ECORD Summer School 2026: Downhole Logging for Marine Geoscience

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.

The Summer School is open to applicants from all career stages and geoscience backgrounds. However, the course is tailored for individuals who:

• are early in their career and/or would like to introduce and make use of more physical properties data in their research and/or;
• would like to get more involved in IODP³ in some capacity, either through accessing and using data or sailing on an IODP³ research expedition.

Participants will gain insight into:

• Offshore logging planning and operations
• Core physical properties and measurement techniques
• Data processing and data quality assessment
• Scientific log interpretation
• Applications of downhole logging and petrophysics

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.