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Planning and Budgeting DOSECC's engineers aid scientists in designing, budgeting, and drilling scientific projects. -
Drilling Technology and Instrumentation DOSECC has several unique drilling systems and suites of sample collection tools that have been developed specifically for scientific projects. -
Communications, Program Coordination and Integration The continental scientific drilling community is diverse, but investigators face many similar problems of equipment availability, logistical support and limited budgets. -
Technical Workshops DOSECC sponsors thematic workshops that allow investigators to bring together teams to organize proposals and solve engineering problems related to scientific drilling and sampling. -
Education and Outreach DOSECC offers research grants to undergraduate and graduate students and primary and secondary school teachers for studies of samples and data from scientific drilling projects.
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DOSECC News and Events
| Lake El’gygytgyn magazine article Earth Magazine in its July 2010 edition includes the current state of the science from the Lake E drilling project. |
NRC Panel Needs Your Input! NRC Panel on New Research Opportunities in the Earth Sciences Your input is very much needed for an important study being conducted by the National Research Council´s Committee on New Research O [ ... ] |
| 12th Annual Continental Scientific Drilling Workshop The Future of Continental Scientific Drilling: U.S. Perspective |
13th Annual Continental Scientific Drilling Workshop Workshop Proceedings: Website Link |
Current & Future Drilling Projects
Lake Van Scientific Drilling Project Eastern Anatolia, Turkey Lake Van contains a paleoclimate record that includes annually laminated sediment records over several glacial-interglacial cycles. It is the Fourth largest of all te [ ... ] |
Dead Sea Basin Scientific Drilling Project The Dead Sea, Israel/Jordan A borehole in the deep basin of the Dead Sea will recover a continuous sequence of the Pleistocene-Holocene sedimentary record. The core will provide a high-resolu [ ... ] |
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