Frequently Used References/Acronyms
ACORK | Advanced Circulation Obviation Retrofit Kit | |
ADP | Amphibious Drilling Project | |
AGU | American Geophysical Union | |
ANZIC | Australia-New Zealand IODP Consortium | |
APL | Ancillary Project Letter | |
BCR | Bremen Core Repository | |
BGS | British Geological Survey | |
CAB | Curatorial Advisory Board | |
CDEX | Center for Deep Earth Exploration (JAMSTEC) | |
CDP | Common Depth Point | |
CEREGE | Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement | |
CIB | Chikyu IODP Board | |
CORK | Circulation Obviation Retrofit Kit | |
CPP | Complementary Project Proposal | |
DSDP | Deep Sea Drilling Project (1968-1982) | |
D/V | Drilling Vessel | |
ECORD | European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling | |
EECO | Early Eocene Climatic Optimum | |
EFB | ECORD Facility Board | |
EPC | European Petrophysics Consortium | |
EPM | Expedition Project Manager | |
EPSP | Environmental Protection and Safety Panel | |
ERB | Editorial Review Board | |
ESSAC | ECORD Science Support and Advisory Committee | |
ESO | ECORD Science Operator | |
GCR | Gulf Coast Repository | |
HSE | Health, Safety, and Environment | |
ICDP | International Continental Scientific Drilling Program | |
IGC | International Geological Congress | |
IODP | International Ocean Discovery Program (2013-2024) | |
IODP | Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (2003-2013) | |
IODP-MI | Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc. | |
JAMSTEC | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology | |
JANUS | USIO Database System | |
J-CORES | Japanese Database System | |
J-DESC | Japan Drilling Earth Science Consortium | |
JOIDES | Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling | |
JR | JOIDES Resolution | |
JRFB | JOIDES Resolution Facility Board | |
JRSO | JOIDES Resolution Science Operator | |
KCC | Kochi Core Center | |
KIGAM | Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources | |
K-Pg | Cretaceous-Paleogene | |
L2S | Land-2-Sea | |
LDEO | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | |
LIMS | Laboratory Information Management System | |
LTBMS | Long-Term Borehole Monitoring System | |
LWD | Logging While Drilling | |
MarE3 | Institute for Marine-Earth Exploration and Engineering (JAMSTEC) | |
MDP | Multi-phase Drilling Project | |
MEXT | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan) | |
MoES | Ministry of Earth Sciences (India) | |
MOST | Ministry of Science and Technology (China) | |
MSP | Mission-Specific Platform | |
NanTroSEIZE | Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment | |
NJGS | New Jersey Geological Survey | |
NSF | National Science Foundation (USA) | |
ODP | Ocean Drilling Program (1983-2003) | |
PANGAEA | Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data | |
PDB | Proposal Database System | |
POOH | Pull Out Of Hole | |
PRL | Proponent Response Letter | |
RCB | Rotary Core Barrel | |
SAC | Sample Allocation Committee | |
SCIMPI | Simple Cabled Instrument for Measuring Parameters In-situ | |
SEG-Y | Seismic data (designated Y) file in the Society for Exploration Geophysicists' (SEG) "standardized" format | |
SEP | Science Evaluation Panel | |
SIO | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | |
SSDB | Site Survey Data Bank | |
SSO | Science Support Office | |
USIO | United States Implementing Organization | |
USSSP | U.S. Science Support Program | |
WDC-MARE | World Data Center - Marine | |
WOW | Wait On Weather |