Announcements

General Announcements:

• Submitting data for the November 1st deadline? Register to attend the SSDB information session at 7pm PDT on October 5th or 8am PDT on October 6th.
• The 21st International Sedimentological Congress is accepting session proposals for Theme 12 (Geoscience Programs and New Technology on Sedimentology), which includes an IODP focus. The session proposal deadline is October 20, 2021.
• The JRFB is pleased to welcome Larry Krissek (Ohio State University) as the next JRFB chair and new members Amelia Shevenell (University of South Florida) and Steffen Kutterolf (GEOMAR). They will all begin their new positions on October 1.
• Kathie Marsaglia (California State University, Northridge) has been selected as the next co-chair of SEP. She will will join Gail Christeson as co-chair and work with outgoing co-chair Dr. Lisa McNeill during a transition period. Her term will begin on April 1, 2022.
• Henk Brinkhuis (Utrecht University) has been selected as the next chair of the IODP Forum. He will begin his term on October 1.
• IODP has been endorsed as part of the first set of Decade Actions of the UN Decade of Ocean Science.
• The Sio7 website is currently offline while MarE3 investigates a security incident. They will notify the community when access is restored.
• IODP sample requests are being accepted but completion and shipment of requests may be delayed due to COVID-19. For the current status of each IODP core repository, contact the repository curator.

Meeting Outcomes:

• July 2021 Science Evaluation Panel Meeting (minutes)
• June 2021 JOIDES Resolution Facility Board Meeting (minutes)
• JRFB Working Group on Science Framework Proposal Requirements and Assessment (final report)
• April/May 2021 IODP Forum Meeting (consensus items)
• December 2020 IODP Town Hall - Dr. Terry Quinn's (NSF OCE Division Director) Presentation

New Reports and Publications:

• Expedition 369 (Australia Cretaceous Climate and Tectonics) Data Report: X-ray Diffraction Mineralogy of a Volcanic Sequence at Site U1513, Naturaliste Plateau
• Expedition 377 (Arctic Ocean Paleoceanography) Scientific Prospectus
• Expedition 372A (Creeping Gas Hydrates Slides) Data Report: Clay Mineral Assemblages Within and Beneath the Tuaheni Landslide Complex, Site U1517, Offshore Zealand
• Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, Volume 382 (Iceberg Alley and Subantarctic Ice and Ocean Dynamics
• Technical Note 4: Recommendations for Microbiological Sampling and Contamination Tracer Use Aboard the JOIDES Resolution Following 20 Years of IODP Deep Biosphere Research
• Scientific Drilling: Reports on Deep Earth Drilling and Sampling (volume 29)