ICDP Country Profile
International Continental Scientific Drilling Program 2024-05-09
Switzerland
| ICDP Membership: | since 2008 |
| National Program: | Swiss Drilling |
| Reponsible Institutions: | Swiss National Science Foundation, National Research Council (SNSF) |
| Panel Members: |
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International ICDP Proposals with Participation from Switzerland
Column 'Individuals involved' entails Principal Investigators (PIs),
Science Team Members (STM), Workshop Participants (WP)
with an affiliation at an institution in Switzerland
See also below, Subreport 'Submitted Proposals
with Drill Site(s) in Switzerland'.
| # | Proposal Name | Proposal ID | Individuals involved |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Probing the Lithosphere Under Samoa: A 2500-meter drill core to explore hotspot-trench interactions, continental recycling, the deep biosphere, and geothermal resources (PLUS) | ICDP-2023/13 preliminary |
1 | |
| 2 | ICDP Eifel: Follow the CO2 - Drilling into an actively degassing intraplate volcano underlain by a silicic-carbonatitic intrusion | ICDP-2023/07 workshop |
1 | |
| 3 | The Fucino sedimentary succession: the longest and continuous terrestrial archive in the Mediterranean area recording the last five millions of years of the Earth system history (MEME) | ICDP-2023/06 workshop |
3 | |
| 4 | New Zealand fjord sediment records of Southern Hemisphere climate change and carbon cycling | ICDP-2022/08 workshop |
1 | |
| 5 | Gabon and Oxygenation of Earth - Drilling Early Earth Project (GOE-DEEP) | ICDP-2022/05 workshop |
1 | |
| 6 | Connections Among Life, geo-Dynamics and Eruptions in a Rifting Arc caldera (CALDERA) | ICDP-2022/04 workshop |
1 | |
| 7 | Weihe Basin Drilling Project (Phase I) Mio-Pleistocene Asian hydroclimate variability and dynamics | ICDP-2022/02 full |
3 | |
| 8 | The Deep Dust Drilling Project: Earth-System Responses to the Penultimate Icehouse Collapse and Greenhouse Intensification | ICDP-2022/01 full |
2 | |
| 9 | New Caledonia Ophiolite Land-to-Sea Drilling Project | ICDP-2021/17 preliminary |
2 | |
| 10 | The Lake Victoria Drilling Project (LVDP): Unraveling the climate and environmental history of the world?s most populated lake | ICDP-2021/11 workshop |
3 | |
| 11 | Deep Drilling in the Turkana Basin (DDTB) Exploring the link between environmental factors and hominin evolution | ICDP-2021/10 workshop |
1 | |
| 12 | NZMaar: Getting to the Bottom of Lake Pupuke | ICDP-2020/14 preliminary |
1 | |
| 13 | Afar Dallol Drilling - ONset of sedimentary processes in an active rift basin (ADD-ON) | ICDP-2020/11 workshop |
6 | |
| 14 | Coring Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum transects, mid-Atlantic U.S. Coastal Plain: Constraining timing and cause of carbon injection and ecosystem response (USA Margin PETM) | ICDP-2020/08 workshop |
2 | |
| 15 | The Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project (TSDP): Unravelling 10 Million Years of African Environmental Evolution | ICDP-2020/06 full |
5 | |
| 16 | The Nam Co Drilling Project, Tibet: A one million year sedimentary record from the third pole | ICDP-2020/05 full |
5 | |
| 17 | Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE (DIVE) | ICDP-2020/04 full |
23 | |
| 18 | LIBRE - Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor | ICDP-2019/14 workshop |
2 | |
| 19 | Barberton Archean Surface Environments (BASE), Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt | ICDP-2019/03 full |
2 | |
| 20 | Neogene environmental and geological evolution of the Central American bridge between two continents and two oceans (NICA-BRIDGE) | ICDP-2018/17 workshop |
3 | |
| 21 | Lake Tanganyika Drilling: Addressing World-Class Scientific Questions In Paleoclimatology, Tectonics And Evolutionary Ecology In Africa's Oldest Lake | ICDP-2018/16 workshop |
9 | |
| 22 | Investigating Miocene Mediterranean-Atlantic Exchange (IMMAGE) | ICDP-2018/09 full |
1 | |
| 23 | Geological Research through Integrated Neoproterozoic Drilling: The Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition | ICDP-2018/08 full |
1 | |
| 24 | Drilling Workshop: Archean Surface Environments, Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt | ICDP-2017/14 workshop |
2 | |
| 25 | Drilling Investigation of Seismogenic Crust in Oklahoma (DISCO) | ICDP-2017/13 workshop |
2 | |
| 26 | Newberry Deep Drilling Project (NDDP), Workshop Proposal | ICDP-2017/11 workshop |
1 | |
| 27 | Nam Co | ICDP-2017/10 workshop |
1 | |
| 28 | Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC-2): Drilling the main Caledonian décollement and into the basement of the Fennoscandian Shield | ICDP-2017/04 full |
4 | |
| 29 | Trans-Amazon Drilling Project | ICDP-2017/01 full |
3 | |
| 30 | Drilling the continental crust into the Moho transition zone (Ivrea-Verbano zone, Italy) | ICDP-2016/17 workshop |
17 | |
| 31 | Scientific Exploration of Induced SeisMicity and Stress (SEISMS) | ICDP-2016/13 workshop |
3 | |
| 32 | Drilling into seismogenic zones of M2.0 ? M5.5 earthquakes in deep South African gold mines (DSeis) | ICDP-2016/08 full |
10 | |
| 33 | Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys (DOVE) | ICDP-2016/04 full |
17 | |
| 34 | The Lake CHAd Deep DRILLing Project (CHADRILL) - Unravelling 10 Million Years of environmental and climatic changes in Africa: Implications for human migration and deep life. | ICDP-2015/12 workshop |
2 | |
| 35 | Drilling into seismogenic zones of M2.0 ? M5.5 earthquakes in deep South African gold mines (DSeis) | ICDP-2015/10 workshop |
1 | |
| 36 | ICDP Workshop Proposal: Continental Drilling of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Larsen basin, Antarctica | ICDP-2015/09 workshop |
1 | |
| 37 | Krafla Magma Drilling Project | ICDP-2015/08 full |
1 | |
| 38 | ICDP SUSTAIN Program at Surtsey : A New Drill Core at Surtsey Volcano: A Natural Laboratory for Time-Lapse Characterization of Hydrothermal Seawater and Microbial Interactions with Basaltic Tephra | ICDP-2015/07 full |
4 | |
| 39 | Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale (JET) | ICDP-2015/04 full |
2 | |
| 40 | Probing Reservoir Triggered Earthquakes at Koyna, India through Scientific Deep Drilling: Pilot Hole Phase | ICDP-2015/02 full |
1 | |
| 41 | Quaternary Tertiary Tropics - Colônia Sediment Archive Drilling Project QUE COISA | ICDP-2014/17 workshop |
3 | |
| 42 | Origin of vein-type ore deposits | ICDP-2014/14 workshop |
2 | |
| 43 | Crossing into the Hypersolidus Frontier: The Krafla Magma Drilling Project (KMDP) | ICDP-2014/12 workshop |
1 | |
| 44 | DeepCHALLA: two glacial-interglacial cycles (ca. 250,000 years) of climate and ecosystem dynamics on the East African equator | ICDP-2014/06 full |
4 | |
| 45 | MEXIDRILL: The Basin of Mexico Drilling Program | ICDP-2014/05 full |
2 | |
| 46 | Scientific Drilling in the Samail Ophiolite, Sultanate of Oman | ICDP-2014/03 full |
10 | |
| 47 | The Coulman High Project?Drilling beneath the Ross Ice Shelf to understand Antarctic Ice Sheet sensitivity to climatic, tectonic, and environmental forcing in a high CO2 world | ICDP-2014/02 full |
1 | |
| 48 | The Towuti Drilling Project: Paleoenvironments, Biological Evolution, and Geomicrobiology of a Tropical Pacific Lake | ICDP-2013/02 full |
4 | |
| 49 | Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys | ICDP-2012/12 workshop |
13 | |
| 50 | A Workshop to plan drilling a 5 km deep well into the root zone of an analog to a black smoker on land at Reykjanes, Iceland | ICDP-2012/04 workshop |
2 | |
| 51 | The Lake Junín (Perú) Drilling Project | ICDP-2012/02 full |
1 | |
| 52 | International Drilling to Recover Aquifer Sands (IDRAs) and Arsenic Contaminated Groundwater in Asia | ICDP-2012/01 full |
1 | |
| 53 | Glacial-interglacial (150,000-yr) climate and ecosystem history on the East African equator, from the sediment record of crater Lake Challa near Mt. Kilimanjaro | ICDP-2011/13 workshop |
1 | |
| 54 | Paleoenvironments, Biological Evolution, and Geomicrobiology of an Ultramafic, Tropical Pacific Lake: The Lake Towuti Drilling Project (TOWUTI) | ICDP-2011/09 workshop |
2 | |
| 55 | A workshop for deep drilling of the Chalco Basin, Valley of Mexico | ICDP-2011/08 workshop |
1 | |
| 56 | Oman Ophiolite Drilling Project, Workshop Proposal | ICDP-2011/07 workshop |
1 | |
| 57 | Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC) | ICDP-2011/03 full |
5 | |
| 58 | Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP), Alpine Fault, New Zealand: Phase 2 - conditions at 1.5 km depth | ICDP-2011/01 full |
3 | |
| 59 | Lake Junin (Peru) as an ICDP site | ICDP-2010/12 workshop |
1 | |
| 60 | Recovering uncompromised samples of aquifer sands with in-situ groundwater from up to 300-m depth in South and Southeast Asia | ICDP-2010/10 workshop |
1 | |
| 61 | LIMO-DRILL (Lillo Mound Drill, Puebla de Lillo Carbonate Mound Drilling) | ICDP-2010/09 preliminary |
2 | |
| 62 | Glacial-interglacial (150,000-year) climate history on the East African equator, extracted from the sediment record of a crater lake on Mt. Kilimanjaro | ICDP-2009/16 preliminary |
1 | |
| 63 | Climate evolution in Central Asia during the past few million years: A case study from Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgystan | ICDP-2009/13 workshop |
2 | |
| 64 | A Tale of Two Islands: The LAKENZ Drilling Project | ICDP-2009/12 preliminary |
1 | |
| 65 | Postglacial Fault Drilling Project (PFDP) | ICDP-2009/10 workshop |
1 | |
| 66 | Lake Junin (Peru) as a Potential ICDP site | ICDP-2009/09 preliminary |
1 | |
| 67 | The Dead Sea as a Global Paleo-environmental, Tectonic and Seismic Archive | ICDP-2009/05 full |
2 | |
| 68 | Scientific Collaboration On Past Speciation Conditions in Lake Ohrid (SCOPSCO) | ICDP-2009/03 full |
5 | |
| 69 | Peering into the Cradle of Life: Scientific Drilling in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa | ICDP-2009/01 full |
2 | |
| 70 | High to ultra-high resolution sedimentary records - Testing the findings of the IPCC Report using Multi-Platform Drilling ? | ICDP-2008/15 workshop |
2 | |
| 71 | Evolutionary, Geological, and Environmental History of Lake Ohrid (EGEL) | ICDP-2008/09 workshop |
3 | |
| 72 | The late Quaternary climate archive of the Blue Hole, Belize (Central America) | ICDP-2008/06 preliminary |
1 | |
| 73 | Campi Flegrei caldera Deep Drilling Project (CFDDP) | ICDP-2008/05 full |
1 | |
| 74 | Testing the Extensional Detachment Paradigm: Scientific Drilling in the Sevier Desert Basin (Basin and Range Province, Western United States) | ICDP-2007/09 workshop |
1 | |
| 75 | Lake Van Drilling Project ?PaleoVan? | ICDP-2007/03 full |
16 | |
| 76 | Potrok Aike Maar Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project (PASADO) | ICDP-2007/01 full |
6 | |
| 77 | Drilling at Campi Flegrei Caldera (Southern Italy). | ICDP-2006/12 workshop |
1 | |
| 78 | Full Proposal for Drilling - Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project (FAR-DEEP) | ICDP-2006/01 full |
1 | |
| 79 | Intermediate Depth Drilling of the Snake River Plain: Tracking the Yellowstone Hotspot Through Space and Time. | ICDP-2005/13 workshop |
1 | |
| 80 | Potrok Aike Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project, southernmost Argentina (PASADO) | ICDP-2005/09 workshop |
5 | |
| 81 | Scientific Drilling of the Magma-Hydrothermal Connection, Kamchatka, Russia | ICDP-2005/08 workshop |
1 | |
| 82 | Lake Van Drilling Project, PALEOVAN | ICDP-2005/06 workshop |
1 | |
| 83 | Scientific Drilling at El'gygytgyn Crater Lake, Chukokta, Northeast Siberia | ICDP-2005/01 full |
2 | |
| 84 | Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala) Drilling Project | ICDP-2004/03 full |
5 | |
| 85 | Scientific Drilling at Qinghai Lake on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau: High-resolution paleoenvironmental records of eastern Asia and their significance for global change. | ICDP-2003/03 workshop |
3 | |
| 86 | Exploring the African-European suture at depth: Orava Deep Drilling Project (ODDP), Poland | ICDP-2003/02 workshop |
1 | |
| 87 | Scientific Drilling at the Bosumtwi Impact Structure, Ghana, West Africa | ICDP-2002/08 full |
1 | |
| 88 | Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP): Request for ICDP support of Science Planning Meetings and an International Science Workshop to conclude Phase I of IDDP. | ICDP-2002/05 workshop |
1 | |
| 89 | ICDP Workshop on Scientific Drilling in Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala). | ICDP-2002/04 workshop |
4 | |
| 90 | GLAD800 Drilling in Lake Petén Itzá (Guatemala): A Lowland Neotropical. Record of Climate Change Spanning Multiple Glacial-to-Interglacial Cycles. | ICDP-2001/11 preliminary |
3 | |
| 91 | Drilling Operations in the Dabie-Sulu UHPM Belt, East China. | ICDP-1998/09 full |
1 | |
| 92 | Support for Scientific Drilling of Lake Baikal Sediments for Late Cenozoic Earth History and Tectonic Reconstructions. | ICDP-1997/08 full |
1 | |
| 93 | Drilling for Scientific Purposes in the Tropical-Subtropical Andes: Lake Titicaca, Bolivia/Peru. | ICDP-1997/02 workshop |
1 | |
| 94 | Scientific Drilling in Hawaii: Physics and Chemistry of Mantle Plumes. | ICDP-1996/18 preliminary |
1 | |
| 95 | Prospectus for a Global Lake Drilling Initiative. | ICDP-1996/13 preliminary |
1 | |
| 96 | Scientific Drilling at the KT-age Chicxulub Crater: Probing the Link between Impact and Global Change. | ICDP-1996/08 preliminary |
2 | |
| 96 Proposals | International ICDP Proposals with Participation from Switzerland | Total: | 294 persons |
Training Course Participants from Switzerland:
Participants comprised students, scientists at all career stages, technical staff.
| Date | Location | Participants from Switzerland |
# | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | in Germany | 4 | 1 | |
| 2018 | in Germany | 2 | 2 | |
| 2018 | in Germany | 1 | 3 | |
| 2017 | in Germany | 3 | 4 | |
| 2016 | in Germany | 2 | 5 | |
| 2015 | in Germany | 2 | 6 | |
| 2015 | in North Macedonia | 1 | 7 | |
| 2014 | in New Zealand | 3 | 8 | |
| 2012 | in U.S.A. | 4 | 9 | |
| 2011 | in Germany | 1 | 10 | |
| 2010 | in Germany | 2 | 11 | |
| 2009 | in Sweden | 0 | 12 | |
| 2008 | in Germany | 1 | 13 | |
| 2007 | in Germany | 0 | 14 | |
| 2006 | in Germany | 0 | 15 | |
| 2004 | in Ghana | 0 | 16 | |
| 2003 | in Japan | 0 | 17 | |
| 2001 | in Mexico | 0 | 18 | |
| 2001 | in P.R. China | 0 | 19 | |
| 1999 | in U.S.A. | 0 | 20 | |
| 1998 | in Germany | 0 | 21 | |
| Switzerland | Total Number of Training Course Participants: | 26 persons |
Submitted Proposals with Drill Site(s) in Switzerland:
Only proposals approved by the ICDP panels are shown.
Column 'Individuals involved' entails Principal Investigators (PIs),
Science Team Members (STM), Workshop Participants (WP)
with an affiliation at an institution in Switzerland
| # | Proposal Name | Proposal
ID (Type) |
Individuals involved |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys (DOVE) | ICDP-2016/04 (full) |
17 | |
| 2 | Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys | ICDP-2012/12 (workshop) |
13 | |
|
|
2 submitted Proposals with Drill Site(s) in Switzerland | Persons involved: | 30 scientists |