From Sunday, April 3 to Friday, 8 April, 2011, ECORD/IODP and ICDP have jointly presented ocean and continental research drilling at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011 in Vienna, Austria (10,725 scientists - 28% students - from 96 countries), by organising the following successful activities.
The IODP-ICDP exhibition booth was a very active focal point for the scientific drilling community and also for scientists from other fields of research (biology, oceanology) and from non-IODP countries (Russia, Brazil). Lively core scanner demonstrations with real cores were organised by ICDP and attracted many visitors to the booth. As a result we collected a total of 150 new subscribers to the IODP-ICDP Scientific Drilling journal. We had a large variety of printed documents to distribute with a good balance between the Newsletters (ECORD, USIO and CDEX) and the SD journal and IODP/ECORD/ICDP brochures and flyers. Since 2008, many teachers who attended the EGU education sessions and workshops are used to stop by the booth to pick up education documents provided by USIO and CDEX and also to get in touch with the resources ECORD make available for the classroom activities. The new ECORD/ESO video was shown to the public for the first time.
photos T. Wiersberg and A. Gerdes

The IODP-ICDP Townhall meeting (convenors: Catherine Mével, ECORD, and Ulrich Harms, ICDP) was a very well attended event. Roughly 250 people met to hear about the results of the recently completed expeditions and projects and news of the future of both programs.
photos T. Wiersberg and A. Gerdes

The joint ICDP-IODP session (convenor: Rüdiger Stein | co-convenors: Ulrich Harms, Ursula Röhl, Thomas Wiersberg) on scientific drilling was very well received and drew the attention of people from inside and outside the scientific drilling community. Six oral presentations and a large number of posters exhibited results from current projects of the IODP and ICDP and demonstrated the potential and benefit of scientific drilling to tackle questions from different research fields, including research on paleoclimate, impact structures, fault zones and deep biosphere.
photos T. Wiersberg and A. Gerdes


Two ECORD/IODP media conferences have been organised by Albert Gerdes (ESO public relations) at EGU media centre and can be viewed as webcasts.

  • A new science for ocean drilling - The future of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
    Tuesday, April 5, 10:00
    Catherine Mével (EMA Director) and Kyoshi Suyehiro (IODP-MI President and CEO)
    >> Web cast
    As a result of the press conference, a BBC article, "Dino crater focus for ocean drilling plans" was published by Richard Black.
  • Unlocking climate and sea-level secrets since the Last Glacial Maximum - New results from the IODP Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes Expedition
    Tuesday, April 5, 14:00
    Carol Cotterill (ESO Staff Scientist) and Thomas Felis (MARUM, University of Bremen)
    >> Web cast

EGU 2011 sessions related to ECORD/IODP and ICDP:
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ECORD at EGU 2011