Expedition 349 - Placing whole-round cores in the core rack (photo courtesy of JRSO; CC0/PDM)
Expedition 353 - Bringing the last core of the expedition onto the catwalk (photo courtesy of JRSO; CC0/PDM)
Expedition 351 - Lowering the vibration-isolated television (VIT) system into the moonpool (photo courtesy of JRSO; CC0/PDM)
The JOIDES Resolution in port in Yokohama, Japan (photo courtesy of JRSO; CC0/PDM)
Expedition 352—Samples selected for postexpedition research (photo courtesy of JRSO; CC0/PDM)
Examining rock samples at the IODP Bremen Core Repository, Germany (photo by V. Diekamp/MARUM, CC BY-NC-ND)
D/V Chikyu (photo courtesy of JAMSTEC; CC BY-NC 4.0)
Exp 357 offshore science party (photo by Y. Morono, CC/BY-SA)
Deploying the MARUM seabed drill system MeBo70 for Exp 357 (photo by D. Smith/ECORD, CC/BY-SA)
Announcements
ECORD Summer School 2019 on Subduction Zones Processes: Magma, Volcanoes, Ore-Deposits, Geohazards September 16-27 at MARUM (Bremen, Germany). Apply by June 19.
The Call for Applications on JR Expeditions 390 and 393 (South Atlantic Transect) is now open.
U.S. National Science Board renews funding for the JOIDES Resolution through September 2024.
IODP Expedition 389, Hawaiian Drowned Reefs, has been postponed.
Obituary notice: Two legendary scientists who participated in the March 1961 Project Mohole feasibility test, Gustaf Arrhenius and Walter Munk, have passed away on February 3 and February 8 respectively.
China celebrates 50 years of scientific ocean drilling.
IODP abstracts at AGU: The term "IODP" appeared in 194 abstracts in 76 different sessions across 13 AGU sections at the 2018 Fall Meeting, from Biogeosciences to Union. Download statistics and a session list here.
Latest Scientific Drilling: Download volume 24 here!
The 2018 Scientific Ocean Drilling Bibliographic Database Report is now available online.
Taira Prize announced: This year's winner of the Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize is Professor Brandon Dugan of the Colorado School of Mines.
New IODP Forum Chair selected: Dick Kroon, Regius Chair of Geology at the University of Edinburgh, has been selected as the next chair of the IODP Forum. Dick will replace outgoing chair Jamie Austin effective October 1, 2018 for a three-year term.
EGU Symposium "Fifty Years of International Ocean Drilling" from April 2018 can be streamed here.
New SEP Co-Chair selected: The JOIDES Resolution Facility Board has confirmed Professor Lisa McNeill of the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton as the next co-chair of the Science Evaluation Panel. Lisa will replace outgoing co-chair Professor Ken Miller effective April 1, 2019 for a three-year term.
The final report of the Deep Crustal Drilling Engineering Working Group convened by the JR Facility Board is now available.
Keeping Our Focus on the Subseafloor: Eos opinion page on the value of marine seismic facilities.
Now Sailing: Dynamics of Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current
This JOIDES Resolution expedition will investigate the behavior and variability of the Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current over the past 5 million years using high-resolution sediment records, focusing on how the coupled dynamics of the ocean, atmosphere, and cryosphere affect global climate.
Recently Completed (May 2019): Iceberg Alley and South Falkland Slope Ice and Ocean Dynamics
The JOIDES Resolution worked in Iceberg Alley, where Antarctic icebergs exit into the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, to reconstruct past variability in Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss and oceanic and atmospheric circulation using late Neogene sediments recovered from the Scotia Sea. Expedition 382 also cored a sediment drift on the Falkland slope to obtain records that address regional variability in the ocean, atmosphere, nutrients, productivity, and ice-sheet dynamics in the SW Atlantic over at least the last million years.
Recently Completed (March 2019): NanTroSEIZE Deep Riser Drilling
Chikyu's 4th riser expedition of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE) attempted to deepen hole C0002 beyond 3000 meters below seafloor. While this result was not achieved, Chikyu drilled other targets relevant to the Nankai Seismogenic / Slow Slip Megathrust and achieved significant core recovery.
JOIDES Resolution Ship Track
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| As approved by JRFB May 16, 2018: "The JRFB reaffirms that, based on current and anticipated proposal pressure, the JOIDES Resolution will start to operate in the general area of the Equatorial and North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean, Caribbean, and the Arctic in FY2021 and through FY2022. Furthermore, the JRFB expects that the JR will complete its global circumnavigation in the Indo-Pacific region in FY2023." |
Expedition Videos
Sailing with IODP: Shipboard Sedimentology
IODP: Open Data for Global Research
IODP: A Guide to Smear Slides
The Adventure Begins: Expedition 371 Tasman Sea Frontier
High above the JOIDES Resolution - Expedition 371
Exploring Zealandia - Expedition 371
Drilling 101 - Expedition 371 Tasman Sea Frontier
Science on the Vessel - Expedition 368
Professor Jian Lin Petrophysics Specialist Exp 368
Sara Satolli Paleomagnetist - Expedition 368
