- Approval for Indian membership of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP)
- Signing an MoU with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for geosciences.
- This is a government-funded, Public Law Foundation of the State of Brandenburg, Germany.
Membership Benefits
- India can engage in different aspects of scientific drilling
- To accomplish deep drilling and associated investigations in Koyna region: scientific deep drilling project undertaken by Ministry of Earth Sciences
- India will get a seat on two ICDP panels - Executive Committee (EC) and Assembly of Governors (AOG).
- Also, ICDP will provide
- technical / operational support,
- facilitate capacity building in terms of manpower training in key scientific areas,
- sample and data management and
- support workshops for the Koyna .
- India would have right to submit proposals, to participate in all ICDP co-funded workshops and drilling projects and have access to all data results from ICDP projects.
- This will shed new light on the genesis of seismicity and better understanding of earthquake processes.
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