Publication Archive

A science plan identifies the compelling scientific questions in the coming decade requiring drilling or coring activities, and the infrastructure (drilling tooling, downhole survey equipment, lab instrumentation, cyberinfrastructure, etc.) required to meet the scientific goals. These plans prioritize resource development by the CSD Facility, and give funding agencies a roadmap for upcoming community scientific needs. Here you will find an archive of white papers and related publications relevant to the development of the CSD Community Science Plan.

Additionally, during  the Integration Summit we created this document to share information about recent and future CSD projects: CSD Projects.pdf

Recent Publications

• Magmatic Systems Working Group: Drilling in Volcanic Environments (DRIVE) in the US: Exploration of volcanic systems for scientific discovery and geothermal energy (Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Pistone et al., 2026, in review)

• Energy Transition, Magmatic Systems, and Fault Mechanics and Earthquakes Working Groups: A Direct Window to the Subsurface: Continental Scientific Drilling for Energy Resources, Critical Minerals, and Geohazards Mitigation (AAPG Explorer, Zakharova et al., in review)

• Summary article: Drilling Down to Open Up New Understanding of Earth’s Continents (EOS, Scholz et al., 2026).

• Geomicrobiology Working Group:  Subsurface microbiology and the pressing societal need to support future exploration (FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Sheik et al., 2026)

• Hydrology and Critical Zone Working Group: Drilling within the Critical Zone (Hydrological Processes, Donaldson et al., 2026)

• Fault Mechanics and Earthquakes Working Group: Potential for Continental Scientific Drilling to Inform Fault Mechanics and Earthquake Science (Seismica, Cochran et al., 2025)

• Paleoclimate Working Group: The paleoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling (Nature Geoscience, Obrist-Farner et al., 2024)

• Paleoecology Working Group: Advancing ecology and evolution through continental scientific drilling (TREE, Spanbauer et al., 2025)

Google Drive Archive of CSD Community Publications and White Papers