Continental Scientific Drilling Community Science Planning

Welcome

The Continental Scientific Drilling (CSD) Facility at the University of Minnesota requests your participation in the community science planning process. Significant progress has been made toward community goals defined in the previous Science Plan. Our next steps will enable the CSD community to orient toward new opportunities and articulate science-driven needs in the coming years. We have also created a document to share information about recent and future CSD projects.

Working Groups

Discipline-specific working groups have produced high-level executive summaries, presented at the 2024 Integration Summit, and are continuing efforts to publish articles and document community priorities.

• Energy Transition

• Fault Mechanics and Earthquakes

• Geomicrobiology

• Hydrology and Critical Zone

• Paleoclimate

• Paleoecology

• Magmatic Systems

2024 Integration Summit 

We hosted an in-person Integration Summit October 10th and 11th at the Sheraton Hotel in Alexandria, VA where representatives from each working group presented their community's vision, documented common themes, and integrated objectives to a common framework that can be used to advance community goals. The goal of this event was to identify and prioritize the compelling science drivers, drilling/coring targets, strategic frameworks, and timelines focusing on continental localities in the coming decade.