Recently Approved icdp Projects
...multidisciplinary projects at world-class geological sites
Recently approved full proposals since 2025, which are already or will soon become active drilling projects. No science workshops. For full list of drillsites and workshops see our By-Continent page.
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| # | Project Acronym | Project Name | Proposal ID | Project Current State | Project Location | Project Country | Project Theme | Project Duration | Project Age | Expedition Id | Project Start Date |
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| 1 | PLIOWEST | Drilling Pliocene Lakes in Western North America | ICDP-2026/05 | Full Proposal Approved | Searles Valley;Butte Valley | U.S.A. | Environmental Change;Georesources | Pleistocene and Pliocene Epochs | 4 | ||
| 2 | DEEPAK | Probing Reservoir Triggered Earthquakes at Koyna, India through Scientific Deep Drilling: Main Hole Phase | ICDP-2026/04 | Full Proposal Approved | Koyna | India | Geohazards | 2.7 Ga - Present | 4 | ||
| 3 | REEDRILL | Drilling an alkaline-carbonatite complex to understand how fluid-rock interaction influences rare earth element mineralisation, groundwater and deep life | ICDP-2025/08 | Full Proposal Approved | Songwe Hill | Malawi | Georesources | Cretaceous | 4 | ||
| 4 | LVDP | The Lake Victoria Drilling Project | ICDP-2025/06 | Full Proposal Approved | Lake Victoria | Tanzania | Environmental Change | Pleistocene-Present | 4 | ||
| 5 | GRIND-CRY | Geological Research through Integrated Neoproterozoic Drilling: Cryogenian | ICDP-2025/04 | Full Proposal Approved | Congo craton;South Paraguay Belt;Mirbat | Brazil;Sultanate of Oman;Namibia | Geodynamic Processes | Cryogenian | 4 | ||
| 6 | ADD-ON | Afar Dallol Drilling - ONset of sedimentary processes in an active rift basin | ICDP-2025/01 | Full Proposal Approved | Dallol (Danakil Depression) | Ethiopia | Geodynamic Processes | Pleistocene-Recent | 4 |