The U.S. Science Support Program sponsors Pre-Drilling Activities
to provide funds in quick response to an opportunity to acquire
data or information that will enhance a drilling expedition. Priority
is given to projects that support expeditions already on the
ship’s
schedule. The definition of this task is deliberately
flexible to allow consideration of exceptional or unusual requests
for drill site data enhancement. Some categories
of Pre-Drilling Activities are:
- Use of ships of opportunity to collect site-specific data
that will significantly enhance the scientific yield
of a planned IODP expedition;
- U.S.-based scientist participation in non-U.S. shipboard
programs that are in direct support of IODP drilling objectives;
- Mini-workshops or focused planning groups that bring together
scientists to integrate site-specific or regional data
into a mature drilling proposal;
- Non-routine downhole measurements or innovative experiments
that increase the overall scientific return from an IODP
expedition;
- Assembling data sets or reprocessing existing data sets
(e.g., from site surveys) for sites in regions of interest
to IODP.
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