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How does IODP-MI operate? |
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IODP-MI, the Central Management Organization (CMO) of IODP, has branches in Washington DC, and Sapporo, Japan.
A principle task of the CMO is to produce an annual Program Plan. To do so, it first receives advice and recommendations from the IODP Science Advisory Structure (SAS) on scientific priorities and on specific scientific drilling programs submitted to IODP-MI through its Sapporo office.
It then requests plans from its three IOs (including the JOI Alliance for the non-riser vessel, the JOIDES Resolution until sometime in 2006; the ECORD Science Operator for mission-specific platforms, such as the ACEX operation in the Arctic; and JAMSTEC/CDEX for the riser vessel, Chikyu), as to how these plans might be implemented.
IODP-MI works with the IOs and SAS to produce an integrated annual IODP Program Plan following the budgetary guidance provided by the U.S. NSF and Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The plan includes Science Operation Costs (SOCs) managed by the CMO. It also includes Platform Operation Costs (POCs) directly funneled to the IOs by funding agencies, and therefore, not managed by the CMO.
The CMO submits the annual IODP Program Plan for review and approval to the Executive Committee of the SAS, called the Science Planning and Policy Oversight Committee (SPPOC), then to the IODP-MI Board of Governors (BoG), and finally to NSF and MEXT for final approval.
The CMO is also responsible for program-wide engineering development; publications; education and outreach; site survey data management; and core sample repositories. With advice from the SAS and under the supervision of managers in the CMO, these functions are sub contracted to the IOs and third parties, as appropriate.
The CMO arranges to provide continuous evaluation and assessment of the performance of all IODP elements.
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