Side Meetings

Sunday 10 September – 9:00 – 13:00 – Hilton Hotel (50 seats)
Friday 15 September – 9:00 – 13:00 – Ex Ospedale Militare (75 seats)

Description:
Join us as we develop the next generation of scientific drilling projects to help address INSTANT’S objectives. We will discuss, develop, and prioritize key research questions and identify regions that will help us address those questions. We will work with members of our climate and ice sheet modeling community to identify their data needs and discuss model driven hypotheses to guide drill site selection. We will establish a plan to collate existing site survey data for new priority sites and establish plans to collect additional requisite data. Many of you may already have a great idea for a project and some may be well developed but you need to build an international team to help push the project along. We strongly encourage Early Career researchers to present ideas as there are opportunities to benefit from friendly, open, and supportive discussion and guidance from experienced members of our community. During our reconnect workshop on Sunday the 10 th (9:00 – 13:00) we will get updates on existing projects that have yet to be drilled and will introduce new drilling ideas. We can meet and develop these ideas during the INSTANT meeting and will reconvene on Friday 15 th (9:00 – 13:00) to update, summarize, and capture the ongoing coordination within the different projects and establish a plan for next steps.