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 next framework for scientific ocean drilling beyond 2023 is under development.
A new book A Memory of Ice - the story of DSDP Leg 28 to the Antarctic margin - is downloadable from ANU Press.
Consensus items from the 2019 IODP Forum meeting in Osaka are now available.
A new Dear Colleague Letter updates the U.S. community on NSF's plan to provide marine seismics.
NSF's Panel Review of the JR Science Operator's FY2018 operations is now available.
Consensus statements from the May 2019 JR Facility Board meeting are now available.
IODP Future: A new area of the website has been established to document the planning process towards a new science plan.
The Call for IODP Drilling Proposals has been updated.
Latest Scientific Drilling: Download volume 25 (June 2019) here!
The Oceanography special issue "Scientific Drilling: Looking to the Future"
U.S. National Science Board renews funding for the JOIDES Resolution through September 2024.
IODP Expedition 389, Hawaiian Drowned Reefs, has been postponed.
Obituary notice: Two legendary scientists who participated in the March 1961 Project Mohole feasibility test, Gustaf Arrhenius and Walter Munk, have passed away on February 3 and February 8 respectively.
China celebrates 50 years of scientific ocean drilling.
IODP abstracts at AGU: The term "IODP" appeared in 194 abstracts in 76 different sessions across 13 AGU sections at the 2018 Fall Meeting, from Biogeosciences to Union. Download statistics and a session list here.
The 2018 Scientific Ocean Drilling Bibliographic Database Report is now available online.
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.
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.
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.
Now Sailing: Guaymas Basin Tectonics and Biosphere
This JOIDES Resolution expedition to the Gulf of California will study the relationship of tectonics, magmatism, sedimentation, carbon cycling, and microbial activity in an active rift basin and hydrothermal area. Igneous sills emplaced into organic-rich sediments have created fluid pathways leading to evolving microbial communities; drilling and coring these features will explore these processes and their implication for carbon release and storage.
Recently Completed (July 2019): Dynamics of Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current
This JOIDES Resolution expedition investigated the behavior and variability of the Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current over the past 5 million years using high-resolution sediment records, focusing on how the coupled dynamics of the ocean, atmosphere, and cryosphere affect global climate.
Recently Completed (May 2019): Iceberg Alley and South Falkland Slope Ice and Ocean Dynamics
The JOIDES Resolution worked in Iceberg Alley, where Antarctic icebergs exit into the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, to reconstruct past variability in Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss and oceanic and atmospheric circulation using late Neogene sediments recovered from the Scotia Sea. Expedition 382 also cored a sediment drift on the Falkland slope to obtain records that address regional variability in the ocean, atmosphere, nutrients, productivity, and ice-sheet dynamics in the SW Atlantic over at least the last million years.
JOIDES Resolution Ship Track
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| As approved by the JRFB in May 2019: "The JR is expected to operate in the Equatorial and North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean, Caribbean, and the Arctic in 2021 and 2022, and to complete its circumnavigation with a return to the eastern Pacific region by 2023, the western Pacific in 2023-2024, and potentially the Indian Ocean by the end of 2024." |
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
