IODP Announcements

General Announcements:

• The U.S. National Academies of Sciences's Committee on the 2025-2035 Decadal Survey of Ocean Sciences will hold a public meeting on August 2-3, 2023, to hear from scientific ocean drilling experts on high-priority research questions and the infrastructure required to answer those questions. More information and registration.
• JAMSTEC is hosting a NanTroSEIZE workshop October 2-4, 2023 in Yokohama, Japan, to discuss the outcomes of the project, integrate results, and document lessons learned. The deadline to apply is August 15 for in-person participation and August 31 for virtual. More information.
• ECORD and Japan have started to build a post-2024 program that will be open to the international scientific community. They anticipate that it will begin immediately after the conclusion of IODP. Read the full announcement.
• NSF has chosen not to renew the cooperative agreement with Texas A&M University for the JOIDES Resolution to focus efforts and funds towards the sustainable evolution of the ocean science drilling community. Read the full announcement. 
• NSF has announced that Kevin Johnson has joined the Division of Ocean Science’s Ocean Drilling Program as a program officer.
• IODP has been endorsed as part of the first set of Decade Actions of the UN Decade of Ocean Science. Learn more about participating in the NSF & the Ocean Decade: A Resource for Researchers guide.

Meeting Outcomes:

• June 2023 Science Evaluation Panel Meeting (minutes)
• Ocean Drilling Legacy Assets (LEAPs) Report
• May 2023 JOIDES Resolution Facility Board Meeting (minutes)
• EPSP Best Practices Document
• April 2023 IODP Forum (consensus statements and action item)

New IODP Reports and Publications:

• Expedition 389 (Scientific Prospectus) Scientific Prospectus
• Expedition 405 (Tracking Tsunamigenic Slip Across the Japan Trench) Scientific Prospectus
• Expedition 385 (Guaymas Basin Tectonics and Biosphere) Data Report: Detailed Lithologic Columns for IODP Expedition 385 and DSDP Leg 64
• Expedition 385 (Guaymas Basin Tectonics and Biosphere) Data Report: Wavelength Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence in Sediments from all IODP Expedition 385 Sites 
• Expedition 383 (Dynamics of the Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current) Date Report: Calibration of XRF Scanning CaCO₃ Estimates for the Upper 30m along the Site U1543 Splice
• Expedition 403 (Eastern Fram Strait Paleo-Archive) Scientific Prospectus
  
• Scientific Drilling: Reports on Deep Earth Drilling and Sampling (volume 31)