UK Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme
The UK is a member of the international Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) as part of the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD). The IODP aims to explore the history and structure of the Earth as recorded in seafloor sediments and rocks. The programme officially began in October 2003 and is made up of an international partnership of scientists and research institutions, building upon the earlier successes of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), which revolutionised our view of Earth history and global processes through ocean basin exploration. This new programme of work has the UK as an integral member of a European consortium which, together with the US and Japan, funds and steers the research. UK participation is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
IODP greatly expands the reach of the previous
programs by using multiple drilling vessels, including
riser, riserless, and mission-specific platforms,
to achieve its scientific goals. These goals follow
the themes outlined in the IODP
Initial Science Plan:
- The deep biosphere and the subseafloor ocean;
- Environmental change, processes and effects;
and
- Solid earth cycles and geodynamics.
Latest News
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Message to scientific ocean drilling community (15/11/2011): Please find
an important joint message from the co-chairs of the International Working Group +,
who are responsible for designing the framework of the International Ocean Discovery Program
for 2013 to 2023.
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UKIODP will hold a student specific and general conference in Sept. 2012. Details forthcoming shortly.
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Draft of new IODP Science Plan
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UKIODP has recently sponsored participants to attend, or co-organized the following meetings/workshops:
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2011 IODP/ICDP Workshop geological carbon capture and storage, Muscat, Oman
- The 2010 PALSEA workshop (PALeo-constraints on SEA-level rise - a PAGES/IMAGES working group)
(workshop report)
2010 UKIODP Forcings and Feedbacks Workshop (following from 2008 Grant Round) *Workshop report coming soon.
- UKIODP Renewal
An independent Review Group was convened to provide the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) with an assessment of the benefits of ocean drilling to UK science. This review will examine all of the available evidence to assess the benefits of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme (IODP) and advise NERC of ocean drilling's potential to deliver strategic science in the future. The outputs of this review will form part of the evidence that will be used to inform NERC Council's future funding decision on the membership subscription to the ocean drilling programme that will follow IODP in 2013, and also any UK support Research Programme funding.
The review report was completed in Feb. 2011 and will now be assessed by NERC’s Science and Innovation Board (SISBY).
- UKIODP FEC Guidance for Expedition Participants
- Expedition Gallery - See highlights from current and past Expeditions.
Upcoming Deadlines
No current UK-specific deadlines.
Please see the ESSAC page website for up-to-date IODP news and opportunities:
http://www.essac.ecord.org/
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To receive UK-IODP announcements (~twice monthly), please email ukiodp@bgs.ac.uk.
Contributions to the UKIODP Newsletter Welcome - contact Science Coordinator.
To be added or removed from the UKIODP Emailing list please email your name, email and postal address to the UKIODP Science Coordinator.
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