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JOIDES Resolution - The U.S. Implementing Organization (USIO) is responsible for the science operations of the riserless vessel JOIDES Resolution. The USIO consists of:
- Consortium for Ocean Leadership: has the principal responsibility for overseeing programmatic, contractual, and fiscal management activities associated with the USIO.
- Texas A&M University, College of Geosciences: subcontracts riserless drillship operations; conducts platform-related tool development; and provides expedition staffing, logistics, program-specific engineering development, outfitting of shipboard laboratories, shipboard- and shorebased-curation, and distribution of core samples and data.
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University: provides downhole logging tools and support and log data processing, distribution, and database services
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Riserless Drilling
Riserless drilling technology uses seawater as the primary drilling fluid, which is pumped down through the drillpipe. The seawater cleans and cools the drill bit and lifts cuttings out of the hole, piling them in a cone around the hole.
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