Astoria, OR – The inaugural voyage of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), the largest international scientific research program of its kind, returns to port after a successful 60-day expedition at sea. At the Juan de Fuca Ridge, 200 km off the coast of British Columbia, IODP expedition 301 conducted a challenging series of studies to evaluate how fluid flows within the oceanic crust.

Florence, Italy – The Joint Oceanographic Institutions’ Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) and its results are to be highlighted in over 100 scientific abstracts at the 32nd International Geological Congress August 20-28, 2004.

[ August 6, 2004; ] Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’s Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) will collect the world’s first complete climate record from beneath the Arctic Ocean.

Astoria, OR – The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international scientific research program designed to contribute fundamental scientific knowledge to the topics of climate change, geologic hazards, energy resources, and Earth’s environment, will depart Astoria Oregon, June 28, 2004, for the first leg of its six planned expeditions.

The international Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) just completed a two-month expedition that investigated the origin and distribution of gas hydrates. Their findings could help identify locations and quantify amounts of this potential resource.

The time is takes for the Earth’s magnetic field to reverse polarity is approximately 7,000 years, but the time is takes for the reversal to occur is shorter at low latitudes than high, a geologist using cores from the Ocean Drilling Program has concluded.

The Joint Oceanographic Institutions, a consortium of 20 academic institutions, has signed a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation to lead U.S. participation in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) through the U.S. Science Support Program (USSSP).

Washington D.C.- Scientists using cores drilled from the New Jersey Coastal Plain have found that ice sheets likely caused massive sea level change during the Late Cretaceous – an interval previously thought to be ice free.

Washington, D.C. – The Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) announced today that it has named Dr. Holly K. Given as Director of the U.S. Science Support Program (USSSP).

Washington D.C. – The Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI) announced today that it has named Dr. Frank Rack as Director of Ocean Drilling Programs.

Arlington, VA-The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a contract to an alliance of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI), Inc., Texas A&M University, and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University to operate a scientific drillship as part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).

After drilling at 650 sites around the world during the last 18 years, the JOIDES Resolution will complete its last Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) journey when it arrives in St. John’s, Newfoundland on September 6.