The project page for CISP was updated. Visit http://www.sddp.se/CISP for the project description and status.

A workshop about the hydrological aspects of Deep Drilling will be held at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden from 20th to 22nd September 2011. Please visit the announcement on the website of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) (link).

The pages for the SDDP project Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC) are updated: http://www.sddp.se/COSC

Download the SDDP Science & Technology Plan 2010!
Contents: Executive and popular scientific summaries, science, projects, operational plan.

SDDP and its projects are covered by papers in Volume 132 of GFF, the Journal of the Geological Society of Sweden. The link to the GFF volume is http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g922087997

The NordForsk researchers network "Scientific Drilling in the Nordic Countries" announces its first workshop on "Drilling technology and downhole studies" in September 2010. Please check the workshop website at http://www.sdnc.eu/1stWorkshop for the programme, conditions for participation and the application form.

In April 2009, the SDDP working group under the lead of Prof. Leif Bjelm from the Department of Engineering Geology at Lund University applied for a research infrastructure grant to Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet - VR). This infrastructure, a mobile truck-mounted drillrig that can reach depth of 2500 m and more, has been granted recently to the delight of the Swedish scientific drilling community. The amount of the grant is confidential as the purchase will take place under open competition. More information about SDDP and the envisaged infrastructure is available in the SDDP Science & Technology Plan. You may also download a: PDF-file of the application to the Swedish Research Council (all sensitive information removed).

SDDP projects have also been successful in this year's call for project funding by VR. The projects "Caledonian Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides" and "Concentric impact structures in the Palaeozoic" were awarded funds for site investigations. The work is anticipated to start during 2010.

Photo:
Ingo Rott, Henning Lorenz
Leif Bjelm, Ulf Mischke

Two SDDP projects got their ICDP workshop proposals approved this year. This implies that the workshop proposals were judged to be of high quality and the science of global significance.