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| ICDP Membership: | since 1996 | |||
| Responsible Institution(s): | U.S. National Science Foundation, NSF | |||
| National Program: | Continental Scientific Drilling Coordination Office (CSDCO) | |||
| Panel Members: | AOG: Steven Goldstein, Steven Goldstein EC: Jessica Robin, Jessica Robin SAG: Tullis Onstott, Lisa Park Boush, Harold Tobin | |||
| Submitted Proposals with Drill Site(s) in U.S.A.: | ||||
| Only proposals approved by the ICDP panels are shown. | ||||
'Involved persons' entails the following:
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| # | Proposal Name | Proposal ID (Type) |
Involved Persons | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coring Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum transects, mid-Atlantic U.S. Coastal Plain: Constraining timing and cause of carbon injection and ecosystem response (USA Margin) | ICDP-2020/08 (workshop) | 35 | |
| 2 | PlioWest: Drilling Pliocene Lakes in Western North America | ICDP-2020/09 (workshop) | 22 | |
| 3 | Cornell University Deep Geothermal Test Borehole: Scientific Workshop Proposal | ICDP-2019/11 (workshop) | 61 | |
| 4 | Deep Dust: Probing Continental Climate of the Late Paleozoic Icehouse-Greenhouse Transition | ICDP-2018/13 (workshop) | 66 | |
| 5 | ICDP Workshop on the Colorado Coring Project II and the Junggar Basin Early Jurassic: Low to High Latitude Transect of Environmental, Climatic, and Biotic Evolution | ICDP-2018/14 (workshop) | 56 | |
| 6 | Newberry Deep Drilling Project (NDDP), Workshop Proposal | ICDP-2017/11 (workshop) | 43 | |
| 7 | Drilling Investigation of Seismogenic Crust in Oklahoma (DISCO) | ICDP-2017/13 (workshop) | 144 | |
| 8 | Onshore-Offshore Drilling and Sampling to Understand Freshwater Resources along the New England Continental Shelf | ICDP-2016/11 (workshop) | 25 | |
| 9 | Deep Life Drilling in the Death Valley Rift Zone | ICDP-2015/17 (workshop) | 21 | |
| 10 | ICDP Workshop: Deep Life Drilling in the Death Valley Rift Zone | ICDP-2015/17 (workshop) | 21 | |
| 11 | HOTSPOT: The Snake River Scientific Drilling Project - Tracking the Yellowstone Plume Through Space and Time | ICDP-2010/00 (full) | 21 | |
| 12 | Filling the Triassic Geochronologic Gap: A Continuous Cored Record of Continental Environmental Change in Western North America | ICDP-2010/05 (full) | 8 | |
| 13 | Homestake DUSEL-ICDP Observatory For In-situ Stress, Hydrology, and Life | ICDP-2010/14 (workshop) | 8 | |
| 14 | Homestake DUSEL-ICDP Observatory for In-situ Stress, Hydrology, and Life | ICDP-2009/14 (preliminary) | 7 | |
| 15 | Colorado Plateau Coring Project | ICDP-2008/10 (workshop) | 20 | |
| 16 | Sevier Desert Basin Drilling Project | ICDP-2007/09 (workshop) | 4 | |
| 17 | Human Origins | ICDP-2007/10 (workshop) | 10 | |
| 18 | Snake River Scientific Drilling Project | ICDP-2007/14 (preliminary) | 42 | |
| 19 | San Andreas Fault Zone Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) | ICDP-2007/19 (full) | 3 | |
| 20 | New Jersey Coastal Plain Drilling Project | ICDP-2006/04 (full) | 6 | |
| 21 | Snake River Scientific Drilling Project | ICDP-2005/13 (workshop) | 47 | |
| 22 | San Andreas Fault Zone Observatory At Depth (SAFOD) | ICDP-2005/15 (full) | 3 | |
| 23 | San Andreas Fault Zone Observatory At Depth (SAFOD) | ICDP-2004/04 (full) | 47 | |
| 24 | Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Deep Drilling Project | ICDP-2004/06 (full) | 11 | |
| 25 | Deep Drilling in the Central Crater of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure, Virginia, USA. | ICDP-2003/01 (workshop) | 3 | |
| 26 | Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project: Request for Supplement Drilling Funds. | ICDP-2002/10 (full) | 3 | |
| 27 | Core Image Scanner for Global Lakes Drilling Projects. | ICDP-2001/14 (operational) | 1 | |
| 28 | Global Sea Level and the Architecture of Passive Margin Sediments: Shallow-Water Drilling of the New Jersey Continental Shelf. | ICDP-1999/08 (full) | 7 | |
| 29 | Development of a Global Lake Drilling Facility with Pilot Testing in Bonneville Basin. The GLAD800 (Global Lake Drilling 800). | ICDP-1999/09 (full) | 23 | |
| 30 | Rock Coring Koolau Volcano | ICDP-1999/15 (full) | 15 | |
| 31 | Long Valley Exploratory Well | ICDP-1997/13 (full) | 45 | |
| 32 | A Proposal to Conduct a San Andreas Fault Zone Drilling Pilot Project at Parkfield. | ICDP-1996/04 (preliminary) | 69 | |
| 33 | Deep Scientific Drilling in a Large, Restless Caldera, Long Valley, California. | ICDP-1996/06 (preliminary) | 10 | |
| 34 | Hawai'i Scientific Drilling Project | ICDP-1996/18 (preliminary) | 92 | |
| 34 submitted Proposals with Drill Site(s) in U.S.A. | Persons involved: | 999 scientists | ||
| Training Course Participants from U.S.A.:
Participants comprised students, scientists at all career stages, technical staff. | |||||
| Date | Location | Participants from U.S.A. | # | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-19 | in Germany | 5 | |||
| 2018-05-15 | in Germany | 7 | |||
| 2017-11-06 | in Germany | 7 | |||
| 2016-10-17 | in Germany | 4 | |||
| 2015-10-19 | in Germany | 6 | |||
| 2015-09-14 | in North Macedonia | 3 | |||
| 2014-10-06 | in New Zealand | 9 | |||
| Total Number of Training Course Participants: | 41 scientists | |||
| International ICDP Proposals with Participation from U.S.A. | ||||
| Those projects mentioned at the beginning, in Subreport 'Submitted Proposals with Drill Site(s) in U.S.A.', and additionally the following projects: | ||||
| # | Proposal Name | Proposal ID | Involved Persons | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the architecture of rare earth element mineralisation in alkaline-carbonatite complexes - Drilling the ‘carbonatite critical zone’ (DrillAlkCarb) | ICDP-2021/14 (preliminary) | 1 | |
| 2 | Interaction between life, rifting and caldera tectonics In Okataina (INTERACTION) | ICDP-2021/13 (preliminary) | 5 | |
| 3 | The Lake Victoria Drilling Project (LVDP): Unraveling the climate and environmental history of the world’s most populated lake | ICDP-2021/11 (workshop) | 12 | |
| 4 | Deep Drilling in the Turkana Basin (DDTB) Exploring the link between environmental factors and hominin evolution | ICDP-2021/10 (workshop) | 38 | |
| 5 | Drilling into Krafla magma - Krafla Magma Testbed | ICDP-2021/05 (full) | 4 | |
| 6 | Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Degrees Celsius | ICDP-2021/03 (full) | 16 | |
| 7 | Afar Dallol Drilling - ONset of sedimentary processes in an active rift basin (ADD-ON) | ICDP-2020/11 (workshop) | 2 | |
| 8 | PlioWest: Drilling Pliocene Lakes in Western North America | ICDP-2020/09 (workshop) | 19 | |
| 9 | 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) | 24 | |
| 10 | The Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project (TSDP): Unravelling 10 Million Years of African Environmental Evolution | ICDP-2020/06 (full) | 28 | |
| 11 | The Nam Co Drilling Project, Tibet (NamCore): A one million year sedimentary record from the third pole | ICDP-2020/05 (full) | 5 | |
| 12 | Drilling the Ivrea-Verbano zonE (DIVE) | ICDP-2020/04 (full) | 11 | |
| 13 | LIBRE - Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor | ICDP-2019/14 (workshop) | 18 | |
| 14 | Cornell University Deep Geothermal Test Borehole: Scientific Workshop Proposal | ICDP-2019/11 (workshop) | 24 | |
| 15 | Drilling Active Faults in Northern Europe (DAFNE) | ICDP-2019/08 (full) | 2 | |
| 16 | The Bushveld Complex Drilling Project (BVDP) | ICDP-2019/04 (full) | 5 | |
| 17 | Barberton Archean Surface Environments (BASE), Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt | ICDP-2019/03 (full) | 9 | |
| 18 | Application to ICDP for additional funds for the SUSTAIN Surtsey drilling project | ICDP-2018/21 (addendum) | 1 | |
| 19 | LIBRE - Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavour | ICDP-2018/20 (preliminary) | 4 | |
| 20 | Neogene environmental and geological evolution of the Central American bridge between two continents and two oceans (NICA-BRIDGE) | ICDP-2018/17 (workshop) | 20 | |
| 21 | Lake Tanganyika Drilling: Addressing World-Class Scientific Questions In Paleoclimatology, Tectonics And Evolutionary Ecology In Africa's Oldest Lake | ICDP-2018/16 (workshop) | 37 | |
| 22 | ICDP Workshop on the Colorado Coring Project II and the Junggar Basin Early Jurassic: Low to High Latitude Transect of Environmental, Climatic, and Biotic Evolution | ICDP-2018/14 (workshop) | 39 | |
| 23 | Deep Dust: Probing Continental Climate of the Late Paleozoic Icehouse-Greenhouse Transition | ICDP-2018/13 (workshop) | 37 | |
| 24 | Investigating Miocene Mediterranean-Atlantic Exchange (IMMAGE) | ICDP-2018/09 (full) | 2 | |
| 25 | Geological Research through Integrated Neoproterozoic Drilling: The Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition | ICDP-2018/08 (full) | 21 | |
| 26 | A Strainmeter Array Along the Alto Tiberina Fault System, Central Italy | ICDP-2018/05 (full) | 2 | |
| 27 | Deep Dust: Probing Continental Climate of the Late Paleozoic Greenhouse-Icehouse Transition | ICDP-2017/18 (preliminary) | 4 | |
| 28 | Drilling Workshop: Archean Surface Environments, Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt | ICDP-2017/14 (workshop) | 13 | |
| 29 | Drilling Investigation of Seismogenic Crust in Oklahoma (DISCO) | ICDP-2017/13 (workshop) | 72 | |
| 30 | Newberry Deep Drilling Project (NDDP), Workshop Proposal | ICDP-2017/11 (workshop) | 33 | |
| 31 | Nam Co | ICDP-2017/10 (workshop) | 9 | |
| 32 | 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) | 7 | |
| 33 | Trans-Amazon Drilling Project | ICDP-2017/01 (full) | 15 | |
| 34 | Drilling the continental crust into the Moho transition zone (Ivrea-Verbano zone, Italy) | ICDP-2016/17 (workshop) | 11 | |
| 35 | Scientific Exploration of Induced SeisMicity and Stress (SEISMS) | ICDP-2016/13 (workshop) | 40 | |
| 36 | Investigating Miocene Mediterranean-Atlantic Gateway Exchange (IMMAGE) | ICDP-2016/12 (workshop) | 1 | |
| 37 | Onshore-Offshore Drilling and Sampling to Understand Freshwater Resources along the New England Continental Shelf | ICDP-2016/11 (workshop) | 20 | |
| 38 | Drilling into seismogenic zones of M2.0 ? M5.5 earthquakes in deep South African gold mines (DSeis) | ICDP-2016/08 (full) | 6 | |
| 39 | Drilling the Eger Rift: Magmatic fluids driving the earthquake swarms and the deep biosphere | ICDP-2016/05 (full) | 1 | |
| 40 | Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys (DOVE) | ICDP-2016/04 (full) | 5 | |
| 41 | HAITI-DRILL - Active Haitian Fault drilling | ICDP-2015/18 (preliminary) | 3 | |
| 42 | Deep Life Drilling in the Death Valley Rift Zone | ICDP-2015/17 (workshop) | 16 | |
| 43 | 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) | 5 | |
| 44 | Drilling into seismogenic zones of M2.0 ? M5.5 earthquakes in deep South African gold mines (DSeis) | ICDP-2015/10 (workshop) | 5 | |
| 45 | ICDP Workshop Proposal: Continental Drilling of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Larsen basin, Antarctica | ICDP-2015/09 (workshop) | 31 | |
| 46 | Krafla Magma Drilling Project | ICDP-2015/08 (full) | 11 | |
| 47 | 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) | 15 | |
| 48 | Integrated Understanding of the Early Jurassic Earth System and Timescale (JET) | ICDP-2015/04 (full) | 8 | |
| 49 | Tanzania Onshore Paleogene Integrated Coring (TOPIC) | ICDP-2015/03 (full) | 7 | |
| 50 | Probing Reservoir Triggered Earthquakes at Koyna, India through Scientific Deep Drilling: Pilot Hole Phase | ICDP-2015/02 (full) | 15 | |
| 51 | Trans-Amazon Drilling Project | ICDP-2014/18 (workshop) | 13 | |
| 52 | Trans-Amazon Drilling Project: History of the Neotropical Rain Forest | ICDP-2014/18 (workshop) | 13 | |
| 53 | Quaternary Tertiary Tropics - Colônia Sediment Archive Drilling Project QUE COISA | ICDP-2014/17 (workshop) | 5 | |
| 54 | Multi-Well Deep Underground Laboratory (MW-DUL) in Songliao Basin | ICDP-2014/15 (workshop) | 11 | |
| 55 | Probing Reservoir Triggered Earthquakes at Koyna, India through Scientific Deep Drilling | ICDP-2014/13 (workshop) | 7 | |
| 56 | Crossing into the Hypersolidus Frontier: The Krafla Magma Drilling Project (KMDP) | ICDP-2014/12 (workshop) | 11 | |
| 57 | A New Drill Core at Surtsey Volcano: A Natural Laboratory for Characterizing 50 Years of Hydrothermal Seawater Interactions with Basaltic Tephra | ICDP-2014/11 (workshop) | 5 | |
| 58 | The North Sea Basin As a Recorder for Key Cenozoic Transitions: Climate Development, Fluvial Response and Ecosystem Change in a Subsidung Basin | ICDP-2014/09 (workshop) | 2 | |
| 59 | DeepCHALLA: two glacial-interglacial cycles (ca. 250,000 years) of climate and ecosystem dynamics on the East African equator | ICDP-2014/06 (full) | 12 | |
| 60 | MEXIDRILL: The Basin of Mexico Drilling Program | ICDP-2014/05 (full) | 15 | |
| 61 | Chicxulub: Drilling the K-Pg Impact Crater | ICDP-2014/04 (full) | 15 | |
| 62 | Scientific Drilling in the Samail Ophiolite, Sultanate of Oman | ICDP-2014/03 (full) | 58 | |
| 63 | 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) | 13 | |
| 64 | Africa Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Video Project | ICDP-2013/13 (full) | 1 | |
| 65 | A Bushveld Scientific Drilling Project (workshop proposal) | ICDP-2013/12 (workshop) | 11 | |
| 66 | Accelerating Neoproterozoic Research through Scientific Drilling | ICDP-2013/11 (workshop) | 8 | |
| 67 | Tanzania Onshore Paleogene Integrated Coring (TOPIC) | ICDP-2013/07 (workshop) | 3 | |
| 68 | The Towuti Drilling Project: Paleoenvironments, Biological Evolution, and Geomicrobiology of a Tropical Pacific Lake | ICDP-2013/02 (full) | 14 | |
| 68 Proposals | International ICDP Proposals with Participation from U.S.A. | Total: | 956 persons | |