The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international scientific research program supported by 24 countries, advances scientific understanding of the Earth by monitoring, drilling, sampling, and analyzing subseafloor environments. IODP: 
•  deploys state-of-the-art ocean drilling technologies as its essential tool of discovery,
•  unifies the international research community to explore Earth as a system,
•  advances future research and discovery through dissemination of data and samples from global archives, and
• provides scientific context for global awareness of geohazards and environmental change.