Science Support & Ocean Drilling
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Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an international marine research program that explores Earth’s history and structure as recorded in seafloor sediments and rocks, and monitors sub-seafloor environments. Through its ocean drilling programs, Ocean Leadership is responsible for overall program leadership in the U.S. The IODP principal science themes include the deep biosphere and the sub-seafloor ocean; environmental change, processes and effects; and solid earth cycles and geodynamics.
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The U.S. Science Support Program (USSSP) associated with the IODP supports involvement of the U.S. scientific community in the program. USSSP provides funding to scientists and students to sail on expeditions, conduct pre-drilling or post-expedition resesearch, and host workshops. For more information and additional opportunities, visit the USSSP website.
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Ocean Leadership and its partners (Texas A&M University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University) form the U.S. Implementing Organization (USIO). The USIO is responsible for science operations on the U.S. ship for IODP, which brings to the surface pristine samples of the sub-seafloor and accomplishes seafloor observatory objectives. The U.S. scientific ocean drilling vessel, the JOIDES Resolution, is being refurbished and enhanced to support future USIO expeditions. Information related to the vessel refurbishment is available on the ship conversion sections of this website.
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Although the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) concluded in 2003, Ocean Leadership continues to develop the program's legacy with its partners. Through a long history of many major discoveries, scientific ocean drilling has significantly advanced our understanding of the Earth and provided reliable information about how our planet works - and has worked in the past.
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Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) is a multinational
collaboration of more than 200 scientists, students, and educators from
five nations (Germany, Italy, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United
States) to recover stratigraphic records from the Antarctic margin.
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