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MagellanPlus 21st Century Drilling workshops at MARUM

Nov 7, 2024
Group picture of the lecturers and participants of the second MagellanPlus-Wokrshop at MARUM. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
Group picture of the lecturers and participants of the second MagellanPlus-Workshop at MARUM. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

The success of more than 55 years of scientific ocean drilling under the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and its predecessor programs has provided the scientific community with a wealth of legacy material stored in the IODP core repositories and databases. Thanks to advances in specialized software for the geosciences, it is now possible to generate digital representations of cores and use them as a primary data source. These 'virtual cores' and the data derived from them are now being combined with re-analysis of the physical cores stored in the IODP's three core repositories during workshops.

 

This week, the second workshop on “21st Century Drilling” took place at the Bremen IODP core repository at MARUM, which, like the first workshop in April 2024, was funded by the ECORD MagellanPlus program. In these interconnected workshops, a group of international scientists work together to explore best practices for combining digital and curatorial activities to improve the capacity of scientific marine drilling in the digital domain.

During the MagellanPlus 21st Century Drilling Workshop series, we were joined in Bremen by a wide range of international researchers to form teams for Biostratigraphy, Core description and Geochemistry-Physical Properties, with a digital team spanning all three groups. The teams were made up of experienced scientists and early career researchers (ECRs, including PhD students) alike and included both those with prior (shipboard) experience or those who have not had the opportunity to participate in an IODP expedition or activity before.

The two MagellanPlus workshops have been part of a wider 21st Century Drilling Umbrella effort focussing on revisiting legacy material at IODP repositories, with J-DESC’s RECORD ReC23-01 taking place at the KCC in August 2023, and the USSSP 21st Century Drilling workshop to be held in early 2025 at the GCR. Each workshop team has carved its own path appropriate to the material being worked on.

The Organising Committee of the MagellanPlus 21st Century Drilling Workshop series are Anna Joy Drury, Ulla Röhl, Beth Christensen, Gerald Auer and Thomas Westerhold.

More information about the workshop

Abbildung zeigt cores in the Bremen Core Repository.