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ECORD Summer Schools – Applications Now Open!
ECORD is pleased to announce that applications are open for this years ECORD Summer Schools!
A major goal of ECORD is to train the next generation of scientists from member countries and promote IODP³-motivated science. Several summer schools are sponsored every year by ECORD to further foster the education of young scientists in marine-related sciences and to train a new generation to participate in future ocean drilling expeditions. Initiated in 2007, ECORD Summer Schools are now well established and are attended by many participants from ECORD member countries and beyond.
This years sees the return of 3 Summer schools in Bremen (Germany), Urbino (Italy) and Leicester (UK).
Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology 2026, University of Urbino, Italy
22nd July -7th August 2026
Application Deadline 20th March 2026!
The summer school of the USSP consortium focuses on past climate dynamics with special emphasis on the analysis of long-term carbon cycling and its implications in the understanding of present and future climates. USSP integrates lectures, symposia, field trips, and exercises on the many different areas of paleoclimatology including biogeochemical cycling, paleoceanography, continental systems, and all aspects of deep-time climate modelling. These techniques and systems are explored through interactive discussions of Cretaceous OAEs, P/E hyperthermals, the Greenhouse-Icehouse transition, Neogene and Quaternary climate dynamics.
ECORD Summer School 2026: Downhole Logging for Marine Geoscience, Leicester, UK
8th – 14th August 2026
Application Deadline 8th April 2026
This Summer School introduces the interpretation and applications of downhole logs and physical property data primarily from the International Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP3). The course explores the relevance and unique insights of these data for a range of fields, including paleoclimatology, sedimentology, hydrogeology, and broader geological and ecological processes such as sediment provenance and water column productivity.
Introductory sessions on petrophysics, the study of the physical (and chemical) properties of rocks and their interactions with fluids, are at the heart of the Summer School.
These core principles are then used for insight into broader marine geoscience questions and environments through practical exercises and presentations that provide experience of interpreting downhole logging data and integrating them with other datasets based on real world science applications.
Bremen ECORD Summer School 2026: “Past ocean currents and their effects on sedimentation and benthic ecosystems” MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany
7 – 18th September 2026
Application Deadline 17th May 2026
Ocean currents flowing near the seafloor strongly control the transport and accumulation of sediments, nutrients, organic carbon and pollutants at the seafloor. They shape the seafloor forming sedimentary deposits named contourites and, in some areas, favour the development of particular benthic organisms, such as cold-water corals. Contourites preserve high‑resolution archives of deep‑ocean circulation and its links to climate. Therefore, they have been the target of several scientific ocean drilling expeditions. Drilling contourite drifts constrains the strength and pathways of boundary currents over glacial–interglacial to longer timescales, improves models of ocean ventilation and heat/salt budgets, and quantifies along‑margin sediment transport and carbon burial. Their physical properties and facies help assess geohazards related to bedform migration and to slope instability that may affect seabed infrastructure. Because contourites occur on many continental slopes worldwide, they enable cross‑basin comparisons of past circulation reorganizations, directly advancing IODP³ goals on past climate and ocean change and broader Earth system interactions.