Engineering Development Panel (EDP)
The Engineering Development Panel (EDP) reports to the Science Planning Committee (SPC), and may communicate directly with IODP Management International (IODP-MI). The panel shall provide advice on matters related to the technological needs and engineering developments necessary to meet the scientific objectives of active IODP proposals and the IODP Initial Science Plan (ISP) to the SPC; through the SPC, to the Science Planning and Policy Oversight Committee (SPPOC) and IODP-MI; and, through IODP-MI, to the implementing organizations (IOs).
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Environmental Protection and Safety Panel (EPSP)
The Environmental Protection and Safety Panel (EPSP) reports to the Science Planning Committee (SPC). The panel shall provide independent advice to the SPC, IODP Management International (IODP-MI), and the implementing organizations (IOs) with regard to safety and environmental issues that may be associated with general and specific geologic ircumstances of proposed drill sites. The EPSP shall also provide advice on appropriate drilling technologies for avoidance of drilling hazards and protecting the environment.
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Detailed Planning Group on Asian Monsoon (DPG)
Understanding how tectonic evolution and uplift of the Himalaya and Tibet region affect the monsoonal system has high scientific and societal values. The DPG on Asian Monsoon and Cenozoic Tectonic History is charged to develop an optimal plan to advance the understanding of the Asian monsoon and Cenozoic tectonic history that coordinates, organizes and prioritizes a drilling plan, the erosion and uplift proxies to be used, and an integration of post-cruise science. Specifically, the DPG shall identify how the current strong source-to-sink component originally presented in Proposal 713-MP ("Mission Monsoon") can be retooled to more clearly identify the proxy toolbox that will allow differentiation between uplift and erosion on one side and monsoon on the other.
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Hotspot Geodynamics Detail Planning Group (HG DPG)
Volcanic chains associated with deep-seated mantle plumes potentially provide valuable information on mantle geochemistry and geodynamics, particularly in establishing the existence and magnitude of true polar wander. Several current IODP proposals (620-Full3 Hotspot Seamounts, 636-Full2 Louisville Seamount, 669-Full Walvis Ridge Hotspot) focus on drilling hotspot chains to address themes related to hotspot- generated volcanic lineaments, including hotspot motion, the temporal evolution of hotspot mantle sources, plate-motion reference frames, and mantle-plume models. The Hotspot Geodynamics DPG should review current approaches and produce a written report that lays out an optimal drilling, logging, and post-expedition science plan for addressing the above objectives.
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Industry-IODP Science Program Planning Group (IIS-PPG)
The Industry-IODP Science Program Planning Group (IIS PPG) reports to the Science Planning Committee (SPC). The IIS PPG shall identify subjects of cooperative scientific research between the IODP and selected industries, and promote development of IODP drilling proposals to address these objectives within the context of the IODP Initial Science Plan (ISP). Industrial sectors of interest may include oil and gas and related services, mining, biotechnology, and research and development organizations in these fields.
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Science Planning Committee (SPC)
The SPC focuses on the long-term science planning activities necessary to achieve the objectives of IODP as expressed in the ISP. In this capacity, SPC prioritizes, or ranks, scientific and technological objectives to optimize the scientific returns from multi-platform drilling, sampling, and related experiments. These rankings are based in part on input and advice from the other SAS panels.
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Science Advisory Structure Executive Committee (SASEC)
The IODP Scientific Advisory Structure (SAS) Executive Committee (SASEC) shall be a committee created by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Management International (IODP-MI) in accordance with the terms and conditions of IODP-MI's bylaws. This committee succeeds the IODP Science Planning and Policy Oversight Committee (SPPOC), which was established in September 2003.
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Science Steering and Evaluation Panel (SSEP)
The Science Steering and Evaluation Panel (SSEP) reports to the Science Planning Committee (SPC). The panel shall interact with proponents (and Program Planning Groups, or PPGs, as necessary) to nurture submitted drilling proposals to maturity, and send mature proposals for external review before forwarding them to the SPC. Within the context of the IODP Initial Science Plan (ISP), important thematic (and initiative) areas of investigation addressed by proposals that shall be considered by these panels include: the deep biosphere and subseafloor ocean (deep biosphere; gas hydrates); environmental changes, processes and effects (extreme climates; rapid climate change); solid earth cycles and geodynamics (continental breakup and sedimentary basin formation; large igneous provinces (LIPs); 21st century Mohole; and seismogenic zone); and additional themes (and initiatives) that may arise from future scientific planning and assessment.
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Site Survey Panel (SSP)
The Site Survey Panel (SSP) reports to the Science Planning Committee (SPC). The panel shall advise drilling proponents, the Science Steering and Evaluation Panel (SSEP), and the SPC on the degree of completeness of the drill site characterization data package, and on its assessment of whether or not the scientific objectives of each drill site can be effectively achieved on the basis of the proposal and data package.
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Scientific Technology Panel (STP)
The Scientific Technology Panel (STP) reports to the Science Planning Committee (SPC), and may communicate directly with IODP Management International (IODP-MI). The panel shall contribute information and advice with regard to handling of IODP data and information, methods and techniques of IODP measurements (including factors that impact measurements, such as sample handling, curation, etc.), laboratory design, portable laboratory needs, downhole measurements and experiments, and observatories to the SPC; through the SPC, to the Science Planning and Policy Oversight Committee (SPPOC) and IODP-MI; and, through IODP-MI, to the implementing organizations (IOs)
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