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
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.
The Call for Applications for IODP Expeditions 387 and 388 is now open.
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.
Results from the JRFB Meeting: An updated schedule / ship track and other consensus items are now available from the May 2018 meeting of the JOIDES Resolution Facility Board.
EFB Minutes: Meeting minutes from the March 2018 meeting of the ECORD Facility Board are now available.
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: Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History
The recent (past several million years) history of climatic and oceanographic changes as seen through influences on the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) will be investigated aboard the JOIDES Resolution by drilling sites on the continental shelf and rise of the Amundsen Sea. This expedition explores the relationship of the Paleogene-to-Holocene glacial history of Western Antarctica with global records of ice volume and other proxies of air/sea average temperature from the same period.
Also Sailing: NanTroSEIZE Deep Riser Drilling
Chikyu continues the 4th riser expedition of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE). The current effort, Nankai Seismogenic / Slow Slip Megathrust, will attempt to deepen hole C0002, currently drilled to 3000 meters below the seafloor (mbsf), to 5200 mbsf in order to encounter the primary megathrust fault of this subduction system. This expedition will be the culmination of 10 years of IODP NanTroSEIZE deep drilling efforts to reach the plate interface fault system at seismogenic / slow slip depths.
Recently Completed (December 2018): Return to Hole U1503A (South China Sea)
In this three-week follow-up to Expedition 368, JOIDES Resolution returned to core a critical site that documents the rapid transition from continental break-up to formation of normal oceanic crust. This operation was previously abandoned due to a breakdown in the JR draw-works.
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
