Microsoft Word - 11_Pini_LM03.doc Available online http:/amq.aiqua.it ISSN (print): 2279-7327, ISSN (online): 2279-7335 Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary, 26 (1), 2013, vii-ix REPORT ON THE ICDP WORKSHOP DOVE “DRILLING OVERDEEPENED ALPINE VALLEYS” (COMO AND VALTELLINA, 3-5 APRIL 2013) Roberta Pini CNR - Istituto per la Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali, Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleoecologia, Milano, Italy Corresponding author : Roberta Pini http://palinologia.disat.unimib.it ABSTRACT: Here I provide a short report on the ICDP-funded Workshop DOVE (Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys), held in Como and Valtellina between 3-5 April 2013. Discussion, led by the Project Principal Investigators, aimed at defining the scientifical issues and the financial budget of a multinational drilling initiative in and across the Alps. Keywords: ICDP, DOVE, overdeepened alpine valleys. On 3-4 April 2013 the ICDP Workshop DOVE "Drilling Overdeepened Alpine Valleys" was held in the scenic Villa del Grumello, on the south-western shore of Lake Como (northern Italy). ICDP is the acronym for the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program; it is a transnational program based at the GFZ - German Research Centre for Geosciences, aiming at promoting, funding and coordinating continental scientific drillings with relevant scientific objectives of global significance (Fig. 1). ICDP supports researches focused on climate dynamics and global environment, life history, natural resources and a wide range of geologically-relevant top- ics like active faults and earthquakes, volcanoes, hot spots, plate collision and impact structures. Project pro- posals may be submitted to ICDP once a year by scien- tists from member and non-member countries looking for logistical and financial support to continental drillings. The DOVE workshop (Fig. 2), funded by ICDP, Fig. 1 - Drilling operations at Lake Ohrid (Macedonia, Albania) in the framework of the ICDP-funded project SCOPSCO "Scientific Col- laboration on Past Speciation Conditions in Ohrid" (photo www.icdp-online.org). Pini R. viii joined experts in drilling and core-logging techniques, geochronology, geophysics, glacier modelling, natural hazards and nuclear waste, sedimentology, stratigraphy and structural geology to define the scientific and eco- nomic agenda of a multinational drilling initiative across the Alpine Chain. The DOVE project aims at exploring nature, ge- ometry and age of sedimentary successions filling over- deepened alpine valleys, to answer to key questions related to rates and processes shaping alpine land- scapes and their forelands. Special attention will be paid to the effects of multiple glaciations on mountain areas, to reconstruct their timing and extent and decipher re- gional differences, and to the history of biodiversity and the impact of glaciations on original ecosystems of the Alps. The potential of the study areas for ground-water and geothermal resources and as nuclear waste and gas disposal sites will be carefully evaluated. The meeting, organized by CNR - IDPA Milano, was attended by 46 professors, researchers, PhD stu- dents and professionals representing 9 european na- tions (Austria, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Slove- nia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands) and USA (Fig. 3). The workshop opened with a note by Dr. Ulrich Harms, ICDP Executive Secretary, describing ICDP or- ganization, activities, funding strategies and criteria for project selection and evaluation. Criteria applied for evaluation are the project's global significance, the pool- ing of resources and technologies by a broad scientific international team, the societal relevance of the prob- lem, the necessity for drilling and the balance of costs and drilling design. The workshop scientific activity developed through two days of plenary sessions and working groups dis- cussions focusing on pre-site surveys, methods, goals, active and future collaborations and potential drilling sites in Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Switzerland. Drilling techniques will be carefully evaluated, given the expected core lenghts (up to several hundred meters, from the ground level possibly down to bedrock) and the need to have sufficient amounts of sediment for several destructive analysis (and therefore smaller core diame- ters should be avoided). On April 5 workshop participants were involved in a one-day fieldtrip to a potential drilling site in the nearby overdeepened Valtellina area. Despite adverse weather conditions preventing any clear view from the panoramic point towards the valley floor, participants were offered a comprehensive sketch on geological investigations car- ried out in recent years in this area by Regione Lombardia and CNR-IDPA, consisting of two long cores (Teglio and Sondalo) drilled in the frame of the new geological map of Lombardy and seismic profiles. The excursion ended with the visit to the local drilling company storing the 208 m- long Teglio core observing, describing and discussing sediment features and their meaning. The workshop participants agreed to endorse the effort of submitting a full proposal for the DOVE project to ICDP by January 2014. A group of Principal Investi- gators, namely Prof. Flavio Anselmetti (Univ. of Bern), Dr. Milos Bavec (Geological Survey of Slovenia), Dr. Gerald Gabriel (Leibnitz Institute for Applied Geophysics in Hannover), Prof. Frank Preusser (Univ. of Stock- holm), Dr. Cesare Ravazzi (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Milano) and Dr. Jürgen Reitner (Geological Survey of Austria), will be in charge of it. The success of Fig. 2 - The logo of the ICDP - DOVE project (design by C. Ravazzi, CNR-IDPA Milano). ICDP DOVE Workshop ix the project relies on the interest and support by re- search agencies, Universities, local and regional admin- istrations, industry groups. Indeed, in case of positive evaluation, ICDP funds will be granted for project and drilling development, while applicants are asked to raise additional resources to fully cover drilling costs, facilities, scientific data production and management. More informations on ICDP and its activity can be found at www.icdp-online.org. Those interested in joining the DOVE adventure, promoting deep drillings and sharing their social and scientific outcomes, can contact Dr. Cesare Ravazzi at CNR - IDPA (cesare.ravazzi@idpa.cnr.it). 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