Applications to sail on IODP expeditions are submitted through the applicant's Program Member Office (PMO). Application requirements may vary by PMO, and they may have different deadlines than those posted below. An individual scientist's PMO is determined by the location of their employer or primary academic affiliation, not by citizenship or adjunct status. 

Expedition 405: Tracking Tsunamigenic Slips Across the Japan Trench (JFAST)

  • JAMSTEC/MarE3
  • Expedition Dates: September 12 - December 7, 2024
  • Application Deadline: October 2, 2023
  • Informational Webinar: September 12, 2023

 

 

 

Hawaiian Drowned Reefs (Expedition 389)

Summary from the Scientific ProspectusShallow marine corals are highly sensitive to sea level and global climate change and preserve a reliable record of past sea level and climate conditions. Knowledge of sea level and global climate variations over the past half a million years is severely limited because of a lack of continuous fossil coral records over this time. To address the critical need for coral records, this project focuses on the submerged fossil reefs around the island of Hawaii. Frequent and large volcanic eruptions formed and continue to grow the volcanic island of Hawaii, and the island and surrounding shallow coral reefs are pushed down at a rapid and nearly constant rate because of the weight of the volcanic rock erupted onto the land. As the land and coral reefs subside, coral reef growth can match the subsidence rate, and changes in sea level and global climate are preserved in a unique and near-continuous fossil coral record covering the last half a million years. Scientific drilling of these reefs will provide a new record of climate and sea level change, including several key time periods where sea level and climate conditions are poorly known. The project has four major scientific objectives: (1) to measure the extent of sea level change over the past half a million years, (2) to investigate why sea level and climate change through time, (3) to investigate how coral reefs respond to abrupt sea level and climate changes, and (4) to improve scientific knowledge of the growth and subsidence of Hawaii over time.

NW Greenland Glaciated Margin (Expedition 400)

Summary from the Scientific Prospectus: Sea-level consequences of anthropogenic climate forcing hinge on how the polar ice sheets respond to global warming. If fully melted, the Greenland Ice Sheet has the potential to raise sea level by >7 meters, yet we know very little about its long-term responses to past climate warming or its role in Earth’s climate system. Expedition 400 seeks to address current knowledge gaps in the evolution and variability of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet by analyzing sedimentary archives of warm and cold periods of the last ~30 million years, including times when the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere was higher than it is today.

Sediment archives will be obtained by drilling at seven sites to depths of 300–1000 meters below seafloor along a transect crossing the northwest Greenland margin into Baffin Bay. The seven sites will provide a composite stratigraphic succession that includes preglacial settings, a record of first growth of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet, and glacial and interglacial cycles when the ice sheet grew to its maximum positions at the shelf edge and retreated toward land, possibly melting nearly completely.

 

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International Ocean Discovery Program (2013-present)

(last updated: May 2023)

  JOIDES Resolution
(through 398)
Chikyu
(through 380)
Mission-Specific Platforms
(through 386)
Program Total
Expeditions Completed 42 4 4 50
Sites Visited 191 6 28 225
Holes Drilled 526 19 80 625
Cores Recovered 13,483 204 929 14,616
Deepest Hole Penetrated (m) 1,807 1,180 1,335 1,806
Shallowest Water Depth (m) 87  1,939 20 20
Deepest Water Depth (m) 5,012 4,776 8,023 8,023
Core Recovery (m) 77,117 1,092 3,374 81,583

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (2003-2013)

  JOIDES Resolution Chikyu Mission-Specific Platforms Program Total
Expeditions Completed 35 14 5 54
Sites Visited 145 38 67 250
Holes Drilled 439 95 115 649
Cores Recovered 8,491 927 2,676 12,094
Deepest Hole Penetrated (m) 1,928 3,059 755 3,059
Shallowest Water Depth (m) 84.2 885 23 23
Deepest Water Depth (m) 5,697 6,929 1.288 6,929
Core Recovery (m) 57,289 4,886 4,131 66,306

Ocean Drilling Program (1985-2003)

  JOIDES Resolution
Expeditions Completed 111
Sites Visited 669
Holes Drilled 1,797
Cores Recovered 35,772
Deepest Hole Penetrated (m) 2,111
Shallowest Water Depth (m) 37.5
Deepest Water Depth (m) 5,980
Core Recovery (m) 222,704

Deep Sea Drilling Project (1968-1983)

  Glomar Challenger
Expeditions Completed 96
Sites Visited 624
Holes Drilled 1,053
Cores Recovered 19,119
Deepest Hole Penetrated (m) 1,741
Deepest Water Depth (m) 7,044
Core Recovery (m) 97,056

Last updated August 30, 2023

Expedition Name
#
Dates
Ports
Operator
NW Greenland Glaciated Margin 400 Aug. 12 – Oct. 12, 2023 Reykjavik / Reykjavik JRSO
Hawaiian Drowned Reefs 389 Aug. 29 – Oct. 31, 2023 Honolulu / Honolulu

ESO

Mediterranean-Atlantic Gateway Exchange 401 Dec. 10, 2023 – Feb. 9, 2024 Amsterdam / Napoli JRSO
Tyrrhenian Continent-Ocean Transition 402 Feb. 9 – Apr. 8, 2024 Napoli / Napoli JRSO
Eastern Fram Strait Paleo-archive 403 June 4 – Aug. 2, 2024 Reykjavik / Reykjavik JRSO
Japan Trench Tsunamigenesis 405 Sept. 12 – Dec. 7, 2024 TBD MarE3
New England Shelf Hydrogeology 406 TBD (2024) TBD ESO

Completed Expeditions (2014- )

Expedition Name
#
Dates
Ports
Operator
South China Sea Tectonics 349 Jan. 26 – Mar. 30, 2014 Hong Kong / Keelung USIO
Izu Bonin Mariana: Rear Arc 350 Mar. 30 – May 30, 2014 Keelung / Yokohama USIO
Izu Bonin Mariana: Arc Origins 351 May 30 – July 30, 2014 Yokohama / Yokohama USIO
Izu Bonin Mariana: Forearc 352 July 30 – Sep. 29, 2014 Yokohama / Keelung USIO
Indian Monsoon Rainfall 353 Nov. 29, 2014 – Jan. 29, 2015 Singapore / Singapore JRSO
Bengal Fan 354 Jan. 29 – Mar. 31, 2015 Singapore / Columbo JRSO
Arabian Sea Monsoon (CPP) 355 Mar. 31 – May 31, 2015 Columbo / Mumbai JRSO
Indonesian Throughflow 356 July 31 – Sept. 30, 2015 Freemantle / Darwin JRSO
Atlantis Massif Seafloor Processes: Serpentinization and Life 357 Oct. 26 – Dec. 11, 2015 Southampton / Southampton ESO
NanTroSEIZE: Plate Boundary Deep Riser 4 358 Oct. 7, 2018 – Mar. 31, 2019 Shimizu / Shimizu CDEX
Maldives Monsoon and Sea Level 359 Sept. 30 – Nov. 30, 2015 Darwin / Colombo JRSO
SW Indian Ridge Lower Crust/Moho 360 Nov. 30, 2015 – Jan. 30, 2016 Colombo / Port Louis JRSO
Southern African Climates & Agulhas Current Density Profile 361 Jan. 30 – Mar. 31, 2016 Port Louis / Cape Town JRSO
Transit / Hole U1473 Remediation 362T July 4 – Aug. 6, 2016 Cape Town / Colombo JRSO
Sumatra Seismogenic Zone 362 Aug. 6 – Oct. 6, 2016 Colombo / Singapore JRSO
Western Pacific Warm Pool  363 Oct. 6 – Dec. 8, 2016 Singapore / Guam JRSO
Chicxulub K-T Impact Crater 364 Apr. 5 – May 31, 2016 Progreso, Mexico ESO
NanTroSEIZE: Shallow Megasplay Long-Term Borehole 365 Mar. 26 – Apr. 27, 2016 Shimizu / Shimizu CDEX
Mariana Convergent Margin 366 Dec. 8, 2016 – Feb. 7, 2017 Guam / Hong Kong JRSO
South China Sea Rifted Margin A  367 Feb. 7 – Apr. 9, 2017 Hong Kong / Hong Kong  JRSO
South China Sea Rifted Margin B  368 Apr. 9 – June 11, 2017 Hong Kong / Shanghai JRSO
Return to Hole U1503A (South China Sea) 368X Nov. 15 – Dec. 8, 2018 Hong Kong / Hong Kong JRSO
Australia Cretaceous Climate and Tectonics 369 Sep. 26 – Nov. 26, 2017 Hobart / Fremantle JRSO
Temperature Limit of the Deep Biosphere off Muroto 370 Sep. 10 – Nov. 10, 2016 Shimizu / Kochi CDEX
Tasman Frontier Subduction Initiation & Paleogene Climate 371 July 27 – Sep. 26, 2017 Townsville / Hobart JRSO
Creeping Gas Hydrate Slides and Hikurangi LWD 372 Nov. 26, 2017 – Jan. 4, 2018 Fremantle / Lyttelton JRSO
Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History 374 Jan. 4 – Mar. 8, 2018 Lyttelton / Lyttelton JRSO
Hikurangi Subduction Margin Observatory 375 Mar. 8 – May 5, 2018 Lyttelton / Auckland JRSO
Brothers Arc Flux 376 May 5 – July 5, 2018 Auckland / Auckland JRSO
Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History 379 Jan. 18 – Mar. 20, 2019 Punta Arenas / Punta Arenas JRSO
NanTroSEIZE: Frontal Thrust Borehole Monitoring System  380 Jan. 12 – Feb. 7, 2018 Shimizu / Shimizu CDEX
Corinth Active Rift Development 381 Oct. 23 – Dec. 18, 2017 Corinth / Corinth ESO
Iceberg Alley and Subantarctic Ice and Ocean Dynamics 382 Mar. 20 – May 20, 2019 Punta Arenas / Punta Arenas JRSO
Dynamics of Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current 383 May 20 – July 20, 2019 Punta Arenas / Punta Arenas JRSO
Panama Basin Crustal Architecture & Restoring Hole 896A 385T Aug. 18 – Sep. 16, 2019 Antofagasta / San Diego JRSO
Guaymas Basin Tectonics and Biosphere 385  Sept. 16 – Nov. 16, 2019 San Diego / San Diego JRSO
South Pacific Paleogene Climate 378 Jan. 3 – Feb. 6, 2020 Fiji / Papeete JRSO
JOIDES Resolution Engineering Testing 384 July 20 – Sep. 5, 2020 Kristiansand / Las Palmas JRSO
South Atlantic Transect Reentry Installations 390C Oct. 5 – Dec. 5, 2020 Kristiansand / Cape Town JRSO
Complete South Atlantic Transect Reentry Installations 395E April 6 – June 6, 2021 Cape Town / Reykjavik JRSO
Japan Trench Paleoseismology 386 Apr. 13 – June 1, 2021 Yokosuka / Yokosuka ESO
Reykjanes Mantle Convection and Climate 395C June 6 – Aug. 6, 2021 Reykjavik / Reykjavik JRSO
Mid-Norwegian Continental Margin Magmatism 396 Aug. 6 – Oct. 6, 2021 Reykjavik / Kristiansand JRSO
Walvis Ridge Hotspot 391 Dec. 6, 2021 – Feb. 5, 2022 Cape Town / Cape Town

JRSO

Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate 392 Feb. 5 – Apr. 7, 2022 Cape Town / Cape Town

JRSO

South Atlantic Transect 390 Apr. 7 – June 7, 2022 Cape Town / Cape Town

JRSO

South Atlantic Transect 2 393 Jun. 7 – Aug. 7, 2022 Cape Town / Cape Town

JRSO

Iberian Margin Paleoclimate 397 Oct. 11  Dec. 11, 2022 Lisbon / Tarragona

JRSO

Hellenic Arc Volcanic Field 398 Dec. 11, 2022 – Feb. 10, 2023 Tarragona / Heraklion

JRSO

Building Blocks of Life, Atlantis Massif 399 April 12 – June 12, 2023 Ponta Delgada / Ponta Delgada

JRSO

Reykjanes Mantle Convection and Climate 395 June 12 – Aug. 12, 2023 Ponta Delgada / Reykjavik

JRSO


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