Scientific Drilling Booth at AGU 2018

ICDP Primer

Available in high resolution (105 Mb) and low resolution (11 Mb)

ICDP Training Course at KTB

37 scientist and engineers from 18 countries attended the ICDP Training Course on Continental Scientific Drilling

SCIENTIFIC DRILLING Vol. 24 now online

Please download the complete volume here

Oman DP sampling party onboard DV Chikyu completed!

After two months of hard work onboard the DV Chikyu the ChikyuOman2018 team have completed comprehensive logging of 1700 m of core! A huge thank you to all who contributed to make this a success, as part of the science party,...

DSEIS Post Drilling Workshop

Post drilling in deep South African gold mines, Moab Khotsong and Cooke 4 mine, ICDP-Dseis is holding a seminar meeting at the CSIR, Nelson Mandela Mining Precinct in South Africa. The meeting is attended by international...

Oman Drilling Project: Ancient seabed holds secrets in search for life on other planets

To see the video, click here To learn more about Deep Carbon Observatory, click here

Oman Sampling Party onboard drilling vessel Chikyu

In the next two months the cores taken during Phase II of the Oman Drilling Project will be described and analyzed onboard Chikyu. The scientists work in groups - the igneous, alteration, structural, geochemistry, physical...

Marco Bohnhoff

Marco Bohnhoff is Professor for Experimental and Borehole Seismology and head of GFZ-section 4.2 'Geomechanics and Rheology'. He brings ICDP experience through his role as PI in various ICDP projects (GONAF, Koyna, STAR). 

ICDP Executive Committee Meeting in China

The Executive Committee discusses about 12 Full Proposals, seven Workshop Proposals and one Pre-Proposal submitted by January 15, 2018. Workshop Proposals will be decided on by the EC, while Full Proposals will be decided on by...

China celebrates completion of deep borehole

China completes drilling of deep borehole

SUSTAIN Post-Operational Workshop - Iceland

and core processing operation April 30 - May 11, 2018

Training on Project Planning and Management

at the KTB Geocenter

Drilling Investigation of Seismogenic Crust Workshop

DISCO

ICDP Science Advisory Group meeting in Grand Junction, USA

finished at 11pm

DSeis coring and logging completed, now monitoring

More about DSeis

DSeis is ready to hit the fault again

Drilling in South African goldmines continues

Oman Drilling

The final core of OmanDP Phase 2

Oman Drilling

first core from site BA4A

ICDP Proposal Submission 2018

remains on high level

Israel renews ICDP Membership

until 2023

ICDP Image Video

The ICDP Image Video is now online

Oman Phase II Drilling

in full swing

ICDP Post-Operations International Workshop

This post-operation workshop in Pune, India highlights the achivements of the Koyna Pilot Hole drilling and discusses opportunities for future deep drilling at Koyna, a world-class site for studying reservoir-triggered...

New milestone in Songliao Drilling

SK-II completed its stage IV (216mm diameter) last November at the depth of 5922.58m and after a long winter shutdown, started its final stage V (152mm diameter) on 4th May, 2017. As at the hole bottom, the temperature rises to...

ICDP drilling at Surtsey Island

The SUSTAIN Science Team says goodbye...

OmanDP core description

onboard Research Vessel CHIKYU in Japan

Iceland signs prolongation of ICDP membership

Axel Liebscher (left, EC Chair), Carol Frost (AOG Chair) and Hallgrímur Jónasson (right, AOG Iceland Representative) sign the new MoU

EC Meeting in Kiruna, Sweden

followed by AOG meeting on June 8/9

DSEIS drilling at Site MOAB

Drilling into Seismogenic Zones of South African Goldmines

Hydrofrac tests in the Koyna pilot hole

The tests were carried out by a team comprising experts from Mesy-Solexperts and scientists from the Borehole Geophysics Research Laboratory (BGRL). The tests, made in the granitic basement, are the first of it's kind in the...

ICDP drilling discovers extreme geothermal activity

Wellington, New Zealand

EGU 2017

EGU 2018 will take place April 8-13 in Vienna - we are looking forward seeing you there!

Important Transition at ICDP

As Chair of the ICDP Assembly of Governors, I have the bittersweet task of announcing the retirement of Brian Horsfield, who has ably served as the Chair of ICDP’s Executive Committee for the past six years. During Brian’s...

Brian Horsfield says farewell to the Operational Support Group

The Photo From left to right: Ulrich Harms, Thomas Gorgas, Eznoc Dlanor (top), Knut Behrends, Ines Thoß, Carola Knebel, Brian Horsfield, Jochem Kück, Marco Groh, Simona Pierdominici, Thomas  Wiersberg

SAG Meeting in Bern

Group Photo Further evaluation at the Executive Committee meeting in June 5-6.

18 Proposals received

for the January 15, 2017 deadline

Oman-DP/PHASE-1 completed!

Sultanate of Oman, Wadi Gideah

Drilling for Reservoir Triggered Seismicity

Koyna, Maharashtra State, India

IDDP-2 drilling for supercritical fluids

Iceland

Meet ICDP representatives at the AGU 2016 Fall Meeting

at the IODP-ICDP booth #312-314-316

DeepChalla

East Africa

Asteroid impacts at Chicxulub could create niches for life

Link to the SCIENCE paper More about the Chicxulub IODP-ICDP drilling initiative

DeepCHALLA

Drilling successfully completed with 225 m of drilled core

Supporting Continental Scientific Drilling

20 years of ICDP

Chicxulub Onshore Science Party

at the IODP Bremen Core Repository ...

India renewed membership

MoU between University of Earth Sciences, India and GFZ Potsdam signed on August 30.

New depth record

Deepest hole in history...

ICDP's Charter

Jeju, South Korea

ICDP Panel Meeting in South Korea

Panels will decide about 19 proposals received in 2016