EuroANDRILL is a new initiative to create a European network with the goal to increase future involvement of European countries in the ANDRILL [ANtarctic geological DRILLing] Program.
EuroANDRILL will provide the venue for European scientists to:
(1) participate in forthcoming projects and develop proposals with key scientific questions in other Antarctic margins, with strong European leadership and/or logistical support, and
(2) help the international ANDRILL community prioritise future drill sites with the aim of better constraining the past and future dynamic behaviour of the Antarctic ice sheets.
EuroANDRILL partners are Italy, Germany and United Kingdom (already members of ANDRILL consortium) and seven additional European countries : Spain, Belgium, Finland, France, Poland, Sweden, and The Netherlands. The United States, New Zealand, and Russia are non-EU collaborating partners of EuroANDRILL.
The next phase of ANDRILL drilling is underdevelopment for the Coulman High region to the east of Ross Island, on the Ross Ice Shelf.
Possible future projects are (1) MacKay Sea Valley (MSV) Project and (2) Offshore New Harbor (ONH) Project.
