SEG and the German Geophysical Society (DGG) held their first joint workshop in early March at DGG's 2021 Annual Meeting. The workshop was part of a new cooperative aim between DGG and SEG to promote engagement between the societies, to foster growth in geophysics, and to expand the community of scientists and engineers tackling important geophysical problems. The 2021 workshop theme, “Scientific Drilling,” was chosen because scientific drilling provides access to rocks and fluids in the subsurface that are essential for ground truthing interpretations from geophysical data and geologic interpretation, for providing samples and in-situ data for detailed characterization, and for providing inputs to models. Consequently, the workshop aimed to attract interest across many subfields of geophysics.