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Support for researchers who core and drill on land and in lakes
Continental Scientific Drilling Community Science Planning Website
Drilling Down to Open Up New Understanding of Earth’s Continents (EOS, Scholz et al., 2026)
Subsurface microbiology and the pressing societal need to support future exploration (FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Sheik et al., 2026)
Drilling within the Critical Zone (Hydrological Processes, Donaldson et al., 2026)
Potential for Continental Scientific Drilling to Inform Fault Mechanics and Earthquake Science (Seismica, Cochran et al., 2025)
The paleoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling (Nature Geoscience, Obrist-Farner et al., 2024)
- Advancing ecology and evolution through continental scientific drilling (TREE, Spanbauer et al., 2025)
We have completed the merger of LacCore and CSDCO into the Continental Scientific Drilling (CSD) Facility. All functions of both facilities are maintained under the new name and single focal point for all types of research involving coring and drilling on land and in lakes.
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How We Can Support Your Research
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Plan: Education and Training, Project Planning, Visitor Information, Forms -
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Analyze: Core Processing, Core Sampling, Software, Lab Supplies -
Archive: Data and Sample Distribution, Publications and Citation, Accessioning Cores and Samples
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