EGU Symposium "Fifty Years of International Ocean Drilling" from April 2108 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.
Work at sea for IODP! The JOIDES Resolution Science Operator (JRSO) at Texas A&M University invites applications for an Expedition Project Manager / Staff Scientist.
ECORD Facility Board seeks two new Science members, specifically from Japan and one associated IODP member country (Australia, Brazil, China, India, New Zealand, South Korea). Apply by May 7.
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.
ECORD Summer School 2018 (sub-seafloor fluid transport and gas hydrate dynamics) will be held September 3-14, 2018 at the MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and the IODP Bremen Core Repository, University of Bremen, Germany. Apply by May 4.
MagellanPlus Workshop Series Programme has two special calls for workshop proposals due April 1. Topics are Demystifying the IODP proposal process for early career scientists and Initiating concepts for a future scientific ocean drilling programme beyond 2023.
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.
Expedition cancelled: The ECORD Science Operator regrettably announced the cancellation of Expedition 377 (Arctic Ocean Paleoceanography).
ESO has issued an update re: Exp 373 (Antarctic Cenozoic Paleoclimate), which is now delayed into winter 2020-2021 at the earliest.
The Australasian IODP Regional Planning Workshop has issued a consensus statement on the need for site survey data for IODP.
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 white paper on Seagoing Seismic Imaging and Scientific Ocean Drilling based on discussions in the IODP Forum is available.
Science Community volunteers sought forJRSO Laboratory Working Groups.
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).
Wolf Berger, 1937-2017. Obituary from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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.
Incoming CAB members: The IODP Facility Boards have approved the appointments of Beth Christensen and Richard Arculus to the Curatorial Advisory Board.
New SEP Co-Chair selected: The JOIDES Resolution Facility Board has named University of Texas geophysicist Sean Gulick as the next co-chair of the Science Evaluation Panel. Sean will replace outgoing co-chair Dave Mallinson effective October 1.
Exp 365 video: The final installment of Exploring the Fault Trace is now on YouTube, including connecting the Long-Term Borehole Monitoring System to the DONET cabled seafloor network.
New JRFB science members selected: Wolfgang Bach (University of Bremen) and Liping Zhou (Peking University) will join the JR Facility Board beginning October 1.