Site Map Posters
These maps are based on a color-shaded relief map produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NEIC, previously NGDC).
IODP, ODP, and DSDP Site Map Poster
The following text explaining the history of the program is included on the poster.
THE INTERNATIONAL OCEAN DISCOVERY PROGRAM (IODP), the fourth international marine research drilling program (2013–2023), is dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of Earth processes by sampling and observing subseafloor environments using novel sensors and experimental techniques. Today, scientists are expanding deep-sea research by using multiple drilling platforms to explore IODP’s principal themes: climate, deep biosphere, planetary dynamics, and geohazards.
IODP drilling platforms are operated by the JOIDES Resolution Science Operator (JRSO) at Texas A&M University, Japan’s Center for Deep Earth Exploration (CDEX; Chikyu), and the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD; mission-specific platforms). IODP is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, ECORD, The People’s Republic of China, the Australia/New Zealand Consortium, Brazil, Korea, and India.
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ODP Site Map Poster
The following text explaining the history of the program is included on the poster.
THE OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM (ODP; 1985–2003) was an international partnership of scientists and research institutions organized to study the evolution and structure of the Earth through continuous coring and drilling using new tools and measurement systems. During the program, the dynamically positioned drillship JOIDES Resolution traveled 355,781 nautical miles to obtain cores of sediments and rock that preserve Earth’s history. A total of 35,772 cores from 669 sites in all the world's oceans were collected during the program and are still used for interdisciplinary scientific research. Research conducted during ODP produced fundamentally new information on topics ranging from rapid and extreme changes in the Earth’s climate to frozen methane hydrates linked to the global carbon cycle to earthquakes associated with subduction zones to microbes living beneath the seafloor. Operations were led by the Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Texas A&M University, and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and guided by an international science advisory structure. More than 20 nations led this endeavor, which was funded principally by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).
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DSDP Site Map Poster
The following text explaining the history of the program is included on the poster.
THE DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT (DSDP; 1968–1983) pioneered scientific ocean drilling. Begun as a U.S. effort to use ocean drilling to examine the theory of plate tectonics and development of the ocean basins, DSDP expanded during the International Phase of Ocean Drilling (IPOD) that began in 1975 to provide important insights about past climate change, volcanism, and convergent margin tectonics. Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, ran science operations using the dynamically positioned drillship Glomar Challenger, and the Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES), a group of four U.S. universities, later augmented by additional domestic and international members, provided scientific guidance. During the program, 97,056 meters of core from 624 sites was retrieved and stored in core repositories, where the cores are still sampled for scientific research.
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