IODP

International scientific and research institutes have joined together under the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) to investigate the structure of the Earth below the sea floor. Different drilling vessels and platforms are deployed worldwide to drill deep holes in the ocean floor.

The Mission-Specific Platform Operations

Mission-specific operations are conducted for IODP by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), which represents the ocean-drilling efforts of 17 European countries as well as Canada. ECORD Science Operator (ESO) comprising the British Geological Survey (BGS), the University of Bremen, and the European Petrophysics Consortium (EPC) is responsible for organizing these expeditions.

These pages are dedicated mainly to providing information on European IODP expeditions. We have completed the Onshore Science Party (July 2 - 16, 2010) and the Operational Task Force Review (summer 2011) for Expedition 325 (Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes). More MSP expeditions are planned. E.g.., ESO is currently planning on implementing IODP Expedition 347 (Baltic Sea Paleoenvironment) in 2013.


Further information:

- IODP Bremen Core Repository

- all IODP expeditions

- Coordination office Hannover (in German)

- ECORD

- IODP

Co-chief scientists Yusuke Yokoyama (left) and
Jody Webster (right) at the Onshore Science Party
for IODP Expedition 325 (Great Barrier Reef
Environmental Changes) in the BCR labs.