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General Announcements:

Register for the IMPACT Workshop Series, which is aimed at envisioning broadening the impact of scientific ocean drilling in the coming decades.
The Sio7 website is currently offline while MarE3 investigates a security incident. They will notify the community when access is restored.
NSF has released a Dear Colleague Letter to request interest in proving a multi-decadal drilling vessel to support future international scientific ocean drilling.
The new IODP Code of Conduct and Anti-Harassment Policy has been approved by IODP's Program Member Offices.
The JOIDES Resolution Science Operator has updated its operations schedule for 2021 and 2022 in light of decisions by the JRFB and constraints due to COVID-19.
IODP sample requests are being accepted but completion and shipment of requests may be delayed due to COVID-19. For the current status of each IODP core repository, contact the repository curator.

Meeting Outcomes:

April 30, 2020 JRFB Working Group on Science Framework Proposal Requirements and Assessment Meeting (consensus items)
April 2, 2020 JRFB Working Group on Science Framework Proposal Requirements and Assessment Meeting (consensus items)
March 2021 JRFB Working Group on Science Framework Proposal Requirements and Assessments Meeting (consensus items)
February 2021 JRFB Working Group on Science Framework Proposal Requirements and Assessments Meeting (consensus items)
January 2021 Science Evaluation Panel Meeting (minutes)
December 2020 IODP Town Hall - Dr. Terry Quinn's (NSF OCE Division Director) Presentation
November 2020 Special Meeting of the JOIDES Resolution Facility Board (minutes)

New Reports and Publications:

Now Sailing: Japan Trench Paleoseismology

Expedition 386 aims to test and develop submarine paleoseismology by recovering the continuous upper Pleistocene to Holocene stratigraphic successions of trench-fill basins along an axis-parallel transect in the Japan Trench.

Now Sailing: Complete South Atlantic Transect Reentry Systems

The South Atlantic Transect is a multidisciplinary scientific ocean drilling project that comprises of multiple expeditions aimed at recovering complete sedimentary sections and the upper underlying oceanic crust along a slow/intermediate spreading rate Mid-Atlantic Ridge crustal flow line at ~31°S.