General Announcements:

• Tim Reston (University of Birmingham) has been selected as the next SEP Co-Chair. Dr. Reston will co-chair the January 2022 SEP meeting with Dr. Lisa McNeill and will then work with Dr. Kathie Marsaglia when her term begins in April 2022.
• 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:

• October 2021 IODP Forum Meeting (consensus items)
• 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)

New Reports and Publications:

• Expedition 375 (Hikurangi Subduction Margin) Data Report: Early Late Cretaceous Radiolarians from IODP Site U1520
• Expedition 395E Preliminary Report (Complete South Atlantic Transect Reentry Systems)
• Expedition 363 (Western Pacific Warm Pool) Data Report: Composite Depth Scale and Splice Revision for IODP Site U1488 using XRF Core Scanning Data and Core Images
• Expedition 334 (Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project, Program A Stage 1) Data Report: Pore Water and Solid-Phase Trace Element Distribution in Sediments from Sites U1378 and U1379
• Scientific Drilling: Reports on Deep Earth Drilling and Sampling (volume 29)