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
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.
Outcomes (Consensus Statements and Action Items) from the 2017 JOIDES Resolution Facility Board Meeting are available.
U.S. participants in the scientific ocean drilling community are encouraged to apply for the JOIDES Resolution Assessment Workshop in Denver, Sept 26-27, 2017.
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.
Apply to sail for Exp 377 (Arctic Ocean Paleoceanography) by June 23.
ANZIC seeks a Program Scientist / earth scientist to manage ANZIC participation in IODP, taking over Neville Exon's present position. Their position is open to international applicants.
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 new white paper on Seagoing Seismic Imaging and Scientific Ocean Drilling based on discussions in the IODP Forum is available.
Read NSF's Dear Colleague Letter on how the JR's Advanced Piston Coring capability will be made available to the U.S. community outside of IODP.
Science Community volunteers sought for JRSO Laboratory Working Groups.
JOIDES Resolution Transit
The JR is currently on transit to the port of Townsville, Australia. Exp 371 begins from there in late July.
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
