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
Taira Prize announced: This year's winner of the Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize is Professor Brandon Dugan of the Colorado School of Mines.
Expedition 378, South Pacific Paleogene Climate, has been delayed. The tentative new start date is in late November.
IODP Town Hall Meeting at the AGU Fall Meeting will take place Wednesday evening, December 12, at the Washington Plaza Hotel.
New release of PDB: The IODP Science Support Office has issued a new release of the Proposal Database System ahead of the October 1 submission deadline.
Results from the JRFB Meeting: An updated schedule / ship track and other consensus items are now available from the May 15-16 meeting of the JOIDES Resolution Facility Board.
EFB Minutes: Meeting minutes from the March 2018 meeting of the ECORD Facility Board are now available.
New IODP Forum Chair selected: Dick Kroon, Regius Chair of Geology at the University of Edinburgh, has been selected as the next chair of the IODP Forum. Dick will replace outgoing chair Jamie Austin effective October 1, 2018 for a three-year term.
EGU Symposium "Fifty Years of International Ocean Drilling" from April 2018 can be streamed here.
U.S. Marine Seismic Capabilities: NSF has issued a Dear Colleague letter with a status update for the U.S. research community.
New SEP Co-Chair selected: The JOIDES Resolution Facility Board has confirmed Professor Lisa McNeill of the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton as the next co-chair of the Science Evaluation Panel. Lisa will replace outgoing co-chair Professor Ken Miller effective April 1, 2019 for a three-year term.
The final report of the Deep Crustal Drilling Engineering Working Group convened by the JR Facility Board is now available.
Latest Scientific Drilling: Scientific Drilling volume 23 is now available!
Videos of presentations from the 2017 JpGU-AGU joint meeting session on scientific ocean drilling are now available.
Consensus Items from the 4th IODP Forum meeting are available.
Keeping Our Focus on the Subseafloor: Eos opinion page on the value of marine seismic facilities.
Now Sailing
Currently no IODP expeditions are sailing. The JOIDES Resolution is currently in a routine 5-year dry dock and maintenance period in Subic Bay, Philippines. She will transit to Hong Kong for the installation of new propellers in late October and then on to Fiji for Expedition 378 which has a new tentative start date of November 25. Expedition 358 (NanTroSEIZE: Plate Boundary Deep Riser 4) aboard Chikyu will begin on October 7.
Recently Completed (July 2018): Brothers Arc Flux
This JR expedition to the Brothers submarine volcano in the southern part of the Kermadec Arc explored this magma-derived hydrothermal system, including fluid-rock interactions, the distribution of metals/metalloids and their pathway from depth to the seafloor, and the nature of microbial life in this extreme environment.
Recently Completed (May 2018): Hikurangi Subduction Margin
This JR expedition to study slow slip events (SSE - episodic movements of the plate interface) along the northern Hikurangi subduction margin off New Zealand's North Island retrieved samples from the subducting plate and from primary thrust faults in the accretionary wedge. Borehole observatories that will continue to monitor the slip source area were installed at two sites in the frontal thrust and upper plate.
JOIDES Resolution Ship Track
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| As approved by JRFB May 16, 2018: "The JRFB reaffirms that, based on current and anticipated proposal pressure, the JOIDES Resolution 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
The Adventure Begins: Expedition 371 Tasman Sea Frontier
High above the JOIDES Resolution - Expedition 371
Exploring Zealandia - Expedition 371
Drilling 101 - Expedition 371 Tasman Sea Frontier
Science on the Vessel - Expedition 368
Professor Jian Lin Petrophysics Specialist Exp 368
Sara Satolli Paleomagnetist - Expedition 368
