Program Update: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program – August 2010
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Drilling Program (IODP) released a draft of the new science plan that will guide scientific ocean drilling and related observatory science for a decade starting in late 2013. The public comment period for this document is now open and will run until September 21.
The final Science Plan will be delivered to funding organizations by June of 2011. It is on the strength of this document, the perceived depth of support for drilling within the scientific community, and the perceived value of scientific ocean drilling to society that will determine whether funding for a new drilling program, to start in 2013 (FY2014), will be authorized.
The current drilling program has resulted in profound advances in a number of new science fields: Arctic coring, high-resolution paleo-climate proxies, deep crustal drilling, sub-seafloor observatory science, and the study of an active biosphere to depths of 1.6 km below the seabed. As the spectrum of science supported by ocean drilling is expanding and becoming more cross-disciplinary (i.e., Earth, ocean, climate, life sciences, and in-situ processes), we seek your help to make sure that a wide perspective on the most innovative and compelling science for a new drilling program post 2013 is presented. To read the draft of the new science plan and submit comments, please visit: http://campanian.iodp.org/NewSciencePlan/.
