Costarica and Nicaragua

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Tuesday, September 27th 2022
Time Programme
17:30 Registration, Welcome
Icebreaker (Festsaal im Meerscheinschlössl)
Wednesday, September 28th 2022
Time Programme
9:00-18:00 Plenary Sessions (Seminar Room 09.12)
(Institute of Earth Sciences, Heinrichstrasse 26, 1st floor)
09:00 Workshop Introduction, Workshop goals (Walter Kurz)
09:30 Central American tectonics (Paola Vannucchi)
10:00 The Cocos Plate enigma (Walter Kurz, Jennifer Brandstätter)
   
10:30-11:00 Coffee break  (Foyer of the Institute of Earth Sciences)
   
11:00 Plenary Sessions (Seminar Room 09.12)
11:00 Bent-fault serpentinization (Jason Morgan, Paola Vannucchi; online presentation)
11:30 The Nica Bridge (Steffen Kutterolf)
   
12:00-13:30 Lunch break (at Restaurant Propeller)
   
13:30 Plenary Sessions (Seminar Room 09.12)
13:30 The LIBRE Project (Jonathan Obrist Farner)
14:15 The southern flank of the Cocos Ridge (Martin Rojas Barrantes)
   
15:00-15:30 Coffee break  (Foyer of the Institute of Earth Sciences)
   
15:30 Plenary Sessions (Seminar Room 09.12)
15:30 The CAVA ash project (Ann Dunlea; online presentation)
16:15 Costa Rica mud mounts (Steffen Kutterolf, Christian Hensen)
   
16:45 Breakout Sessions (Seminar Room 09.12)
16:45 Breakout session Introduction: Perspectives of a combined strategy (Steffen Kutterolf)
17:15 free collecting of drilling objectives/perspectives/ideas (Sedimentology, Paleoclimate (ecology) and (Bio-) Stratigraphy; Structural geology, Tectonics, and Geophysics; Igneous Petrology, volcanology and geochemistry)
brainstorm the potential specific scientific goals and identify possible overlap/common targets between the COSNICA proposals
   
18:00 End of day 1
Thursday, September 29th 2022
Time Programme
09:00 Plenary Session (lecture hall HS 02.21)
09:00 Available Platforms (Anna Joy Drury)
10:00 Available Platforms (Online Presentation of the ESO Science Manager Dave McInroy)
   
10:30-11:00 Coffee break  (Foyer of the Institute of Earth Sciences)
   
11:00 Breakout Sessions  (Seminar Room 09.12)
11:00 Breakout session 1 (continued): free collecting of drilling objectives/perspectives/ideas brainstorm the potential specific scientific goals and identify possible overlap/common targets between the COSNICA proposals
   
12:00-13:30 Lunch break (at Restaurant Propeller)
   
13:30 Breakout Sessions  (Seminar Room 09.12)
13:30 Breakout session 2: Synergies of previous proposals
Umbrella target and which are the hypothesis to be tested
   
15:00-15:30 Coffee break  (Foyer of the Institute of Earth Sciences)
   
15:30-18:00 Breakout session 2 (continued) (Seminar Room 09.12):
  Synergies of previous proposals
Friday, September 30th 2022
Time Programme
9:00-12:00 Breakout session 3 (umbrella proposal) (Seminar Room 09.12):
  Strategic plan to get Central America as target area for future scientific drilling; results from the breakout sessions; Proposal and research phases, technical aspects for proposal implementations

discussion:
  • set up of a priority list of sites and targets
  • Assign teams and team leaders for each section for a pre-proposal
  • conclusion and end of workshop
   
12:00-13:30 Lunch (at Restaurant Propeller)
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