Scientific drilling provides access to study in-situ conditions of the subsurface, deployment sites for at-depth instrumentation, and key geologic, geochemical, geobiological, and paleontological/palynological records. Recent and ongoing drilling projects have targeted active fault zones and geothermal systems, and long-term borehole observatories provide insight into local and regional seismic activity and stress states. We welcome research from a broad range of scientific drilling-related studies including fault zone dynamics and tectonic/basin histories, geothermal and fluid migration, borehole geophysical observations (passive and active seismic, distributed acoustic/thermal/strain sensing), lithostratigraphic studies, and mechanical/hydrologic properties of borehole samples, from active projects such as the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE), projects leveraging legacy data from past drilling efforts, as well as projects in the planning phases. We particularly encourage interdisciplinary submissions exploring how petrophysical properties, stress distribution and conditions at depth (temperature, fluid pressures and chemistries), and fault zone materials influence one another.

• MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
• S - Seismology
• T - Tectonophysics
• V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology