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 16 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. Right now we are running the Onshore Science Party for Expedition 325 (Great Barrier Reef) in Bremen (July 2 - 16, 2010). More MSP expeditions are planned for 2011 and beyond.

Expedition 310 took place in October/November 2005 off the coast of the tropical Island of Tahiti. By analyzing fossil coral cores the scientists reconstruced the rise and fall of global sea level during the last 20,000 years.

Further information:

- Bremen IODP Core Repository

- New Jersey Shallow Shelf Expedition 2009 (IODP 313)

- Great Barrier Reef Environmental Changes Expedition 2010 (IODP 325)

- 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.