Expedition 349 - Placing whole-round cores in the core rack (photo courtesy of JRSO; CC0/PDM)
Expedition 353 - Bringing the last core of the expedition onto the catwalk (photo courtesy of JRSO; CC0/PDM)
Expedition 351 - Lowering the vibration-isolated television (VIT) system into the moonpool (photo courtesy of JRSO; CC0/PDM)
The JOIDES Resolution in port in Yokohama, Japan (photo courtesy of JRSO; CC0/PDM)
Expedition 352—Samples selected for postexpedition research (photo courtesy of JRSO; CC0/PDM)
Examining rock samples at the IODP Bremen Core Repository, Germany (photo by V. Diekamp/MARUM, CC BY-NC-ND)
D/V Chikyu (photo courtesy of JAMSTEC; CC BY-NC 4.0)
Exp 357 offshore science party (photo by Y. Morono, CC/BY-SA)
Deploying the MARUM seabed drill system MeBo70 for Exp 357 (photo by D. Smith/ECORD, CC/BY-SA)
Announcements
Interested in Exp 378? Sign up for the August 28 informational webinar for South Pacific Paleogene Climate.
The Spring 2017 issue of Ocean Discovery, a newsletter for the U.S. scientific ocean drilling community, is now available.
Position available: The Centre for Scientific Drilling at GFZ Potsdam, Germany is inviting applications for a Staff Scientist for ICDP. Apply by August 15.
New Scientific Drilling: Scientific Drilling volume 22 is now available!
All three IODP facilities welcome new drilling proposals for the October 2017 deadline. It's not too early to think about JR's operating regions for 2021 and beyond!
ESO has issued an update re: Exp 373 (Antarctic Cenozoic Paleoclimate), which is now delayed into winter 202-2021 at the earliest.
Apply to sail for Expedition 378 (South Pacific Paleogene Climate) by Sept 15, for Expedition 379 (Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History) by October 15, or for Expedition 382 (Iceberg Alley Paleoceanography and South Falkland Slope Drift) also by October 15.
The IODP Forum welcomes prospective agenda items for this year's meeting via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The Forum, a venue for exchanging ideas and views, is open to representatives of IODP funding agencies, management entities, and boards and panels.
The Australasian IODP Regional Planning Workshop has issued a consensus statement on the need for site survey data for IODP.
Outcomes (Consensus Statements and Action Items) from the 2017 JOIDES Resolution Facility Board Meeting are available.
Schedule change: Exp 380 (NanTroSEIZE Frontal Thrust Borehole Monitoring System) has been delayed and is now expected to begin in January 2018. Applicants should contact their Program Member Office for status.
See the Australia - New Zealand IODP Consortium 2016 Annual Report (with expedition summaries by ANZIC participants and much more).
Keep Digging: A BBC radio story featuring Expedition 360 co-chiefs Henry Dick & Chris MacLeod and colleagues on the quest to sample Earth's mantle (featuring Walter Munk).
WATCH and share the new outreach video The Whirling Waters of Antarctica: IODP scientist, Dr. Peter Bijl (Utrecht University), works to reconstruct the history of the Antarctic circumpolar current during the warm Eocene period.
A white paper on Seagoing Seismic Imaging and Scientific Ocean Drilling based on discussions in the IODP Forum is available.
Science Community volunteers sought for JRSO Laboratory Working Groups.
Tasman Frontier Subduction Initiation and Paleogene Climate
This JOIDES Resolution expedition will core and log six seafloor sites in the complex region of the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, sometimes referred to as Zealandia, to infer the timing and geometry of subduction initiation along the Tonga Kermadec Arc approximately 50 million years ago, which is the largest subduction initiation event identified in plate tectonics. The recovered Paleogene and Neogene sediments will also provide constraints on how the beginning of subduction here changed ocean conditions and connections between the polar ocean to the south and more tropical regions to the north (the Southern Ocean Gateway).
Recently Completed: South China Sea Rifted Margin
In a pair of expeditions to the South China Sea aboard the JOIDES Resolution, scientists explored the mechanisms of lithosphere extension during continental breakup by drilling four sites across a 300-km wide zone of highly extended, seaward thinning crust. The expedition cored through thick sedimentary sections to look for serpentinized mantle in the underlying continent-ocean-transition basement zone, which has implications for competing models of plate rupture. Study of the sedimentary sections obtained will constrain the timing of rifting, rate of extension, and crustal subsidence that resulted the present-day South China Sea, leading to a new understanding of how marginal basins begin and grow. daily reports
JOIDES Resolution Ship Track
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| As approved by JRFB May 17, 2017: "The JRFB affirms that, based on current and anticipated proposal pressure, the JOIDES Resolution will follow a path from the Gulf of Mexico in FY2020 to the South Atlantic, starting to drill in that region. The JRFB expects that the JR will start to operate in the general area of the Equatorial and North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean, Caribbean, and the Arctic in FY2021 and through FY2022. Furthermore, the JRFB expects that the JR will complete its global circumnavigation in the Indo-Pacific region in FY2023." |
Expedition Videos
Sailing with IODP: Shipboard Sedimentology
IODP: Open Data for Global Research
IODP: A Guide to Smear Slides
Expedition 366: Spotlight on Microbiology and the Origins of Life
Expedition 366: Mysteries of the Mud Volcanoes
Exp 366: Science Spotlight Getting to the core of the Mud
Expedition 366: Spotlight on Geochemistry
Expedition 366: Spotlight on Geological "Forensics"
Expedition 366: Spotlight on Microbiology
Expedition 370: Exploring the T-Limit of the Deep Biosphere off Muroto
