Deep biosphere; Cataclysmic events; Earthquakes; Scientific Drilling; Climate Change; Earth Sciences; Heat and mass transport; Global Cycles
Zanchetta Giovanni, Baneschi Ilaria, Francke Alexander, Boschi Chiara, Regattieri Eleonora, Wagner Bernd, Lacey Jack H., Leng Melanie J., Vogel Hendrik, Sadori Laura (2018), Evidence for carbon cycling in a large freshwater lake in the Balkans over the last 0.5 million years using the isotopic composition of bulk organic matter, in
Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 154-165.
Sylvestre Florence, Schuster Mathieu, Vogel Hendrik, Abdheramane Moussa, Ariztegui Daniel, Salzmann Ulrich, Schwalb Antje, Waldmann Nicolas (2018), The Lake CHAd Deep DRILLing project (CHADRILL) – targeting ∼ 10 million years of environmental and climate change in Africa, in
Scientific Drilling, 24, 71-78.
Morlock Marina A., Vogel Hendrik, Nigg Valentin, Ordoñez Luis, Hasberg Ascelina K. M., Melles Martin, Russell James M., Bijaksana Satria (2018), Climatic and tectonic controls on source-to-sink processes in the tropical, ultramafic catchment of Lake Towuti, Indonesia, in
Journal of Paleolimnology, 1-17.
Hasberg Ascelina K. M., Bijaksana Satria, Held Peter, Just Janna, Melles Martin, Morlock Marina A., Opitz Stephan, Russell James M., Vogel Hendrik, Wennrich Volker (2018), Modern sedimentation processes in Lake Towuti, Indonesia, revealed by the composition of surface sediments, in
Sedimentology.
Jaramillo-Vogel David, Foubert Anneleen, Braga Juan Carlos, Schaegis Jean-Charles, Atnafu Balemwal, Grobety Bernard, Kidane Tesfaye (2018), Pleistocene sea-floor fibrous crusts and spherulites in the Danakil Depression (Afar, Ethiopia), in
Sedimentology, 1(1-33), 1-33.
Buechi Marius W., Graf Hans Rudolf, Haldimann Peter, Lowick Sally E., Anselmetti Flavio S. (2018), Multiple Quaternary erosion and infill cycles in overdeepened basins of the northern Alpine foreland, in
Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 111(1-2), 133-167.
Vuillemin Aurèle, Ariztegui Daniel, Horn Fabian, Kallmeyer Jens, Orsi William D (2018), Microbial community composition along a 50 000-year lacustrine sediment sequence, in
FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(4), 1-20.
Tomonaga Yama, Brennwald Matthias S., Livingstone David M., Kwiecien Olga, Randlett Marie-Ève, Stockhecke Mona, Unwin Katie, Anselmetti Flavio S., Beer Jürg, Haug Gerald H., Schubert Carsten J., Sturm Mike, Kipfer Rolf (2017), Porewater salinity reveals past lake-level changes in Lake Van, the Earth’s largest soda lake, in
Scientific Reports, 7(1), 313-313.
Holtvoeth Jens, Vogel Hendrik, Valsecchi Verushka, Lindhorst Katja, Schouten Stefan, Wagner Bernd, Wolff George A. (2017), Linear and non-linear responses of vegetation and soils to glacial-interglacial climate change in a Mediterranean refuge, in
Scientific Reports, 7(1), 8121-8121.
Pistone Mattia, Müntener Othmar, Ziberna Luca, Hetényi György, Zanetti Alberto (2017), Report on the ICDP workshop DIVE (Drilling the Ivrea–Verbano zonE), in
Scientific Drilling, 23, 47-56.
Cohen Andrew S., Salzburger Walter (2017), Scientific Drilling at Lake Tanganyika, Africa: A Transformative Record for Understanding Evolution in Isolation and the Biological History of the African Continent, University of Basel, 6–8 June 2016, in
Scientific Drilling, 22, 43-48.
Buechi Marius W., Frank Stephan M., Graf Hans Rudolf, Menzies John, Anselmetti Flavio S. (2017), Subglacial emplacement of tills and meltwater deposits at the base of overdeepened bedrock troughs, in
Sedimentology, 64(3), 658-685.
Buechi Marius W., Frank Stephan M., Graf Hans Rudolf, Menzies John, Anselmetti Flavio S. (2017), Subglacial emplacement of tills and meltwater deposits at the base of overdeepened bedrock troughs, in
Sedimentology, 64(3), 658-685.
Wagner Bernd, Wilke Thomas, Francke Alexander, Albrecht Christian, Baumgarten Henrike, Bertini Adele, Combourieu-Nebout Nathalie, Cvetkoska Aleksandra, D&, apos, Addabbo Michele, Donders Timme H., Föller Kirstin, Giaccio Biagio, Grazhdani Andon, Hauffe Torsten, Holtvoeth Jens, Joannin Sebastien, Jovanovska Elena, Just Janna, Kouli Katerina, Koutsodendris Andreas, Krastel Sebastian, Lacey Jack H., Leicher Niklas, Leng Melanie J., et al. (2017), The environmental and evolutionary history of Lake Ohrid (FYROM/Albania): interim results from the SCOPSCO deep drilling project, in
Biogeosciences, 14(8), 2033-2054.
Continental scientific drilling allows to investigate the geological subsurface of the continents including its fluids and biosphere. As logistics and costs of such drilling campaigns are significant, the science communities of 23 nations joined during the last decades to form the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP). Switzerland joined the ICDP in 2009 as regular member, offering now the Swiss scientists the opportunity to propose, conduct and sample drilling operations anywhere on the continents. ICDP emphasizes in particular drilling targets with societal significance. The new research plan includes topics of i) active faulting and earthquake, ii) global cycles affecting climate and environmental change, ii) heat and mass transport, iv) the deep hidden biosphere, and v) cataclysmic events and impact craters. The past years have shown, that Swiss researchers were intensely involved addressing these topics with many ICDP drilling projects. In particular, a high number of ICDP proposals have even been (co-)proposed by researchers from Swiss institutions, documenting that the Swiss science community takes a leading role in fostering scientific continental drilling. In addition, representatives of Swiss research institutions are also active on various panels evaluating, steering and managing the international continental drilling activities. A philosophy of 'drilling without limits' will be achieved by close cooperation between the marine and the continental scientific drilling communities, accessible through concomitant membership in the International Continental Drilling Project (IODP). Consequently, the Swiss scientific drilling community merges its activities under the swissdrilling.ch umbrella, representing both, marine and continental projects. Some of the newly proposed initiatives qualify for the recently encouraged 'amphibious' approach, for which marine-continental transects can be proposed within the same proposal. The ICDP membership is also important for students and young researchers, as the program offer a variety of opportunities providing promising perspectives for the future.