Participation in international programmes

ICDP

The International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) is a multinational programme for the promotion of geo-scientific drilling projects. Geo-scientific deep drilling provides a crucial means of understanding the structure of the earth and its underlying geological processes.

Key scientific issues addressed by ICDP

• Physical and chemical processes in relation to eruptions of volcanoes and earthquakes
• Mechanisms and causes of climate change
• Effects of the impact of meteorites on climate and the biosphere
• Characteristics of the deep biosphere and its relation to geological processes such as the formation of deposits or the development of life
• Development of sedimentary basins and hydrocarbon deposits
• Safe storage of radioactive and toxic substances
• Formation of ore deposits
• Fundamental physics of plate tectonics as well as transport of heat, materials and fluids in the earth's crust
• Fundamentals for improving the interpretation of geophysical data

Participating countries
China, Germany, Finland, Iceland, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Norway, Austria, Poland, South Africa, Czech Republic, USA

Call details
> http://www.icdp-online.org/

Austrian representative in ICDP bodies
Assembly of Governors:
Reinhard Belocky, FWF

Executive Committee:
Hans-Peter Schönlaub, Geological Survey of Austria
hp.schoenlaub@geologie.ac.at

Contact at the FWF
Reinhard Belocky

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