Application for drillrig to the Swedish Research Council successful

Posted November 3rd, 2009 by hl

Drillrigs 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.

 

 

 

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Ingo Rott, Henning Lorenz
Leif Bjelm, Ulf Mischke

ICDP workshop proposals approved

Posted July 1st, 2009 by hl

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. The International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) will now support workshops for these SDDP projects with the aim to establish a comprehensive international working group and elaborate and decide on the scientific programme. The two approved projects are:

Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC). The workshop, with a short excursion for the invited scientists, is planned for early summer 2010 in a place nearby the planned drillsites.

Postglacial Fault Drilling Project (PFDP). The workshop will be organized in 2010.

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