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IODP

International Ocean Discovery Program

Two people wearing hard hats are silhouetted by the Sun rise in the distance as they look out over the ocean from a research vessel.
Posted inScience Updates

Unlocking Climate Secrets of Hawai‘i’s Drowned Reefs

by Jody M. Webster and Christina Ravelo 11 April 202511 April 2025

Researchers set sail to study sea levels, climate, ecosystem responses, and volcanic histories over the past 500,000 years, using an innovative seabed drill to sample fossilized reefs off Hawai‘i.

Four scientists celebrate with karaoke on the deck of the JOIDES Resolution.
Posted inOpinions

Expedition 403: Sailing the Last Expedition of the JOIDES Resolution

by Adriane Lam, Gryphen Goss and Nicole Greco 28 February 202528 February 2025

Early-career geoscientists share melancholy memories about hard science and intangible networks of collaboration.

A cross section of a core taken from Earth’s mantle, is seen under a microscope.
Posted inNews

Lost City’s Plumbing Exposed by the Longest Mantle Core Ever Drilled

by Nathaniel Scharping 12 September 202412 September 2024

The core, which is 71% complete, reveals millions of years of geologic history and the plumbing underlying hydrothermal vents.

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Posted inNews

The JOIDES Resolution Embarks on Its Final Expedition

by Grace van Deelen 6 June 20246 June 2024

On the ship’s last cruise, scientists will collect data to help predict future effects of climate change.

Sunset from the ocean drilling communitiy’s scientific workhorse, the Joides Resolution.
Posted inFeatures

There is No JOIDES in Mudville

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 15 November 202328 August 2024

After almost 4 decades of research, the JOIDES Resolution will retire in 2024, leaving the ocean floor in peace (for now).

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Posted inEditors' Vox

Marine Sediments Reveal Past Climate Responses to CO2 Changes

by Sze Ling Ho and Erin McClymont 21 September 202320 September 2023

Climate records stored in marine sediments reveal different ice sheet and ocean responses to falling atmospheric CO2 concentrations from the warm Pliocene to the ice ages of the Pleistocene.

Diagram showing the formation and preservation of the iron sulfide greigite in bioturbidated anoxic sediments.
Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Mechanism for “Giant” Greigite Growth in Deep-Sea Sediments

by Agnes Kontny 2 December 202214 March 2024

Understanding greigite formation pathways in sediments is a prerequisite for assessing the marine iron-sulfur-carbon cycle and yield reliable near-syn-sedimentary paleomagnetic records.

JOIDES Resolution ocean drilling ship travels on the ocean against a backdrop of blue sky.
Posted inOpinions

An Ambitious Vision for the Future of Scientific Ocean Drilling

by Paula Bontempi 7 January 20228 August 2023

Scientific ocean drilling is an enduring paragon of global research, advancing knowledge of Earth and informing scientists and educators for 55 years. A new road map plots the way to further discovery.

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Beth N. Orcutt Receives 2019 Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize

by AGU 10 March 202014 March 2023

Beth N. Orcutt was awarded the 2019 Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 11 December 2019 in San Francisco, Calif. The prize is given “for outstanding transdisciplinary research accomplishment in ocean drilling.”

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Posted inScience Updates

Australia–New Zealand Plan for Future Scientific Ocean Drilling

by M. F. Coffin, J. Parr and L. Armand 29 May 201914 March 2023

Australian–New Zealand IODP Consortium Ocean Planet Workshop; Canberra, Australia, 14–16 April 2019

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