About us
ANZIC is the Australian and New Zealand International Scientific Drilling Consortium.
We equip scientists in Australia and New Zealand with the skills, global connections, samples and data they need to explore Earth’s interconnected processes, its past and future.
Our partnerships with key international research collaborations enable access to billion-dollar state-of-the-art scientific drilling infrastructure and samples from deep within the Earth, on land and beneath the ocean.
The International Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP3) allows scientists access to some of Earth’s most challenging environments, collecting data and samples of sediment, rock, fluids, and living organisms from below the seafloor.
The International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) enables scientific drilling and coring across continents, lakes and oceanic islands to investigate geodynamic processes, geohazards, georesources, and environmental change.
For scientists and students from our consortium member institutions, ANZIC opens to the door to career-defining opportunities to boost research, skills, and international networks.
We deliver a vitally important research capability to our region while generating unparalleled opportunities for cross-disciplinary research partnerships.
In Australia, ANZIC is enabled by AuScope, within the Australian Government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
In New Zealand, GeoDiscoveryNZ facilitates participation, funded by the NZ Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment.
Ocean drilling: IODP
IODP is a long-running 21-nation collaboration that has transformed human understanding of our planet by enabling scientists to explore records of Earth’s climatic, biological, chemical and geological past contained in core samples from beneath the seafloor.
For 60 years, the program has been collecting deep sea cores and sub-seafloor data across the world’s ocean.
For nearly 20 years, ANZIC has facilitated the involvement in IODP science of many Australian and New Zealand scientists and educators at all career stages.
Discover more in the IODP 2050 Science Framework.
Continental drilling: ICDP
ICDP has been uncovering geological secrets from beneath our continents through targeted scientific drilling for three decades.
As a non-profit organisation for Earth system research, with 22 member countries, the program has enabled first-class science to be pursued, numerous targets to be probed and hypotheses to be tested, resulting in fundamental discoveries about our ‘System Earth’.
Discover more in the ICDP Science Plan or take this amazing online tour.