Advances in Earth Science ›› 2009, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (12): 1318-1324. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2009.12.1318

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New Progress in Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)

LIU Zhifei, TUO Shouting   

  1. IODP-China Office, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai200092, China
  • Received:2009-12-16 Revised:2009-12-17 Online:2009-12-10 Published:2009-12-17

LIU Zhifei, TUO Shouting. New Progress in Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP)[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2009, 24(12): 1318-1324.

After five-year′s interim operation (2003-2008), the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) realized a true multi-platform drilling structure in 2009. JOIDES Resolution of USA, Chikyu of Japan, and Mission-Specific Platforms of ECORD (European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling) are implemented for drilling expeditions concurrently in various oceans with different geological settings. With participations of Australian-New Zealand Consortium (ANZIC) and India, the IODP “Big Family” contains seven international partners (members) with total 24 participating countries, making the most pleasant stage of IODP international cooperation. The highlights of IODP expeditions in 2009 include: first successful riser drilling and coring of Chikyu during IODP Expedition 319; first expeditions to equatorial Pacific of converted and upgraded JOIDES Resolution successfully coring a continuous paleoequatorial Pacific sediment transect since 53 Ma; successful operation of IODP Expedition 313 (postponed for more than two years) of the Mission-Specific Platforms at the New Jersey continental shelf; etc. In recent years, Chinese scientists are energetic in involving IODP activities, including sailing IODP expeditions, submitting IODP proposals, and participating international scientific meetings. Their participation greatly increases the academic competitive capacity of Chinese scientific community and leads some ocean-science fields of China to the word front.

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