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
Results from the JRFB Meeting: An updated schedule / ship track and other consensus items are now available from the May 15-16 meeting of the JOIDES Resolution Facility Board.
Chikyu IODP Board is seeking two new Science board members, one from the U.S. and one from Japan. Apply by June 25.
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.
U.S. Marine Seismic Capabilities: NSF has issued a Dear Colleague letter with a status update for the U.S. research community.
Work at sea for IODP! The JOIDES Resolution Science Operator (JRSO) at Texas A&M University invites applications for an Expedition Project Manager / Staff Scientist.
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.
ECORD Summer School 2018 (sub-seafloor fluid transport and gas hydrate dynamics) will be held September 3-14, 2018 at the MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the IODP Bremen Core Repository, University of Bremen, Germany. Apply by May 25.
MagellanPlus Workshop Series Programme has two special calls for workshop proposals due April 1. Topics are Demystifying the IODP proposal process for early career scientists and Initiating concepts for a future scientific ocean drilling programme beyond 2023.
The final report of the Deep Crustal Drilling Engineering Working Group convened by the JR Facility Board is now available.
Latest Scientific Drilling: Scientific Drilling volume 23 is now available!
Videos of presentations from the 2017 JpGU-AGU joint meeting session on scientific ocean drilling are now available.
Consensus Items from the 4th IODP Forum meeting are available.
Keeping Our Focus on the Subseafloor: Eos opinion page on the value of marine seismic facilities.
Now Sailing: Brothers Arc Flux
This JR expedition to the Brothers submarine volcano in the southern part of the Kermadec Arc will explore this magma-derived hydrothermal system, including fluid-rock interactions, the distribution of metals/metalloids and their pathway from depth to the seafloor, and the nature of microbial life in this extreme environment.
Recently Completed (May 2018): Hikurangi Subduction Margin
This JR expedition to study slow slip events (SSE - episodic movements of the plate interface) along the northern Hikurangi subduction margin off New Zealand's North Island retrieved samples from the subducting plate and from primary thrust faults in the accretionary wedge. Borehole observatories that will continue to monitor the slip source area were installed at two sites in the frontal thrust and upper plate.
Recently Completed (February 2018): NanTroSEIZE Front Thrust Long-Term Borehole Monitoring System
This expedition aboard Chikyu installed a long-term borehole monitoring system (LTBMS) in NanTroSEIZE hole C0006, complementing two existing nearby subseafloor observatories as part of the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE). The LTBMS will connect to Japan's DONET undersea cabled network, sending pressure, strain, and seismic data to the mainland in real time.
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
