation using downhole log data, and offshore logging planning and operations.
ANZIC will cover the travel cost, accommodation, food and course participation fee for ECORD Summer School: Downhole Logging for IODP Science for one accepted Australian participant and one accepted New Zealand participant from an ANZIC member institution.
The Arctic Ocean – characterised by strong seasonal forcing and variability in runoff, sea-ice formation, sunlight, and related biological productivity – is (in real time) and was (over historic and geologic time scales) subject to rapid and dramatic change. Due to complex feedback processes collectively known as ‘polar amplification’, the Arctic is both a contributor of climate change and a region that will be most affected by global warming. Geological records from the Arctic Ocean document past climatic conditions, rates of change, and variability prior to anthropogenic influence that might represent analogues of our future climate. Such records may allow us to assess the sensitivity of the Earth’s climate system to changes of different forcing parameters and boundary conditions and to test the reliability of climate models by evaluating their simulations for conditions very different from the modern climate. In this context, understanding the long-term Arctic climate history with its change from Greenhouse to Icehouse conditions during the Cenozoic (last 66 million years) – they focus of this summer school, is of overall significance.
ANZIC will cover the travel cost, accommodation, food and course participation fee for ECORD Summer School: From Icehouse to Greenhouse for one accepted Australian participant from an ANZIC member institution.
